Joel Whitburn, BILLBOARD Chart Historian and Reference Book Author, Dies at 82

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Thanks. Did not look in Clubhouse before posting. I did the same as Joel as a kid, but with Cashbox, not to the same degree as Joel, though. The local record shop would give me the prior week's Cashbox and I would study the charts. Eventually, I got my own subscription at fifteen dollars a year.

I enjoyed his books and still refer to some of them on occasion

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Thanks. Did not look in Clubhouse before posting. I did the same as Joel as a kid, but with Cashbox, not to the same degree as Joel, though. The local record shop would give me the prior week's Cashbox and I would study the charts. Eventually, I got my own subscription at fifteen dollars a year.

I enjoyed his books and still refer to some of them on occasion

I did exactly this with Billboard and got a job at the record store which so many other kids wanted. We traded my Billboard for their Cashbox.

I had this idea of going to Motown to try and produce records; but R Dean Taylor did that and I went to Law School

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I did exactly this with Billboard and got a job at the record store which so many other kids wanted. We traded my Billboard for their Cashbox.

I had this idea of going to Motown to try and produce records; but R Dean Taylor did that and I went to Law School

Similar experience for me. After graduating high school, I went to college at night part time and had a job in a supermarket in day. The owner of the record shop told me to quit the supermarket and gave me a job there and it changed my life. I learned a whole lot about business working there. The place was like a magnet to me, but the pay sucked. I tried other things, went back there a few times between other jobs, dropped out of night college - I wasn't college materiel, got drafted into the army, and moved onto other jobs after the army but always was hanging out in that little store . Eventually, I bought it, moved it to a larger location and used it as the foundation to build my own business which I expanded. I think that little store was my college. I learned a whole lot about business in that little record store.

I don't think any of this would have happened had I not spent so much time in that record shop in my high school years bothering the owner to let me have the store's old copies of Cash Box. The owner took me out of the supermarket and put me where I belonged. Around music and around business . Thank you Cash Box