Author Description

WCFL fought a close battle with WLS for the lucrative Chicago Top 40 radio market from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. In fact, many of the top deejays in the nation worked at both stations. This volume includes WCFL's weekly pop music charts from December 1965 through December 1970. Also includes an historical survey of the station. 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.