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‘MR. TAMBOURINE MAN’ LP, DEBUTS THIS MONTH: 1965

 

THE BYRDS

— MR. TAMBOURINE MAN —

 

ABOUT THIS ALBUM

 

Mr. Tambourine Man is the debut studio album by American rock band the Byrds, released in June 1965, by Columbia Records. The album, along with the single of the same name, established the band as an internationally successful act, and was influential in originating the musical style known as folk rock. The term was, in fact, first coined by the American music press to describe the band’s sound in mid-1965, around the same time as the “Mr. Tambourine Man” single reached the top of the Billboard chart. The single and album also represented the first effective American challenge to the dominance of the Beatles and the British Invasion during the mid-1960s.

Gene Clark

The album peaked at number six on the Billboard Top LPs chart and reached number seven in the United Kingdom. The Bob Dylan penned “Mr. Tambourine Man” single was released ahead of the album in April 1965, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. The second single “All I Really Want to Do“, also a Dylan cover, was moderately successful in the US, peaking at #40, but fared better in the UK, where it reached at #4.

Mr. Tambourine Man was released on June 21, 1965 in the United States and peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, during a chart stay of 38 weeks, and reached number 7 in the United Kingdom, spending a total of 12 weeks on the UK albums chart. The preceding single of the same name was released on April 12, 1965 in the U.S. and May 15, 1965 in the UK, reaching number 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. A second single taken from the album, “All I Really Want to Do”, peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, but fared better in the United Kingdom, where it reached number 4.

In the months following the release of the Mr. Tambourine Man album, many acts began to imitate the Byrds’ hybrid of a British Invasion beat, jangly guitar playing and poetic or socially conscious lyrics. The band’s influence can be heard in many recordings released by American acts in 1965 and 1966, including the Turtles, Simon & Garfunkel, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Barry McGuire, the Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, We Five, Love, and Sonny & Cher.

This jangly, folk rock sound that was pioneered by the Byrds on Mr. Tambourine Man has also been influential on successive generations of rock and pop musicians, including such acts as Big Star, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, R.E.M., the Church, Hüsker Dü, the Long Ryders, the Smiths, the Bangles, the Stone Roses, The La’s, Teenage Fanclub, the Bluetones, Wilco, and Delays among others.

The Byrds, formed in 1964, comprised of band-mates Jim McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke.

 

(A side note, Mr. Tambourine Man, the single, hit the #1 spot on the WKNR Music Guide, in Detroit, June 9, 1965.)

 

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Source: (see) Mr. Tambourine Man (Album); Wikipedia

 

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A MCRFB LINK: Here is a Guardian “Rock’s Back Pages” article, from the July 17, 1965 issue of Melody Maker, published in the U.K., titled, ‘Behind Byrdmania‘.

The piece was published on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in commemoration of the group’s 50th anniversary of The Byrd’s debut LP release in 1965, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’.

This article was written by none other than the famed, former Beatles’ press spokesman, Derek Taylor.

 

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WXYZ RADIO 1270 DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: 9/29/1964

WXYZ RADIO 1270 Detroit Sound Survey September 29, 1964

WXYZ RADIO 1270 Detroit Sound Survey September 29, 1964

WXYZ RADIO 1270 Detroit Sound Survey September 29, 1964

WXYZ RADIO 1270 Detroit Sound Survey September 29, 1964

 

WXYZ RADIO 1270

— SEPTEMBER 1964 —

 

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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.

 

 

— ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —

 

A special THANK YOU to Larry Good of Saline, MI., for recently contributing this featured WXYZ chart — September 1964 — with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

We are pleased to say Larry also contributed 16 WXYZ charts from 1964 🙂

Thank you Larry for this contribution, inasmuch, this site realizes these 1964 WXYZ charts are scarce, having become a most difficult find today. Much appreciated!

 

The above WXYZ chart was digitally imaged and restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

 

 

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WJOI ON THE RADIO: ‘SOUNDS OF BEAUTIFUL MUSIC’

 

 

WJOI RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

WJOI 97 * 1987 * THE SOUNDS OF JOY FM (Mark Taylor)

 

 

— WJOI 97.1 FM —

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NEW! WJOI aircheck date WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1987

 

 

WWJ 97.1 became ‘the sounds of beautiful music’ on the FM dial in Detroit in 1971.

