Re: Top 105 Oldies - Harvey Holiday Show, WDAS-FM, November, 1979 - Entire list 1 thru 105

[yougotl...@yahoo.com]

Poster's note: The following is a listener-voted - not DJ-selected -
survey of musical favorites from (DJ) Harvey Holiday's (then) top-
rated show on Sunday night that ran from 7 pm to Midnight on African-
American oriented WDAS-FM in those days. These votes were not
solicited over the telephone, much less then non-existent e-mail of
his listeners, who had to mail in (snail mail) their Top 10 favorite
oldies if they wanted their votes counted (mainly Soul or R&B as it
was wont to be) with their # 1 on mailed-in list getting 10 points, #
2 getting 9 points and so on down to # 10, which was awarded 1 point
in the calculations. So-called "tie" situations were either those
where
there was an actual tie in terms of vote-points, or they were so close
that Holiday took it upon himself to grant these records a virtual tie
so that - in his words - he could get more oldies into the countdown.
But the voting had to be very close, I suppose within a handful of
votes cast
and Mr. Holiday said thousands of votes were received, and I remember
him quoting for one of these years that they staged these survey-
contests
that upwards of 700 different records received votes.

HARVEY HOLIDAY SHOW - WDAS-FM
BROADCAST NOVEMBER 4, AND NOVEMBER 11, 1979

{the entire list this time]

1. For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler & The Impressions
2. Ooh Baby Baby - Miracles
3. Purple Raindrops - Stevie Wonder
4. My Girl - Temptations
5. Hypnotized - Linda Jones
6. Can You Love A Poor Boy - Miracles
7. A House Is Not A Home - Mavis Staples
8. I Only Have Eyes For You - Flamingos
9. I Am Your Man - Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
10. Stay In My Corner - The Dells (the remake)
11. With A Child's Heart - Stevie Wonder
12. If This World Were Mine - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
13. I Do Love You/Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart
14. Tracks Of My Tears/Fork In The Road - Miracles
15. I Only Meant To Wet My Feet - The Whispers
16. In The Still Of The Night - 5 Satins
17. Born To Love You - Temptaions
18. My Guy - Mary Wells/Your Precious Love - Marvin & Tammi (tie)
19. Sincerely - Moonglows
20. Peace Of Mind - Magnificent Men
21. I Gave To You - Delfonics/Here I Go Again - Miracles (tie)
22. Forever - The Marvelettes
23. Hey Love - Stevie Wonder
24. The Bells/Baby I'm For Real - The Originals
25. Bad Girl - Miracles
26. What Love Has Joined Together/It's Growing - Tempations
27. Depend On Me - Miracles
28. Sad Girl - Jay Wiggins/Love On A 2-Way Street - Moments
29. Just My Imagination - Temptations
30. Since I Don't Have You - Skyliners
31. What Becomes Of The Broken-Hearted - Jimmy Ruffin
32. I Wonder - The Pentagons
33. Ain't No Way - Aretha Franklin / Since I Lost My Baby -
Temptations (tie)
34. I'm The One Love Forgot - The Manhattans
35. The Tears Of A Clown - Miracles
36. The Wind - Jesters/Diablos (tie)
37. Shadows - 5 Satins
38. Going In Circles - Friends Of Distinction
39. Give Her Up - Miracles
40. Rainy Day Bells - Globetrotters
41. The Beginning Of My End - Unifics / Whatever Hurts You - Mad Lads
(tie)
42. Baby Baby Don't Cry - Miracles
43. Daddy's Home - Shep & The Limelites
44. You're My Everything - Temptations
45. Ain't Understanding Mellow - Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager/
Never
Gonna Give You Up - Jerry Butler (tie)
46. It's Gonna Take A Miracle - Royalettes/Step Into My World - Magic
Touch
47. Tell Him - Patti Drew
48. A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke /
It's Time To Go Now - Gladys Knight & The Pips (tie)
49. Have You Seen Her? - Chi-Lites
50. Oh What A Nite - Dells
51. Where Did Our Love Go / Baby Love - Supremes
52. Danny Boy - Jackie Wilson
53. Heat Wave - Martha & The Vandellas
54. I'm Just An Average Guy - Masqueraders
55. Gypsy Woman / Minstrel & Queen - The Impressions
56. (You Gave Me) Peace Of Mind - Spaniels
57. Maybe - Chantels
58. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin & Tammi /
10 Commandments Of Love - Moonglows (tie)
59. If I Were Your Woman / I Don't Want To Do Wrong - Gladys Knight &
The Pips
60. Cry Baby - Garnett Mims & The Enchanters
61. It's Forever - The Ebonys
62. La La Means I Love You - Delfonics
63. This Old Heart Of Mine - Isley Brothers
64. My Confession Of Love - Donnie Elbert
65. Ask The Lonely - 4 Tops
66. I Want Someone / So Nice - The Mad Lads
67. I'm So Proud - The Impressions
68. Misty - Vibrations / Can I - Eddie Kendricks (tie)
69. Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
70. I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow - The O'Jays
71. Don't Compare Me With Her - Kim Weston /
Heaven Must Have Sent You - The Elgins (tie)
72. Malinda - Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
73. One Less Bell - 5th Dimension
74. Tonite, Tonite - Mello-Kings
75. (It's A) Thin Line Between Love And Hate - Persuaders
76. So I Can Love You - Emotions
77. The Court Of Love - Unifics / The Sweeter He Is - Soul Children
(tie)
78. Teardrops - Lee Andrews & The Hearts
79. You Send Me - Sam Cooke
80. Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics
81. All I Need / The Girl's Alright With Me - Temptations
82. Human - Tommy Hunt
83. Stay With Me - Lorraine Ellison
84. The Great Pretender - Platters
85. Come Closer To Me - Mad Lads
86. I'll Try Something New - Miracles / I Love You 1000 Times -
Platters (tie)
87. Down The Aisle - Patti LaBelle & The Blue Bells
88. You've Been Untrue - Delfonics
89. Blue Holiday - Shirelles
90. I Can't Help Myself - 4 Tops
91. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
92. Neither One Of Us - Gladys Knight & The Pips
93. Pledging My Love - Johnny Ace
94. This I Swear - Skyliners
95. I Had A Talk With My Man - Mitty Collier
96. World Of Fantasy - 5 Stairsteps
97. Bewildered - James Brown
98. Sunday Kind Of Love - Harptones / Since I Fell For You - Lenny
Welch (tie)
99. Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson
100. Love Is A Hurting Thing - Lou Rawls
101. Your Precious Love - Linda Jones
102. You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells
103. Cowboys To Girls - Intruders / I'm On The Outside Looking In -
Little Anthony &
The Imperials (tie)
104. I Wish It Would Rain - Temptations
105. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

No. 1 Album: In A Mellow Mood - The Temptations

[end quote]

{Poster's note: Why 105? Because WDAS broadcasts/ed at 104.5 on the
FM dial.}

L.I. - I'd be interested to get some opinions on this list. With
1979, there are a lot of "30-somethings" in the listening audience,
as they were called then, who grew up with a lot, if not most of these
records.

[hellen...@gmail.com]

[sligo...@gmail.com]

Lot of good stuff here. I remember Holiday closed his weekly show with "It's Time To Go Now" by Gladys Knight & The Pips but somewhere along the line changed it to Peace Of Mind by the Mag Men.

Actually, WDAS is at 105.3.