Special thanks to Jim Heddle for sharing this WXYZ Pat Murphy article with us at MCRFB! (From the Jim Heddle Collection).
UPDATE: Lee Alan added comments here regarding this post today, submitted 2013/07/04 at 11:21 AM
Thank you, Lee Alan. We appreciate always of you sharing your thoughts with us here on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
From the MCRFB archive files:
THE TOP 35 HITS ON WXYZ ON THIS DATE IN 1966
WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey; No. 12 issued July 4, 1966 under Lee Alan, Program Director; WXYZ
(WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey for July 4, this date 1966; survey courtesy the Jim Heddle Collection. For the previous weekly WXYZ June 27, 1966 survey click here).
The “Top Of The Pops” aired on the BBC television network from 1964 through 2006. For a review on this British dance show’s history go here!
A MCRFB news brief: 1963
Bonds says Checker Stole His Song
PHILADELPHIA — Rock and roll singer Gary (U.S.) Bonds claims that twister Chubby Checker swiped his top-selling song, “Quarter To Three.” And he went into U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to get the song back.
Bonds, who used to sing out of Norfolk, Va., as plain U.S. Bonds, filed a $100,000 damage suit against Checker. Bonds, a one-time spiritual singer named Gary Anderson, and Rock Master, Inc., a firm in which Bonds is associated with, claimed that “Quarter To Three” sold 800,000 records in 1961 before Checker and a number of co-defendants pirated it, as Bonds and his firm claimed in court.
The suit, filed by attorney Harold Lissius, alleges that they “manufactured and sold a version of “Quarter To Three” called “Dancin’ Party,” sung by Checker.
Named as co-defendants with Checker were Kalmann Muci, Inc., a publisher; Cameo-Parkway Recording Comapany, Kalmann Cohen, and officer of Kalmann Music, and David Appell, a music writer, all from Philadelphia.
U.S. Bonds says that “Dancin’ Party” was a flagrant imitation made to “deceive and confuse the public . . . and unlawfully capitalizes on the popularity of “Quarter To Three.” END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; January 12, 1963).
Special Thanks To Earl & Pam Clark For This Video
