Something for OLD popular music lovers

[GooRoo]

Billboard Calendar ... the usable links to the full pages are expanded from time-to-time. (Until/if I reach December 27, 1969.)

Edit: I prepared a (belated!!!) 13th birthday present for my favorite cousin, and that prompted me to continue working from the very first Billboard HOT100 chart on August 10, 1958 to complete those charts for the rest of 1958 ending with the first chart of 1959. Then I determined how difficult it would be to recreate the Billboard TOP100 charts working backward from July, 1958. That turned out to be MUCH harder due to the chart preparers' foibles. Instead of ranks (for instance) of 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 (etc.) they listed multiple 90s. And there is no pattern that I can find for the choice of order for those multiple 90s! So I numbered the songs in ascending order according to the order the songs were listed. To me, there is no such thing as 'equal' ranks ... something HAS to provide subdividing those 'equals' ... alphabetically by song title, by artists name, play time length ... SOMETHING! And I have already found instances where the TOP100 has more than 100 entries! If I choose to research further, I may find a week with LESS THAN 100 songs listed.

[GooRoo]

I have completed the Billboard HOT 100 charts for ALL of the 1960s, and have made a start with earlier Billboard HOT 100 charts ... the first one was published August 4, 1958 for the week ending August 10, 1958. Since Billboard finally decided to skip using publication date (because it was sometimes for the previous week and sometimes for the week end in the future) I elected to ALWAYS use "for week ending" in my personal reference works. So my 1958 charts completed so far (8/10, 8/17 & 8/24) are a complete reconstruction, where what I provided previously were merely repackaging of the original charts.

Billboards charts covered TWO pages without an alphabetical section to the full entries. Mine has such a section (ala later 1960s charts) and still fits on ONE page. And (currently for my own use only) each song title is a link to play the song, and the record number is a link to display the actual record label, seeing what is on the label removes the ambiguity of credits. For instance "Tears On My Pillow" was originally credited simply to "The Imperials"; only later pressings added "Little Anthony and" to the label credits. I had the original.

Billboard HOT 100 for week ending August 10, 1958

P.S. since that first chart I now use UPPER CASE for the "A to Z" entries. (20-20 hindsight.)

[GooRoo]

All of August, 1958 is now complete, with (when appropriate) links to "last week" and "next week". Yard work calls, so I will be only working on more weeks during the evening (dark) hours for a while.

[GooRoo]

I just discovered that I left off recreating the Billboard (registered) charts at April 5,1959,so am starting backup again with April 12, 1959. My ultimate goal is to have all of the HOT100 charts for 1959 redone, and then to see if the supporting songs and record labels will fit in the GoDaddy storage, so that old folks can get their kicks reminiscing about the end of the "Nifty Fifties".

[GooRoo]

The problem of filenames with spaces (and other 'special' characters) prevents me from doing more of what is in the opening post in this thread.
For the example, I had to rename the two files, removing spaces and changing the special character left/right box to parentheses.

At one time I considered providing similar see/play entries with the Billboard charts, as they exist on my own computer.
But a very smart program would be required to "make it so". The filenames in the links would have to replace spaces with %20 and similarly replace the special characters ... without changing the text containing the song title for human consumption.