BILLBOARD HONOR ROLL OF HITS (Week Ending) March 5, 1960
THE NATIONAL TOP 30 HITS
THIS WEEK March 1960 60 YEARS AGO
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The Honor Roll of Hits comprises the nation’s top tunes according to record sales and sheet sales, disk jockey and jukebox performances as determined by The Billboard’s weekly nationwide sales.
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The Billboard February 28-March 5 chart featured 30 of the most popular radio air plays heard on four Detroit top 40 radio stations on the AM dial in 1960.
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BILLBOARD HONOR ROLL OF HITS (Week Ending) March 5, 1961
THE NATIONAL TOP 30 HITS
THIS WEEK March 1961 59 YEARS AGO
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The Honor Roll of Hits comprises the nation’s top tunes according to record sales and sheet sales, disk jockey and jukebox performances as determined by The Billboard’s weekly nationwide sales.
WJBK | WXYZ | WKMH | WQTE
The Billboard February 27-March 5 chart featured 30 of the most popular radio air plays heard on four Detroit top 40 radio stations on the AM dial in 1961.
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Many of the above titled Billboard ‘Top 40’ R&B singles were also the most popular radio plays heard on Detroit’s soul stations 1400WJLB and 1440 WCHB on the AM dial, February-March, 1966. The featured R&B Top 40 hits list was the nation’s most popular R&B singles, as charted by Billboard, 54 years ago.
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The above WJLB chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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The above WJLB 2-24-69 music chart survey is courtesy of Greg Innis. Greg Innis is our Motor City Radio Flashbacks senior contributor.
Family, Friends, Industry Bids Farewell to a Music Giant
LOS ANGELES – Some 400 friends and relatives of Nat King Cole attended funeral services at St. James Church here (Thursday) (18) in a final tribute to the artist who died of lung cancer Monday (15) at St. John’s Hospital, Santa Monica. Another 3,000 persons waited outside the Episcopal church.
Nat King Cole 1959
A caravan of limousines brought such celebrities as Jack Benny, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Edie Adams, Gene Barry, Jose Ferrer, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Thomas, Vic Ramone, Sammy Davis, Eddie Rochester) Anderson, Frankie Laine and George Jessel to the church.
When the silver hearse pulled up to the church, pallbearers of the bronze coffin included James Conkling, former president of Warner Bros. Records; Glenn Wallichs, chairman of the board of Capitol Records; Harold Plant, the artist’s business manager, and Henry Miller, his agent.
Jack Benny, who delivered the eulogy, called Cole “a great professional who gave so much and had so much to give.” He added: “Here I stand, a man granted so many years of life, good health, a measure of contentment, delivering a eulogy for a man whose span of life was so short. Nat Cole was an institution, a tremendous success as an entertainer, but an even greater success as a man, husband, father and friend.”
After the funeral services, the procession proceeded to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale for brief interment ceremonies.
Honorary pallbearers included Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Jack Benny, Ricardo Montalban, George Burns, Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Edward G. Robinson, Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York and Count Basie. Cole leaves his widow, Mrs. Maria Cole; a son, Kelly, and four daughters, Timolin and Casey (twins), and Carol and Natalie. He also leaves two brothers, Edward and Fred, and a sister, Evelyn. END
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Information and news source: Billboard; February 27, 1965
Ed McKenzie guest star Nat King Cole on his WXYZ show in 1955.
