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December 4th, 1976


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WPGC Music Survey Weekly Playlist - 12/04/76 - Outside

 

On the Front Cover:

In a photo obviously taken in the middle of Summer, WPGC Money Girls, Evelyn & Carla display a WPGC bumpersticker that made listeners $100 richer when they waved & won! More on the various Money Girls.

Carla was one of the original three Money Girls when the WPGC Gold Money Car debuted in 1973. She also worked off the air in Programming. Following 'The Great Strike (That Struck Out)' in May of 1977, she was Music Director and did a weekend shift at 13Q in Pittsburgh. Today, she is an attorney in Montgomery County.

Evelyn arrived at WPGC with Tim Kelly in early 1976. The two met at KTLK in Denver. Ev's other on air gigs included working with Tim and solo in Chicago, Boston and LA.

The first of the Money Cars was a 1973 Olds Cutlass. It was replaced with a 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V. The Free Money Van, a 1980 Ford followed. The last of the Money Cars was a 1982 Mercedes. Rounding out the group was the WPGC Money Plane which flew over DC in 1973. Check out fotos of the fleet!

 

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WPGC Music Survey Weekly Playlist - 12/04/76 - Inside

 

#1 on WPGC Today in 1976

It's hard to imagine Rod Stewart having had a bigger hit than his iconic, 'Maggie May' in 1971. But indeed, 'Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)' did just that, spending 8 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100, the longest of any song in 1976, the longest in Rod's entire career and the longest in 8 years since the Beatles', 'Hey Jude' in 1968. Read more on the tune.

Debuting on the WPGC Musicradio Survey on 10/09/76 at #30, by 11/06/76, a mere 4 weeks later, it hit #1 where it stayed for 6 weeks and placed at #10 on the WPGC Top 100 for 1976. Its sexually laden lyrics sparked such controversy at the time, particularly the line, 'Spread your wings and let me come inside', that many stations edited out the perceived offensive verbiage or outright banned the record entirely as the BBC did. Thankfully, WPGC was not one of them. See the year-end survey.

Remarkably, the song had been inspired by America's, 'Today's the Day'. While visiting Dan Peek's home studio, he played the tune for Stewart who quickly took the basis of it and changed it to fit his own image, one that was further enhanced by his girlfriend at the time, Britt Eckland who moaned and groaned in French at the end of the tune. WPGC had been so early on the track it had already moved on to the Cat Steven's penned, 'The First Cut Is the Deepest' also from his, 'A Night On the Town' LP before 'Tonight' had even completed its chart life. Read more on the parent album.

 

11/27/76 WPGC Music Survey Weekly Playlist - 12/11/76
12/11/76




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