At the end of 1978 K/men played their Top 129 of the year. They didn't publish it, so I requested a copy and they gave me one. They weren't publishing a weekly top hits, so I don't know what they based this on. They may still had their weekly top thirty, but just not printing it up for the public.
I don't have a KFXM year end, and I don't remember if they played the top hits of 1978. If I requested a copy, I didn't get one. KFXM published their weekly hits until the beginning of 1985, but no year end countdown after 1977. Or at least I didn't get one after 1977.
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There was just so much line dancing, Saturday Night Fever, waterbeds, pong, and Donkey Kong going around in the 1970's there just wasn't time for printed music surveys. It would have been hard to read them anyway with so many flashing disco lights everywhere. It was all so dy-no-mite funkadelilc - Do you catch my drift? Catch you on the flip side...
The previous poster is right. Too many distractions in a burgeoning multi-media environment for folks to care about radio surveys and such. The reach and interest in A.M. top 40 stations was fading quick even for the old greats K/men and KFXM.
Guess I ought to get out my old polyester shirts and nightclub dancing suits to keep me otherwise preoccupied!
Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah! Disco Stu here sayin it's never too late to go dancin' wit your boogie shoes all nite at Studio 69!
Thank goodness our webmaster took a break from all the dancing and parties to get the surveys! It doesn't hurt to let your dancing shoes cool off once in awhile.
Ah, come on. You know what the sole surviving Bee Gee would say:
What you doin' on your back? Ahh
What you doin' on your back? Ahh
You should be dancing, yeah
Dancing, yeah!
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