CHAMBERS BROTHERS * 1968
Author: Jim Feliciano
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’68!
STEPPENWOLF * 1968
THE ’68 MAGICAL YEAR THAT WAS! GO GET ‘EM TIGERS
ARTIE FIELDS PRODUCTIONS * “Go Get ‘Em Tigers” * 1968
THE ’68 WORLD SERIES. COMING SOON ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS!
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In commemorating the 50th anniversary when the Detroit Tigers won it all in October ’68, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be presenting the complete 7 games of the 1968 World Series.
Look for each respective game to be posted on the represented dates the game actually aired over NBC radio affiliate WWJ 950 in Detroit, October 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 2018.
With each posted game featured, you will find game-day links, next-day newspaper pages and clippings (courtesy of the Detroit Free Press archives) and many photos from the ’68 Series.
This exclusive 1968 World Series presentation will be a memorable commemoration recalling that ’68 Detroit magical baseball year we celebrated fifty years ago. Truly, still remembered as . . . “the year of the Tiger.”
So look for it here.
Beginning next week, Tuesday, October 2. Only on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
THIS WEEK! A WJBK RADIO 1500 RECORD REVIEW: 1964
WJBK RADIO 1500
This Week. September 1963
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU
In Memory of George Griggs
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Above WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
WKNR GLAD ALL OVER PRESENTING THE DAVE CLARK 5
From the MCRFB MUSIC NEWS archive: 1965
‘WKNR Adds DC5 Cobo Hall Show with High School Journalists’ Press Conference’
FROM THE BACK-PAGES of the DETROIT FREE PRESS
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1965
DETROIT (DECEMBER 17) —At least 150 high school journalists were “glad all over” last Friday night. WKNR invited them to question the Dave Clark Five at a press conference before their Cobo Arena concert. The minute Dave Clark, Mike Smith, Lenny Richardson, Denis Payton and Rick Huxley into the Polar Bear Room in the Veteran’s Memorial, flashbulbs and question started popping.
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— DETROIT FREE PRESS
Detroit Free Press. December 1965
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Above Dave Clark Five related article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2018. Newspapers.com.
The above featured Dave Clark Five-related ad was ‘clipped,’ saved, and imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Missed our previously cataloged ‘Motor City ’60s Music’ newspaper features? GO HERE.
WKNR PRESENTS! A DAVE CLARK 5 1966 NEWSPRINT AD
Friday, June 3, 1966
A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WKNR
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WXYZ RADIO 1270 ‘DETROIT SOUND’ SURVEY: 09/22/64
This list is selected each week by WXYZ 1270 Radio from reports of record sales gathered from record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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A DETROIT RADIO LEGEND. BROTHER BILL REMEMBERED
A CKLW LEGEND. REMEMBERING ‘BROTHER BILL’ GABLE
CKLW RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
CKLW-AM 800 * 1974 * BROTHER BILL GABLE
Remembering Bill Gable
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Late Tuesday evening, September 18, Motor City Radio Flashbacks received devastating word from CKLW alumni Charlie O’Brien, Bill Gable had passed away.
A legend and one of the most popular DJ in Detroit during the 1970s, Brother Bill (as he was known at CKLW) spanned 46 years in the radio business.
His resume in broadcasting comprised stops at WEAM (Washington); WHBQ (Memphis); CKLW (1972-1980); CFTR (Toronto); WLW (Cincinnati); WMAG (Greensboro); WOCL (Orlando); WMMO (Orlando) and CHFI (Toronto) in 2002.
Bill Gable retired from Toronto’s 740-AM Zoomer Radio in April 2014.
Bill Gable will be remembered by his radio peers who knew him best — a kind and gentle man, a legendary voice, a Detroit radio great.
Motor City Radio Flashbacks remembers
CKLW Brother Bill Gable aircheck date: Saturday, July 13, 1974
THIS WEEK 50 YEARS AGO: THE HOTTEST HIT IN THE USA!
NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA ’68 * Jeannie C. Riley * 09/15/68 – 09/21/1968
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TOP FIVE: WEEK-ENDING September 21, 1968
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NUMBER ONE FOR 1968!
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THIRTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Harper Valley PTA” by Jeannie C. Riley peaked this week at No. 01 (1 week) on the Billboard Hot 100. September 15 through September 21, 1968. (Source: Billboard)
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MCRFB Link: For the previous No. 1 record in the U.S.A. 1968 GO HERE.
