STAX ARTISTS SAYS ‘STAY IN SCHOOL’ . . . SEPTEMBER 9, 1967

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB news archive: 1967

Stax/Volt Artists Promote School Education With Anti-Drop-out LP

 

 

 

 

Stax Volt logoMEMPHIS — Stax/Volt artists are featured in a special “Stay In School” campaign album, which is being mailed to 4,000 radio stations and deejays throughout the country. The LP includes talks by the artists as well as previously unreleased performances.

The album, which includes Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MG’s, William Bell, the Mar-Keys, and Rufus Thomas, was prepared, written and waxed as a public service by producers under Al Bell, company vice-president.

Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, who wrote (below) the liner notes for the pressings, invited Redding and Miss Thomas to participate with him in a forthcoming program of the Celebrity Showcase for Youth, which stages visits by show business personalities to urban poverty neighborhoods. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; September 9, 1967).

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

The Vice President

Washington

An Open Letter To Young People From Vice President Humphrey

First, I want to commend the Stax/Volt family of recording artists for their special interest in trying to help you help yourself.

These artists know the value of a good education and what it will do for you.

By singing their songs and talking to you in this album, they are trying to give encouragement and direction to these young people who are struggling against hardship and difficulty. They are trying to make sure, fully, the difference an education will make in your life.

These artists know that the high school dropout is headed for disappointment and frustration when he looks for a job. He’ll meet disappointment when he looks for a job. He’ll meet disappointment when he tries to get a good-paying job, and then face frustration when the job he finally gets does not last too long. Machines are taking over more and more the unskilled jobs that the uneducated used to get.

Today’s good jobs are going to young people who are educated, who have “brain power” and skills. The name of the game is this: those who learn more, earn more. That high school diploma could mean the difference between a real future and a mere existence.

As you listen to what the talented Stax/Volt artists sing and say, make up your mind to complete your education. Remember, THOSE WHO LEARN MORE . . . EARN MORE! My young friends, that’s where the action is!!!

Sincerely,

Hubert Humphrey

||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Addendum: The Hubert Humphrey letter as it appeared verbatim, on the back of the Stax LP, ‘Stay In School’, released in 1967.

Stax Records "Stay In School" 1967 LP
Stax Records’ “Stay In School” 1967 LP
OTIS REDDING
OTIS REDDING
“STAY IN SCHOOL” * Otis Redding * STAX RECORDS (1967)

Loading

MARTY BUFALINI AND GARY O’BRIEN: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS!

Comments image

MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

COMMENTS: MAY, 2014

 

 

 

 

It was GREAT in having recently heard from two of Detroit radio’s finest broadcasters! MCRFB.COM

comments images 6PXXIV47Marty Bufalini: Just found this site and LOVE IT!!! As a long-time Detroit area broadcaster, it brings back a lot of memories of the friends I’ve worked with. I’ll be visiting this site often!!!

 

Submitted on 2014/05/21 (9 days ago via email: jim@mcrfb.com)

comments images 6PXXIV47Gary O’Brien: Wow! What an incredible site! I stumbled across it this morning and have been listening and in some cases wiping a tear from my eye. There are so many people on your site that I worked with over the years, especially the late Dave Shafer. What an amazing man to work for. My name is Gary O’Brien and I worked at many stations in Detroit over the years and this site is going to be my new home. The memories are knee deep.

I do have a question for you and hope that you can help me out. I have just finished a book with Art Cervi (Bozo the Clown) about his life and the man behind the make-up entitled “I Did What?” My question is this, there are a couple of pictures that I would like to use in my book that are on your site and I would like to know how I would go about getting permission to include them in the book. One is of Ron Knowles who was doing remotes at a store that Art was working at and told him he was in the wrong business which started him on his path to entertainment. The other is a shot of Robin Seymour who Art became friends with and eventually turned that friendship into Swingin Time.

Any information you can help me with would be greatly appreciated. I’d like to chat more, but I have to get back to your site. It’s the best.

Regards,

Herb Mentzer

Gary O’Brien (WHND, WNIC, WOMC, WCZY, WCLS, WYUR, WBRB)

THANK YOU! Marty Bufalini and Gary O’Brien for your recent comments and visiting with us here on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

Loading

TAMLA MOTOWN IS DISTRIBUTING HARVEY LABEL . . . OCTOBER 20, 1962

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB news archive: 1962

Motown Expanding Operations Includes Adding New Labels

 

 

 

 

Berry Gordy circa 1962 (click image for larger view)
Berry Gordy circa 1962 (click image for larger view)

NEW YORK — Berry Gordy, Jr., and his Tamla-Motown label are expanding their operations to include a new subsidy label and a distribution of an outside line.

The line being handled by the Tamla-Motown firm is is the Harvey label. Harvey, which is a subsidiary of Tri-Phi, currently has an item getting some action around the country in “Cleo’s Mood,” by Junior Walker and the All-Stars and this is the first outside disk to be handled by Motown. The label will also distribute all past and future material on the Harvey label. The new distributor arrangement was concluded between Harvey Fuqua of Harvey Records and Barney Ales of Tamla-Motown.

The Detroit-based Tamla-Motown firm has also debuted a new subsidiary in the Me-lo-dy banner. This makes four labels in the company’s camp: Tamla. Motown. Gordy and the new Ensign.

(Click image for larger view)
(Click image for larger view)

Berry Gordy, Jr., also reports that the firm is currently at work on jazz and spiritual material. The jazz albums will debut on another label, Workshop Jazz. A set by Earl Washington is currently in distribution, while another by Paula Greer, a Chicago-based songstress, is in the making. The label is searching out native Detroit talent for the line, and will seek newcomers and established stars in other areas of the country as well. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; October 20, 1962).

jr-walker-all-stars-cleos-mood-harvey

Harvey Fuqua (Formerly of the Moonglows)
Harvey Fuqua (Formerly of the Moonglows)

Loading

TV-GUIDE ADS: SWINGIN’ TIME’ WITH ROBIN SEYMOUR!

Robin Seymour March, 1968 ('Swingin' Time')Robin Seymour May, 1968 ('Swingin' Time')
Robin Seymour on 'Teen Town,' CKLW-TV 9, 1965.
Robin Seymour on ‘Teen Town,’ CKLW-TV 9, 1965 (All ads courtesy the fantastic vintagetoledotv.squarespace.com/ website)!

Robin Seymour 'Swingin' Time' TV-62 1969Robin Seymour Channel 62 October 13, 1969

MEL TAYLOR * “Young Man, Old Man” * SWINGIN’ TIME SHOW THEME (1967)

Loading