Can anyone make out the artist on number 40, "Don't Be A Loser, Baby" — Looks like
"Gigi" ???

This regards a similar uploading image problem of another survey, which is a bit
weirdly-shaped (rectangular, rather than long survey shape).  I'm receiving the
following website error:

Warning: unlink(): No such file or directory in
/home/warden/public_html/arsa/surveys_edit.php on line 310

Does anyone know what this means, or how I can bypass it?  This relates to a
07-18-70 WNRR (Appleton, WI) survey.

Thanks in advance for anyone's help!

Kevin

I finally tried scanning in a jpeg image from home and it worked!

I can't seem to add a scanned image of this survey.  I'm
receiving a website error message.  Can anyone help?  Thanks.

Kevin

Hi Kenn,

  I added the Jeanne Mack single (thanks for the label info) and the entry on the
CFRA survey is now directing to the proper song.

  
 Found that "Heavenly" by Johnny Mathis was released on a Columbia extended play
(EP) with 3 other songs.  All have been added and the Johnny Mathis entry on the
survey now directs properly.

  Thanks for bringing these to my attention.

   Gary

Hi Gary...

  For this survey, the track "Jimmy" by Jeanne Mack is redirecting to "Jimmy Love"
by Jeanne Black.  Once the Jeanne Mack single is entered into the ARSA database
("Jimmy"/"Dirty Dishes", on Class 2060), this should take care of itself.

  There's a similar problem with the Johnny Mathis track "Heavenly", for the CFRA
survey of 1959/11/21.  It's currently redirecting to a Johnny Madara track of the
same name.  I can't find evidence that the Mathis version of "Heavenly" was
released as a single, but it's track 1 on his 1959 LP "Heavenly".

  Cheers,

  - Kenn.

Neat little chart from Ottawa in 1980.  New Musik at 22?  Who knew?    

Thanks for posting it, Gary!

Cheers,

- Kenn.

Neither 45 that you specify details for actually state "Not A 45" - they are simply
two of the approximately 90 singles (of over 66,000 currently in the ARSA database)
that I've still not been able to match up label/catalog details for with 100%
certainty, despite much research time/effort. And as you've discovered here, almost
all 90 are due to major errors/info exclusions on the surveys themselves. "Naughty
Girl" was probably my #1 priority to solve, being a Top 10 WNVY hit and all. I even
bought a Jeff Lemlich "History of Florida Top 40" paperback, but it was of no help.
I also tried Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, but they had no song called "Naughty Girl",
even in the UK, so your Pirates lead is invaluable to me. I also knew of Grant
Morgan 45s on Mercury in 1970, but my info didn't show a 45 title even close to "I
Could Cry" - I'll update your info into my personal Mercury 45s master discography.
Your knowledge is both very impressive and much appreciated. If you wanna take a
stab at the other current "ARSA stumpers", simply perform an ARSA advanced singles
search, specifying the "catalog" field as "blank". Again, many thanks! -Jim   

7. Naughty Girl - John Kidd  

I presume it is an error. I think the DJ confused the UK artist "Johnny Kidd & The
Pirates" with an american band called simply the "Pirates" who realised a 45 on the
chase label in 1966 :

Pirates - Cuttin' Out / Naughty Girl

The two songs are available in the "Chase Records Vol. 1 - There's Got To Be A
Girl" compilation.

