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Debuted September 21, 1963. Peaked #6 (1 week). “Talk To Me” charts 17 total weeks overall in the Billboard R&B Singles charts.
Source: Billboard Top R&B Singles [2004 Edition]
Category: Flashbacks
THE ESSENCE OF ’60s SOUL GENERATION: 1963 DEFINED!
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Debuted September 21, 1963. Peaked #61 (October 12; 1 week). “Baby Get It (And Don’t Quit It)” charts 5 total weeks overall in the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
NOTE: “Baby Get It” did not make the Billboard R&B charts for 1963.
Source: Billboard Top Pop Singles [2006 Edition]
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF 1963!
Debuted #87 week-ending August 17, 1963, “Only In America” peaks at #25 on the Hot 100, week-ending, September 28, 1963. Having charted 11 weeks overall — on its final week on Billboard, the single drops out at #49 for the week-ending, October 26, 1963.
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Source: The Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts [1963]
WKNR 1310: A 1972 [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD
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MCRFB Note: Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for referencing the above Detroit Free Press WKNR 13 ad (January 28, 1972) for this site, featured today.
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Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂
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WCZY [Detroit Free Press] RADIO PRESS PHOTO: GENE TAYLOR
WXYZ 1270: DICK PURTAN! A 1972 [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD
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On September 15, 2022, Detroit Public TV debuted their newest television production. It is a documentary commemorating and the extraordinary life and times of long-time Detroit radio legend and morning personality, Dick Purtan.
Titled ‘Detroit Remember When: A Tribute to Dick Purtan‘, DPTV.org tagged the hour-long film with this disclaimer . . . .
“The special documentary highlights Purtan’s life on and off the air, told through audio and video clips, archival film and interviews with Purtan, his family, friends and colleagues. The 60-minute documentary film features some of the most memorable moments from Purtan’s top-rated morning show, his successful radio career and consistent community outreach.”
If you missed viewing the PBS film this past weekend, ‘Detroit Remembers When: A Tribute to Dick Purtan‘ is currently still available for your viewing, courtesy of Detroit Public Television, HERE.
More of this PBS Dick Purtan television special, from the DPTV website . . . .
“Fans of Detroit radio can celebrate the life and extraordinary career of Dick Purtan in a televised remembrance of his legendary journey as a radio personality and community philanthropist, to premiere on DPTV Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. as part of a “Detroit Remember When” segment. This special documentary highlights Purtan’s life on and off the air, told through audio and video clips, archival film and interviews with Purtan, his family, friends and colleagues.
The 60-minute documentary film features some of the most memorable moments from Purtan’s top-rated morning show, including his infamous “Put-on Calls,” where he entertained generations of Detroiters with a whimsical mix of radio satire, one liners and dead pans delivered to his audience each day along with his “Purtan’s People” ensemble cast and crew.
“In addition to his successful radio career, the film looks back on Purtan’s community outreach on behalf of the many charities he supported and the ways he used his position of influence behind the microphone to help the less fortunate.”
Congratulations, Dick Purtan!
And thank you. For all those wonderful memories and humor you shared with us on the radio dial throughout the decades’ past . . . those special D. P. moments on the radio your Detroit listeners and fans could never, ever forget. 🙂
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THIS WEEK! SEPTEMBER 1963: THE HOTTEST RECORD SINGLE IN THE U.S.A.
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FIFTEEN WEEKS overall on the singles pop charts, “Blue Velvet” by Bobby Vinton peaks this week at #1 (3 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Beginning September 15 through week-ending October 5, 1963.
Source: Joel Whitburn’s Pop Annual
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For our previous Billboard Number One 1963 U.S.A. Hits go HERE
SOUL SINGLES! THE BILLBOARD TOP R&B 40: WEEK-ENDING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1965
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Many of the above titled Billboard R&B singles were the most popular radio plays heard on two Detroit soul stations 1400 WJLB and 1440 WCHB on the AM dial, September 1965.
As tabulated by Billboard, the featured R&B Top 40 record singles were the nation’s most popular and best-selling soul records, for the week-ending September 18, 1965, 57 years ago.
MCRFB Note: By September of 1965 the Motown stable was churning out hits after hits after hits. It bears noting that 10 Motown records comprised this particular Billboard R&B chart alone. Add as well the #9 record, by Edwin Starr (Ric-Tic) and that will total 11 overall Detroit records having been tabulated for the chart — over one quarter listed overall!
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WDRQ! THE FM 93 ‘Q’ SINGLES: WEEK-ENDING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1975
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WDRQ Top 23 singles and Top 10 LPs for week-ending September 8, 1975
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above WDRQ music guide courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
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WJLB 1400! A DETROIT RADIO 1965 [Detroit Free Press] BACK-PAGE
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