These were the Top 27 songs on the WLS Survey fifty years ago today.
* means the song was climbing the charts. The number after the artist is how high the song got on the Billboard Hot 100 National Charts.
27. *BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME-- Mac Davis #1 Country makes the pop list. Born in Lubbock, Texas.
26. *BACK STABBERS-- O'Jays #3 How much of a smoother intro can you get? Their first hit.
25. *BURNING LOVE-- Elvis Presley #2 Always liked that "Hunka, Hunka."
24. GONE-- Joey Heaterton #24 I'd never heard it before. Puts a pop spin to a 1957 Ferlin Husky song. A really powerful voice. From Long Island, New York. Her only Top 40.
23. *GUITAR MAN-- Bread #11 Boy, that guitar intro. Bread was and still is a favorite group of mine. Also went to #1 in Adult Contemporary.
22. BABY LET ME TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS-- Detroit Emeralds #24 I don't remember it. R&B vocal trio fromLittle Rock, Arkansas.
21. *BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY-- Daniel Boone #13 A feel good song. Takes me right back to college driving the old Ramblin Wreck around Athens, Georgia.
Name That Tune (from the above songs): "Lord Almighty, I Feel My Temperature Rising." Answer below. --RoadDog
"Burning Love"
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