{"id":111,"date":"2015-02-23T23:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/?p=111"},"modified":"2015-02-23T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:38:30","slug":"musical-interlude-1963-dick-clark-the-four-seasons-and-chum-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/2015\/02\/23\/musical-interlude-1963-dick-clark-the-four-seasons-and-chum-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Interlude 1963&#8211; Dick Clark, the Four Seasons and Chum Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chumtribute.ca\/timeline\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963.jpg\" alt=\"ChumChartAugust19-1963-front via chumtribute.ca\" width=\"486\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963.jpg 486w, https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963-back.jpg\" alt=\"ChumChartAugust19-1963-back\" width=\"474\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963-back.jpg 501w, https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ChumChartAugust19-1963-back-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>For nearly\u00a030 years, \u00a0the CHUM chart, published weekly by 1050 CHUM AM in Toronto was THE way that young Canadians discovered popular music. \u00a0The amazing <a title=\"Chum Tribute Chum Charts\" href=\"http:\/\/chumtribute.ca\/timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chum Tribute <\/a>site\u00a0has an online archive of every CHUM CHART.<\/p>\n<p>In 1962 and 1963, American Bandstand host Dick Clark was a DJ on 1050 Chum (sort of). \u00a0He would tape his segments of the show (including his half of banter with Toronto DJs) in Los Angeles, mail the tapes to Toronto where the show would be completed and edited together. \u00a0You can find out more about this process on the <a title=\"Torontoist Dial 1050 chum for dick clark\" href=\"http:\/\/torontoist.com\/2012\/04\/dial-1050-chum-for-dick-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Torontoist <\/a>blog.<\/p>\n<p>Although the live\/broadcast and concert with Al Boliska, Dick Clark and Franki Valli is completely ficitionalized in the <a title=\"Time for the Fair Episode 14\" href=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/2015\/02\/21\/time-for-the-fair-episode-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 14 of Time for the Fair<\/a>, \u00a0Dick Clark and Franki Valli were indeed at the CNE on August 21, 1963 according to the CHUM CHART for August 19, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found a medley of Franki Valli and the Four Seasons songs from the Mid 1960s on youtube.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pWBnodrR1M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly\u00a030 years, \u00a0the CHUM chart, published weekly by 1050 CHUM AM in Toronto was THE way that young Canadians discovered popular music. \u00a0The amazing Chum Tribute site\u00a0has an online archive of every CHUM CHART. In 1962 and 1963, American Bandstand host Dick Clark was a DJ on 1050 Chum (sort of). \u00a0He would tape &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/2015\/02\/23\/musical-interlude-1963-dick-clark-the-four-seasons-and-chum-charts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musical Interlude 1963&#8211; Dick Clark, the Four Seasons and Chum Charts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lPCv-1N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sean.mcgaughey.ca\/timeforthefair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}