For You – Ricky Nelson – 1963
1960s TV GOOD TIMES AND GREAT OLDIES: PET CLARK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTR48CpilOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXRqzQJFzQ
IT’S PETULA CLARK SINGING HER TWO BIG HITS FROM ’65 AND ’66!
Following her No. 1 U. S. hit, “Downtown” in 1964, Petula Clark came back with her second top 10 smash, “I Know A Place,” having peaked No. 3 on Billboard, May 1, 1965. “I Know A Place” made top 10 CKLW, WXYZ, and WKNR Detroit. After release of her second No. 1 hit, “My Love,” in early-1966, on March 23, 1966, Petula Clark released her fourth Tony Hatch composition, “A Sign Of The Times.” On the singles charts eight weeks, Pet Clark’s hit peaked No. 11 on Billboard, April 23, 1966.
WKNR-AM STILL ON TOP DETROIT RADIO! JULY 2, 1966
TODAY IN OLDIES MUSIC HISTORY – JULY 1ST
Births
1899: Thomas A. Dorsey
1915: Willie Dixon
1928: Bobby Day
1939: Delaney Bramlett (Delaney and Bonnie)
1946: June Montiero (The Toys)
1948: John Ford (The Strawbs)
1960: Evelyn “Champagne” King
Deaths
1979: Lee Jackson (The Nice)
1981: Rushton Moreve (Steppenwolf)
1995: Wolfman Jack
1999: Guy Mitchell
1999: Dennis Brown
2000: Cub Koda (Brownsville Station)
2003: Herbie Mann
2005: Renaldo “Obie” Benson (The Four Tops)
Events
1897: The trade paper Billboard Advertising renames itself The Billboard.
1956: NBC’s Steve Allen Show capitalizes on the outrage engendered by Elvis Presley’s recent version of “Hound Dog” on The Milton Berle Show by winkingly presenting a new, “clean” Elvis, dressed in a tuxedo and singing “Hound Dog” to an actual basset hound perched on a stool. Backstage, a humiliated Elvis explodes in fury at the Colonel for agreeing to the stunt. The next day, however, fans protest the show, demanding “The REAL Elvis.”
1956: An 11-year-old Brenda Lee signs her first recording contract with Decca Records.
1962: Gene Vincent plays the Cavern Club in Liverpool, opening for a house band called The Beatles.
1964: Married only four days before, Michael Nesmith leaves his San Antonio home to make a name for himself as a folk singer in Los Angeles.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, along with his son Julian and her daughter Kyoko, are injured in a car crash near Golspie, Scotland. John gets 17 stitches in his face while Yoko has 14; soon, he will bring a cot into Abbey Road studios so she can rest comfortably while he records “Come Together.”
1969: Legendary producer Sam Phillips sells his Sun Records Studio in Memphis.
1970: Jimi Hendrix’ Electric Ladyland Studios in New York are opened for the first time.
1970: Casey Kasem begins his weekly Billboard countdown on the nationally syndicated radio show American Top 40.
1975: Ringo Starr divorces his first wife Maureen Cox after a decade of marriage.
1976: Connie Francis is awarded $2.5 million from the motel where she was sexually assaulted two years earlier.
1998: In her Malibu home, Barbra Streisand marries her second husband, actor James Brolin.
2008: The BBC broadcasts an unseen film interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney that had been discovered languishing in a London garage.
2009: Michael Jackson’s untimely death a week earlier sends all his albums back into the Billboard Top Ten, including, at #5, The Jackson 5’s Ultimate Collection.
Releases
1969: The Doors, The Soft Parade
1973: Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
1974: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Burnin’
Recording
1935: Benny Goodman, “King Porter Stomp”
1956: Brenda Lee, “Jambalaya”
1959: Dave Brubeck, “Take Five”
1963: The Beatles: “She Loves You,” “I’ll Get You”
1968: The Beatles, “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey”
1969: The Beatles, “You Never Give Me Your Money”
Charts
1967: The Association’s “Windy” hits #1
1967: The Beatles’ LP Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band hits #1
1967: The Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” enters the charts
1972: Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue” hits #1
Certifications
1965: The Beatles’ LP Beatles VI is certified gold
1971: Jethro Tull’s LP Aqualung is certified gold
PLAY OF THE DAY
Don’t Fool With Fu Manchu – Rockin’ Ramrods – 1965
MCRFB COMMERCIALS: GENE MEROLLIS CHEVROLET!
GENE MEROLLIS CHEVROLET “What A Great, Great Guy!” (1967)
NEW FROM THE VAULT
WXYZ – Eddie Rogers, Dave Lockhart & Dick Purtan * All Scoped Airchecks * 1978
WAY-BACK DETROIT RADIO PAGES: WJLB . . . SEPTEMBER 23, 1944
From the MCRFB radio scrapbook: 1944
WJLB Going After Hep-Cat Business
DETROIT (September 16) — WJLB is making what is believed to be the first sustained effort by a station in this territory to build a listening habit among the serious hep-cats. Hitting the teenagers after school, a show, Strictly Jive, is being aired Mondays through Fridays at 3:15 p.m.
Program is handled by Bill Randle, known locally as an expert in the hot jazz field, who interlards a program of all hot jazz selections with keen comment. Interviews with famous jazzmen are also used on the show, and, to top-off listener interest, a quiz on the subject is staged three-days a week. Awards are right in the listener’s alley, too — albums of jazz, plus copies of ‘Jazzmen,’ ‘The Jazz Record Book,’ ‘The Real Jazz’ and ‘Jazz.’
Program is scheduled at an hour when it can hit the teenage group with maximum ease, when they probably have maximum proprietary rights in the radio, after the housewife’s show earlier in the day, and before the rest of the family gets home after a day’s work.
Program started off as a half-hour feature and proved so strong in the responsiveness that it recently extended to 45-minutes, and is tentative slated to go to a full hour September 15. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; September 23, 1944).
MCRFB COMMERCIALS VAULT: ROY O’BRIEN FORD ’64
ROY O’BRIEN FORD (Radio Commercial Bed) “Has The Best Deal Around” (1964)
TOM CLAY’S “WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LOVE” ’72 (LP)
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LOVE
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THE RECORD VERSION — From the Tom Clay album, “What The World Needs Now Is Love,” MoWest Records (Motown Record Corporation) 1971. (Click album image 2x for detailed view).
“What Ever Happened To Love,” was the follow-up single to Clay’s “What The World Need Now Is Love”(Billboard No. 8; 8/14/1971). It was released by MoWest Records on 11/24/71.
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THE RADIO VERSION — In 1964, whenever Tom Clay read his “Whatever Happened To (Love)” on CKLW radio, he used instead for background music an instrumental track, entitled, “More.” A beautifully arranged score recorded by the (Italian) Ritz Ortolani Orchestra, the selection Clay originally used was from the 1962 motion picture soundtrack album, “Mondo Cane.” — M O T O R C I T Y R A D I O F L A S H B A C K S
