The Top 30 hits on “Kicks” 31 years ago today.
Country music has always had at least one radio home in the Atlanta market, and in the mid 90’s Atlanta had TWO country radio homes: WYAY (Now Christian WAKL), Y106, and WKHX FM, or “Kicks”. Located on 101.5 FM, “Kicks” rode the wave of country’s popularity thanks to top-selling country artists like Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Toby Keith, and more. The station was formerly owned by ABC/Disney before becoming part of Cumulus Media, where, years later, it dropped the “Kicks” moniker and became what is now “New Country 101.5”.
The station itself signed on on November 11, 1959, as WBIE, a country music station, later an adult standards station, before flipping to country for good in 1981. To promote the station, WKHX hired Deborah Shelton, a former Miss USA and former star of TV’s “Dallas,” to do their ads, which ran throughout the ’80s in Atlanta.
These were the top 30 hits on “Kicks” 31 years ago today.
- Alison Krauss – “When You Say Nothing At All”
- Clint Black – “Summer’s Comin'”
- Sawyer Brown – “I Don’t Believe In Goodbye”
- Toby Keith – “You Ain’t Much Fun”
- Wade Hayes – “Still Dancin’ With …”
- Tracy Lawrence – “Texas Tornado”
- Patty Loveless – “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am”
- Collin Raye – “If I Were You”
- Travis Tritt – “Tell Me I Was Dreaming”
- Doug Stone – “Faith In Me”
- Kenny Chesney – “Fall In Love”
- Neal McCoy – “There Playin’ Our Song”
- Blackhawk – “That’s Just About Right”
- Vince Gill – “You Better Think Twice”
- John Anderson – “Mississippi Moon”
- John M. Montgomery – “Sold”
- Kathy Mattea – “Clown In Your Rodeo”
- Shenandoah – “Darned If I Don’t”
- David Lee Murphy – “Party Crowd”
- Clay Walker – “My Heart Will Never Know”
- Reba McEntire – “And Still”
- John Michael Montgomery – “I Can Love You…”
- Joe Diffie – “So Help Me Girl”
- Tim McGraw – “Refried Dreams”
- Alabama – “Give Me One More Shot”
- Brooks & Dunn – “Little Miss Honky Tonk”
- Ty Herndon – “What Mattered Most”
- George Strait – “Adalida”
- John Berry – “Standing On The Edge Of…”
- Hal Ketchum – “Stay Forever”
Data used in this post is from Radio & Records dated 6/2/95 from World Radio History.com.
