countdown was: "As If"

[sagehen]

>Weren't those antediluvian music countdowns called the "hit parade" ?
>
>JL
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Glug, splutter.....as one of the survivors of the deluge, I can attest that
The Hit Parade ("brought to you by Lucky Strikes, so round, so smooth, so
fully-packed:  LS/MFT," commemorated elsewhere in these pages) was of the
"top ten" tunes of the preceding week  (arrived at by who knows what
calculus?) which were presented in descending order, but without, as far as
I remember, using the expression "countdown."
AM

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