In August 1981, WWJ-FM applied and petitioned the FCC for a call letter change, WJOI. Granted, WJOI officially became JOY FM on Thursday, December 17, 1981.

Owned by the Detroit-based Evening News Association, CBS Radio paid a reported $25,000,000 for WWJ-AM and its sister FM station WJOI in May 1989.

CBS’ WJOI-FM became the new WYST-FM, 6 AM, on Friday, September 2, 1994. Ditching its noted ‘beautiful music’ sound, the format instead was changed to a ‘soft-rock favorites’ format.

Before the end of its FM run in 1994, The ‘Sounds of Beautiful Music’ was heard for over 23 years in the Motor City.

On the AM side, WWJ-AM retained its all-news format, broadcasting regional and national news, sports, weather — 24 hours today — on AM 950 in Detroit.

Today, 97.1 FM is licensed with the calls letters, WXYT – branded “97.1 The Ticket” – a commercial sports radio station serving Metro Detroit and much of Southeast Michigan.

The station is owned by Entercom, with studios located in the nearby suburb of Southfield, and a transmitter site on Southfield’s eastern side.

 

(Source: Detroit Free Press; Wikipedia)

 

WJOI. 33 YEARS AGO

 

 

—ACKNOWLEDGEMENT—

A special THANK YOU to our senior contributor, Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for donating this WJOI-FM audio aircheck to the Motor City Radio Flashbacks archive.

 

The above featured WJOI aircheck was audio enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

 

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ULTIMATE SACRIFICE: IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO GAVE

 

MEMORIAL DAY * Lee Alan * LEE ALAN CREATIVE PRODUCTIONS

 

 

 

WORDS OF REMEMBRANCE

 

 

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”- Ronald Reagan

“Let their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.” – Daniel Webster

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.”- George S. Patton

“Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.”- Unknown

 

 

A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

 

 

“From the opening battle of the American Revolution through the turmoil of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, to the Persian Gulf and today’s operations in the war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world, our members in the military have built a tradition of honorable and faithful service. As we observe Memorial Day, we remember the more than one million Americans who have died to preserve our freedom, the more than 140,000 service personal who were prisoners of war, and to all of those names who were declared as missing in action.

Gratefully honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of liberty’s blessings. Please listen and just reflect what each of them must have gone thru in those terrifying moments before giving their lives. Bless them all.” — Lee Alan

 

www.leealancreative.com

 

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DETROIT RADIO NEWS PRINT AD: WKNR 13! 05/17/1965

Detroit Free Press May 17, 1965

 

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

— Monday, May 17, 1965 —

 

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A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

Above ad is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2020. Newspapers.com

 

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HARWELL. THE VOICE OF SUMMER’S PAST REMEMBERED

 

WELCOME TO TIGERTOWN * ERNIE HARWELL’S AUDIO SCRAPBOOK

 

 

 

‘WELCOME TO TIGERTOWN’

 

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Besides the voice of Ernie Harwell, the various narratives you will hear throughout the entire audio book is by Raleigh, N.C. sports broadcaster Gordon Miller. Occasional questions you will also hear is by veteran Duke University sports broadcaster Bob Harris.

 

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Ernie Harwell

 

Ten years ago, Ernie Harwell passed away on May 4, 2010. He was known as “the voice of the Detroit Tigers” for over 4 decades. He called his last Tiger game in Toronto, on September 29, 2002. In 1981, Harwell was awarded baseball’s most prestigious Ford C. Frick Award.

He became only the fifth baseball broadcaster enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Voice of Summer Remembered

(CD audio set availability, link: Ernie Harwell’s Audio Scrapbook 2009

 

 

The Detroit Free Press April 19, 1960

 

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THIS WEEK IN AMERICA! BILLBOARD HOT 100: 05/14/83

BILLBOARD HOT 100 May 14, 1983

 

BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY

BILLBOARD HOT 100 MAY 8-14, 1983

 

 

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B. B. KING, WHO INSPIRED A GENERATION, DIES AT 89

 

OBITUARIES

BLUES LEGEND B. B. KING, INSPIRATION TO GENERATIONS OF MUSICIANS, DIES AT 89

 By Randy Lewis | LA TIMES Staff Writer | May 15, 2015, 12:04 AM

 

B. B. KING

B. B. KING

B.B. King, the singer and guitarist who put the blues in a three-piece suit and took the musical genre from the barrooms and back porches of the Mississippi Delta to Carnegie Hall and the world’s toniest concert stages with a signature style emulated by generations of blues and rock musicians, has died. He was 89..

