But the really BIG one is between Christmas and the start of the New Year: the All Time Top 1000. They broadcast 24/24, with a rerun of the day’s charts between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The program is immensely popular; especially because every hour there is a very simple quiz question. The prize is the entire CD collection of the current year’s Top 1000!
For as long as I remember – except in 2009 and 2010 – Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen was number one. In the two previous years it was The Rose from Bette Midler, in the version of Ann Christy, a Flemish singer who died in 1984 from cancer. She was only 39 at the time and has become a real icon. Her version of The Rose is often played at funerals.
Other candidates to the title are: Dancing Queen by ABBA, Child in Time by Deep Purple and You’re the First, the Last, my Everything by Barry White. What would be your favourite if you had to choose your All Time hit song?
Feel like listening in on our Top 1000? Click here. You won’t regret it … Btw, there is a news bulletin every hour and traffic information every now and then … So you’ll have to sit through those … as well as the odd Flemish classic. But who knows; you may get to like them!
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http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=152352
http://kfog.com/ListenLive.aspx
I use to listen to these radio stations a lot when I was younger, especially the first one which is WLS in Chicago. Lots of old music.
The second one is KFOG in San Francisco. Before computers I use to have my brother in law tape hours of the station on real to real tape and send it to me in the Philippines when we were stationed there. Listen for the fog horn from SF.
anyway you might enjoy listening. give it a try. I hope it works.
I could not get your station to play. can you resend the link to me via email and let me give it another try. I clicked on the right arrow to play and nothing happened.
I would love to hear 1000 hours of golden oldies. I have trouble picking a favorite. Do you have one, Martine? And anybody else?
I bookmarked that site as a Favorite. I'll get to it later. Thanks!
Anything by ABBA is great. The one song that I always go back to is "I can see clearly now the rain is gone". That one always does it for me.
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My choice would be Winterreise, the song cycle by Franz Schubert, but it won't probably qualify here!
Martine, are all the songs in English, or are there French songs too?
Bob, I've sent you an e-mail with the link. Hope it'll work! I'm curious to listen to those stations of yours; It'll be as soon as the Top 1000 is done. Thank you!
Carolyn, It's hard to say, because I always tend to link a song to an event or a person. It would be ABBA, because it reminds me of the time when I was young and without worries then. Or 'Mandy' by Barry Manilow, because my late husband loved that song. Our 'Without You' by Nilson, because that's what we danced to at our wedding. Or 'For your eyes only' by Shena Easton, because that was my first dance with my friend ... Right now I'm tempeted to buy 'The Best of Michel Delpech'.
Mark, ABBA is great!! Simply love all of their songs.
Btw, If you want to listen to the Top 1000 don't wait too long because it'll all be over by tomorrow afternoon.
Chm, No, I guess it wouldn't qualify, but I'm sure it is exquisite. The oldest number in this year's charts is 'In the Mood' by Glenn Miller, released in 1939.
Ken, It's mainly English, but there is a fair amount of French too: ranging from Edith Piaf, to Hervé Villard, Michel Delpech, Michel Sardou, Claude François, and two of our Belgian artists who really made it in France: Jacques Brel and Adamo.
It's already on my faves - thanks Martine.
Martine, I am just listening to your station and "Riders on the Storm" has just come on...one of my favourites!
How wonderful I can be listening to your radio station in Belgium from here in Australia! Thank you so much for the link
L&S, You're welcome : Hope you'll get a chance to listen to some of your all-time favourites. What a way to start the new year!!
Louise, I heard it this morning too. Isn't it grand that, thanks to the internet, it is possible to listen to the same program and music all over the world? I hope you are enjoying the rest of the program too ... although you must be in the middle of celebrating the new year by now. Have fun!
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