“Oh, Pretty Woman,” drops to No. 5 on the Billboard charts, this week in 1964, October 24. While this week marks only it’s ninth week on the charts (see Billboard Hot 100, below), the song previously held No. 1, three consecutive weeks, October 3-10-17, 1964.
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These were the records you bought. Many went on to become some of the most popular singles heard played on AM Top 40 radio, October of 1964, on WKNR, CKLW, WXYZ and conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WJR and (conservative new-comer) WJBK in Detroit.
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU goes out to Bob Green for sharing this WKNR productions audio gem with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
This “jingles retrospective” was produced and created by Bob Green for the sixth annual ‘Bill Gavin Radio Program Conference.’ The event was held at the Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11-14, 1971.
For more WKNR and Bob Green, visit Scott Westerman’s and Steve Schram’s premiere WKNR Keener 13 website at http://keener13.com/.
The above WKNR Bob Green personality card, owned, courtesy of keener13.com.
THANK YOU BOB!
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70 years ago. The world still at war. While the nation celebrated VE Day (Victory in Europe) the previous month, May 8, the war continued on with Japan in the Pacific.
Meanwhile, here in the United States, these were the most popular records that was played on the radio — coast-to-coast — during the winter-spring of ’45. They were America’s most popular TEN TOP RECORDS for the week ending June 2nd.
Certainly this was not the music of our generation, nor that of the present as well. But from time to time this website will bring light to a certain time in decades’ past. These were the bands and artists Americans found themselves enamored with. The ’40s era. The greatest generation? Many historians arguably would agree today it was.
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From the MCRFB radio news scrapbook: 1945
LOCAL PROGRAMMING HEDGES POSTWAR
Stations Go, Live in Hopes
DETROIT (May 26, 1945) — Check of all major local stations indicates that emphasis on local programming is continuation of fairly long-time trend. In general, it has been something the stations has been doing for the last three years.Typically, WWJ has increased programming cost heavily in last two years, and WWJ has had a 73-piece symphony orchestra sponsored by a cut-rate department store for the two and a half years in a full hour Saturday night show with barely any mention of the sponsor.
Trend is definitely continuing, with new developments, both commercial and sustaining, tending away from the all-platter shows, except in post-midnight and early-a.m. hours, where they appear to have a permanent useful place. WWJ for the last year has done a job with Nurses In Action, dramatizing the nurse recruiting campaign, and Victory Matinee, devoted each Wednesday afternoon to a different war effort cause and using the full talent resources of the station. Another show of typical operations here is Tenth Floor, Please, sponsored by a department store, which dramatizes the story of products sold on this floor.
In the last year, WJR pioneered in inter-station contacts for ideas, sending out five teams of station men, paired from different departments — typically the commercial manager and the program director — on one-week junkets around the country to inspect station operations in other cities.
Recently a swing quartet from the Motor Bar was put on the air for 15 minutes at 9:45 — at a cost of $65.00 daily — chiefly to break into the general soap opera schedule with something that wasn’t transcriptions, until change of schedule forced its abandonment.
Check on inter-station cooperation indicate this is largely by letter elsewhere. WXYZ, typically, reports frequent interchange of ideas, and requests for info on how the station has solved particular problems — such as what they do on department store programs. Most of these correspondence come from stations of the affiliated Blue. Station has made a practice of working closely on production with clients and agencies, in contrast to WJR, where the station typically done its own particular show packaging and then offered the product for sale.
Recorded programs on WXYZ have been reduced some 50 per cent in the past year — chiefly in favor taking net shows, rather than local production, in which the station was already strong, originating at least three week serials — notably Lone Ranger. Another trend toward better programming here is the move away from short records in favor of the larger disks with a full 15-minutes of music, or re-broadcasts.
The move toward better programming emphasis appears concentrated in smaller towns, typified by Michigan Radio Network, which has heavily moved this way within the past three months. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; June 2, 1945).