I remember in 1971 here in Erie, PA, the song was played frequently on WJET. In the
June 15, 1971 survey, it went from #14 to #9.

Excellent question, Lee. How 'bout this? Let's keep doin' it the way we have been
(me adding them in for you), as I think, in a perfect world, the cleaner scans are
preferable to be displayed on ARSA. But going forward, there are bound to be times
when the various tribute sites are missing survey scan weeks that you do happen to
own/key in on here. Therefore, if several days go by, and I haven't yet uploaded a
scan, you can then safely conclude that I simply hadn't found a scan over there to
upload. In that case, I would then encourage you to go ahead and upload your scan -
I don't think anyone will mind that you happened to write the "weeks on" info on
there by hand. (I also sometimes did that myself!) Glad it all worked out, buddy!  
 -Jim 

I can't find the above single in the database -- its #23 on the 4 July 1970 CFRA
survey I just posted.

The correct title of the Rod Stewart song is "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" not "Do Ya
Think I'm Sexy?".

There are 2 instances of "Gonna Fly Now" showing up under the artist Rocky II (Bill
Conti) in the singles database.  They are on the year-end surveys for WICC and KBEQ
for 1977, so they should be listed under the original "Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti
from 1977.

Hey Jim, a quick correction for you.  The 1984 John Lennon release is titled "I'm
Stepping Out" not "I'm Steppin' Out".

Hey Jim, there's still a problem with this particular title in the singles database.
 There are now 3 separate entries for this title, and a couple of the newer entries
are being split away from the others.  I'm hitting a period where I'll be entering
this title often, so it would be nice to get them all grouped under one entry.  Let
me know if there is some "trick" I can use while entering this title to get them to
all come out together.  This is one of those titles that was never eligible for the
Hot 100, so it's always been of particular interest to me.

I was looking over the Dickie Goodman single entries this morning and I believe that
his 1973 single is titled "Watergrate" not "Watergate".

Intersting question Rob.  I've always assumed the 67 peak represents a confluence of
two things: it was probably a time when top 40 was at its (pre-Drake format) most
alive and kicking; and it's quite possibly the year that many of the site's most
prolific data keyers were most actively listening to the radio and collecting
various charts.  

But I'm just guessing, as 1967 was quite literally before my time!  (Why dod you
think I key in so many 80s surveys?)  Anyone else have any ideas?

Hi all...

  For this and subsequent CHUM-FM album charts, the self-titled album by Heart is
being compiled with the self-titled album by Streetheart, a completely different
band and album.

  And with that nitpick noted....Happy Easter weekend, all!


  Cheers,

  - Kenn.  

 While maybe not as momentous as reaching the 10,000 survey mark (which is now well
on its way to 15,000!), we now have surveys from 1,000 different radio stations on
ARSA!  Thank you again to all for making this possible!

 Gary

  10,000 Surveys!!!  What an accomplishment!  I didn't want just a random survey to
mark this milestone, so I cheated a little and entered a KTKT survey a bit ahead of
time for #10,000.  Why KTKT?  Two reasons:  the very first survey ever entered on
this site back on September 12, 2003 was a KTKT survey, and Tucson is the home of
the founder/programmer/maintainer of the ARSA website - Tim Warden.   My very
special BIG THANKS to Tim for having the 
idea for this survey collection site, and for his dedicated time and efforts for
getting it up and running, and the continual maintenance and addition of 
improvements/extra features over the years.  Also a personal Thank You to 
Tim for having invited me from the very beginning to contribute surveys.

  Also, heartfelt Thanks for Jim for keeping the behind the scenes database
information as accurate as possible - an amazing feat!  Thank You's also to Roy
Ballard, Kenn Scott, Rob Ellis, John Schwob, Mark Zacarelli, John Frank, 
and everyone else who has contributed a survey to the website!

  And finally, Thank You to all who just visit and enjoy the website.  It's what
makes it all worthwhile.

  Onwards to 15,000 now...

   Gary

Wow! Only 96 more surveys to get to 10,000!
That is amazing and fantastic!
Great efforts by lots of dedicated people always make a great team. Keep it
going....
cheers! Roy

I'd like to offer my congratulations especially to Tim and Gary, but also to
everyone else who has contributed surveys.  I would also like to thank everyone who
visits this site.  After all, part of the motivation to spend the time and effort to
put surveys out here is so that others can enjoy them.  I am proud to be the primary
contributor to the station that is still #1 in most surveys, KXOK in St. Louis.  I
am still trying to find some more of them.  Contributing more than 700 surveys to
this site has been a labor of love - it has brought back so many memories of my
youth.  I remember going to the local department store record department each
Friday to get my survey.  I remember Friday afternoons in which my favorite station
here in St. Louis (KXOK) would play the top 40 in reverse order beginning at 3:00
pm.  School would let out at exactly 3:00 and I would rush to my locker, get my
transistor radio and ear phones and begin listening.  Fortunately, high school
basketball and football games would begin at 7:00, so I would get to listen all the
way to #1 before the game.  

