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Two hours of America's latest and greatest hits from the last five decades.

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Sat 5 Feb 2011 20:00
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Music Played

  • Nat King Cole

    Smile

    This day in 1919: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks & D.W. Griffith formed United Artists

  • The Script

    For The First Time

    Number Three Album: Science & Faith and Top Forty track

  • Kidz Bop

    Just The Way You Are

    Number One Internet Album & Number Two Album: Kidz Bop 19

  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair

    Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] - Stars For A Summer Night - 22 Columbia label’s Pop & Classical artists (1961)

  • Wiz Khalifa

    Black And Yellow

    Number Two

  • Blood, Sweat & Tears

    I Can't Quit Her

    Born 1944: Al Kooper

  • The Archies

    Sugar Sugar

    Don Kirshner - born 17th April 1934; died 17th January 2011

  • Gregg Allman

    Little By Little

    His first Top Ten solo album: Low Country Blues

  • Lloyd Price

    Stagger Lee

    R&B Number One this date in 1959

  • Trey Songz

    Can't Be Friends

    R&B/Hip-Hop Number One 13th week & New Adult R&B Number One

  • Pearl Jam

    Arms Aloft

    New Entry at Number 21 in the Album Chart: Live On 10 Legs

  • Neil Diamond

    I GOT THE FEELIN' (Oh No No)

    It’s Not The Same Old Song: Number Sixteen in 1966

  • James Brown

    I Got The Feelin'

    It’s Not The Same Old Song: Number One R&B in 1981

  • Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Happy Birthday

    Internet Top Ten album: III-IV

  • James Blunt

    Stay The Night

    New Entry at Number Eleven in the Album Chart: Some Kind Of Trouble

  • Roberta Flack

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) - First Take - Roberta Flack (1970)

  • P!nk

    Perfect

    Top Ten

  • The Marvelettes

    Please, Mr. Postman

    Grammy Hall Of Fame single: Number One in 1961 (2011 Inductee) and in tribute to Gladys Horton

  • Louis Armstrong

    St. Louis Blues

    Grammy Hall Of Fame single: reached Number Eleven in 1930

  • Social Distortion

    Machine Gun Blues

    New Entry in the Top Five of the Album Chart: Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes

  • The Beatles

    No Reply

    Baby What A Big Surprise [they really were Number One albums] - Beatles ’65 - The Beatles (released December 1964)

  • HEY BABY (Drop It To The Floor)

    Pitbull featuring T-Pain

    Top Ten

  • Loretta Lynn

    One's On The Way

    Country Number One this date in 1972

  • Taylor Swift

    Back To December

    Current Country Number One - fifth week

  • Lou Reed

    Dirty Blvd.

    Rock Number One this date in 1989

  • Linkin Park

    Waiting For The End

    Current Rock Number One - 4th week

  • Elvis Presley - I Love You Because

    The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (debut hit albums) Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)

  • The Decemberists

    Down By The Water

    Number One in the Album Chart: NEW: The King Is Dead

  • Love Unlimited Orchestra

    Love's Theme

    Number One this date in 1974

  • Foreigner

    I Want To Know What Love Is

    Number One this date in 1985

  • Bruno Mars

    Grenade

    Current Number One: fifth week

Broadcast

  • Sat 5 Feb 2011 20:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2