From the MCRFB news archive: 1967
Music Happenings In and Around Detroit Town, 1967
DETROIT — Triangle Productions is bringing Judy Garland to Cobo Arena on September 29 for one performance . . . Johnny Trudell has become the leader of the Roostertail Orchestra. Lead trumpet player Trudell has played in the club’s orchestra for seven years and is also a staff musician at Motown Records . . . Diana Ross and the Supremes are scheduled to tape the Hollywood Palace TV show September 20-22 . . . Flint’s own the Fabulous Pack taped an ‘Upbeat’ TV show segment in Cleveland on August 19, featuring their new release “Wide Trackin” . . . The Grande Ballroom brought in the Chambers Brothers Friday and Saturday (September 1 and 2) . . . The Pop Series at the Detroit Masonic Auditorium for the 1967-1968 season Mantovani, Harry Simeone Chorale, New Christy Minstrels, Ferrante and Teicher and Victor Borge . . . Fred Saxon, Mercury promotion man here, is putting out a weekly newsletter for radio stations and press in the Detroit area. The newsletter gives information about new product releases in the Mercury Records family. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; September 16, 1967).
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