Author Description

KTKT was the leading Top 40 AM radio outlet serving the Tucson market during the post-World War II period. This volume reproduces many of the station's pop music surveys during the 1977-1979 period. The 1962-1966, 1967-1971, and 1972-1976 charts have also been covered in three previously published volumes. Like the other radio charts titles, my goal was to provide a convenient chronological compilation of weekly surveys with corrections of the considerable errors found in both the original sources and in translation to online sites. These radio charts - which exist in the public domain - can be found in a multitude of sources, including original published sheets distributed via retail outlets, mail inquiries, etc., notation of on-air broadcasts, back issues of area newspapers (where stations are located) and music trade periodicals, specialized reference books, and websites interested in historical documentation, most notably, Oldiesloon, musicradio77, and ARSA. I employed multiple sources in the compilation of each radio chart volume in order to provide the most accurate data possible.