Your main point in the post is one that sticks with me the most from this countdown and particular week in Top 40 history.

I don't think I mentioned it in the countdown, but air personality Steve Dahl from radio station WLUP-FM in Chicago promoted a Disco Demolition Night between games of a doubleheader in the summer of '79 between the White Sox and Detroit Tigers. The thrust of the occasion was to burn up a big pile of disco LP's and parody the lifestyle that club music and attitudes conveyed in representing the disco community.

Dahl's 'Army' of anti-disco compadres simply tore up the field at the old Comiskey, rendering the surface unplayable for the second half of the twin-bill. I believe the Chisox forfeited the second game, if I'm not mistaken.

News coverage of that event shed a lot of negative light on disco and the dance culture and in its own way, hastened the demise of the genre's influence on American music charts.

What memories.

Bob Mathers

• RE: Comments on 9/22/79 survey - Jeff 09/20/2006 15:42:01 EDT (1)