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‘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 (JUNE 15) — The Rolling Stones were weary Monday, but not at rest.
They packed their silver buckled shoes, took down their newly washed socks from the grillwork and moved from one Detroit motel to another in an attempt to elude their eager fans.
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THE STONES SLEPT HERE. Sunday night, June 14, 1964. The Holiday Inn, 1331 Trumbull Blvd., and Porter Street (two blocks south of Michigan and Trumbull), near downtown Detroit. While the famous name and facade has long since been removed in the 1980s, today, the four-storied structure is still open for business under its current name, The Corktown Inn.
DETROIT (December 30) — Non fans of rock-and-roll music are hereby alerted that, on the pretext of making a sociological trip, they have had an opportunity to discover new worlds at the Michigan Theater these early mornings while watching a proceeding called the first annual T.A.M.I. Show. Tonight’s show completes the engagement.
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Detroit Free Press. December 1964
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Six Years After Its Founding, Berry Gordy’s Motown Records Puts Detroit Musically On The Global Map
A ’60s Detroit Music Moment Revisited: 1965
DETROIT (March 21, 1965) — Eight doors off the first floor hallway at 2652 West Grand Boulevard and when they are closed, the tiny passageway grows eerie. You are alone there, but with a distant sound of music — a music that is part blues, part gospel and a lot of rhythm.
It takes a keen perception to open the right door to the music. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .
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MOTOWN RECORDS 1959 – 1965
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks is re-posting this article today, in commemoration of Berry Gordy’s Motown Records’ founding, 59 years ago, January 1959.
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This article was previously published on the website, April 17, 2017.
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JAZZ CLUB LEGEND FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AT HER DETROIT HOME; DEAD AT 37
DETROIT — (Sunday, December 15) — In the jazz clubs they say that Dinah Washington merely stepped out of a hand-clapping church choir, dropped by the Brill Building to pick up some lyrics and began to wail.
The regulars in the Jazz clubs were wailing on Saturday.
Dinah — whom they considered the greatest blues singer since Bessie Smith — is dead at 37. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .
— DETROIT FREE PRESS
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Put together an Otis Redding Tune, “Respect,” and four talented guys from Ann Arbor called The Rationals and you’ve got a big hit record. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .
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Who does Mitch Ryder demands to back him up when he does a special appearance in Detroit with out his band? Who stole the show at the ALSAC benefit last fall? (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .
— DETROIT FREE PRESS
DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday, July 21, 1967
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When Detroiters Read About the ‘Beatles’ the Very First Time
FROM THE BACK-PAGES OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1963
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LONDON — AP — Police admitted Monday that Beatlemania — one of the wildest teenage phenomena yet — just about has them beat. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .
— DETROIT FREE PRESS
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TWO ‘BEATLES’ GET A FAN’S ATTENTION(Associated Press; Monday, October 28, 1963)
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