1050 CHUM MEMORIAL BLOG: 1969 CHUM'S PLAYLIST INCLUDED...

EULOGY
Born: October 28, 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
After a few reincarnations 1050 CHUM quietly passed away on March 26, 2009
1050 CHUM was a legendary Top 40 powerhouse from the late 1950s through to the early 1980s.
The station had a formula no other station has been able to duplicate.

Through the formative ‘50s, the unforgettable ‘60s and the interesting ‘70s, 1050 CHUM played a major role in shaping the radio landscape in Toronto. Recording acts from Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Guess Who, Elton John, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers and Bob Seger not only graced the airwaves but walked the halls of 1050 CHUM.

The radio station was famous for the CHUM Chart. From 1957 to 1986, 1,512 consecutive weekly charts were published, making it the longest-running chart of its kind in the world.
Also, 1050 CHUM was noteworthy for hosting many famous rock concerts including, among others, visits to Maple Leaf Gardens by Elvis Presley (1957) and The Beatles (1964, '65, and '66).

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

1969 CHUM'S PLAYLIST INCLUDED...

Top 100 Singles of 1969 Based on chum charts

SOURCE: Craig's M. Smith's 1050 CHUM Chart fan site
http://craig.sowny.ca/www/www3.sympatico.ca/craig.smith/chumi.htm

1 Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - Fifth Dimension
2 Sugar Sugar - Archies
3 Get Back - Beatles
4 Dizzy - Tommy Roe
5 In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
6 Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat & Tears
7 Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
8 Crimson & Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells
9 Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones
10 These Eyes - Guess Who
11 Good Old Rock & Roll - Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys
12 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
13 Touch Me - Doors
14 Galveston - Glen Campbell
15 Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations
16 Israelites - Desmond Dekker
17 Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
18 Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr
19 Something - Beatles
20 Baby I Love You - Andy Kim
21 Hair - Cowsills
22 Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
23 Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
24 Jean - Oliver
25 Gitarzan - Ray Stevens
26 Cherry Hill Park - Billy Joe Royal
27 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
28 You've Made Me So Very Happy - Blood Sweat & Tears
29 Baby It's You - Smith
30 Sweet Cherry Wine - Tommy James & The Shondells
31 What Does It Take - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
32 Which Way You Goin' Billy? - Poppy Family
33 Mendocino - Sir Douglas Quintet
34 Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero - Rene & Rene
35 Tracy - Cufflinks
36 Love Theme From 'Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
37 Fortunate Son/Down On The Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
38 Everybody's Talkin - Nilsson
39 In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley
40 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
41 Traces - Classics IV
42 I'm Livin' In Shame - Supremes
43 Games People Play - Joe South
44 Indian Giver - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
45 I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones
46 Hooked On A Feelin' - B. J. Thomas
47 Good Morning Starshine - Oliver
48 Hot Smoke & Sasafrass - Bubble Puppy
49 The Worst That Could Happen - Brooklyn Bridge
50 Hawaii Five-O - Ventures
51 Goodbye - Mary Hopkin
52 Backfield In Motion - Mel & Tim
53 Time Of The Season - Zombies
54 Nothing But A Heartache - Flirtations
55 This Girl's A Woman Now - Union Gap
56 Rock Me - Steppenwolf
57 Smile A Little Smile For Me - Flying Machine
58 Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White
59 Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon
60 Going Up The Country - Canned Heat
61 My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
62 Gimmie Gimmie Good Lovin' - Crazy Elephant
63 Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night
64 Playgirl - Thee Prophets
65 Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
66 Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
67 Undun - Guess Who
68 A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
69 Wedding Bell Blues - Fifth Dimension
70 Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond
71 Take A Letter Maria - R. B. Greaves
72 Grazing In The Grass - Friends Of Distinction
73 Colour Him Father - Winstons
74 More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase
75 One - Three Dog Night
76 Hurt So Bad - Lettermen
77 I'm Gonna Make You Mine - Lou Christie
78 Too Busy Thinkin' - Marvin Gaye
79 This Magic Moment - Jay & The Americans
80 Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly & The Family Stone
81 I've Gotta Be Me - Sammy Davis Jr.
82 Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
83 I Started A Joke - Bee Gees
84 Pledge Of Love - Joe Jeffery Group
85 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - First Edition
86 Make Believe - Wind
87 When I Die - Motherlode
88 Get Together - Youngbloods
89 Abergavenny - Shannon
90 Yesterday When I Was Young - Roy Clark
91 May I - Bill Deal & The Rondells
92 Soulful Strut - Young Holt Unlimited
93 Medicine Man - Buchannan Brothers
94 Crystal Blue Persuation - Tommy James & The Shondells
95 Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone Davis
96 But You Know I Love You - First Edition
97 Lovin' Things - Grassroots
98 Hang 'Em High - Booker 'T' & The M.G.'s
99 Sweet Cream Ladies - Box Tops
100 Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone

- Craig's M. Smith's 1050 CHUM Chart fan site
http://craig.sowny.ca/www/www3.sympatico.ca/craig.smith/chumi.htm

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CHUM HISTORY

"1050 CHUM" was a legendary Top 40 powerhouse during the late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.

