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WKDA presents the official Coca-Cola TOP 40 TUNES OF METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE

WKDA NASHVILLE 1240
VOL  4    SURVEY  NO.  35
WEEK OF AUGUST 30, 1959

Personal note: This survey was a work of art. I am not being hyperbolic, or hyperbaric. See the copy September 6. There is no telling what this cost to print. Of course, Coca-Cola was paying for it, so who cares? (Maybe that explains why Cokes were selling for $1.80 in Nashville in ’58.)

WKDA “Pick Hit” of the week: unknown
THE WKDA “FEATURE ALBUM” of the week: unknown
25 WKDA HOT PROSPECTS: unknown
WKDA HOT ALBUM PROSPECTS: unknown
WAX WATCH: unknown
*Former WKDA Pick Hit: #11, #17, #21, #23, #27, #36

Survey note: missing; recreated from 9/6. Songs at the missing position chart numbers are unknown.
Notes col: Record labels. ATL = Atlantic, C.A. = Canadian/American, CAD = Cadence, CAP = Capitol, CHAN = Chancellor, COL = Columbia, IMP = Imperial, MERC = Mercury, Phil = Phillips, Intl., VJ (9/6 looks like VI, but could/should be J) = Vee Jay (see?), W.B. = Warner Bros., WAR = Warwick

NOTES:
#2 (“… (pt. 1); See?
#3 Sea!
#6 Conway Twitty actually had the bigger hit, charted same time
#7 “Kissin’…”
#8 (I learned this song on John Fogerty’s first Blue Ridge Rangers lp)
#18 “Flip” being the effervescent, ever-present (until 2016), producer (& “friend”) of Tammy Faye Bakker, the irrepressible, irasci- STOP IT! Ok. Gary S. Paxton (“Don’t forget the S. It’s a third of my entire name.”) I once heard him say he wrote (I thought 10,000), but upon farther preview, maybe it was 2,000 songs. That’s still a lot! Not to mention the Hollywood Argyles, with Kim Fowley.
He gave us the burning question, not only of the moment, the year, the decade, the century, the millennium (it doesn’t matter which), but throughout all the ages: “Will There be Hippies in Heaven?” AND QUASI-SELF-ANSWERED IT: “I certainly hope so. I really do want to go.” And not many CCM artists could get away with: “When the Meat Wagon Comes for You”. Maybe Steve Taylor, Todd Snider, Bruce Cockburn. Although none would probably be that crass.
#19 …& Song-Masters
#36 … with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra; B side of 45

Contributed by: Doug Dean (Tuesday, 2021-10-12)