“SUMMER IN THE CITY” | THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL | KAMA SUTRA
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BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
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August 7 through August 13, 1966
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“Summer In The City” by The Lovin’ Spoonful debuted on the Billboard single charts at #53, for the week ending, July 23, 1966. The single by the Greenwich Village band would make its eventual climb to its three-week stay at the top — its fifth week on the charts — week-ending August 13 through week-ending August 27, 1966.
Twelve weeks overall on the pop single charts, “Summer In The City” dropped to #37 on its last week on Billboard, week-ending September 24, 1966.
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Rising Capitol Records Star Ascends to Big Time Club Circuits
MUSIC BUSINESS (8/1/1964) — Smash single. For five years “things have been moving cautiously for me,” said Nancy Wilson last week. The masterpiece of understatement came in the wake of theCapitolthrush’sfirst smash single (number 14 in the Pop 100 this week) and coverage in Time last week (and Newsweek this week) and a sensationally successfulopeningrecentlyatLos Angeles’ venerable Coconut Grove.
“I went into the studio with the deliberate idea of cutting a top 40 kind of hit,” she said. “Actually though, I didn’t sing any differently than I ever do. It’s the material itself that did it and of course the arrangement. As far as my singing goes, I think it’s always been pop singing really.”
People have labelled me as jazz. I don’t like that designation. I want to be able to reach everybody, not just the jazz crowd. And besides, who is to say what a jazz singer is anyway? If it’s scat singing, I don’t qualify, because I’ve never scatted, never!
Nancy Wilson 1962
Cannonball. “It’s true I once made an album with Cannonball (Adderly). Maybe that’s one reason I’ve gotten the label. And it’s a good reason why I wouldn’t really want to do that kind of thing again. Although I think Cannonball himselfis great.Iactually sang with his group for a stand back in my home town of Columbus, Ohio, six years ago.
“I’ve been singing for years. Since I was a kid in Columbus. I had my own TV show there when I was 15. Five years ago, I came to New York where I started doing night club work at places like the Blue Mirror in the Bronx. And later I played Mister Kelly’s in Chicago. But now things are different.
“I’m playing the biggest clubs, places like the Waldorf in New York (where she appeared earlier this year) the fancy places in Vegas and Reno, and right now the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. I’m tired because there’s been no let-up at all. From one night club to another. And it’s work, real work.
“Now I have to really entertain. You can’t just get up there and be soulful in clubs like these. They expect a show and you’ve got to give them one. But this is something new and fresh and exciting for me. Even if I’m tired it it doesn’t get me bugged. As I say, my career has gone along nice and slow and I really think it’s better for an artist to grow that way.
No time at home. “The only trouble now is that things have gotten so good for me, so big, that I don’t have time at home at all. I love to be at home with my husband. I love to play with our little 17-month old son and cook and keep house but there’s so little time. I don’t have time for any leisure things like listening to records. Really. Just once in awhile when I do, I listen to Jesse Belvin (the late singer was on RCA Victor) and Shirley Horn. Shirley’s a very good new singer.
“After I’m through at the Coconut Grove, I’ve planned on a three week vacation. We all need it here. Then I’m taking the whole month of December off. I’d like to do that every year if I could. I’ve planned that month for a long time.
In the meantime, there are a lot of night club things to fill out the time between now and then. Broadway I’d love to do sometime. I suppose a musical, but first I’d like doing a straight drama, either on the stage or in a movie. No, there’s nothing really in prospect. They haven’t come to me to show me any kind of script. But when it comes along, I’ll think about it carefully before I jump. I always go slowly and hope I’ll make the right decision.
Capitol Records’ Nancy Wilson
Final decision.“It’s the same way I work with my records. I work closely with my a. and r. man, Dave Cavanaugh, but I decide on every song myself. They can recommend but I make the final decision, whether its albums or top 40 singles. And I certainly do intend to continue making singles for the top 40 market, even though I don’t see anything different because I have a hit. I think it was all just happening before that single came out. It’s the icing on the cake or the extra gravy or whatever you want to call it. It’s just part of a total picture that makes anybody a more complete entertainer.”
