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Post by GooRoo on Mar 6, 2023 14:13:16 GMT -8
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.
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Post by GooRoo on Jun 3, 2023 7:36:05 GMT -8
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.)
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Post by GooRoo on Jun 5, 2023 12:51:19 GMT -8
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.
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