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10/16/2026

WDGy’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1980:

1 ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST –•– Queen
2 WOMAN IN LOVE –•– Barbra Streisand
3 UPSIDE DOWN –•– Diana Ross
4 ALL OUT OF LOVE –•– Air Supply
5 HE’S SO SHY –•– The Pointer Sisters

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 79 — DEEP INSIDE MY HEART –•– Randy Meisner & Kim Carnes.

IT WOULD PEAK AT #22

10/16/2026

Music notes for Oct. 16:

Ace Frehley from the band Kiss passed way. The guitarist was known for his "Spaceman" persona, from the days when KISS was founded with the original line-up of Paul Stanley on vocals and rhythm guitar, Gene Simmons on vocals and bass guitar, Frehley, on lead guitar and vocals and Peter Criss on drums and vocals. In 1978 when each member released a solo album, Ace hit #13 with New York Groove.

2010 - Auburn University graduate student Justin Havird named a new species of fish, Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini, because the fish's pectoral fin reminded him of the double-neck guitar used by Jimmy Page. 'I'm a big Led Zeppelin fan, and I was listening to them while I was working on the fish,' Havird said. 'The structure that makes this species unique just reminded me of the guitar that Jimmy Page played.

1976 - Disc jockey Rick Dees hits #1 in the with "Disco Duck," a goofy number that envisions Donald Duck enjoying the spoils of the disco era. It is the last novelty song to top the Hot 100.

1976 - Stevie Wonder's 'Songs In The Key Of Life', went to No.1 on the album chart. Featuring the songs ‘Sir Duke', 'I Wish', 'and 'Isn't She Lovely', it was Wonder's third No.1 and became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Wonder's career.

1972 - Creedence Clearwater Revival split up following the disappointing sales of their most recent album, 'Mardi Gras‘.
It feautured “Sweet Hitchhiler”. The press release said:” quits, announcing in a press release: "We don't regard this as breaking up. We look at it as an expansion of our activities." The band never reforms, but John Fogerty emerges with a successful solo career.

10/15/2026

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10/15/2026

Music notes for Oct. 15:

Happy birthday Richard Carpenter, one half of one the most successful duos in pop music history.
The Carpenters released 49 official singles alongside major compilation and hit albums during their career from 1969 to 1983, including 9 Top 10 hits.

1997 - Michael Jackson played the last date on the HIStory Tour at King's Park Rugby Stadium, Durban, South Africa. During the tour, Jackson performed 82 concerts in 58 cities to over 4.5 million fans, visiting 5 continents and 35 countries.

1995 - Paul McCartney and his wife Linda appear on an episode of The Simpsons where they help Lisa become a vegetarian. Paul explains that if you play "Maybe I'm Amazed" backwards, you'll hear a recipe for lentil soup.

1988 - Bon Jovi started a four-week run at No.1 on the album chart with their fourth release, 'New Jersey.' The album produced five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles.

1988 - UB40’s cover of Neil Diamond's "Red Red W**e" finally hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 over four years after its initial release. Lead singer Ali Campbell says that they always knew it as a reggae song and had no idea Diamond wrote it.

1977 - Debby Boone started a 10 week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'You Light Up My Life' becoming the biggest song of the year.

1973 - Dolly Parton released 'Jolene' as the first single and title song from her album of the same name. According to Parton, the song which peaked at No. 1 on the Country charts was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl Dean at his local bank branch when they were newly married.

1971 - Rick Nelson plays the "Rock & Roll Spectacular" concert at Madison Square Garden. When he plays some newer songs, the hit-hungry audience boos. Nelson writes the song "Garden Party" about the experience, and it becomes a hit, reviving his career

10/15/2026

10/14/2026

Music notes for Oct. 14:

Happy birthday Justin Hayward singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of The Moody Blues. He had a hand in writing such great songs as “Nights in Whitw Satin”, “The Story in Your Eyes, Question, Tuesday Afternoon and Your Wildest Dreams.

Happy birthday Cliff Richard. British singer and actor Cliff Richar. Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British pop scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s.
On the U.S. he had only a few hits including “Devil Woman” and
“We Don’t Talk Anymore”.

