Author: Jim Feliciano

THE DOORS EMERGES ‘HOT’ WEST COAST BAND . . . JUNE 10, 1967

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1967

Los Angeles Group Hottest Commodity For New York Based Record Label

 

 

 

 

HOLLYWOOD — The Doors have emerged as the leading Coast rock group for Elektra, a New York-based label. The quartet’s LP bearing its name has been moving out of the label’s local distributor at a brisk rate. Since January 1, some 50,000 copies have been sold, according to the company.

THE DOORS photographed in Los Angeles, posing in front of a billboard promoting their debut album, 1967. (Click image for larger view)

The rising popularity for the group, who have been together over a year, has sparked a Manhattan concert and a club engagement in mid-June. They will perform at a June 11 concert at the Village Theater with Janis Joplin and work the Scene for three weeks following the concert. Locally, the group has worked every major rock club on a percentage basis, usually $1,000 against 25 per cent. Their Scene booking engagement will be set for a reportedly marked straight salary pay.

Their New York engagements are the group’s second East Coast appearances. The first time around they were not as active on the charts as they are now. Their current single, “Light My Fire,” and their debut LP from which the single had been adapted from, both are chart climbers. This sales reaction, which began in the band’s hometown Los Angeles, is now spreading Eastward.

Elektra has also snared enthusiasm for Love, to obtain a strong one-two punch among Coast contemporary and progressive music buffs, an added respective momentum employed by the label’s increase both in sales (Doors and Love) in current singles and LP charts. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; June 10, 1967)

LIGHT MY FIRE (Single) * The Doors * ELEKTRA (1967)

A MCRFB NEWS brief: 1967

the-doors-light-my-fire-1967-5DOORS STRIKE GOLD ON ITS DEBUT ALBUM

NEW YORK — The Doors’ album, ‘The Doors’ on Elektra, has been awarded the RIAA Gold Record for sales in excess of 1,000,000. The group is the only one this year to win a Gold Record with their first album. The Doors’ second album, ‘Strange Days’ will be released late this month. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; September 23, 1967)

LIGHT MY FIRE (Instrumental) * The Doors * ELEKTRA (1967)
THE DOORS (Complete Album) * ELEKTRA (1967)

A MCRFB NOTE: Click over (Complete Album) for link of album title tracks.

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DETROIT’S WRIF SET CONCERT SERIES . . . JUNE 12, 1982

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB news archive: 1982

2nd WRIF June Free Concert Fest Set For Hart Plaza

 

 

 

 

DETROIT — WRIF and Dr. Pepper kick off the second annual “Free Concerts On The Plaza” series Tuesday, set for June 8 (Tuesday) with Bitter Sweet Alley set for the opening act. Nine noontime concerts featuring top local rock bands will follow on consecutive Tuesdays. WRIF personalities Steve Kostan, Karen Savelly and Carl Coffey will host the performances.

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“Last year’s concerts were attended by a surprisingly diverse audience,” say promotion director Julie Finkel. The 1981 concert series culminated in a highly successful “WRIF Motor City Jam” at the Pine Knob Music Theater, which raised $25,000 for WDET, Detroit’s public radio station. Plans for “Motor City Jam II” are in the works.

WRIF took 1,000 listeners for a cruise Wednesday (June 2), the third year the station has run such a cruise. Winners of the cruise tickets were drawn from a station drawing. Local rock band The Urbations played for the three-outing. The station also planned a six-hour concert on Saturday (June 5) in connection with the Detroit Grand Prix. The Urbations and the Automatix were lined up as performers for this WRIF-FM promoted event. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; June 12, 1982).

ADDENDUM: Listed here the local performers from the WRIF-FM Concert Series 1982 event: Bitter Sweet Alley. The Look. Pendragon. The Automix. Letter O. Toby Redd. The Stingrays. Dick The Bruiser Band. Art In America. Marshall Crenshaw.

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