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FOURTEEN WEEKS overall on the singles pop charts, “If You Wanna Be Happy” by Jimmy Soul peaks this week at #1 (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Beginning May 12 through week-ending, May 25, 1963. (Source: Joel Whitburn’s Pop Annual)
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For our previous Billboard Number One 1963 U.S.A. Hits go HERE
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WBRB-FM (Mt. Clemons) became the new WLBS-FM in January, 1979.
The “New Music” station, purchased by Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, based in New York, formatted the station with predominantly disco music from the outset. Having dominated the Detroit FM dial with their new “Disco and More” sound, the station’s format was left virtually unchanged for nearly five years on 102.7 FM.
WLBS-FM became the new WKSG-FM, “Kiss 102.7 FM” (Oldies) on November 9, 1984.
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A special THANK YOU going out to Jamie Kerwin of Sarnia, Ontario, for recently contributing the featured WLBS-FM station IDs to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives ?
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REAL MEN of GENIUS | Bud Lite Salutes | ANHEUSER BUSCH, CO.
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REAL MEN of GENIUS | Bud Lite Salutes | ANHEUSER BUSCH, CO.
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Many of the above titled Billboard ‘Top 50’ R&B singles were the most popular radio plays heard on two Detroit soul stations 1400 WJLB and 1440 WCHB on the AM dial, May 1971.
As tabulated by Billboard, the featured R&B Top 50 record singles were the nation’s most popular and best-selling soul records, for the week-ending May 8, 1971, 51 years ago.
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Above 1968 General Electric ad was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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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.
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The above WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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A special thank you to Jim Heddle of Tuscon, Arizona, for having provided this WXYZ 1270 playlist chart from 1966 to the Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives.
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Canadian Government Drops Gavel; RKO Owned CKLW Must Change Hands to Canadian Ownership Or Must Dispose Station’s Assets
TORONTO — The Canadian Radio Television Commission has ruled that radio station CKLW in Windsor, Ont., will receive its license renewal until Sept. 1, 1970. But within that period of time, the station must divest itself of its U. S. ownership or lose its broadcasting license altogether.
The CRTC said that, according to its records, the issued shares in Western Ontario Broadcasting are now owned by RKO Distributing Co. of Canada, which is owned by RKO General Inc. in the U. S.
These shares must change hands to a Canadian-owned company within a year and a half or the station will lose its license. This decision was based on a Canadian government order of Sept. 20, 1968, which ruled that any Canadian broadcasting outlet must be “effectively owned and controlled by Canadians.”
CKLW applied for an exemption from this order based on its geographic and economic situation – the Detroit area which adjoins Windsor directly across the river. The CRTC could have recommended such an exemption if it had so chosen but in so doing it would have had to satisfy both itself and the federal cabinet that this action would not be contrary to public interests.
The commission said that after careful consideration of the petition of CKLW, it could not make such a recommendation.
The commission noted that it was granting the temporary license renewal to “give the licensee an opportunity to comply with its provisions or to dispose of the assets of the station.” END
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Information, credit and news source: Billboard; April 19, 1969
