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Old Records Have Always Been Among Us

In fall 1977, when callout research was relatively new, KFXM San Bernardino, Calif., PD Jeff Salgo got national attention by announcing that the year-old “If You Leave Me Now” by Chicago was its top-testing song. It was the moment of “You Light Up My Life,” “Cold as Ice,” “Brick House,” and “You Make Loving Fun,” but a year-old No. 1 song, pleasant but hardly galvanizing, was bigger than any of them, including Chicago’s current ballad, that fall. […]