US Radio Station Charts 1964 to 1970's

[Roburt]

I posted a couple of R&B radio stn charts on another thread & had a request to post more .... so I'm doing so.

I know lots about the Baltimore soul scene & as Baltimore was a very important market for 'breaking' soul 45 hits, thought I'd start with that city's WWIN ...

As time passed from 1964 through to the 70's (like most other black radio stns), WWIN changed it's policy with regard to what tracks it played. Their DJ's had more say in 64 but coz of the payola scandals, that diminished quite quickly. Radio DJ's made lots of their money from promoting local live shows -- lots of times acts would play DJ shows for free, hoping that their 'gift of a performance' would get them more radio plays from that DJ. It was a ploy that usually worked -- especially ahead of the actual show as the DJ would play that acts records to boost ticket sales. As the 70's approached more big corporations bought out locally owned black radio stns and imposed their 'ways' on them. The likes of James Brown saw what was happening & so he started buying some black stns to have more influence on their 'play policies'. JB bought one of WWIN's biggest rival stns (WEBB) in 1970.     

Anyway, on with the charts ....   I'd say that in general, less local product got major airplay /made stn charts as each year passed from the mid 60's ... HOWEVER the charts I'm posting may not fully reflect that ... I've chosen them at random, not coz of any particular 45 showing up on any of them ...  

[Roburt]

Some more from WWIN ... 

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YET MORE .... 

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AND MORE ...