Joel Whitburn Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100, 1959-1985

Gebundene Ausgabe - 377 Seiten - Record Research Inc - 1992 - Englisch

AUTHOR'S NOTE
For 27 years, Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart forecasted the future entries on the Hot 100. The titles on the Bubbling Under chart were the 45 rpm releases most likely to make the jump to pop's premier chart. Most of these records were building momentum in regional markets but had not yet gathered nationwide pop exposure.

Close to 11,000 records appeared on the Bubbling Under chart from its inception in 1959 to the last chart that appeared in 1985. Approximately 6100 of these earned a spot on the Hot 100. The titles that did not break on to the Hot 100 numbered 4680. The substance of this book is devoted to those 4680.

Only here will you find:
♦ the first chartings of major artists such as Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Bob Seger (with The Last Heard), Billy Joel (with his Long Island group The Hassles) and The Beatles ("From Me To You" hit the Bubbling Under chart five months before The Beatles' Hot 100 debut)
♦ rare releases such as The Kinks on Cameo with "Long Tall Sally," "Baby Doll" by Carlo (Mastrangelo) of The Belmonts, the Vee-Jay EPs featuring "Peanuts" and "Since I Don't Have You" by The 4 Seasons, and The Jesters and The Diablos great versions of 'The Wind."
♦ the popular regional artists that charted several titles on the Bubbling Under chart but never hit the Hot 100 (a Milwaukee favorite, The Robbs, won the dubious honor of charting the most — six)

Since there is no need for updated editions of the Bubbling Under book, unless Billboard reinstates the Bubbling Under chart, this second edition is the complete story of the Bubbling Under chart. I listened to each record a second time then cross-checked each for the precise artist and title spellings and added special trivia notes that could only be learned from the actual single.

Record prices, photos and biographies further enhance the history of the Bubbling Under the Hot 100. An average retail dollar value appears for each record. Pictures of some of the hardest-to-find singles prove that they really exist. Short biographies are featured for artists that did not hit the Hot 100.

Other new additions include the symbols indicating which records crossed over to the R&B, Country and Adult Contemporary charts along with their respective peak position. Also revealed are the Bubbling Under records issued with a picture sleeve.

The Hot 100-Bound section is made up of the 6140 titles that went on to chart or had earlier charted on the Hot 100. Every title that appeared on each Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart is accounted for in this book.
This was one of my most enjoyable research projects. I had a great time tracing the roots of the Hot 100. May each of the following pages validate what a fascinating chart the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 was.
JOEL WHITBURN

Joel Whitburn

From pastime to passion to profitable enterprise, the growth of Record Research has been the outgrowth of Joel Whitburn’s hobby. Joel began collecting records as a teenager in the 1950s. As his collection grew, he began to sort, categorize and file each record according to the highest position it reached on Billboard magazine's charts. He went on to publish this information — first on individual artists’ cards, then in book form in 1970 — and a business was born.

Today, Joel leads a team of researchers who delve into all of Billboard’s music charts to an unmatched degree of depth and detail. Widely recognized as the most authoritative historian on charted music, Joel has also collaborated with Warner/Rhino Records in creating a series of 150 CD albums, plus five CD albums with Curb Records. Joel’s own record collection remains unrivaled the world over and includes every charted Hot 100 and pop single (back to 1936), every charted pop album (back to 1945), collections of nearly every charted Country, R&B, Bubbling Under The Hot 100 and Adult Contemporaryrecords. Ever the consummate collector, Joel also owns one of the world’s largest picture sleeve collections, many of which he displays in the series of books (Top 40 Hits, Top 40 Albums, Top 40 Country Hits, Top 40 R&B Hits) he writes for Billboard’s book division. To date, Record Research has published nearly 200 books, over 50 of which are currently in the catalog.

Joel's site, www.recordresearch.com, brought his enormous database online in 2009. The MusicVault, complete with chart data and record photos, has proved to be an immediate, reliable wellspring of data