43 years ago today, March 12, 1983, Merle Haggard debuted at #61 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “You Take Me for Granted”. It went on to peak at #1 and spent a total of 18 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. I bought this song and gladly added it to my treasured music collection 4+ decades ago. I liked hearing it on the radio.

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It’s the 18-Year Anniversary of when my mom, Patricia and I first began the 5-month process of recording our album. We started the project on January 3rd and wrapped it up in May (2008).

This is Part 2 and the last five Snippets from our Little Blue Suitcase CD/Album.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ktdG8KkgI

37 years ago today, March 11, 1989, Gail Davies debuted at #75 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Waiting Here for You”. It went on to peak at #50 and spent a total of 10 weeks on the chart.

KYAK, the station I used to work at, many records would get thrown away as they’d receive duplicates, and I’d go through and pick out ones I wanted to keep and add to my treasured music collection.

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37 years ago today, March 11, 1989, Alabama debuted at #45 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “If I Had You”. It went on to peak at #1 and spent a total of 19 weeks on the chart.

I played this song a lot back then. It was in our hot rotation for several weeks at KYAK, the station I used to work for.

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39 years ago today, March 7, 1987, Tina Turner entered the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart with “What You Get is What You See”. It went on to peak at #13 and spent a total of 7 weeks in the Top 40.

At the station I used to work at, so many records would get thrown away as they’d receive duplicates, and I’d go through and pick out ones I wanted to keep. This is from KGOT, our CHR sister station at that time.

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43 years ago today, March 5, 1983, Charley Pride debuted at #69 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “More and More”. It went on to peak at #7 and spent a total of 16 weeks on the chart.

I bought this song, added it to my treasured collection. My grandma and I went to see Charley in concert. This song was his current single at that time. I really liked hearing it on the radio, wonderful memories!

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37 years ago today, March 4, 1989, Steve Wariner debuted at #68, the *Hot Shot Debut* on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Where Did I Go Wrong”. It went on to peak at #1 and spent a total of 22 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles over the years. I played this song a lot back then at AM 650 KYAK, the station I used to work for from 1987-1991.

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37 years ago today, March 4, 1989, Skip Ewing debuted at #73 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “The Gospel According to Luke”. It went on to peak at #10 and spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles over the years. I played this song a lot back then at AM 650 KYAK, the station I used to work for from 1987-1991.

#vinylcommunity #music #1980s #classics #vinyl #countrymusic #musician #singer #musicislife