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Oldies CDs

604 Songs: 1947-82

A few years ago, I decided to upgrade my oldies collection to CDs. I probably spent the better part of a year just compiling a list of the songs I wanted to record. This involved figuring out which of the songs I had previously recorded to cassettes that I still liked and buying some of Joel Whitburn's books for more research. Since I already had over 700 songs on cassettes, I had a head start. I found a company in Seattle that would transcribe cassettes to CDs – so I made good use of their services. I still had all my old 45s and albums. I bought an ADS "Instant Music" device to hook up between my stereo and my computer that would allow me to produce .wav files from vinyl. I also had a bunch of commercial CDs that contained some of the songs I wanted to record – I bought a lot more.

Sometime during this process I discovered downloading songs from the internet. I made good use of that capability. I now have 22 CDs containing 604 songs spanning the years 1947 - 1982. These are recorded, in sequence, by date of peak popularity. I also have an Access database with all these songs on it, as well as artist, dates, original record information, chart position, and the source of the songs. I still have all the .wav files on my hard drive – I can create CDs with any combination of songs, in any sequence. Maybe some day I can figure out how to get my Web site to interact with a database, so you can see all the song titles.

The following table contains a summary of these CDs.

Volume
Numbers
Start Date
End Date
Songs
1
1-26
October 1947
April 1951
26
2
27-52
May 1951
September 1952
26
3
53-78
September 1952
February 1954
26
4
79-106
February 1954
September 1954
28
5
107-135
October 1954
May 1955
29
6
136-164
May 1955
November 1955
29
7
165-193
November 1955
February 1956
29
8
194-222
February 1956
May 1956
29
9
223-251
May 1956
August 1956
29
10
252-281
August 1956
October 1956
30
11
282-311
October 1956
January 1957
30
12
312-341
January 1957
April 1957
30
13
342-370
April 1957
July 1957
29
14
371-401
July 1957
November 1957
31
15
402-431
November 1957
February 1958
30
16
432-462
February 1958
June 1958
31
17
463-491
June 1958
September 1958
29
18
492-520
October 1958
March 1959
29
19
521-547
May 1959
June 1965
27
20
548-568
October 1965
November 1969
21
21
569-585
November 1969
February 1973
17
22
586-604
April 1973
June 1982
19

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