— Sunday, December 15, 1968 —
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DETROIT FREE PRESS
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A special THANK YOU to Greg Innis for recently contributing this WCHB July 1, 1968 ‘Soul’ chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WCHB
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A special THANK YOU to Greg Innis for recently contributing this WCHB August 24, 1970 ‘Soul’ chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
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Week of 07/31/66 – 08/6/1966
The ‘Top 5’ soul records were also the most popular radio plays heard on Detroit’s two R&B stations 1440 WCHB and 1400 WJLB on the AM dial at the time, as well as many of the nation’s Top 50 R&B singles listed from this chart as was tabulated by Billboard.
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Week of 07/25/65 – 07/31/1965
The ‘Top 5’ soul records were also the most popular radio plays heard on Detroit’s two R&B stations 1440 WCHB and 1400 WJLB on the AM dial at the time, as well as many of the nation’s Top 50 R&B singles listed from this chart as was tabulated by Billboard.
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WCHB
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WCHB-AM ‘Bill Crane: WCHB’s Brainy “Butterball” ’
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In the early 1950s, Martha Jean, would become one of but a few female broadcasters in the country working radio “on-the-air.” She landed her first DJ stint in broadcast radio when she was hired at Memphis’ WDIA in 1954.
In 1963, Bell Broadcasting in Detroit, WCHB, hired Martha Jean from Memphis’ WDIA. After three years on the radio there, she left WCHB for Detroit’s WJLB on October 24, 1966.
Fifty years ago, during the Detroit riot in July 1967, in her personal attempt to quell the widespread civil disturbance and “calm the citizenry” — Martha Jean convinced WJLB management to cancel all scheduled programming — thus allowing her to remain on the air for an unprecedented 48 consecutive hours.
The legendary soul radio personality Martha Jean, known as “The Queen,” remained a broadcasting staple for over four decades while in the Motor City. During her decades’ reign on the radio airways here she became a formidable voice for Detroit and its inner-city core. In 1982, she purchased her own radio station, thus, becoming its sole manager thereby having divested all prior control of operations for WQBH (formerly Detroit’s WMZK).
She remained there on the air until the day she passed away, January 29, 2000.
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WCHB-AM ‘That Queen Of ‘Soul,’ Martha Jean’
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