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“Love (Can Make You Happy)” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and on Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. May 1969
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WDRQ-FM Top 20 singles for the week of May 6–12, 1975
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Above WDRQ music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WRIF-CKLW-WDRQ
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2019. Newspapers.com.
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This official Record Review survey was tabulated overall by each record’s popularity and its appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of WJBK Radio 1500, 1964.

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Johnny Rivers at the Whisky à Go Go (shown as “At Whisky-A-Go-Go” on the original label) is a live album and is the debut album from American rock and roll singer, songwriter and guitarist Johnny Rivers.
The album was released in February 1964, just as The Beatles and the British music invasion was getting into full swing. Rivers was asked to open the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles starting January 15, 1964 and during that run he recorded the album. With the help of producer Lou Adler, Johnny helped introduce the “Go Go sound” to rock and roll. The album reached #13 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart, (#12 on the Billboard 200) and became Johnny’s first gold album. The album also gave Rivers his very first big hit, a cover version of Chuck Berry‘s 1959 hit “Memphis“. Rivers’s version went to #2 on Billboard’s Pop Singles chart in the summer of 1964, and became his first gold single.
Johnny Rivers at the Whisky à Go Go would be the first of five albums that Rivers would record live at the nightclub.
(Source: Wikipedia and Discogs)
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