4 Lp set ABC Watermark American Country Countdown(contains song by Elvis Presley)...Records are MINT Cover is VG+...inner song listing plus commercial advertisements are VG(there's writing in pamphlet plus check marks Buyer to pay $5.00 s/h Thanks for looking
*********American Country Countdown was hosted by Bob Kingsley. Don Bowman was the original ACC host and Bob Kingsley was actually the producer until 1978 when he went behind the microphone. Unlike a lot of country stations today that play 'remakes' of these classics, these are the ORIGINAL songs by the ORIGINAL artists! 

You are bidding on the multi-LP American Country Countdown set from the week of November 7/1987 ....includes Elvis Presley's Honky Tonk Angel*******

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American Country Countdown, also known as ACC, is a weekly internationally syndicated radio program which counts down the top 40 country songs of the previous week, from No. 40 to No. 1, according to the Billboard Country Airplay charts. The program premiered in 1973 and as of January 2006 is hosted by Kix Brooks.

History

American Country Countdown was conceived as a spinoff program from American Top 40, which had premiered in 1970 and showcased the week's most popular singles. The new program was a creation of Casey Kasem and Don Bustany, the same duo behind American Top 40, with Tom Rounds as co-creator and Watermark Inc. distributing. The idea of a nationally syndicated program counting down the top country hits of the week dated several years before the show's premiere.

"In 1969, when Casey Kasem and I were planning 'American Top 40,' we said, 'Hey, if this works, we can do a country countdown, an MOR countdown, a whatever countdown,'" Rounds explained to Radio & Records magazine as to the show's conception. However, it wasn't until 1973 when the AT40 team thought there was sufficient support for a nationally syndicated program.

American Country Countdown launched nationwide on October 6, 1973. Like with its parent series, Billboard provided the chart information. In this case, the Hot Country Singles chart was used. The show now uses the Billboard Country Airplay chart, which it has used since September 2017 after eight years of using charts compiled by Mediabase.

Singer Don Bowman was the first host of the (originally) three-hour countdown with Bustany producing. Hugh Cherry was the head writer, and Bowman was also a writer, with some editing help from Bustany, the main writer and producer of AT40.

In June 1974, Bustany stepped aside from his duties in order to focus on AT40 and tapped Bob Kingsley, who had been program director at country station KLAC-Los Angeles, to be ACC's producer.It was under Kingsley's watch that the program began to increase in popularity, as more and more stations picked up the countdown.

On May 6, 1978, Kingsley added hosting duties to his producing duties when he became the new host of ACC. Don Bowman had not made any mention that he would be departing the program on the previous show; Kingsley informed the audience that Bowman had left the program to pursue other aspects of his career.

The show grew slowly, with fewer than 100 stations the first year of the program's life, before passing the 300-affiliate mark in 1980, a year in which the number of stations the show was heard doubled. Beginning with the January 11, 1986, broadcast, ACC was expanded to four hours, adding several new features, including an "ACC Archives" feature (similar to one featured on American Top 40 several years earlier, with a chronological playback of No. 1 hits of the 1970s, and later on the 1980s) and an "ACC Calendar," spotlighting a classic country artist, song, important innovation or event in country music.

Kingsley hosted the program until December 2005, with his last show being his a regular countdown airing Christmas weekend. Like Bowman before him, he never told the audience he would be leaving; in this instance, Kingsley was leaving to host the new Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40.