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Post by Dawn on Mar 27, 2009 12:00:51 GMT -5
Thought this might be of interest! www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-101.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=jkbnsn4o4itqa11ot31qsvi060This site has a collection of scans of the Canadian music magazine RPM (very much like Billboard) music charts that are searchable by date. Among the charts featured on the site, depending on the year, are the Top Singles, Top Albums/CDs, Adult Contemporary, Country, and French charts. Here's the Singles chart from 25 years ago:  |
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Post by Jughead on Mar 27, 2009 15:35:39 GMT -5
Ah, yes...funny how the highest charting CANADIAN act on that chart was at #25!
Not much has changed in 25 years, sadly. LOL!
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Post by Ken on Apr 4, 2009 1:23:31 GMT -5
Hey Juggy!  Love that chart! It brings back a lot of high school memories, at the time, I was in Grade 11. |
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Post by Jughead on Apr 4, 2009 9:30:22 GMT -5
I was barely three. LOL! Oddly enough though, I remember hearing some of those songs as a child, because my sisters were considerably older. One was in high school, and the other one was in junior high at the time.
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Post by Viki (ditzybrunette85) on Apr 4, 2009 11:36:34 GMT -5
Ahhh I wasn't even born yet! But I like most of the songs on that chart. Yay 80's!
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Post by gremashlo on Apr 5, 2009 9:27:58 GMT -5
AAUGH! The spring of my senior year in high school!
I had totally forgotten about "The Politics of Dancing"...
Great post!
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Post by m c dornan on Apr 5, 2009 13:43:03 GMT -5
1984- teaching at Northeastern University. (now where's my walker?) "Rockit"- what an eerie video!  |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Apr 5, 2009 16:54:00 GMT -5
1984- teaching at Northeastern University. (now where's my walker?) "Rockit"- what an eerie video! Hey MC - I didn't know you were in (from?) the Boston area. What were you teaching? |
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Post by m c dornan on Apr 5, 2009 17:33:18 GMT -5
1984- teaching at Northeastern University. (now where's my walker?) "Rockit"- what an eerie video! Hey MC - I didn't know you were in (from?) the Boston area. What were you teaching? Howdy! No, I went to Boston for grad school, stayed on to teach. Then around 1990, the Boston economy was terrible, lots of my friends went to other states for work, and I broke up with my longterm girl, so I came back to Arizona. Which I'd always wanted to do eventually anyway. Taught sociology. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Apr 5, 2009 17:53:13 GMT -5
Hey MC - I didn't know you were in (from?) the Boston area. What were you teaching? Howdy! No, I went to Boston for grad school, stayed on to teach. Then around 1990, the Boston economy was terrible, lots of my friends went to other states for work, and I broke up with my longterm girl, so I came back to Arizona. Which I'd always wanted to do eventually anyway. Taught sociology. Ah. Okay. -- Well that ALMOST makes you a Bostonian!  |
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Post by m c dornan on Apr 5, 2009 23:48:01 GMT -5
Howdy! No, I went to Boston for grad school, stayed on to teach. Then around 1990, the Boston economy was terrible, lots of my friends went to other states for work, and I broke up with my longterm girl, so I came back to Arizona. Which I'd always wanted to do eventually anyway. Taught sociology. Ah. Okay. -- Well that ALMOST makes you a Bostonian! Hah! I was in Boston for the Blizzard of '78 (my first winter away from Arizona) so I was THERE, man! Are you from Boston or other ties to Boston? |
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Post by Dawn on Apr 6, 2009 13:38:08 GMT -5
MC, I too hadn't realized you had gone to grad school in Boston.
It's very cool that so many of us on the Click have Boston area ties. Although I never lived there myself, my dad's older brother lived there for many years, and I have cousins who still live in the Boston area. My husband's grandfather and his second wife lived in Newton, his grandfather's brother and sister lived in Framingham and Hyannis, and my mother-in-law was born in Cambridge and grew up there. Actually, Mark came close to being born in MA himself, but ended up being born just over the border in NH.
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Post by Dawn on Apr 6, 2009 13:43:48 GMT -5
Here's the chart from 1974, 35 years ago today:  |
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Post by m c dornan on Apr 6, 2009 14:12:12 GMT -5
MC, I too hadn't realized you had gone to grad school in Boston. It's very cool that so many of us on the Click have Boston area ties. Although I never lived there myself, my dad's older brother lived there for many years, and I have cousins who still live in the Boston area. My husband's grandfather and his second wife lived in Newton, his grandfather's brother and sister lived in Framingham and Hyannis, and my mother-in-law was born in Cambridge and grew up there. Actually, Mark came close to being born in MA himself, but ended up being born just over the border in NH. OK, who all here does have Boston ties? We could start a Boston Board! My wife, (who I met here) turned out to have lived in Boston too. But we were in such different circles we'd a-never met if we were there. We both had to move here to meet. Also, Dawn, I think that Claude Baddly found YL looking for Beany & Cecil. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Apr 6, 2009 15:37:41 GMT -5
Ah. Okay. -- Well that ALMOST makes you a Bostonian! Hah! I was in Boston for the Blizzard of '78 (my first winter away from Arizona) so I was THERE, man! Are you from Boston or other ties to Boston? I'm from there. Born in Chelsea, grew up in Brookline, and lived there until I was 22. Went to Tufts as an undergrad, and left for U Maine grad school in '66, and haven't lived in Mass since. As for the Blizzard of '78, I remember that well. Nancy and I were living on Long Island that winter (I was working at Brookhaven Nat'l Lab then.) I couldn't really say what my greatest memory of the blizzard of '78 was - actually there were two on Long Island. - One in late January and the second a couple of weeks later in early February - But Andrew was born the following October. -- and if you do the math ....... ;D |
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