The first venture into the Time in a Bottle Charts comes from the Boss Radio survey at KHJ Los Angeles — the station I grew up with and the soundtrack of my youth. As Bryan Adams reminded us in 1984, we’re heading back to the Summer of ’69 — more specifically, August 27, 1969.
For this debut chart, I’ve included each song’s position on the three major national charts. KHJ was often far ahead of the nationals, especially in the 60s, and this survey is full of records that barely made a dent nationally but were big, bright, and booming locally.
Hope you enjoy this first chart, and let me know what you think of this new feature in the comments.