Description
Relive and rediscover your 45 collection with this fun class that explores how pop songs from the 1950s through the 1980s became the hits we know and love. Hundreds of songs were released by many independent record labels and while some were natural hits, others found success by accident, luck, or a combination. The charts were determined by airplay and sales were calculated by methods over which only a few people had control. Cash Box Magazine was one of the prominent music publications that Dick Clark, Solid Gold, and Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40 used to count down the hits. Class content is different each term.
Gregory Leschishin was born in the city where Rock and Roll was discovered: Cleveland! Besides being a chart fanatic, Gregory was a disc jockey before he was determined to work in Hollywood. For close to five years, he was one of the musicologists who actually determined the biggest hits that the United States listened to and purchased!
