PRODUCED BY JIM HAMPTON. DRAPER & HAMPTON, INC., LOS ANGELES
Syndicated around the nation on the CBS Radio Network some thirty-eight years ago, Jim Hampton (WXYZ, WABX, WJBK, WCAR) recently pulled this special programming from his radio archives and provided this site with 6 hours of the ‘Great American Summer’ shows he produced in the early-1980s.
In these programs you will heargreat memories, events, and many of the hits by artists whose records were heard playing on the radio during the summer months in the year they were released.
Jim Hampton and Ken Draper (WCAR, WCFL;Chicago) — Draper & Hampton, Inc., Los Angeles — produced this special summer programming for the CBS Radio Network.
The opening theme song was sung by, written and produced by production director Scott Chapin. Special programming features written by program assistant writer, Scott Paton.
Program hosted by the great Tom Murphy (WCFL)
Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature more of CBS’ ‘Great American Summer’ throughout the 2019 summer months.
So look for them here . . . . meanwhile enjoy your summer! 🙂
JIM HAMPTON
Featured today the 1st of 6 memorable pops of the ‘Great American Summer’
A special THANK YOU to Jim Hampton (Palm Springs, CA) for sharing this CBS summer radio memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks
NEW! A 1975 CKLW RADIO ‘ENDLESS SUMMER’ PROMO SPOT
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A special THANK YOU to our Big 8 friend, Charlie O’Brien, for providing another CKLW Bill Gable ‘Endless Summer’ radio spot — aired one week — sometime during the HOT summer months of 1975 🙂
Charlie says . . . keep it here. More CKLW promo spots to come!
Singer Credits Radio Jocks in Turning Selections from LPs Into Singles
NEW YORK – Trini Lopez, the Reprise Records artist, owes a lot to the disk jockey fraternity. Not only have the deejays helped catapult his records into the top-selling brackets, but they’ve also been doubling as a&r advisors for the singer.
Lopez, who is now in New York for a month’s engagement at Basin Street East (beginning June 8), openly admits that the disk jockeys have helped tremendously in deciding which side should be taken out of his Reprise albums for a push in the singles market. “It was the disk jockey action on ‘If I Had A Hammer’,” said Lopez, “that made us take it out of my album, ‘Trini Lopez at P.J.’s’ for a single release.” The result of the action was a 4,000,000 single seller around the world. The album. incidentally, also has racked up global sales around the 4,000.000 mark.
Lopez also mentioned that his culled track from his second album, single round, “Kansas City,” was “More Trini Lopez at P.J.’s” because of disk jockey preference, went on to pull in more than 500,000 sales. Similarly, his current single release, “What Have I Got of My Own” was given the deejay nod from among the songs included in his third LP, “On the Move.”
Although Lopez made his mark in the singles and album fields a little over a year ago, his current stop at Basin Street East marks his first engagement in the East. He said the delay was due to commitments overseas. “A disk performer today,” explainedLopez. “can no longer ignore the international field. His records sell in those markets and therefore it’s to his advantage that he appear there.”
In Europe, Lopez already has played in England, Paris, Rome, London, Holland, Berlin, Belgium and Scotland. He goes hack to Paris in August for a one-man show at the Olympia Theater. In his previous engagement at the Olympia, during February and March of this year, he co-starred with the Beatles, now on his foreign itinerary in his first tour of South America. This is set for November, with stops scheduled in Brazil, Nicaragua, Peru and Mexico City. Coincidentally with the upcoming South American tour will be the release of his fourth Reprise LP to be titled, “Trini Lopez: The Latin Album.” Don Costa did the arrangements and conducted the orchestra for this package.
Costa also worked with Lopez in preparing the arrangements for his act at Basin Street East. In previous dates, Lopez worked with bass and drums accompaniment only, but for the Basin Street East date he’ll have a 10-piece crew backing him. “The sound will be larger,” said Lopez, “but it will still be like that heard on my records.” END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; June 13, 1964)
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 JUNE 14-20, 1964
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Debuted on May 2 (#91), “What Have I Got Of My Own” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart (#55) on this day, as featured, week of June 14-20, 1964.
In this Keener Contact News aircheck audio compilation — hear the voices of WKNR news reporters Bob Neil (1966); John Maher (1966); Eric Smith (1965); Lou Morton (1964); Phil Nye(1966); George Hunter (1965); Phil Nye (1968); Ed Mullen (1967)
For more on WKNR News director Phillip Nye, the WKNR News department, the voices, and the award-winning WKNR news staff, visit the ‘Contact News’ page at the official WKNR Keener 13 website — linkedHERE
WKNR NEWS DIRECTORPhilip Nye circa 1966 (Above photo courtesy and property of Scott Westerman, Steve Schram and keener13.com)
