Debuted #91 week-ending April 29, 1962, “Fly Me To The Moon” peaks at #14 on the Hot 100, week-ending, February 23, 1963. Having charted 13 weeks overall — on its final week on Billboard, the single drops at #52 for the week-ending, March 23, 1963.
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Source: Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles
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BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
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“Walk Like A Man” by The Four Seasons debuted on the Billboard single charts at #40, for the week ending, January 26, 1963. The single would make its eventual climb to its three-week stay at the top — its sixth week on the charts — from February 24 through week-ending March 16, 1963.
Thirteen weeks overall on the pop single charts, “Walk Like A Man” dropped to #54 on its last week on Billboard, week-ending April 20, 1963.
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Debuted March 23, 1963. R&B peaked #1 (3 weeks). “Baby Workout” charts 14 total weeks on the Billboard soul charts.
Source: Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Singles (2004 Edition)
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The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, soul and R&B music history.
The group that later became the Miracles was formed in 1955 by five teenage friends from Detroit, Michigan, under the name the Five Chimes. Three of the founding members, Smokey Robinson, Warren “Pete” Moore, and Ronnie White, had been singing together since they each were around the age of eleven. The group, influenced by acts such as Billy Ward and His Dominoes and Nolan Strong & the Diablos, featured Clarence Dawson and James Grice in the original lineup.
All of the group’s original members attended Northern High School in Detroit. After Dawson quit the group and Grice dropped out to get married, they were replaced by Emerson “Sonny” Rogers and his cousin Bobby and changed their name to the Matadors.
Coincidentally, both Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers were born in the same hospital on the same date (February 19, 1940), despite not actually meeting each other until they were fifteen. In 1957, Sonny Rogers left to join the United States Army and Claudette Rogers, his sister, who had been singing with the sister group the Matadorettes, joined them shortly afterwards, and in 1958, the group became the Miracles. Following two years of courtship, Smokey and Claudette married in November 1959.
The group’s extensive work with Berry Gordy and Tamla Records gave the parent label Motown Record Corporation its first million-selling hit record with the 1960 Grammy Hall of Fame smash, “Shop Around”, and further established themselves as one of Motown’s top acts with the hit singles “You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me“, “What’s So Good About Goodbye”, “Way Over There”, “I’ll Try Something New”, “Mickey’s Monkey”, “Going To A Go-Go”, “(Come ‘Round Here) I’m the One You Need”, “Just A Mirage”, “If You Can Want”, “More Love”, “I Don’t Blame You At All”, “Ooo Baby Baby”, the multi-award-winning “The Tracks of My Tears”,”My Girl Has Gone’ “Special Occasion”, “I Second That Emotion”, “Baby Baby Don’t Cry”, the number-one Pop smashes “The Tears of a Clown” and “Love Machine”, “Do It Baby”, and “That’s What Love Is Made Of”, among numerous other hits
Referred to as Motown’s “soul supergroup”, the Miracles recorded 26 Top 40 Pop hits, sixteen of which reached the Billboard Top 20, seven top 10 singles, and a number one single, “The Tears of a Clown”, while the Robinsons and Tarplin were members.
Following the departure of Tarplin and the Robinsons, the rest of the group continued with singer Billy Griffin and managed by Martin Pichinson who helped rebuild the Miracles, they scored two final top 20 singles, “Do It Baby” and “Love Machine”, a second No. 1 hit, which topped the charts before the group departed for Columbia Records in 1977, recording as a quintet with Billy’s brother Donald Griffin replacing Marv Tarplin, where after a few releases, they disbanded in 1978. In all, the group had over fifty charted hits by the time they disbanded.
On the R&B charts, the Miracles scored 26 Top 10 Billboard R&B hits, with 4 R&B No. 1’s, and 11 U.S. R&B Top 10 Albums, including two No.1’s.
