Song file

At Z93 in the mid to late 80s, we used a paper clock and color coded carts to rotate through our songs. The top 11 songs were on white doted carts. Currents used brown dots. Recurrents used green dots and brand new songs used blue dots. You would then follow the paper clock, which had corresponding dots, to pull the carts from the wall racks to setup the hour.

We rotated through our "oldies" category by pulling index cards from a card file. Each song had a card in the file with the cart number, title, artist, intro, running time and usually the tempo and ending style of the song.

Here are a few examples: