Music fan kept hundreds of old charts from local radio stations from the 1950s to the 1970s
CKWX called their chart “The Sensational Sixty.” CFUN had the “C-Funtastic Fifty” and “The Fun Forty.” CKLG had the “Silver Dollar Survey,” “The Boss 40” and “The Boss 30.”“He was an absolute radio nut, and he loved charts,” said his friend John D’Angeli.
Warner, on the other hand, was a bit of a pack rat. He held on to charts stretching from 1959 to 1975, and sometimes, had multiples that he marked up for research.“He felt CFUN or LG might have a bias, so he would compare them and see how they would do from week to week. Then he would make his own charts that he would type up, what he thought was the actual Top 30 in Vancouver.”
They do. Many of the charts have photos of the DJs, and their changing look and hairstyles evoke the era. The real appeal of the charts, though, is the music. Anyone who grew up in the ‘60s will get a smile from the March 5, 1966 CFUN chart, which was topped by Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.
But at number three was a local singer — Tom Northcott with Sunny Goodge Street. CFUN even had an all-Canadian Top 10, featuring Canadian hits like This Time Long Ago by the Guess Who and Hard to Cry by the Northwest Company. And this was four years before the CRTC introduced Canadian content rules forcing radio stations to play Canadian artists.
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