Meanwhile, Miss Wilson’s continues to be a familiar name in the album charts. Her latest “Today, Tomorrow and Forever,” which brought Time’s comment “a voice of agile grace and knowing jazz inflection,” is in the 11 spot this week. An earlier performance, ‘Yesterday’s Love Songs, Today’s Blues,’ is rated at 55 this week. Fans can also look forward to seeing Nancy on at least a couple of major network TV showcases this fall (“I haven’t seen the contracts yet, but I’m sure I’ll do them”) before she takes her promised month off. END
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Information, credit and news source: Music Business; August 1, 1964
The Top 100 has been compiled from the weekly CKLW weekly Big 30 charts of 1969. The listing reflects total record sales, requests, highest chart positions and number of weeks on the charts.
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Charlie O’Brien for contributing this featured 2021 Special Edition (brochure) of the ‘CKLW Top 100 of 1969’ with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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The year 1969 was the year CKLW did not present their annual Top 100 or Top 80 year-end countdown. Instead, the Big 8 opted for the Top 100 Hits of the 1960s — closing out the decade — as CKLW prepared to usher in the 1970s.
On July 3-4 — for the first time ever — host Charlie O’Brien and Big 8 Radio presented the hits of 1969 as was heard on CKLW throughout that memorable year. Beginning with song 100, all the way to the number one song on top.
And now, you can listen to the entire 6 hour countdown — on demand — anytime here on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, courtesy of our friend, Charlie O’.
The featured program began on Saturday, July 3 at 4 p.m., and was rebroadcast on Sunday, July 4 at 12 noon. Another exclusive presentation by Charlie O’Brien and big8radio.com.
The ‘Top 100 of 1969’ playlist was tabulated from the weekly CKLW Top 30 Records charts from 1969 and was researched by noted CKLW historian Dave Kelly.
So here you have it. In its entirety. Enjoy the countdown! 🙂
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NOTE: On Monday, August 2, look for the special, Big 8 Radio’s own (five page) CKLW ‘Countdown Top 100 of 1969’ playlist/brochure on this site.
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Charlie O’Brien for contributing the featured CKLW Top 100 of 1969 broadcast with Motor City Radio Flashbacks
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
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JULY 26 through AUGUST 8, 1964
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“A Hard Day’s Night” by The Beatles debuted on the Billboard singles chart at #21, for the week ending, July 18, 1964. The Fab Four’s single would make its eventual climb to the top — on its third week on the charts — week-ending August 1 through week-ending August 8, 1964.
Thirteen weeks overall on the pop singles chart, “A Hard Day’s Night” dropped to #50 on its last week on Billboard, week-ending October 10, 1964.
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THIRTEEN WEEKS overall on the singles chart, “A Hard Day’s Night” by The Beatles peaked at #1 this week (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Beginning July 26 through week ending, August 8, 1964. (Source: Billboard)
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“Scott Regen was a phenomenon, um, that just happened, and I just went along for the ride.”
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Right after having signed on WSAI’s Dick (formerly Paul in Cincinnati) Purtan in May 1965, WKNR, the number one Detroit radio station, created much fanfare and media publicity in promoting the arrival of Scott Regen to Detroit from Kansas City’s WHB.
Days before Scott Regen’s arrival to the station, WKNR gave its listeners daily “travel updates” on Keener 13, as Scott Regen loomed closer and closer to his scheduled arrival to the Dearborn studios, scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 20, 1965.
Today, in honoring Scottie on his 80th birthday, Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents a collage of promos and memories recorded for the famed ’60s WKNR Keener legend.
These WKNR Scott Regen promos were recorded in 1965, 1966 and 1967. You will hear nearly 40 minute of Keener moments Scottie Regen shared in studio (and out) with many of the greatest ’60s pop stars, artists and groups who appeared on the Scott Regen Show, heard nightly 7-10 p.m. on WKNR.
During these noted ‘Keener’ years, Scott Regen became the No. 1 night-time radio disk jockey in Detroit. Just the same, it was during those years Scottie accomplished a phenomenal 25-29 ratings share of the Detroit radio audience — tuning in to his nightly show on Keener 13.
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Happy Birthday, Scottie! And thank you for all the WKNR memories 🙂
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On my journey of understanding and spiritual love, my life and values have changed, as may have yours, and not without acute conflict. These poems reflect those times and changes.
SCOTT REGEN 2018
This book is dedicated to our spiritual unfolding, to the “progressive realization” of our Original Mind by whatever name we choose to give it.
