Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
December 28, 2014
Edition #815
Subject:
WLS TIME SWEEP
It was a WLS New Year's tradition that lasted nearly a decade-and-a-half.
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 1974, WLS played a montage of every number-one song dating back to the early years of rock 'n' roll (the first one started with Bird Dog by the Everly Brothers). WLS repeated this the following New Year's, playing a montage of the number songs of 1974 spliced on to the earlier montage. A tradition had been born and the Time Sweep continued right up its final airing on WLS at midnight on January 1, 1987.
Scott Childers of wlshistory.com has added in the number-one songs for the next three years, right up to the end of WLS as a music station in 1989. It's a production masterpiece, and a great trip through the greatest years of Top 40 music. And while the 1955-1989 version never aired, it stands as the final WLS montage - encompassing the station's entire Top 40 era - and a farewell to a great tradition.
Enjoy the Scott Childers WLS Time Sweep (1955-1989) here.
(Courtesy Scott Childers, wlshistory.com/Used with permission)
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