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Topic: a personal milestone
Posted By: edtop40
Subject: a personal milestone
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 10:49am
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i just wanted to share a milestone with all my top 40
loving brethren.... today the first part of my quest has been completed..... i bought and received the last commercial 45 that i needed for my collection......i now have every top 40 song in it's single format from 1955 to 2000......45's from 1955 to 1989, cassette singles from 1990 to 1996, and promo or commercial cd singles from 1996 to 2000......in addition, as most of you know, i'm working my way through the 10,000 plus songs that made the top 40 during that period closely comparing the cd versions i have versus the singles i have......i am currently about 70% completed on that front...... if anyone needs a commercial top 40 song in it's original format for research purposes, please send me a private message or email and i will send it out in a timely manner... i appreciate everyone's help in my personal quest to have every top 40 song in it's single form. thank you all pat downey's members. edtop40 ------------- edtop40 |
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 11:27am
| Right on, Ed! |
Posted By: musicmanatl
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 1:32pm
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This is amazing. I can only imagine how much work and money that took. Congrats, man! And thanks for sharing your knowledge and information with us.
What was the last 45 that you needed to complete your collection? Frank |
Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 1:35pm
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Ed, what was the *very* last single you acquired in your quest? (I see
another poster just beat me to the question, by 3 minutes!) Just curious. For those of us here who are also "completion-ists", our personal projects often involve just *so* many total titles, it sometimes seems that we'll never complete it. But you got there! You must have a deep sense of personal satisfaction. Congratulations, sir! And thanks to you as well, for the tremendous amount of info you've shared with us here. When Todd Ireland first mentioned Pat's board to you, way back when, who knew what the consequences would be for all of us, almost a decade later! You are *truly* one of a kind, buddy! This board would be lost without you. Ed, I have just one question: Now that you've finished up with this, what are your neighbors on Long Island gonna do, to try to keep you off the streets! How 'bout a bowling league? Or fantasy baseball? :) |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 3:10pm
| Congrats! And wow, it's hard to believe, as Jim points out, it's been "almost a decade" that this board's been up. But I checked the stats, and it was mid-October 2004 that many of us first joined the site. That's 8 1/2 years ago, and it doesn't even feel that long! |
Posted By: Ringmaster_D
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 4:04pm
| Way to go Ed! Your research is very much appreciated! |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 4:36pm
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thanks, everyone for the kind words.....it's been almost 15
years in the making to get every top 40 vinyl 45.....cost?....i don't want to think about it!!!....the last 45 i found, ironically enough, was 'giving up' by gladys knight & the pips as maxx 326.....just bought it this week and received it today.....as far as keeping busy.....i'm still only 70% complete on task number two, which is getting every top 40 song in digital form on cd......that may require a bit more work that getting the vinyl 45's......thank you all for the help and support.... edtop40 ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: musicmanatl
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 9:01pm
| What a great record to close with... Gladys will always be #1 in my book (just like her #5 R&B hit from 1983...) ;) |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 23 March 2013 at 11:45pm
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Congratulations! That's quite an achievement! I'll bet
you are mighty stoked right now! ------------- |
Posted By: EdisonLite
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 12:39am
| How ironic - you were awarded for not giving up by getting "Giving Up"! (If you ever decide to collect all top 100 hits, perhaps your last 45 can be T. G. Shepard's "Finally!" :) |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 7:15am
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Wow. What an achievement Ed. Congratulations! ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 8:45am
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Amazing job! Congrats! ------------- Live in stereo. |
Posted By: Underground Dub
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 9:41am
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!!!
Congratulations, edtop40. That's an amazing accomplishment indeed, and it's wonderful that you're so generous with sharing what you've acquired with others! |
Posted By: 995wlol
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 10:22am
| Congratulations, Ed--that is an awesome accomplishment! It gives me hope that someday, I may reach my personal goal--to collect on CD or vinyl, every song that ever charted on my favorite childhood radio station--99 1/2 WLOL in Minneapolis (hence, my username). Fortunately, my window is much smaller than yours 1981-1991. I have about 1600 songs down with around 500-600 to go. Of course, I'll never be able to determine the "correct" version for many, as 'LOL played a pretty good mix of LP and 45 versions, with a few custom edits mixed in just to make things even more challenging! I'm curious, has anyone else here worked on a station-specific collection? |
Posted By: DJghr1
Date Posted: 24 March 2013 at 7:18pm
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Ed, your contributions & true love for music are an asset on this site (thanks for all of your label scans, as well)! I'm glad us true music aficionados have a site to enjoy.
