Author Description

KDWB the most popular and influential Top 40 popular music AM radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market from the late 1950s into the 1970s. This volume covers the earliest surveys produced by the station, beginning in 1959 through December 1963. Also includes an essay on AM radio in the Twin Cities during the Top 40 era. 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.