A couple of weeks back, HERC covered the Summer Singles of 1974. Then a couple of days ago, he counted down the Top 10 Albums of the Summer of 1974. Today, he turns the page and features the Summer Singles of 1975. HERC was a recent transplant to the Midwest in the Summer of 1975 and the first Top 40 station he found on the radio dial was WLS. During one late Summer, back to school trip to the local mall - nearly 40 miles away - HERC stumbled upon WLS's weekly music survey, stacked neatly on the checkout counter of the record store in the mall. He began collecting them for the next six years, until his family moved from the Midwest to the Southwest. The collection of surveys, kept in a shoebox, did not make the move. But other people were collecting them, too, and they kept theirs and scanned them and posted them online. HERC thanks all the fellow WLS survey fans at The Airheads Radio Survey Archive (ARSA) as well as those over at Oldiesloon / Chicagoland / WLS. Special thanks also to collector Ron Smith, who has compiled several books devoted to Chicago's Top 40 Charts, two of which now reside in HERC's library.
<<click on song titles to listen>>
| <<peak positions>> | |||
| WLS | Billboard | Cashbox | |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Fallin' In Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Get Down Tonight - KC & the Sunshine Band |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Listen To What The Man Said - Wings |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tennille |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John Band |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | Sister Golden Hair - America |
| 1 | 3 | 1 | Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils |
| 1 | 3 | 2 | Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphey |
| 1 | 4 | 1 | Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John |
| 1 | 12 | 10 | It's A Miracle - Barry Manilow |
| 1 | 12 | 12 | Killer Queen - Queen |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - BJ Thomas |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | I'm Not In Love - 10cc |
| 2 | 4 | 1 | Run Joey Run - David Geddes |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Magic - Pilot |
| 2 | 9 | 6 | Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) - Leo Sayer |
| 3 | 4 | 8 | Only Yesterday - Carpenters |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando & Dawn |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | The Hustle - Van McCoy with the Soul City Symphony |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton-John |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Bad Time - Grand Funk |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Chevy Van - Sammy Johns |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester |
| 5 | 20 | 12 | Tush - ZZ Top |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Thank God I'm A Country Boy (live) - John Denver |
| 6 | 6 | 7 | Could It Be Magic - Barry Manilow |
| 6 | 6 | 5 | Why Can't We Be Friends - WAR |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | One Of These Nights - Eagles |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | How Long - Ace |
| 8 | 10 | 12 | Dynomite (Part 1) - Bazuka |
| 8 | 11 | 10 | Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me) - Doobie Brothers |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire |
| 9 | 21 | 22 | Black Superman "Muhammad Ali" - Johnny Wakelin & the Kinshasa Band |
| 9 | 21 | 16 | Hey You - Bachman-Turner Overdrive |
| 10 | 5 | 6 | Old Days - Chicago |
| 10 | 9 | 10 | Rockin' Chair - Gwen McCrae |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | The Rockford Files - Mike Post |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | Before The Next Teradrop Falls - Freddy Fender |
| 15 | 6 | 7 | Swearin' To God - Frankie Valli |
| 16 | * | * | Pinball Wizard - Elton John* |
*Elton John's "Pinball Wizard" was not available as a 45 yet it is included on each survey during that Summer. All songs making the WLS Weekly Top 15 from May 31-September 6 are included. Peak positions, as noted above, may have occurred before, within or after the dates stated above.
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