Congrats on your accomplishment, my friend! |
Posted By: Paul Haney
Date Posted: 25 March 2013 at 6:03am
| Congrats...you're truly living up to the "edtop40" moniker! |
Posted By: crapfromthepast
Date Posted: 25 March 2013 at 10:28am
About 10-12 years ago, I crossed paths with a collector who assembled a WABC-specific collection. I think it was in mp4 format, and fit on one data DVD-R. I may have a copy somewhere, but it would be deeply buried in the basement. Where do you get your WLOL chart info? Is it posted online somewhere? (I'm sure you have plenty of WLOL airchecks, but if you want to browse, go to archive.org, and search on WLOL in "All Media Types". I uploaded a bunch from my own collection and from listeners.) I'd been hoping someone would assemble such a collection for WLIR/New York, or for short-lived KJ104/Minneapolis or REV105/Minneapolis. Actually, it would be fascinating to see what Z100 or WPLJ played from the 1983-and-onward years - does anyone know of chart archives for those stations? ------------- There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one http://www.crapfromthepast.com" rel="nofollow - Crap From The Past . |
995wlol wrote:Posted By: 995wlol
Date Posted: 25 March 2013 at 11:02am
Fellow chat board member Paul Haney has posted a number of WLOL (and KDWB) charts here: http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/surveys.php?vqry=WLOL&srt1=tsc_psv+DESC - http://www.las-solanas.com/arsa/surveys.php?vqry=WLOL&srt1=t sc_psv+DESC From 1986 through 1991, I referenced the "Power Playlists" section of Billboard magazine (Southdale Library has it on microfilm). Finally, I got 1982 through 1984 playlists from a good friend of Crap From The Past--Mr. Jay Philpott. I'll send you an email later today with more details. |
Posted By: Yah Shure
Date Posted: 25 March 2013 at 6:23pm
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Sure beats stamp collecting, doesn't it, ed? Congrats on counting 'em all down, so to speak!
I just listened to a radio-specific countdown a week ago on bobbymagicradio of every song to chart on the WCFL/Chicago survey during its top-40 era from 1965-76. It was six days of one "oh, wow!" after another, and a reminder that Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul top-40 radio sometimes sounded much further apart than the 400 miles separating them (although the same could probably be said for 'CFL and WLS, too.) My own station-specific quest is to round up as many records as possible from my college radio days at the University Of Minnesota's student-run station during the 1970s. The main emphasis is on the records that attained at least some degree of consensus among the station's on-air staffers, and most of those have already been archived. There are still a few holes, though: station surveys for much of 1971 are still MIA, and trying to rely on forty-year-old memories to bridge the gaps is something of a challenge. One of the most interesting aspects of the project was discovering how many of the obscure records we aired have since gone on become classics in Northern Soul circles. Kinda makes me shudder about what I might've tossed into the reject pile! A concurrent goal is to round up as many station alumni as possible and hold a "Name That Tune" contest at the local Museum Of Broadcasting. There's nothing quite like a big room full of people pulling their hair out trying to recall the names or artists of songs they haven't heard in 40 years. Should be doubly fun for the "Name That Label" round ("Oh! I know! It's... um... the color was white...uh....) As were most of them, being promo copies. :) |
Posted By: jono
Date Posted: 26 March 2013 at 7:19am
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Congratulations, Ed! That's quite an achievement, and I'm happy for
you (and jealous)! Personally, I'm hoping to someday have all of the 45 versions of the Top 40 hits from 1955-1983, whether it be on 45 rpm or cd. However, that's a longggggg ways off yet. I can only guess at the time and effort it took you. Wow! Thanks, too, for being an excellent resource on this board. Actually, because of you I have had to add numerous songs on my want list that I thought I had in the correct version (But, of course, I mean that in a good way)! I must say that it's extremely helpful to me that you give details and oftentimes make it easy to adjust speeds so I can easily remedy many songs. Thanks, Ed. Keep 'em coming! Jon O. |
Posted By: torcan
Date Posted: 02 April 2013 at 2:00pm
Congratulations Ed! That's a great achievement. Personally, I don't know how you were able to achieve it. It just seems there are so many records that there's no trace of today, even though they charted. There are certain titles I've been after for years, and I've never come across them. It's kind of disouraging at times, but I'm glad you were able to acquire them.
