The Beach Music Top 40 News. The premier issue came out May 26, 2020. Click on any cover to download or read. For the EXPANDED VERSIONS of V 1 N 7 or V 1 N 8 go here -- this is my new Patreon site. Subscribers get oodles of stories, pictures, unpublished books and more at my dancingontheedge site. Vol. 1 N 9 includes pages and pages of the Charlie McClendon and the Magnificents story. The expanded version will include another 30-40 pages on Charlie and his many colleagues in the early Virginia Beach Music Scene. The V 1 N 10 expanded edition contains 110 pages of The Pad, pictures, histories, stories. V 1 N 12 includes the opening pages of our extended spotlight on Wayne Pittman and the O'Kaysions in the expanded version--learn more through Patreon : dancingontheedge

Our Mission

To provide Beach Music, Shag, and Fas' Dance aficianados with the history, past and present, of the music you love. Lost and forgotten Beach music and Shag dancing history is at the heart of all things Born In the Carolinas.

Company Profile

The Endless Summer Network provides several syndicated shows on Beach and Shag music to listeners worldwide, on the Internet and over 50 terrestrial radio stations and their webstreams.

#1) The Beach Music (and Shag) Top 40 Countdown -- now in its 27th year. The Beach Music Top 40 Countdown has set the bar for nearly three decades, and draws from current Beach Music, Shag, Fas' Dancing, West Coast Swing and other improvisational, free-style, goodtime music genres to present the 'cutting edge' of Beach/Shag culture.

#2) Other Specialty shows include: The Beach Music Class Reunion, a yearly spotlight every week on the Top 40 of given years from 1945 to today. In addition to the 40 biggest songs of the year, there are Spotlights on Artists, The great Clubs of the Past, plus popular and local hits which somehow 'fell through the cracks.'

#3) I Love Beach Music -- A wide-open mix of ALL the hits, with primary focus on the 70s and 80s, and to spice things up, an occasional 50s or 60s classic, more the more modern tunes from the 90s, 2000s, and this week's Beach Music Top 40 Countdown.

#4) The Roadhouse Blues and Boogie: Jump Blues, Roots, and Good Time Roadhouse music past and present with a strong mix of Deep Fried and Sanctified R&B from the beginnings -- the Fish Fry side of the Roadhouse show.

Contact Information

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Telephone: 704-219-1560
Postal address: 500 Hearthside Dr, Winston Salem, NC 27104

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