WKDA 1240 AM

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

WKDA NASHVILLE 1240
VOL  4    SURVEY  NO.  30
WEEK OF JULY 27, 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 ’59.)

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: #10, # 20, #23, #27, #30, #36

Survey note: missing; recreated from 9/6. Songs at the missing position 
chart numbers are unknown.
Notes col: Record labels. ATL = Atlantic, BRUN = Brunswick, CAP = Capitol, 
CHAN = Chancellor, COL = Columbia, FEL = Felsted, IMP = Imperial, MERC = 
Mercury, PHIL = Phillips, Intl., T. RANK – Top Rank (but not boxing)

NOTES:
This survey: 2 Lonelys, 2 Boys
#5 (I learned this song on the first NGDB’s Will The Circle be Unbroken?
#9 … not his wierd cousin Ben Colder…
#24 “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.
#27 “Bells, Bells, Bells” … “Three Bells” Coincidence? I think not. Survey: 
Billie

Contributed by: Doug Dean (Saturday, 2021-10-16)