1974-10-24 — WSM 650 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

WSM RADIO 65
CLEAR CHANNEL    50000 WATTS     NASHVILLE TENNESSEE

10/24/74

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
1		Billy Swan	I Can Help	6	4 Weeks at #1
2		John Denver	Back Home Again	7
3		Carole King	Jazzman	6
4		Mac Davis	Stop And Smell The Roses	11
5		Carl Carlton	Everlasting Love	9	(My obligatory philippic) The most popular, most recorded pop song to come out of Nashville. (cont in Goodies)
6		Elvis Presley	It's Midnight	4
6		Elvis Presley	Promised Land	4
7		Hudson Brothers	So You Are A Star	6
8		Gordon Lightfoot	Carefree Highway	8
9		Jim Weatherly	The Need To Be	4
10		Pointer Sisters	Fairytale	11
11		Barefoot Jerry	If There Were Only Time For Love	6	Some of Nashville’s finest studio musicians (“Blonde on Blonde”, “Nashville Skyline”, (cont in Goodies)
12		Barry White	Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe	6
13		The Three Degrees	When Will I See You Again	4
14		Neil Diamond	Longfellow Serenade	3
16		America	Tin Man	8
17		Paul Davis	Ride 'Em Cowboy	3
20		Prelude	After The Gold Rush	3	Neil Young cover
21		Blue Magic	Three Ring Circus	4
22		Chicago	Wishing You Were Here	3	WSM was right about w/ Beach Boys (3 of them anyway). Both groups were recording at James William Guercio’s Caribou Ranch.
24		Helen Reddy	Angie Baby	2
25		Atlanta Rhythm Section	Doraville	3	Created from remnants of Roy Orbison’s backing band The Candymen & the Classics IV
26		Bobby Vinton	My Melody Of Love	2
27		Peter Dean	Four Or Five Times	2	That’s Peter” Snake Hips” Dean to you, mister! NTM Carly's uncle.
28	--	Sam Neely	You Can Have Her	1
29	--	Dave Loggins	Someday	1
30	--	Cher	Carousel Man	1

HIT OF THE WEEK: (unknown)

THIS LIST OF SONGS IS COMPILED IN ORDER
MATHEMATICALLY BASED ON A SURVEY OF
NASHVILLE RECORD SALES, LISTENER RE-
QUESTS & THE WSM MUSIC DEPARTMENT'S
JUDGMENT OF A SONG'S APPEAL TO THE
WSM LISTENING AUDIENCE.

Survey notes: WSM used DEBUT in LW column for first time charted
Survey missing; recreated from 11/1. Songs at the missing chart position numbers are unknown.

Song notes cont
5. But not the most legendary. That would be “You Owe It to Me”,
by Natchez Trace. Sam and Marsha Routh and a “very young” Dan Fogelberg
11. M. Nesmith’s “Listen to the Band”) evolved into Area Code 615, then Barefoot Jerry.