Bobby Rogers and Ronald White revived the group as a touring ensemble sporadically during the 1980s and again in the 1990s. Following White’s death in 1995, Rogers continued to tour with different members until he was forced into retirement due to health issues in 2011, dying less than two years later. Bobby Rogers died in March 2013, 2 weeks after his 73rd birthday. Pete Moore died November 19, 2017, on his 79th birthday. Former members Carl Cotton, Marv Tarplin and Donald Griffin are also deceased (in 2003, 2011, and 2015 respectively).
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Information and credit source: “The Miracles” Wikipedia
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Smokey Robinson (acapella)
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Great news!
The Motor City Radio Flashbacks’ Aircheck Library page has been completely restructured, re-uploaded and relisted exactly in the same order as each file was represented before, going from top to bottom.
The dotted title sequence (i.e., WXYZ.Joey.Reynolds.August.16.1966) found on many of the airchecks previously was eliminated during the re-upload process. Adding dots is no longer required on certain files to upload today, as it was added on some of the audio files in 2012. And many of the misspellings found in the title of some of the audio files have been corrected and re-titled.
The site’s repository today now holds over 1,000 airchecks archived and listed!
Completed and finished yesterday evening (February 22), it took 34 days to completely rebuild the Aircheck page in its entirety. It was here where I have been spending much of my time (since Jan 18) instead of on the website on a daily basis.
The good news, I will no longer worry whether this last surviving page (a hold-over from the old 2012 platform, the updated PHP upgrades finally killed it) will abruptly crash on this site anytime soon, if ever. This new rebuilt page on this current 2022 platform will prevent that from happening again.
And so I am happy to say the page is now back up again. Easier to navigate. Better than before . . . . it is all finally done! 🙂
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STROH’S BEER | NANCY WILSON | THE STROH BREWERY CO.
Audio file was remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
Frank Beckmann, who spent nearly five decades on Detroit radio, is being remembered for his long-running work on “New Talk 760” WJR and as the voice of the Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, and, for 33-years, the Michigan Wolverines, during his long radio career. Beckmann died Saturday. He was 72.
Beckmann retired from WJR in March 2021 from WJR where he had been hosting late-mornings (9 am-12 noon) on the talk outlet until his final broadcast.
“I will be forever grateful to WJR for helping all of my boyhood dreams to come true. As a youngster growing up on the east side of Detroit, I always imagined sitting behind a microphone, announcing Lions and Tigers games,” Beckmann said last year when he retired. “It was surreal for me to actually have been able to do that, along with experiencing the other great opportunities this radio giant known as WJR provided me.” Beckmann said he had looked forward to more time on the golf course during his retirement.
Two weeks ago Beckmann’s family shared the sad news that he was he was entering hospice after several recent strokes. Last June, just months after his retirement, Beckmann was diagnosed with vascular dementia, a rare brain disease, after his started exhibiting unusual behavior. His wife, Karen, had told The Detroit News earlier this month that doctors give him days to live.
“Frank was a giant. Not only in stature, but in the world of broadcast radio too, said WJR’s Chris Renwick of his 6-foot, three-inch friend. “Frank always did it his way, and always kept us the best informed audience in all of radio,” said Renwick, noting Beckman also helped raise tens of millions of dollars for Detroit charities.
German-born Beckmann first signed on to WJR in 1972. In 1981, he succeeded Bob Ufer as the University of Michigan football play-by-play announcer, calling games for 33 seasons. He was honored as “Top Michigan Sportscaster” numerous times, and was been cited for his work as the only person to broadcast games for all four of Detroit’s major sports teams and the creation of “Sports Wrap” in 1981, recognized as Detroit radio’s first sports talk show.
In 2014, Beckmann received the Chris Schenkel Award from the National Football Foundation, making Beckmann a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 and was also been inducted into the Michigan Associations of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and named “Best Midday Personality” by the group.
In Beckmann’s honor, his family is asking instead for donations to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which is creating the Frank Beckmann Center for Journalism. Get details HERE.
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The above article published by InsideRadio, Monday, February 14, 2022. Credit and article is courtesy of insideradio.com (Atlanta, GA)
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends our deepest heart-felt condolences to the entire Frank Beckmann family, to his beloved radio audience and friends, and to the entire staff of WJR.
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