Author: Jim Feliciano

DETROIT RADIO 8: DICK PURTAN ON BOARD, CKLW ’78!

Sunday, November 5, 1978

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: CKLW ‘Purtan On Making The Big Switch’ 

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(Above CKLW related article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2017. Newspapers.com. The above featured CKLW article was ‘clipped,’ saved, and imaged by Motor City Radio Flashbacks)

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CKLW-AM 800 BACK ON THE RADIO: DICK PURTAN!

 

CKLW RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

CKLW-AM 800 * 1979 * DICK PURTAN

 

 

 

NEW! Dick Purtan CKLW aircheck date: Thursday, May 17, 1979

The Jim Feliciano Collection

 

 

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE TEMPTS, 1968!

THE TEMPTATIONS’ LP, ‘The Temptations Wish It Would Rain‘ was the 7th Motown studio album the group recorded for the Gordy label. The LP was released in April, 1968. It was the final release from the group’s “Classic-5” era, during which David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams constituted the Temptations’ lineup. ‘Wish It Would Rain’ also marks the last Temptations solo album to focus on the classic “Motown Sound“, and the last to feature production from Smokey Robinson. Included on ‘Wish It Would Rain’ are the hit singles “I Wish It Would Rain” and “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)“, both featuring Ruffin on lead vocals and co-written by Motown writer Roger Penzabene, who committed suicide on New Years Eve 1967 because of the breakup described in these two songs. “I Wish It Would Rain’s” b-side, “I Truly, Truly Believe”, is a rare solo showcase for Franklin, the group’s bass singer.
The third single, “Please Return Your Love to Me“, features Kendricks on lead, and was released in July after Ruffin’s departure. The song’s b-side, “How Could I Forget” (led by Paul Williams), is not included here, because it was newly recorded on June 29 to accompany the a-side. The album’s producers were credited to Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson, Henry Cosby, Harvey Fuqua, Deke Richards, and Johnny Bristol. The LP was recorded in 1967 and completed in March 1968. (Sources: WiKipedia; AllMusic)

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A WJBK ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR’ TOP 63 CHART! 12/27/1963

WJBK 15 RECORD REVIEW December 27, 1963 (click on image 2x for largest detailed view)
WJBK 15 RECORD REVIEW December 27, 1963

A ‘HAPPY NEW YEAR’ 1963 CHART from WJBK RADIO 1500

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These were the record singles you bought in the Motor City in December 1963, according to WJBK. Many went on to become the most popular radio airplays heard on AM radio, also on Top 40 WXYZ and CKLW, and conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WJR  radio.

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.

HAPPY 2018 NEW YEAR from MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

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