50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’69!

NEIL DIAMOND

“Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show” by Neil Diamond was playing the Billboard Singles chart as well on Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. April 1969

WJBK 1500 FORMULA ’45 SURVEY SOUNDS: 04/21/1958

WJBK RADIO 15

61 YEARS AGO

APRIL 1958

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The WJBK FORMULA 45 hits was compiled, tabulated and produced by Radio 1500’s Bob Martin and Rosemary McGann.

This 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.

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Previewed for the week of April 21, 1958

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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Above WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate

A MOTOWN POSTER FLASHBACK: MOTOWN LEGENDS!

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MOTOWN LEGENDS

‘The Sound of Young America’

Gladys Knight & The Pips; Smokey Robinson & The Miracles; Martha & The Vandellas; Diana Ross & The Supremes; Marvin Gaye; The Marvelettes; The Jackson 5; Stevie Wonder; The Four Tops; The Temptations

(Poster courtesy The Black Art Depot)

MOTOWN MONDAY DETROIT RECORD FLASHBACK ’69

SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES

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Released January 18, “Baby Baby Don’t Cry” peaked at #3 for two weeks (12 total weeks) on the Billboard R&B chart in 1969. B-side: “Your Mother’s Only Daughter”

TAMLA 54178 (Source: Billboard Top R&B Singles)

A 1967 SMOKEY ROBINSON DETROIT SUNDAY FEATURE

Sunday, August 6, 1967

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A MOTOWN MONDAY NEWS PRINT BACK-PAGE

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THE MAGIC BEHIND THE DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND! ’66

“DON’T MESS WITH BILL” [EXT. INSTRUMENTAL; VOCAL] * THE MARVELETTES (SPECIAL TOM MOULTON MIX)

BEATLES TOP 14 SINGLES! BILLBOARD HOT 100: 4/11/64

BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY

BILLBOARD HOT 100 APRIL 11-17, 1964

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ABOUT THIS BILLBOARD CHART

A week after the Beatles dominated the Top 5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, April 4, 1964, the Fab Four peppered the U.S. singles chart with 14 records on three different labels — Capitol, Vee-Jay, Tollie — in this April 11, 1964 Billboard chart presentation.

Can you spot all of them?

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Special thanks to our friends at the Keener13.com Facebook page for the heads up — for this same featured Billboard April 11, 1964 chart they presented on their facebook page last week.

And so we feature it here today.

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