50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’68!

**GENE and DEBBE * 1968**

JINGLES HEARD! CHUCK BLORE PROD. SERIES: WCAR

**WCAR ‘BLORE’ Jingle Pak ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS**

**WCAR-AM * “WCAR Makes You Feel Good All Over!”** * 1970-1971

CKLW-AM BACK ON THE RADIO: GARY BURBANK!

**CKLW RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS**

**CKLW-AM 800 * 1975 * GARY BURBANK**

GARY BURBANK CKLW aircheck date: Wednesday, April 23, 1975

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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt, of Farmington Hills, MI, for recently donating his CKLW radio aircheck (unscoped!) to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

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* THE BOB PRATT COLLECTION *

**GARY BURBANK** *circa 1973-1974 (photo courtesy Wacky.com)*

MOTOWN MONDAYS: A MOTOWN ’60s NEWSPRINT AD

Sunday, November 10, 1963

A MOTOWN MONDAY NEWS PRINT AD

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: MARVELETTES ’63!

**THE MARVELETTES** 1963: *Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Wanda Young, Georgeanna Tillman*

DETROIT MOTOWN MONDAY RECORD FLASHBACK ’63!

**THE MARVELETTES * 1963**

THE MAGIC BEHIND THE DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND! ’65

“DON’T MESS WITH BILL” (EXT. INSTRUMENTAL; w/VOCAL) * THE MARVELETTES * 1965

WAY-BACK RADIO: ‘HONOR ROLL OF HITS’ 04/03/1948

NATION’S WEEKLY MUSIC POPULARITY CHART: THE TEN TOP TUNES INDEX

BING CROSBY * Now Is The Hour * No. 01

ART MOONEY * I’m Looking For A Four Leaf Clover * No. 02

PEGGY LEE * Manana * No. 03

FRANKIE CARLE * Beg Your Pardon * No. 04

BING CROSBY * But Beautiful * No. 05

VAUGHN MONROE * Ballerina * No. 06

ART MOONEY * Baby Face * No. 07

FREDDY MARTIN * The Dickey-Bird Song * No. 08

WOODY HERMAN * Sabre Dance * No. 09

GORDON McCRAE * You Were Meant For Me * No. 10

NATION’S WEEKLY MUSIC POPULARITY CHART: THE TEN TOP TUNES INDEX

WAY-BACK RADIO – MARCH 26, 1948

(Week-Ending)

1948 IN THE NEWS

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NEWS THROUGH MARCH — Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. Burma gains independence from the U. K. Winter Olympics opens in Switzerland. First color newsreel is shown by Warner Brothers. Soviets began to jam Voice of America broadcasts. In the U. S. NASCAR is formed. U. S. Supreme Court rule religious teachings in public schools unconstitutional. The Hell’s Angels motorcycle club is formed in California.

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DETROIT HEADLINES. APRIL 3, 1948

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DETROIT RADIO. 1948

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In March-April 1948 these same Top 10 hits had their spins on Detroit radio music shows, such as WJR (760) “Music Hall,” “Club 15,” and “Harvest Of Stars.” On WWJ (950) “Musical Clock” and “Supper Club.” On WXYZ (1270) “I’ve Got Your Number” and “Vox Pop.” On CKLW (800) “Musical Airs” and “Midnight Nocturne.” On WJBK (1490) “Tune Time” and “Album Time.” And on WJLB (1400) “1400 Club.”

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These records were America’s most popular TEN TOP RECORDS for the week ending March 26, 1948 on the Billboard Honor Roll of Hits.

70 YEARS AGO. ABOUT THIS FEATURE

Certainly this was not the music of our generation, nor that of the present as well. But from time to time this website will bring light to a certain time in decades’ past. These were the bands and artists Americans found themselves enamored with. The ’40s era. The greatest generation? Many historians arguably would agree today it was.

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CBS NEWS RADIO REPORT: THE AFTERMATH 04/05/1968

A CBS RADIO SPECIAL REPORT * Douglas Edwards (CBS) * FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968

A CBS SPECIAL REPORT. THE DAY AFTER DR. KING DIED

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1968

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ABOUT THIS CBS RADIO BROADCAST

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This was the news the CBS Radio Network reported the evening after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

You will hear various reports of widespread rioting and disturbances from around the country, the aftermath. In the wake of Dr. King’s assassination the night before. Hardest hit overnight were 11 major American cities. You will hear reports from Jeb Duvall in Chicago; Jim McQuarry in Detroit; reports by Tony Sargent and Robert Pierpoint in Washington D. C.; reports by Ed Rable and Tony Brunton in Memphis; Bill Stout in Los Angeles, and reports by CBS Washington correspondents Dan Rather and Eric Severeid. Anchored by CBS’ Douglas Edwards in New York.

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THE CBS RADIO NETWORK. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

This special report aired on CBS affiliate WJR-AM 760 Detroit, April 5, 1968.

**CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER** Andrew Young (L) and others standing on balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, pointing in direction of assailant seconds after a bullet felled Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who is lying at their feet. *April 4, 1968*

A FINAL WORD

While a minute and a half was found missing at the end of this CBS report, the substance of the news having been reported that day is most somber in having described the mood of a nation, having felt over this tragic event, and having witnessed, fifty years ago.

This CBS reporting on the death of Dr. King bears reminding much what the nation had lost on this day in April 1968.