HENSON CARGILL * 1968
Author: Jim Feliciano
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’68!
THE FIREBALLS * 1968
CKLW RADIO 80: THE TOP 50 HITS, THIS WEEK, 02/04/64
THE CKLW “GREAT EIGHT”
CKLW * NO. 01
CKLW * NO. 02
CKLW * NO. 03
CKLW * NO. 04
CKLW * NO. 05
CKLW * NO. 06
CKLW * NO. 07
CKLW * NO. 08
CKLW (BONUS!) * NO. 22
CKLW (BONUS!) * ‘READY TO GO ON EIGHT-0’
CKLW. THIS WEEK 54 YEARS AGO
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The Top 50 hits in Detroit. Featuring the ‘Top 8’ off the survey. As tabulated by CKLW Radio 80 for the week of February 04, 1964.
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU
In Memory of George Griggs
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Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
IN MEMORY. A 1984 DENNIS EDWARDS REMEMBRANCE
DENNIS EDWARDS w/SEIDAH GARRET * 1984
DENNIS EDWARDS w/SEIDAH GARRET * 1984 (ACAPELLA)
DENNIS EDWARDS w/SEIDAH GARRET * 1984 (INSTRUMENTAL)
MOTOWN MONDAYS: A 1980S ‘MOTOWN’ NEWS PRINT
Friday, March 27, 1981
A MOTOWN MONDAY NEWS PRINT BACK-PAGE
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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK! THE ‘TEMPTS, 1968
DENNIS EDWARDS FEBRUARY 1, 2018
DETROIT MOTOWN MONDAY RECORD FLASHBACK ’68!
THE MAGIC BEHIND THE DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND! ’68
“CLOUD NINE” (INSTRUMENTAL; EXT. VERSION) * THE TEMPTATIONS * ’68
AMERICAN PIE, DECIPHERED: THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
SCOTT WESTERMAN * Sirius XM/KRKE Radio * 2010
AMERICAN PIE. AN ANALYSIS REVISITED
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
With every paper I’d deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step
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I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
ONE OF THE MOST analyzed records of all time is Don McLean’s “American Pie.” While it’s commonly agreed that the song is an ode to the deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper, it’s nuances are still debated.
The closest McLean came to explaining it’s meaning was in his 2000 video, Starry Starry Night. “I’m very proud of the song,” he said. “It is biographical in nature and I don’t think anyone has ever picked up on that. The song starts off with my memories of the death of Buddy Holly. But it moves on to describe America as I was seeing it and how I was fantasizing it might become, so it’s part reality and part fantasy but I’m always in the song as a witness or as even the subject sometimes in some of the verses.”
While Don McLean never fully discussed it’s meaning, many of us have tried. The best analysis I’ve read was written by WKNR and WCFL veteran, Bob Dearborn.
Here is my breakdown of American Pie as broadcast on KRKE and XM/Sirius in 2010.
— Scott Westerman February 1, 2012
American Pie. Revisited.
A special THANK YOU to Scott Westerman for sharing his special Sirius XM ‘American Pie: Deciphered’ (2010) with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
For more on the events of February 3, 1959, on this website, GO HERE.
DON McLEAN * American Pie * 1971
DENNIS EDWARDS, TEMPTATIONS’ LEAD, IS DEAD AT 74
DENNIS EDWARDS OBITUARY | CHICAGO CBS LOCAL (Special thanks to CKLW’s Ric Allen for providing the link)