I know how you feel. My goal is to get as many Picture Sleeve 45s that charted on the Hot 100 as I can. I've always loved picture sleeves. I've got around 7,000 - three-quarters of that is from the '80s, where just about *everything* had a picture sleeve! I've got a few hundred from the '60s, but those are obviously harder and much more expensive to try to track down. There weren't a lot of picture sleeves released in the '70s. I keep pushing on trying to track down the elusive titles...and running out of ideas on where to look. |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 19 July 2013 at 6:49pm
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ok.....i need the classes help here.....since gladys knight
and the pips song 'giving up' was my last vinyl 45 to get, i just compared it to the cdr version i have and it is no where near the correct version.....since the song is NOT in the db because of it's low peak chart position of number 38 in 1964, i need some help as to what cd may contain the correct mono single version.....anyone?...the 45's label states the run time as 2:49 but actually runs 2:55 ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 19 July 2013 at 7:13pm
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santiparadoa was kind enough to send me an mp3 of the song
from his cd 'On the Soul Side ('60s & early '70s)_Time Life 1990' and it is the same mono version, except for a slight pitch and fade issue thanks santiparadoa for the help!!! ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: The Hits Man
Date Posted: 19 July 2013 at 9:03pm
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While i'm thinking about it, does anyone know where I can
find Bobby Rydell's "The Fish" on CD? It charted but didn't get into the top 40, but it was on the flipside of the 45 "The Third House (In From The Right). ------------- |
Posted By: Santi Paradoa
Date Posted: 20 July 2013 at 8:58am
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That Rydell track is on two different grey area CDs. One
appearance is on a various artists Cameo/Parkway hits compilation on Liberty Bell (don't recall which of the five volumes it's on). The other disc is a Rydell hits compilation called Bobby's Biggest Hits (on Famous Groove Records FG.971004). BTW, "The Fish" reached #16 on the Record World singles chart and #25 on the Billboard singles chart in the summer of 1961. ------------- Santi Paradoa Miami, Florida |
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Date Posted: 21 July 2013 at 10:22am
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Ed:
Due to a busy personal schedule, I was on a prolonged hiatus from the message board earlier this year and ended up not seeing this thread until now. So allow me, Ed, to finally join everyone else here in personally congratulating you on completing your goal of collecting every Top 40 hit on a commercial single format from 1955-2000! If you can believe it, it's been over nine years ago since we first met... This was back when you were an eBay seller and I was a customer purchasing a bunch of your promo CD singles. Right away, I noticed and greatly appreciated your careful attention to detail with the track descriptions and run time info you posted on your auction pages and then remember thinking you would be a perfect addition to Pat Downey's brand new message board. All these years later, I can only imagine how many commercial single run times and related info we'd not know about right now (especially pertaining to cassette singles) had you never visited this message board. Kudos again, buddy, and I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we look forward to your continued contributions on this forum for many more years down the road! |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 01 April 2023 at 6:48pm
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yes sir!!....todd/paul..we met on ebay in 2004 (almost 20
years ago)......WTF!!!..............and you referred me to pat's site....good stuff!! and thank you.. ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: Hykker
Date Posted: 02 April 2023 at 6:00am
I can relate. I started my first weekend radio gig in late 1967, about 6 months later the station moved from the studios they'd occupied since they signed on to a new facility at the transmitter site. I don't think they threw out anything. A friend of mine and I were offered a deal to go thru all those 45s in the basement...anything that was a hit was to be saved for the station library, anything else was to be removed from the shucks (they were filed in nice sleeves and the station wanted to keep them) and bundled into 25-record bundles to give away. Our "pay" for this was that we could keep anything we wanted. We were both only 17 at the time, and this was well before the first Whitburn book. Man, if I knew as much about chart rankings then....!! Many of those 45s looked virtually unplayed. |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 02 April 2023 at 12:22pm
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Ed, 10 years later, how much farther along are you to
having the ultimate Top 40 library? ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 03 April 2023 at 2:36am
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i finished my digital project sometime in 2018 and i
haven't done much since....I have every top 40 in digital form and Rich has taken it to another level by trying to amass the hot 100 library....but my interest was primarily top 40.... ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 05 April 2023 at 6:54pm
Ed is correct, I've built on what he did and even improved it where I could. At this point in time I have every Hot 100 hit from 1985 through 2018. 1980-1984 has about 150 tracks that need to be dubbed. ------------- Favorite two expressions to live by on this board: "You can't download vinyl" and "Not everything is available on CD." |
Posted By: eriejwg
Date Posted: 05 April 2023 at 7:29pm
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Ed and all of you are to be commended for the hard work you
do in assembling your archives. I certainly don't carry everything for my DJ business drives but I have about 17,000 active titles from the 1940s through today. The rest are archived in my office. ------------- John Gallagher Erie, PA https://www.johngallagher.com" rel="nofollow - John Gallagher Wedding & Special Event Entertainment / Snapblast Photo Booth |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 10 April 2023 at 6:11pm
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yes, rich has gone crazy, nuts...in a good way.....i
commend him for his persistence and dedication...i had a hard time knowing many of the lower charted top 40 songs....i cannot imagine the obscurity of the below top 40 songs......great stuff, rich...keep on keepin on!!! ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 10 April 2023 at 7:52pm
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Ed, I am very happy to hear of your complete collection,
congratulations on your achievement, it is truly amazing. You are a very generous person, thank you for helping other members with their searches. big greeting from argentina ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |
Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 10 April 2023 at 8:16pm
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marcelo.....I had Argentina 12-1 to win the world
cup.....so beers on on me!! ------------- edtop40 |
Posted By: kaqueno
Date Posted: 10 April 2023 at 8:52pm
It is very nice to know that there are fans of Argentina all over the world, ed you have well earned the beers, ;) ------------- Marcelo - Argentina https://www.mixcloud.com/marcelo-guzman4/ - https://www.discogs.com/user/kaqueno/collection |