A MOTOWN SNAPSHOTS FLASHBACK: EARL VAN DYKE!
DETROIT MOTOWN MONDAY RECORD FLASHBACK ’69!
RUNAWAY CHILD, RUNNING WILD * Earl Van Dyke * SOUL (MOTOWN 1969)
THE MAGIC BEHIND THE DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND! ’65
“COME SEE ABOUT ME” (INSTRUMENTAL) * Earl Van Dyke * 1965
A MCRFB ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’! WEEK OF 10/17/64
MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * October 1964 * A Henry Krueger Production
A MCRFB.COM 1964 TOP 10 HITS COUNTDOWN!
TODAY’S ’60s “HEARD THESE FIRST ON THE RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
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ROLY POLY! ’68: ‘THE FANS’ SALUTE TO MICKEY LOLICH
“ROLY POLY MICKEY LOLICH” * The Fans * MARQUEE 1968
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’66!
“I (WHO HAVE NOTHING)” * Terry Knight & The Pack * Lucky Eleven Records (1966)
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50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’66!
“A CHANGE ON THE WAY” * Terry Knight & The Pack * Lucky Eleven Records (1966)
A 1960S MOTOR CITY MUSIC FEATURE RECALLED: 1966!
A ’60s Detroit Music Moment Revisited: Terry Knight, 1966
FROM THE BACK-PAGES OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
DETROIT FREE PRESS (AD) Saturday, November 12, 1966
DETROIT — Sunday, November 13, 1966 — Presenting Terry Knight — long haired worn Prince Valiant style, mod-clothes, no tie, much less a tie-tack. Immediately, 99 per cent of the population pokes fun or decides the decline of Western civilization is at hand. (CONTINUES please read the complete article below) . . . .
— DETROIT FREE PRESS
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A MCRFB ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’! WEEK OF 10/14/78
MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * October 1977 * A Henry Krueger Production
A MCRFB.COM 1978 TOP 10 HITS COUNTDOWN!
TODAY’S ’70s “HEARD THESE FIRST ON THE RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
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WHFI ‘IMPROVISES’ ON ‘DETROIT SOUND’ . . . SEPTEMBER 10, 1966
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1966
Station’s Music Format Centers Spotlight on Local Dance Hall Scenes, Jazz Clubs, Ballroom Entertainment Venues in ‘Flashback’ Show
DETROIT — Uniquely different emphasis to the “Detroit Sound” is given by a month-old program on WHFI-FM, which concentrates upon full-size dance bands with music originating in the area, or in some cases by Detroit musicians.
Both taped live performances and records are used in the show, for which Frank Sidney, society band leader for many years and now president of the Detroit Orchestra Leaders Association (DOLA) is host. Format includes also interviews with leaders and sidemen.
The content of the show, which is produced by Len Ford of WHFI, covers all varieties of dance band music-ballroom, swing and jazz alike.
One segment of the show is subtitled “Flashback” and includes recordings
from the “golden era” of big bands of the territory, as recorded in various media at theaters, radio stations, ballrooms, Great Lakes cruise ships and other locations. Typically featured are such famed bands of an earlier decade as Jean Goldkette, Seymour Simons and Del Delbridge.
This new show, exploited as typical “Detroit Sound,” is right in line with the general style of WHFI, which leans strongly on large dance bands in particular and dance music in general in its programming though the total musical offering is quite diversified. Typical if unusual is “Jazz From Britain,” using a local British announcer.
Sidney has enlisted the close co-operation of DOLA as well as of the parent Detroit Federation of Musicians (AFM Local 5), of which it is a segment. Other radio stations are co-operating by making their old recording files of old-time broadcasts and music available. In some instances the private collections of engineers and other station personnel are being tapped to present musical rarities of the big band period.
Thus Sam Benavie, formerly director of major theater and radio bands and now musical director of Jam Handy, movie producers, has loaned rarities from his own files. The revival of the dance band is being furthered also by DOLA through clinics held for younger musicians, plus the institution of their own musicians’ ball to be held this winter at the Latin Quarter. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; September 10, 1966)
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