Though this was purposive sampling was possible given that radio and these songs were popular before Nielsen ratings and other methods of ranking popularity. The reasoning in choosing a selection purposively as noted focuses om the historical survivall of songs from this era and their Web-designated popularity. Additionally, the research questions for this study are well served by this selection without examining a totality of songs from this era or even examining songs that could be ranked for popularity from a historical revisionist perspective, if that were possible.