Author Description

WPGC was a leading Top 40 AM radio outlet in the Washington, D.C.-area market during the 1970s. This volume reproduces a large number of the station's weekly music surveys from the 1971-1978 period. Also includes a thumbnail history of the station, noting the various call letters it has employed. 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.