WLS Silver Dollar Survey July 21, 1962

Well, since I brought up the topic of radio stations, I will continue that vein.

For many years, the weekly list of Top 40 songs in Chicago on WLS was called the Silver Dollar Survey. The Chicagoland Radio and Media site (see previous post for url) has quite a few of them, so I picked one at random.

Once at the site, go to Features, then Memory Lane, then Music Surveys.

These songs were before I started listening to pop radio (ot took the Beatles to get me into that scene). Actually, I wasn't even living in Chicago in July that year, but about to move to a Chicago suburb called Rolling Meadows and start 6th grade.

1. SEALED WITH A KISS-- Brian Hyland (7)
2. RISES ARE RED-- Bobby Vinton (8)
3. BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO-- Neil Sedaka (4)

4. JOHNNY GET ANGRY-- Joanie Sommers (6)
5. AL DI DA-- Emilio Pericoli (9) (Gives the era and international feeling.)
6. THE STRIPPER-- David Rose (10) (How About That? Dirty Music for 62!!)

7. I'LL NEVER DANCE AGAIN-- Bobby Rydell (8) (Hey, they named a high school after him.)
8. THE WAH WATUSI-- Orlons (7)
9. FORTUNE TELLER-- Bobby Curtela (10)

10. SPEEDY GONZALES-- Pat Boone (7)

The numbers in parentheses were how many weeks they were on the chart.

That was quite a broad spectrum of songs back then.

Play That Funky Watusi. --RoadDog