NEW! MARK SCOTT WXYZ aircheck date: Saturday, April 4, 1981
— MARK SCOTT SHOW guest: David Lifton (author; Best Evidence) —
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* THE JIM FELICIANO COLLECTION *
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Four by the Beatles was the second of three Beatles EPs released in the United States, and the first of two by Capitol Records (catalogue number EAP 1-2121). The album featured four songs that had previously been heavily imported into the US as Canadian singles. It made #92 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
(Source: Wikipedia; ‘Four by the Beatles’)
The Temptations’ With A Lot O’ Soul is the fifth studio album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label released in 1967. Featuring four hit singles, With a Lot o’ Soul is the most successful Temptations album from their “classic 5” era, during which David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams constituted the Temptations’ lineup.
The four singles from the album, all Top 20 pop/ Top 10 R&B hits, were “(I Know) I’m Losing You“, “All I Need“, “You’re My Everything“, and “(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It’s You That I Need“. Three of these four songs also reached the Billboard Pop Top 10 as well. Norman Whitfield produced most of the tracks here, supporting the Temptations’ vocals with a hard-edged soul sound with elements of the music of James Brown.
“(I Know) I’m Losing You“, already a nine-month-old hit by the time With a Lot o’ Soul was released, opens the album. The rest of the album expands upon the template established by Norman Whitfield with “I’m Losing You”. Whitfield and the other With a Lot o’ Soul producers, including Ivy Jo Hunter, Smokey Robinson, and, on “All I Need” (in which Ruffin portrays a man who admits to his lover he has been unfaithful and begs her forgiveness), Whitfield’s protégé Frank Wilson, supply the group a more modern sound than was present on previous or contemporary Motown releases. Most of the tracks on side A of the album feature brass-heavy, dramatic backing tracks with more prominent uses of electric guitar lines (Whitfield’s “(I Know) I’m Losing You” and Ivy Jo Hunter’s “Sorry is a Sorry Word” (from side B) and shifts in dynamics Whitfield’s “Ain’t No Sun Since You’ve Been Gone“, the single “(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It’s You That I Need“, and the Eddie Kendricks-led “Save My Love For A Rainy Day“.
(Source: WiKipedia and AllMusic)
A MCRFB Note: For the complete track listing on this album GO HERE.
LOU TOMASI CJSP aircheck date: Tuesday, March 5, 1963
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt, of Farmington Hills, MI, for recently donating his CKLW radio aircheck (unscoped!) to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
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A MCRFB Note: While CJSP was not a Detroit radio station, its broadcasting frequency was picked up clearly on the Detroit radio dial in 1963. It was a licensed Canadian station, situated across the Detroit River, in Leamington, Ontario. In the mid-1960s the call letters was dropped for a newer top 40 sound, CHYR 710, aka as CHEER radio.
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* THE BOB PRATT COLLECTION *
— BILLBOARD Peaked #75 AUGUST 10, 1968 —
— BILLBOARD Peaked #20 JULY 6, 1968 —
— BILLBOARD Peaked #104 (“Bubbling Under”) MAY 04, 1968 —
— BILLBOARD Peaked #88 JUNE 22, 1968 —