I have to post a comment. Someone has way too much time on their hands!!!!  About an
hour or two ago, I added a survey for 1959-08-02 for KWK in St. Louis.  One of the
songs, Old Black Magic by the Clovers was not in ARSA's data base.  So I was going
through the process of a google search for this song to find the Label and Catalog
Number.  In the meantime my back button on Internet Explorer stopped working, so I
spent about an hour searching through various forums to find a solution.  When all
the solutions didn't work, i went ahead and did the usual IT Tier 1 solution to
problems - I "rebooted".  And it worked. So now having got the Label and "B" Side
and the Catalog Number, I go back into ARSA and find that someone has already found
that my survey had a song that wasn't in the data base and put in the Label and
Catalog Number.  I know that's true because on the main page of ARSA, this song is
the most recent song added to the data base.  So who in the ARSA community is my
"music guardian angel" that felt that my uncatalogued song was somehow a major
blemish to ARSA and thus they had to find out the details on this song? Maybe that
is the true beauty and wonder of ARSA that so many people (and the number seems to
be growing) are concerned about accuracy of the surveys and completeness of the
data base.  I am truly dumbfounded.  So who added the info on this song?  I have to
know!!!!!!  :>)

ARSA Jim - When you are doing your usual magical research for catalog numbers, you
will find the #27 song on the 5/1/1960 KWK Chart for "The Urge" by Bob Crewe. 
Three weeks later on 5/22/1960, the KWK chart shows "The Urge" moving up from 18 to
12 by Freddy Cannon.  I think the 5/1/1960 chart is in error.  I think Bob Crewe
wrote the song but Freddy Cannon recorded it.  If you agree, then feel free to
change the artist in the 5/1/1960 chart.

ARSA Jim - When you are doing your catalog research, you will find in the KWK
5/1/1960 chart a song at #27 called "The Urge" by Bob Crewe.  Three weeks later, on
the KWK 5/22/1960 chart, a song "The Urge" by Freddy Cannon moves from 18 to 12.  I
think Bob Crewe wrote the song and Freddy Cannon recorded it.  If you agree, feel
free to change the artist on the 5/1/1960 chart.

Hi Lee...

  Just want to congratulate you for entering all those 1964 charts!  Looks like
you're pretty much done now (maybe there'll be a straggler or two) ... and ARSA is
that much better for your work.  Thanks again!

Loving all the 1983 surveys, Paul!  Looking forward to whatever other 80s gems you
can provide, especially for Canadian stations.

  Here we are at 20,000 surveys!!  It took over six years to reach 10,000 surveys,
but with the current accelerated pace of survey contributions, the second 10,000
took only a little over 2 years!  I had the honor of entering survey #10,000 a few
years back and really felt that the privilege of adding #20,000 should go to one of
our newer contributors who are entering surveys at a lightning fast pace!!  However,
I saw a few of you in Chart Chat were urging me to enter #20,000 so I’ll graciously
accept again this time, but will defer the entering of the next big milestone
surveys to someone else.  In any case, BIG props and THANK YOU's to those who have
entering surveys at such a rapid pace (Lee Tucker, Paul Haney, Kenn Scott, Rick Hy)
and everyone else who's ever contributed a survey to this website!  When Tim first
approached me in 2003 with his idea for a survey repository website, neither one of
us could ever have imagined it would grow to this size!!  THANK YOU Tim for your
vision and to everyone who has helped it grow!!

  So, what survey for #20,000?  I really didn't have anything "special".  Survey
#10,000 was a KTKT to acknowledge our founder Tim and also the very first survey
ever entered.  So why a seeming mundane WDRC survey, added a few days ahead of time
no less, for #20,000?  A number of years back, ARSA Jim shared with me a complete 10
year run of WDRC surveys that I could add to ARSA.  He wanted no credit for the
surveys so you don't see the "courtesy" line at the bottom of any of the WDRC
surveys I've entered.  But I'm letting the cat out of the bag now.  And what could
be more appropriate than to use survey #20,000 to acknowledge the extremely
dedicated and continually astounding work of ARSA Jim!?  The behind the scenes work
that Jim has taken on and accomplished in an exemplary manner is just incredible! As
many of you have noticed, it seems at times that Jim must live on here!  Entering
all those new songs into the database, researching and entering the appropriate
label information, fixing mismatched songs, cleaning up the singles and albums
databases and a million other things we don't see but make this website the great
place it is.  A sincere THANK YOU from me, Jim!  Tim's initial vision would not
have achieved the successful levels it has now without your help!

  Again, THANK YOU to everyone to has contributed to or just enjoys visiting this
website!  
  
  On to the next milestone then - which I guess would be #25,000! And it will be
someone else’s turn to add that special survey!