On this date in 1981, the official title of the number one song in the USA was 41 words long — the longest title of any recording on the Billboard charts.
Moldy Oldies: June 19, 1971
On June 19, 1971, the number one song in the USA was actually two songs — a double A-side single.
Moldy Oldies: June 18, 1977
On this date in 1977, the number one song in the USA was Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.
Moldy Oldies: June 17, 1978
On this date in 1978, the number one song in the USA was Shadow Dancing, by Andy Gibb.
Moldy Oldies: June 16, 1979
I’m writing a textbook
I haven’t posted a blog post recently, so I thought I would post a short update about what I’ve been doing. West Chester University has awarded me a sabbatical leave to work on a new textbook on broadcast performance. The working title is On Air: Effective Announcing, and is scheduled to be published by Cognella Publishing in 2018.
Because I’m spending most of my time working on this book, I probably won’t be posting to my blog a lot this year. My goal is to have a working draft of this textbook later this year to use in my broadcast performance class.