WXYZ – Eddie Rogers, Dave Lockhart & Dick Purtan * All Scoped Airchecks * 1978
Month: June 2014
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
WJBK RECORD REVIEW * JUNE 26, 1964
50TH! UA RECORDS RELEASE ‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT’ ‘LP
JUNE 26, 1964 : TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY
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1964: United Artists Records (U.S.) released “A Hard Day’s Night,” the soundtrack album for the forthcoming Beatles first full-length film, two weeks before the Beatles released their U.K. album, titled by the same name, July 10, 1964.
Today In Pop Music History: June 26, 1964
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“A HARD DAY’S NIGHT” * George Martin Orchestra * UNITED ARTISTS Records (1964)
WNIC-FM BACK ON THE RADIO: ‘PILLOW TALK’
WNIC HEARD 24/7 ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WNIC-FM 100.3 * ALAN ALMOND * 1993
IT’S ‘SUMMER MADNESS’ W/ KOOL AND THE GANG! ’75
“SUMMER MADNESS” (12″ LP version) * Kool and the Gang * DE-LITE Records (1975)
WNIC-FM 100.3
During the ’80s, ’90s, “Summer Madness” was the closing instrumental piece heard fading out Detroit radio’s night-time favorite show, Alan Almond’s ‘Pillow Talk,’ weeknights, at 12 midnight on WNIC-FM 100.3 “Detroit’s Nicest Rock.”
“SUMMER MADNESS” * Kool and the Gang * DE-LITE Records (1975)
THE FOUR SEASONS FOR BRUNSWICK
WHYT-FM BACK ON THE RADIO W/: GARY BERKOWITZ!
WHYT LIVES HERE 24/7 ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
From our MCRFB aircheck archives featuring: WHYT-FM (’84) w/ GARY BERKOWITZ