Regards,
Damien

Greetings, gentlemen. Surveys have been getting keyed into ARSA at an especially
rapid rate of late (which is a very good thing!) Thanks mainly to Lee Tucker's
tireless key-in efforts, our once-rather-thin inventory of 1957-1960 era surveys
has now become a real strength of the site.
     Tim has set up the ARSA 45s database where the "year" notation is fairly
important info. In other words, if "Hey Jude" were to appear on a 1976 survey
entered in tomorrow, I'd have to add in a 2nd ARSA 45 entry for it (with a "hit
year" of 1976) for the system to handle it correctly. Tim's programming code
expects singles to appear on surveys from its db-specified hit year, +/- a year
either way (to allow for the full chart runs of hits peaking in Dec. & Jan.), or
the "magic bullet" will not appear. That's why you'll now find, for example, a
bunch of different-yeared "Jingle Bell Rock" ARSA 45 db entries. Obviously, the
most popular holiday classics charted in many different Decembers, and that's the
only way ARSA can currently handle cases like this.  
     I bring all this up because today Lee entered in a published-in-August-1960,
WIBG "All-Time Top 99 Records". Sstations have been both counting-down-on-air and
publishing lists like this for many years now, especially after the "American
Graffiti" movie made the oldies "cool" again, around 1973. Luckily for ARSA this
time, the WIBG "All Time Top Hits" list that Lee just keyed in really wasn't that
at all; turns out most of the 99 songs were from either 1959 or 1960. Due to this
strange fact, ARSA WAS somehow able to properly process all of the songs on it.
However, for example, if Elvis' 1956 hit "Heartbreak Hotel" had appeared on Lee's
list, ARSA would've "kicked it out" (a 1956 hit appearing on a 1960 survey),
requiring me to add a 2nd, "current in 1960" 45 db entry for "Heartbreak Hotel".
And that really wouldn't be accurate, because Lee's 1960 "Top 99" list isn't
reflecting "1960 current hit" WIBG airplay; it's simply paying homage to big hit
songs from the past.
     Perhaps Tim can someday/somehow modify ARSA to allow/accommodate such
specialty, "All Time Hit" surveys to be entered into ARSA. But I also know that
Tim's "ARSA/Life To Do Lists" are usually pretty full. Again, I feel like I'm being
a "wet blanket" here. But I'm really not. As the "ARSA daily db maintenance guy",
I'm normally the first person to notice things like this. And after 7+ years, I
also understand Tim's ARSA setup very well, and I know that ARSA can't correctly
process a typical, spanning-many-years "All Time Hit" survey, as Tim has it
currently set up.
     Hey, I get human nature, and I understand that it's both fun and a nice change
of pace to want to add in a "specialty-type" survey into ARSA once in a while - it
breaks up the "same-old, same-old" routine. But the fact is that ARSA will often
have trouble processing these "special" surveys correctly. Because of this, I am
requesting that going forward, keyers ask first, via Chart Chat, before they enter
a non-standard survey into ARSA. That way, if ARSA can't handle it, we save you the
time/effort to key it in, and save the ARSA system some potential mega-headaches.
Thanks!   -ARSA Jim

Love these charts (I was in 12th grade) - thanks !

Paul Stetler (51)
Bordentown, NJ

Hey Ben,
     Thanks for the heads up. I tried to "fix" it as best I could but to no avail.
So I deleted the survey and re-submitted it and I believe we are back to normal.
Computer gremlins!

Rick, I see a "there are many deliberate errors" note on this survey. To my eyes,
seeing a comment like that is a first. I am very well aware that surveys do
routinely contain spelling errors. For those who wish to see the songs "warts and
all", folks can easily browse your label scan. I do usually try to leave songs as
they were originally keyed in. But unfortunately, the ARSA programming logic is
often "thrown off" by mis-spellings. After initial keyer typing, I must often go
back in and change/correct spellings, so that the song will correctly match up with
its 45 database master listing. For example, the Ventures "Walk - Don't Run", as you
typed it in, contained two dashes, not one. Just that ARSA minor difference caused
the song to wrongly match up in the db to "Walk Don't Run '77!" You wouldn't know
that, Rick. I am not trying to irritate anyone here by making changes to their work
after the fact. There is indeed a method to my madness. As I've repeatedly stated,
ARSA algorithms are quite quirky, and require my daily human intervention to keep
correct. Believe me, it would be far easier for me if all mis-spelled survey songs
always correctly matched up in the db, no matter how they were spelled. But they
don't, and they never will - it's just the nature of the ARSA beast. By now, I
would've hoped that I'd gained the trust of ARSA keyers to know that I must modify
song/artist info at times. Simply because it is necessary to keep all db info as
correct as possible. No offense to anyone is ever intended.        -ARSA Jim

Yup, it's fine now.  Hope it was an easy fix!


Cheers,

- Kenn.

Kenn,
 
   Ignore the prior comment of mine - I see what you mean now.  Everything is fine
on the top level survey page, but about half the LW numbers dropped by one position
on the data base input form for some reason.  I believe everything should be correct
now. Let me know please.  Thanks for pointing this out.

  Gary

Kenn,

  I checked my input versus the printed survey on this chart and everything looks
fine.  Please check again on your end and let me know.

   Gary

Hi Gary...

  Don't know why, but for this chart the LW entries are all out of whack on the
lower part of the chart.  Check 'em out against the printed survey and you'll see
what I mean...

  Anyway. you might be able to fix this faster than I can, which is why I draw it
to your attention.  Hope all's well on your end!

  Cheers,

  - Kenn. 

This survey is currently filed under the WPRO-AM listings.  Is it possible to file
this under WPRO-FM where it belongs?

Blake, I forgot to mention I changed the location to Pueblo.  Thanks for the
correction.

Rob

Welcome Blake!  Glad you found this site - I sure hope you kept copies of those
surveys. :)

Hopefully, Lee will check the site out too.