Let the good times roll

Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Content of the blog

US Pop, R&B, Country, AC Charts 1940-1969: posts below
Log House (Dom z Bali)
Theory of Information and Coding
Electric Circuit Theory & Technology Enhanced Learning PPt
War memoires of Sgt. Krystyna Rutkowska
Quotes on Teaching, Learning & Technology in Education

Tuesday, 22 December 2020

US (Billboard), UK, Italian… Hits 1940-1969 – Project Description & Comments

The 1st stage of the project, launched 1.5 years ago, is coming to an end. Improvement* of all >1200 files is the next stage. The blog was visited >200,000 times. Visitors can be divided into two categories:

1. Passive Visitors, anonymous downloaders only - the vast majority.

2. Active Visitors who help me improve the Project or at least send me words of support.

* Addition of missing and found, replacement by better copies, correction of errors, remastering. All 45s/78s and 99% of CD tracks are/will be remastered by means of iZotope RX7 licenced software and Audacity freeware: de-noise and de-click, standardization of parameters (fade in/out, normalization).

Only 60 Active Visitors so far – the list of nicks can be found in Comments !!! If you want to be a Taker you have to be a Giver and pass is added to new and updated files. This
password will only be passed to Active Visitors*.
The group of 60 Active Visitors so far form an initiating group of Let The Good Times Roll Club - many thanks for your cooperation so far. To get a pass, please contact me using your nickname, via the Contact field or/and join Facebook, Let The Good Times Roll Fan Club.

You may become a new Active Visitor by helping improve the Project or by a donation. Any, even symbolic donation will be greatly appreciated**
(PayPal, 1$=4PLN, e.g. 20.00$=80,00PLN).

Still > 30 000 tracks are not pass-controlled, please help in finding:

1. missing tracks

2. errors (wrong version, wrong description, wrong/incorrect link, etc.)

3. poor copies = poor rips not bitrate (128 is satisfactory)
Please leave the remark/link under this post.

Google Drive cloud is used: 1. not banned worldwide, 2. no Time2Delete – no need for re-ups, 3. updates are uploaded automatically, 4. no pop-ups. Google account is recommended!

Whitburn's books are the References, discrepancies are corrected – see 21.03.2020 Comment.

Indexing: ChartYear.NumberSide

Chart: Pop – no prefix, Adult Contemporary – A, R&B – B, Country – C

Number: number in the year, from the first entry to the last one or from #41 to #50(75)

Side: A – side that charted, B – flip, C,D - other versions. If both sides charted, then A is side of the higher #. Generally, indices A and B correspond to label description. However, if side described as B charted, then index A is assigned to this side consequently.

Example: B51.28A means R&B, 28th entry in 1951, side that charted (charted with higher #).

*If you are not the Active Visitor or do not satisfy conditions to become new Active Visitor, then please don’t contact me. I’ll not answer anymore.
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** If you don’t like donations, you can buy missing or poor quality 45, rip it and send mp3 to me and this is the preferred way of support.

Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Hit Parade Italia 1959-1969, A's & B's

This ranking is based on data collected on hitparadeitalia Web site. Some discrepancies and errors are present there. Evident errors are corrected. In all other doubtful cases the following rule is taken into account:

“If it's not on the Web, it doesn't exist at all”

Following that rule, 45s that can't be traced in Internet are omitted.

Please help me to reduce the number of

missing tracks.

Any other comments regarding this post are also welcomed, you may leave them below.

track-list Hit Parade Italia

It 59.01

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Rare Singles ripped from original 45s

Rare 01   Rare 02   Rare 03   Rare 04   Rare 05   Rare 06
Rare 07   Rare 08   Rare 09   Rare 10   Rare 11   Rare 12
Rare 13   Rare 14   Rare 15   Rare 16   Rare 17   Rare 18
Rare 19   Rare 20   Rare 21   Rare 22   Rare 23   Rare 24
Rare 25   Rare 26   Rare 27   Rare 28   Rare 29   Rare 30
Rare 31   Rare 32   Rare 33   Rare 35   Rare 36
Omissions Track-list Rare Singles

Track-lists Pop 1954 to 1969 have been updated, taking into account omissions and re-issues. All corresponding files will be updated consequently, alongside with the remastering – updated files are pass-controlled.