Early history and Top 40 format

CHUM AM was launched as a dawn-to-dusk radio station on October 28, 1945 by Jack Q'Part, an entrepreneur in the business of patent medicines. The station, then operating from studios in the Mutual Street Arena, was taken over in December 1954 by Allan Waters, a salesman from Q'Parts' patent medicine business. Waters' first major move was to secure a license for 24-hour-a-day broadcasting for CHUM, along with a power increase to 5,000 watts. Less than three years after Waters acquired the station, and soon after bringing the new fulltime transmitter online, a major programming change was made. On May 27 1957, Waters switched to a "Top 50" format that had proven itself popular in some U.S. cities; Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up" was the first song played. "1050 CHUM" pioneered rock and roll radio in Toronto, and was noteworthy for hosting many noteworthy rock concerts including, among others, visits to Maple Leaf Gardens by Elvis Presley (1957) and The Beatles (1964, '65, and '66). While the station was rising to the top of the popularity ratings in Toronto in the early 1960s, it also built yet another new transmitter in Mississauga, Ontario (a few miles west of the current Toronto city line) along the Lake Ontario shoreline, and raised its power once again to its current 50,000 watts around the clock.

CHUM DJs of the 1960s were zany morning man Al Boliska, who quit in late 1963 to go 'across the street' to CKEY.He was replaced by WKBW, Buffalo radio & TV personality Jay Nelson, popularly known as "Jungle Jay" from his role as host of a children's show on Buffalo's Channel 7 which was also popular among Toronto youngsters. He would be followed by housewives' jock John Spragge; singer/DJ Mike Darow; Pete Nordheimer, replaced in 1961 by witty Bob McAdorey; teen DJ Dave Johnson; and all night maven Bob Laine. Later additions to the CHUM DJ lineup included Duff Roman and Brian Skinner, both of whom came over from CKEY (then owned by Jack Kent Cooke). In the late 1960s, early 1970s, CHUM DJ's included Duke Roberts (also known as Gary Duke for a time), Johnny Mitchell (better known today as Sonny Fox), J. Michael Wilson, Tom Rivers, Scott Carpenter, Jim Van Horne, John Rode, Don Reagan, Terry Steele and Roger Ashby. Among their later mighttime hosts was John D. Roberts, who joined CHUM in 1977 and would eventually become known across North America as White House correspondent for CBS-TV and host of CNN's morning program "American Morning."

CHUM was also well known for its contests, like the 1970s' "I Listen to CHUM" promotion, in which DJs would dial phone numbers at random and award $1,000 to anyone who answered the phone with that phrase.

From gold-based to oldies

By the mid-1980s, CHUM had lost ground in the Toronto ratings to competitor Top 40 station CFTR and FM-based music stations. On June 6, 1986, CHUM dropped its Top 40 format for a heavily gold-based adult contemporary format ("Favourites of Yesterday and Today"). By 1989, CHUM adopted an oldies format, drawing heavily on its previous Top 40 reputation to cater to the fans of that era's music.

