Ron’s Hot 100 library

Ron, thanks as always for posting this invaluable info!

I know that the lower chart dregs are starting to get tougher for you, but I sincerely hope that you'll at least consider doing everything that hit the Top 40 (or Top 50) for each year going backwards in time.

Yes - please send.

Removing the chatter would most certainly help the Helen Reddy song, but would drain some of the fun out of Stevie's song.

I believe that the 45 did have the crossover, but I don't have the vinyl to confirm. I know that some of the other tracks on the History album were remixed for that album.

For America's "Tin Man", the following discs all use the same analog transfer as History America's Greatest Hits (copyright 1975):

• Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 15 1974 Take Two (1991) - differently-EQ'd digital clone
• Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 21 1974 (1996) - digitally exactly 1.2 dB louder than 1974 Take Two
• Reader's Digest's 4-CD American Pie (1998)
• Time-Life's 2-CD Singers And Songwriters Vol. 15 The '70s (2001) - digitally exactly 0.438 dB louder than 1974 Take Two
• Time-Life's 2-CD Classic Soft Rock Vol. 1 Summer Breeze (2006) - differently-EQ'd digital clone

Would the AM Gold 1974 listing then be considered to be
neither the 45 or LP version?

Slow going for 1973; apparently I had a lot of other stuff going on from May to November.

Updated to include 1973:

1973

I've updated all the lists from 1973-1998, too. (Links above.)

Up next: I'm going to go through the '80s top 40 hits (not the whole Hot 100) and make sure my notation is consistent with the database. 1972 will wait a little while.