The 15-time Grammy Award winner died Thursday night in his Las Vegas home, said Angela Moore, representative for his youngest daughter, Claudette. He had struggled in recent years with diabetes.

King died peacefully in his sleep, Claudette King told The Times.

Early on, King transcended his musical shortcomings — an inability to play guitar leads while he sang and a failure to master the use of a bottleneck or slide favored by many of his guitar-playing peers — and created a unique style that made him one of the most respected and influential blues musicians ever.

“B.B. King taps into something universal,” Eric Clapton told The Times in 2005. “He can’t be confined to any one genre. That’s why I’ve called him a ‘global musician.’”

Because King couldn’t figure out how to play and sing simultaneously, he separated the two functions, laying the blueprint for the sung verse followed by the extended solo passage that would become a crucial element in blues as well as in rock music rooted in the blues. That template was exploited by subsequent generations of players, from Clapton and Jimi Hendrix on through to John Mayer and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Finding that he couldn’t make his elegantly long but thick fingers work the beer bottlenecks and metal slides used by so many other blues guitarists, he discovered that he could emulate that effect by rocking the fingers of his left hand rapidly on the guitar’s frets similar to the way a classical violinist creates vibrato, establishing a ringing tremolo that became his hallmark.

 

MCRFB Note: For the rest of this Los Angeles Times B. B. King Obituary article (May 15, 2015) please GO HERE.

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Randy Lewis | Copyright © 2015 Los Angeles Times

 

— Initially posted on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, May 17, 2015 —

 

September 25, 1925 – May 15, 2015

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ROOM AT EXEC SUITE FOR MOTOWN ARTISTS . . . FEBRUARY 11, 1967

From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1967

 

At Motown ‘Quality Control’ Opportunities Granted as Artists Critique Talents, Projects Inside Gordy’s Stables

 

 

 

 

LOS ANGELES — At Motown Records one can be an executive and an artist at the same time. Smokey Robinson and his three associates who work as the Miracles outside the environments of Motown s Detroit headquarters, are three such executive/artists.

Robinson is a producer and vice-president with the company. Bobby Rodgers and Pete Moore work in quality control. Checking sound quality, and Ronny White spends his “white collar” time with Jobette Music, auditioning tunes and distributing songs among the firm’s own talent.

The Miracles have been with Motown since its inception. Because they are salaried employees with important posts, the quartet limits itself to three – week personal appearance junkets. The major change in the Miracles act is that Robinson’s wife Claudette doesn’t travel with the group anymore.

Robinson classifies the company as a “family affair” in which many people work on projects. While he has auditioned and recorded sessions by a number of the
label’s top acts, he says it’s not unusual for several producers to work on an album project.

On the first Saturday of each month, Motown holds open auditions. A number of producers are assigned to attend the sessions and select the top representatives.

At Motown, Robinson contends, everyone listens to everyone. Martha of Martha and the Vandellas was a former company secretary, given an opportunity to perform. The company maintains its own artists’ development school where state presence and presentation are taught. For two years Lon Fontaine ran the operation; now Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol handle the “kick, turn, and smile” school. END

 

— Initially posted on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, February 27, 2017 —

 

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Information and news source: Billboard; February 11, 1967

 

 

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RADIO.COM: SMOOTH JAZZ V 98.7 SOUNDS IS ON HD2

 

RADIO.COM

— DETROIT’S HOME FOR SMOOTH JAZZ —

 

 

NEW! JUST ADDED TO OUR BLOGROLL!

 

Now, you can listen to the sounds of Detroit’s Smooth Jazz, WVMV 98.7 on HD2, on your mobile device anytime, anywhere. Just go to your app store and download the free radio.com app (once there you can find V 98.7 on HD2 by searching the local Detroit radio stations on the app)

Or you can listen to Detroit’s Home for Smooth Jazz by clicking on our new WDMV link (added today) on our blogroll – or – you can listen right now by going HERE

 

 

WVMV 98.7 NOW ON HD2

 

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