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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · Jan 17

I have written my first essay in decades covering Badfinger & record collecting. It’s up on the wonderful site @ihavethatonvinyl.com recently launched. Please check it out. Thanks!

ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-s...

The Special Love I Have for You: Discovering Badfinger’s Straight Up

Would you lend a highly sought-after album to someone whose last name you didn’t know, had no clue where they lived, and might possibly never see again? That is how I was introduced to my all-time fav...

ihavethatonvinyl.com

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 46m

Most wanted titles on CD from fall 1988. I remember the demand for all these, especially Bowie & Queen, except for 4 Way Street

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 2h

10/18/1969:
#20 Something - Beatles
#23 Come Together - Beatles
#50 And When I Die - Blood, Sweat & Tears
#76 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
#78 Undun - Guess Who
#94 Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday - Stevie Wonder

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 6h

She has become a villain in travel blogs because those commercials have significantly contributed to the overcrowding of airport lounges

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 7h

Many songs do the same for me for one reason: They were played heavily in the fall & not heard much on the radio after that.
Cheap Trick - Voices*, Stop This Game*, She’s Tight, I Can’t Take It
Kinks-Living On A Thin Line* (St Louis played it upon LP release)
*Give me “days are getting short” vibes

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve always been curious: What did Green Bay locals think of having a few home games played in Milwaukee each season back when that was a thing?

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

10/15/1988:
#49 I Don't Want Your Love - Duran Duran
#73 In Your Room - Bangles
#92 Peek-A-Boo - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 1d

It’s strange to me that I was into to this format for 20 years beginning in 1993, but I have no memory of any of these Pearl Jam hits aside from the live version of an early hit & the cover. I know most of these others. For such a high profile band, their legacy of original hits to me runs: 1991-95

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 2d

20 years later Mr. Ralston was still stunned at how many folks were enjoining their radios without the need of an accompanying technical book

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 3d

10/12/1991:
#6 Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbors
#14 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
#25 The Cult - Ceremony
#45 A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
#105 Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence
#144 Nirvana - Nevermind

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 3d

10/10/1987:
#59 We'll Be Together - Sting
#77 Valerie - Steve Winwood
#84 Animal - Def Leppard
#88 Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
#92 Tell It To My Heart - Taylor Dayne
#94 Just Like Heaven - The Cure

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 3d

Top 5 CAKE songs?

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

Possibly the second most popular duo named Neil & Buzz

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

This was taken the next season as the crowd left Busch Stadium after a Cardinals game. I’m fascinated no one is wearing a team cap (a few are wearing visors that at first look like caps)

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

My copy from 1973, which a friend’s little brother cracked in 5 pieces. My older brother glued it back together for my and it played without skipping!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

I loved this! 1995 was one of my favorite years for music & discovering BF5 was a highlight

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

I knew someone with a collection of thousands of titles who believed Waiting For Columbus was the best sounding live recording of all time. Congrats on this treasure trove!

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

Released just 3 months apart

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 4d

This guy used to sell radio shows, but his site is no more:

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

Not pulling out my albums today, but I do have 14 singles from this #AT40 countdown

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

Mark: The first #AT40 hit Debbie Boone hit

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

For folks who didn’t get enough from Mike Curb giving us the Osmonds & Sammy Davis Jr’s The Candy Man #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

The first time I ever saw what Casey Kasem looked like was when my friend Mike called me and said Casey was on Charlie’s Angles. He was playing an announcer covering a golf tournament in the 1978 episode “Winning Is For Losers” #AT40

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s the top 40/100 songs played circa New Year’s Day 1978 on the #AT40 year end countdown of 1977. I don’t know how this compares to Billboard’s year end list

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

All very true!

Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week) @billzuka.bsky.social · 5d

Johnny Rivers founded the 60s label Soul City, that had #1 hits by The 5th Dimension. He sold the label to Bell in 1970 but kept the logo for his future releases #AT40