Month: November 2015

MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACKS! BERRY GORDY, JR.

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BERRY GORDY, JR., stands near Motown Records/ Hitsville, U. S. A., 2648 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit, in 1965.
BERRY GORDY, JR., stands near Motown Records/ Hitsville, U. S. A., 2648 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit. June, 1965. (Click on image for largest detailed view).
Motown's Barry Gordy, promoting his Motown LP's, circa 1964. (Click on image for larger size).
Motown’s Barry Gordy, promoting his Motown LP’s before the press, press photo, circa 1964. (Click on image for larger size).

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BIG 8 CKLW MOTOR CITY BIG 30 HITS: THIS WEEK, 1971!

CKLW November 22, 1971 (outside) MCRFBCKLW TOP 30 HITS TABULATED BY LOCAL RETAIL SALES AND NATIONAL RADIO AIRPLAY
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * Sly & The Family Stone * CKLW (No. 01) 11/22/71
CKLW November 22, 1971 (inside) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Michael Jackson * CKLW (No. 02) 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971(back bottom) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Chi-Lites * CKLW (No. 03) 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971(back bottom) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Staple Singers * CKLW (No. 04) 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971(back bottom) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Bobby Womack * CKLW (No. 05) 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971(back bottom) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Donnie Elbert * CKLW (No. 06) 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971(back bottom) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Neil Diamond * CKLW (No. 07) 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971(back bottom) MCRFBCKLW BIG 30 HITS * Stylistics * CKLW (No. 08) 11/21/71
 CKLW TOP 30 HITS TABULATED BY LOCAL RETAIL SALES AND NATIONAL RADIO AIRPLAY

MCRFB.COM has every song selection on this CKLW playlist archived in it’s music library. All SEVENTEEN featured song titles randomly were selected for your listening enjoyment, here.

MCRFB.COM-Logo-2CKLW November 22, 1971 (inside bottom) MCRFB

CKLW November 22, 1971(back) MCRFBCKLW BIG HITBOUNDS * Jonathan Edwards * CKLW 11/21/71

 

CKLW November 22, 1971 (inside bottom) MCRFB

CKLW, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1971

These were the records you bought. Many went on to become some of the most popular singles heard played on AM and FM STEREO radio, November of ’71, including stations WKNR, WXYZ, CKLW, (the new) WDRQ-FM, Detroit.

For our previous feature, THE BILLBOARD HOT 100, for November, 1971, GO HERE.

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ABC RADIO: PAUL HARVEY NEWS; NOVEMBER 26, 1963

ABC Radio Networks Paul Harvey Commentary (MCRFB.) 11-26-63
AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY * Paul Harvey * ABC RADIO 11/26/1963
Cincinnati-Enquirer, November 26, 1963
The Cincinnati-Enquirer November 26, 1963
Servicemen stand guard over the flower-banked grave of the late President John F. Kennedy as dawn breaks at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 26, 1963.
Servicemen stand guard over the flower-banked grave of the late President John F. Kennedy as dawn breaks, Tuesday morning, at Arlington National Cemetery, November 26, 1963. (Click on image for larger detailed view).

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PHILCO-FORD KICKS OFF HP AND TEENY PHONOGRAPH . . . OCTOBER 21, 1967

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB news archives: 1967

 

Philco-Ford to Kick Off Hip Pocket Records, HP Portable Radio-Phonograph

 

 

Philco Ford Hip Pocket Phonographs priced at $24.95. (Click image for larger view).
Philco Ford Hip Pocket Phonographs priced at $24.95. (Click image for larger view).

PHILADELPHIA — Philco-Ford Corporation will kick off the promotion this fall of its new 45- r.p.m. Hip Pocket (HP) Records and mini radio-phonographs with a four-page, four-color ad insert in six trade papers and magazines. HPs will be featured in a separate consumer magazine campaign.

Hip Pocket Records, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of 69 cents, will have a best selling popular song on each side. They are flexible, wafer thin, pure vinyl and are only 3 7/8 inches in diameter.

Philco-Ford is featuring the records in combination with a solid-state radio-phonograph (Model 1376) weighing less than two pounds and listed at $24.95. Model 1376 has a six-transistor radio and a two-speed, single-play phonograph. It is battery-powered and AC adaptable.

The four-page advertisement will appear in Home Furnishings, Merchandising Week, Cash Box, Record World and Billboard.

Martin Grill, consumer spokesman for Philco-Ford, said the consumer magazine schedule promoting Hip Pocket Records will include full page advertisements in black and white in the November issues of American Girl, Co-ed, Ingenue, Scholastic Roto and Seventeen; and in the December issue of Teen.

The advertising campaigns will be backed up by major sales promotion and publicity efforts in prime markets, Grill said. END

Philco Ford Hip Pocket Phonograph, ad spread, Seventeen Magazine, December, 1967.
Philco Ford Hip Pocket Phonograph, ad spread, Seventeen Magazine, December, 1967. (Click on image for larger view).

Philco-Ford logo(Information and news source: Billboard; October 21, 1967).

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