1050 CHUM MEMORIAL BLOG: Phil Collins on the 1050 CHUM Chart

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).

Friday, September 12, 2014

Phil Collins on the 1050 CHUM Chart

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Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, March 03, 1984 29
Saturday, March 10, 1984 21
Saturday, March 17, 1984 14
Saturday, March 24, 1984 6
Saturday, March 31, 1984 5
Saturday, April 07, 1984 1
Sunday, April 08, 1984 1
Saturday, April 14, 1984 1
Saturday, April 21, 1984 2
Saturday, April 28, 1984 4
Saturday, May 05, 1984 7
Saturday, May 12, 1984 9
Saturday, May 19, 1984 20
Saturday, May 26, 1984 29

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Don't Lose My Number
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, August 17, 1985 30
Saturday, August 24, 1985 26
Saturday, August 31, 1985 23
Saturday, September 07, 1985 18
Saturday, September 14, 1985 13
Saturday, September 21, 1985 11
Saturday, September 28, 1985 10
Saturday, October 05, 1985 12
Saturday, October 12, 1985 17
Saturday, October 19, 1985 27

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I Missed Again
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, March 14, 1981 30
Saturday, March 21, 1981 22
Saturday, March 28, 1981 14
Saturday, April 04, 1981 8
Saturday, April 11, 1981 5
Saturday, April 18, 1981 2
Saturday, April 25, 1981 2
Saturday, May 02, 1981 4
Saturday, May 09, 1981 7
Saturday, May 16, 1981 15
Saturday, May 23, 1981 25

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In The Air Tonight
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, June 13, 1981 29
Saturday, June 20, 1981 24
Saturday, June 27, 1981 15
Saturday, July 04, 1981 9
Saturday, July 11, 1981 5
Saturday, July 18, 1981 4
Saturday, July 25, 1981 4
Saturday, August 01, 1981 3
Saturday, August 08, 1981 3
Saturday, August 15, 1981 3
Saturday, August 22, 1981 7
Saturday, August 29, 1981 12
Saturday, September 12, 1981 13
Saturday, September 19, 1981 17
Saturday, September 26, 1981 22
Saturday, October 03, 1981 30

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One More Night
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, February 09, 1985 28
Saturday, February 16, 1985 21
Saturday, February 23, 1985 8
Saturday, March 02, 1985 4
Saturday, March 09, 1985 1
Saturday, March 16, 1985 1
Saturday, March 23, 1985 2
Saturday, March 30, 1985 7
Saturday, April 06, 1985 9
Saturday, April 13, 1985 12
Saturday, April 20, 1985 25

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Separate Lives (Love Theme From White Nights)
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, October 12, 1985 29
Saturday, October 19, 1985 15
Saturday, October 26, 1985 9
Saturday, November 02, 1985 4
Saturday, November 09, 1985 4
Saturday, November 16, 1985 1
Saturday, November 23, 1985 2
Saturday, November 30, 1985 8
Saturday, December 07, 1985 15
Saturday, December 14, 1985 23
Saturday, December 21, 1985 30

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Sussudio
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, May 11, 1985 28
Saturday, May 18, 1985 24
Saturday, May 25, 1985 19
Saturday, June 01, 1985 15
Saturday, June 08, 1985 8
Saturday, June 15, 1985 7
Saturday, June 22, 1985 7
Saturday, June 29, 1985 18
Saturday, July 06, 1985 27

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Take Me Home
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, April 26, 1986 29
Saturday, May 03, 1986 25
Saturday, May 10, 1986 21
Saturday, May 17, 1986 17
Saturday, May 24, 1986 15
Saturday, May 31, 1986 11
Saturday, June 07, 1986 10
Saturday, June 14, 1986 10

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You Can't Hurry Love
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Chart Date Position
Saturday, October 30, 1982 27
Saturday, November 06, 1982 23
Saturday, November 13, 1982 19
Saturday, November 20, 1982 14
Saturday, November 27, 1982 10
Saturday, December 04, 1982 6
Saturday, December 11, 1982 4
Saturday, December 18, 1982 1
Saturday, December 25, 1982 1
Saturday, January 01, 1983 2
Saturday, January 08, 1983 2
Saturday, January 15, 1983 8
Saturday, January 22, 1983 13
Saturday, January 29, 1983 17
Saturday, February 05, 1983 26

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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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