And so with that in mind, we can each ask ourselves, how in our everyday daily life, can we progressively realize — or remember — might be a more accurate way of saying it — our True Spiritual Nature?
One way of expressing the answer to that question is: we can try to practice — each in our own way — and there are thousands of ways — there is no one way — what we are taught via Eastern spiritual thinking, exemplified in A Course In Miracles:
“When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.”
“You should look out from the perception of your own holiness to the holiness of others.”
Namaste to each of you in all you do.
Robert Bernstein, (aka Scott Regen, WKNR; CKLW; WCAR; WDRQ; WMJC) ‘Once Upon Time’
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Robert Bernstein (Scott Regen) with Eastern Spiritualist and mentor, Swami Satchidananda (Photo credit: Robert Bernstein; Once Upon Time)
REFLECTIONS and PRAISE FOR ONCE UPON TIME
‘Once Upon Time’, by Scott Regen (Revised edition), is available on Amazon Books GO HERE
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“Your author is a man who was there in the 60s, helping to make Rock ’n’ Roll what it came to be. He knew the artists, he was even responsible many times for what should be released and what shouldn’t. He was spot-on every time. Whether you were listening to his radio program or not, he affected your life.
This book is Reflective and Genuine, Peaceful and Rewarding, Spiritual and Thought Provoking. Read this book and Scottie/Robert will touch your life yet again.”
Pat St.John, SiriusXM Satellite Radio
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“Scott Regen / Robert Bernstein has special powers of imagination and expressions. As a kid growing up in Detroit in the ’60s, he was by far my favorite DJ on WKNR and CKLW. Poetry is a special description of all he does.
Time, it never comes back, but fifty years ago seems like yesterday to me when the radio listening moments were so profound and wonderful.
Here is “Once Upon Time”. I love this book, my favorite book of poems, from my favorite poet. And all from the heart. Scottie tells it like it is.”
Michael Groen, WKNR, WRIF (Detroit)
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“In my years of knowing Robert, I have never seen him move forward in actions that deny the values and balance that create the incredible man he is. His poetry book is an extension of his character. Not only is it creative and spiritually welcoming, but it maintains his elevated level of integrity and belief.
It was gratifying for me to read it, and understand the logic behind his literal and spiritual wisdom. I highly recommend it. You will be pleased, I assure.”
Namaste, Helena Falcon
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“Robert has been my ‘Course in Miracles’ instructor and spiritual mentor for the past seven years. This book was written about times in his life, both before and after he discovered the course’s teachings.
Reading the book for me was a nostalgic trip going back to the 60’s rock and roll era, the dawning of the hippie generation.
It is written with humor, grace and spirituality. It is a heartwarming collection of poetry, commentaries and verse, written about the way we look at the world, and how we relate to both happy and troubled times.”
Chris Miller
Note: More thoughts and ‘reflections’ can be found in Scott Regen’s ‘Once Upon Time’
Scott Regen pre-WKNR years. (Photo credit: Robert Bernstein; Once Upon Time)
A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY WONDERFULLY SHARED
— A PERSONAL THOUGHT —
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This book is unlike any ordinary book I ever read.
For it is a wonderfully different type of book. Robert Bernstein (aka as Scott Regen) writes to us from the heart. He has penned a myriad of poems and lines deeply illuminating life’s journeys, chastened at times, by the human spirit. What is seen. What is not. What is past. What is present. The good. The bad. What is known. What is not.
‘Once Upon Time’ (new revised edition; June 2021) will take the reader into a journey which will stir the imagination of the soul. And if one permits, refresh, if only momentarily, the mind itself.
For what is written within these pages will make you reflect on your own life and mortality, your own time and place. Read. Pause. And thereby think. For you may see what may lie therein between the lines.
Scottie Regen is much more today than a legendary ’60s Detroit radio disk jockey. In that today, he is a man attuned to positive and personally profound spiritual thinking, graced with inner peace. Mind, body and soul.
Jim Feliciano Curator, Motor City Radio Flashbacks
A revised edition (June 17, 2021) is available on Amazon Books for 13.95: GO HERE
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‘This black and white, less costly version of this book, picks up from when the Beatles, Dylan, flower power and the sixties left off.’
Scott Regen backstage with The Beatles. Olympia Stadium, August 13, 1966 (Photo credit: Robert Bernstein; Once Upon Time)