Chart #1 - Monday, May 27, 1957 - TOP 50

CHART NUMBER 1

Monday, May 27, 1957

This Week	Last Week	Artist	Track	Total Weeks

1	0	Presley, Elvis	All Shook Up	0

2	0	Boone, Pat	Love Letters In The Sand	0

3	0	Williams, Andy	I Like Your Kind Of Love	0

4	0	Everly Brothers, The	Bye Bye Love	0

5	0	Mineo, Sal	Start Movin' (In My Direction)	0

6	0	Storm, Gale	Dark Moon	0

7	0	Robbins, Marty	A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)	0

8	0	Gracie, Charlie	Fabulous	0

9	0	Como, Perry	Girl With The Golden Braids, The	0

10	0	Ray, Johnnie	Yes Tonight, Josephine	0

11	0	Diamonds, The	Little Darlin'	0

12	0	Dell-Vikings, The	Come Go With Me	0

13	0	Boone, Pat	Why Baby Why	0

14	0	Husky, Ferlin	Gone	0

15	0	Como, Perry	Round And Round	0

16	0	Berry, Chuck	School Day	0

17	0	Knox, Buddy	Party Doll	0

17	0	Lawrence, Steve	Party Doll	0

18	0	Dorsey Orchestra, Jimmy	So Rare	0

19	0	Domino, Fats	I'm Walkin'	0

19	0	Nelson, Ricky	I'm Walkin'	0

20	0	Gracie, Charlie	Butterfly	0

20	0	Williams, Andy	Butterfly	0

21	0	Belafonte, Harry	Mama Look At Bubu	0

22	0	Lowe, Jim	Four Walls	0

22	0	Reeves, Jim	Four Walls	0

23	0	Dee, Johnny	Sittin' In The Balcony	0

23	0	Cornell, Don	Sittin' In The Balcony	0

23	0	Cochran, Eddie	Sittin' In The Balcony	0

24	0	Mathis, Johnny	Wonderful! Wonderful!	0

25	0	Mello-Tones, The	Rosie Lee	0

25	0	Tune Drops, The	Rosie Lee	0

26	0	Coasters, The	Young Blood	0

27	0	Domino, Fats	Valley Of Tears	0

28	0	Draper, Rusty	Freight Train	0

29	0	Gilkyson, Terry & The Easy Riders	Marianne	0

29	0	Hilltoppers, The	Marianne	0

30	0	Bowen, Jimmy	I'm Stickin' With You	0

31	0	Laine, Frankie	Love Is A Golden Ring	0

32	0	Platters, The	I'm Sorry	0

33	0	Hunter, Ivory Joe	Empty Arms	0

33	0	Brewer, Teresa	Empty Arms	0

34	0	Sands, Tommy	Teen-Age Crush	0

35	0	Little Richard	Lucille	0

36	0	Sands, Tommy	My Love Song	0

37	0	Starr, Kay	Jamie Boy	0

38	0	Starr, Randy	After School	0

39	0	Johnson, Betty	Little White Lies	0

40	0	Bennett, Tony	One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)	0

41	0	Knox, Buddy	Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep	0

42	0	Clooney, Rosemary	Mangos	0

43	0	Cornell, Don	Mama Guitar	0

44	0	Belloc, Dan	Flip Top	0

45	0	Baker, Lavern	Jim Dandy Got Married	0

46	0	Boone, Pat	Bernardine	0

47	0	Copeland, Ken	Pledge Of Love	0

47	0	Torok, Mitchell	Pledge Of Love	0

48	0	Four Lads, The	I Just Don't Know	0

49	0	Armenian Jazz Sextet	Harem Dance	0

50	0	Williams, Billy	I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter	0

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CHUM CHART HISTORY

The CHUM Chart was a ranking of top 30 (and, until August 1968, the top 50) songs on Toronto, Canada, radio station CHUM 1050 AM, from 1957 to 1986, and was the longest-running Top 40 chart in the world produced by an individual radio station. In the early 2000s, sister station 104.5 CHUM FM, which airs a hot adult contemporary format, revived the CHUM Chart name for a new countdown show.

The CHUM Chart also aired as a television program on Citytv every Saturday at 2:00 p.m until January 2008 when the show was discontinued after Rogers Communications gained control of the Citytv stations. The program aired a list of the most popular songs in the countdown, starting from #30, playing approximately half of them.

History
The chart debuted on May 27, 1957, under the name CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade. The CHUM Chart name was adopted in 1961.

The chart was published for 1,512 consecutive weeks, and had 694 different #1 songs over the course of its original run. Its first #1 single was Elvis Presley's "All Shook Up", and its final #1 was Madonna's "Live to Tell".

From its inception until 1975, each week's CHUM Chart was published in a brochure format, with additional features promoting the station and its personalities. It was distributed to record stores and music venues across the city. In 1975, the brochure was discontinued, and each week's chart was instead published in the entertainment section of the Toronto Star. Mike Myers, Gordon Lightfoot, Dick Clark and Dave Thomas all reportedly own collections of CHUM Charts.

For the first 26 weeks in 1957, the chart published full information only for the top 10, listing only song titles for the remainder of the chart. On November 25, 1957, however, the chart began publishing information on all listed songs. Three minor hits from 1957, "I'm Gettin' the Message Alright", "Lonesome Heart" and "Teenage Heart", are still listed in the CHUM Chart archives as "Unknown Artist" as of 2007.

In 1959, the chart briefly added a Top 10 albums list, which was discontinued in 1960, revived in 1963 and discontinued again in 1967.

Author Ron Hall published The CHUM chart book (ISBN 0920325157) in 1983, listing every song that had appeared in the CHUM Charts to that point. Following the discontinuation of the chart, he published an updated edition in 1990 listing every charted song and profiling the history of the chart. The final chart, for the week of June 14, 1986, was never published until Hall's 1990 book. A commemorative list of all the chart's number one songs was also published in poster format by CHUM in 2007 to commemorate the station's 50th anniversary.

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