The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits 10th Edition -

“M — The book is wrong about #37. Look up ‘Sleepwalking Through Saturday’ by The Deadlights. Never charted. But it should have. Trust me.”

Mona had inherited it from her uncle Sal, a one-hit-wonder DJ who’d scraped the Top 40 exactly once in 1987 with a synth-pop disaster called “Neon Umbrella.” The book was his bible. He’d annotated every entry: “This one? Autotuned to hell.” Or: “Played this at prom. Couple broke up during the bridge.” the billboard book of top 40 hits 10th edition

That night, Mona drove to a shuttered AM radio tower outside Tulsa. Buried in a lockbox beneath the transmitter was a reel-to-reel tape labeled “Sleepwalking Through Saturday — The Deadlights (Chart position: 37, 11:34 PM, March 17, 1979).” “M — The book is wrong about #37

She played it. It was beautiful — fuzzy, aching, a two-minute jangle of heartbreak and cheap reverb. But it should have