1983 - Cyndi Lauper, formerly a member of the group Blue Angel, issues her first solo album, She's So Unusual. With the MTV hits "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and "Time After Time," it becomes an '80s touchstone

1974 - Nashville veterans worry about the sanctity of country music when Olivia Newton-John wins Female Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards).

1972 - Michael Jackson went to No.1 on the Usingles chart with 'Ben', his first solo No.1.. Written by for the film of the same name, the song was first offered to Donny Osmond, but he was on tour at the time and unavailable for recording, so it was offered the song to Jackson instead.

1971 - Music publishing firm, Arco Industries filed a $500,000 dollar lawsuit against Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty, claiming that Fogerty's song Travelin' Band "contained substantial material copied from Little Richard's Good Golly, Miss Molly". The suit was eventully settled.

1968 - The Jackson Five made their national TV debut on the ABC television variety show Hollywood Palace. Diana Ross was serving as the guest host of a special show devoted to Motown acts.

1967 - After 15 weeks at #1, The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is knocked out of the top spot by Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe.

10/13/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1972

1 BEN –•– Michael Jackson
2 USE ME –•– Bill Withers
3 EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL –•– The Main Ingredient
4 BURNING LOVE –•– Elvis Presley
5 GO ALL THE WAY –•– The Raspberries

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 78 — OPERATOR (That’s Not the Way It Feels) –•– Jim Croce

IT WOULD PEAK AT #17

10/13/2026

Music notes for Oct. 13:

Happy birthday Paul Simon. After a very successful partnership with Art Garfunkel, Paul went on to a solo career that featured the hits “Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard”, “Mother and Child Renuion”, 50 Ways to Leave Lover”, and “You Can Call Me Al”.
Among his many awards are The Kennedy Center Honors”. Th Rock Hall of Fame with Garfunkel in 1990, as a soloist in 2001, and The Gershwin Pize in 2007.

Happy birthday John Ford Coley. Along with his partner, the late England Dan, they scored several 70’ss hits including “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight”, “Nights are Forever” and “Love is the answer. The two of them met while attending high school in Dallas.

Happy birthday Robert Lamm, singer, keyboardist and song writer for Chicago. Among the Chicago he wrote are “Does Anybody Know What Time It Is”, “Questions 67 & 68”, and “25 or 6 to 4”.

2016 - Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first songwriter to win the prestigious award. The 75-year-old rock legend received the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.

1973 - The Rolling Stones started a four-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Album Chart, with “Goats Head Soup”. It featured the hit “Angie”.

10/12/2026

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I Feel For You Chaka Khan & Prince LIVE from BET awards 2006

10/12/2026

Music notes for Oct. 12:

1997 - John Denver was killed when the handmade, experimental airplane he was flying ran out of gas and crashed off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. The 53 year old star had scored 15 songs on Billboard's Top 40 Pop chart, ten of which reached number one on either Billboard's Adult Contemporary or Country chart.

1987- Australian rock band INXS released Kick which became the band's most successful studio album. Kick has been certified six times platinum and peaked at number three on the Billboard 200.
The album also featured four top 10 singles, 'New Sensation', 'Never Tear Us Apart', 'Devil Inside' and 'Need You Tonight', the last of which reached the top of the US Billboard singles charts. The album has now sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

1979 - Fleetwod Mac release Tusk, their first album since the wildly successful Rumours in 1977. A double album with less commercial appeal, Mick Fleetwood credits it with keeping the band together, as the band members were free to experiment. The title track was a hit as was “Sara”.

1979 - Prince releases his second album, Prince containing the hit “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and the original version of “I Feel For You”, later a hit or Chaka Khan.

1974 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive hits #1 with the album ‘Not Fragile”. Hits from the album include “You Ain’t Seen Norhing Yet”, and “Roll on Down the Highway”.

1968 - Big Brother And The Holding Company went to No.1 on the album chart with 'Cheap Thrills'. The cover, drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, replaced the band's original idea, a picture of the group naked in bed together. Crumb had originally intended his art to be the LP's back cover, but Joplin demanded that Columbia Records use it for the front cover. Initially the album title was to have been S*x, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but this didn't go down too well at Columbia Records.