“The listing of records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, listener requests and CKLW’s judgement of the record’s appeal.”
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The above CKLW chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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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 CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
A note to inform all our friends of Motor City Radio Flashbacks that the following pageswill be removedon Saturday, March 26 and they will no longer will be a featured menu item on this site:
1). Do You Remember These? (Published December 14, 2012)
2). For Your Ears Only (all 30 plus files were reuploaded into the Members Only page).
3). Real Men Of Genius (Published February 4, 2014)
[NOTE: The entire 60 RM of G audio files stored in our archive – adding 40 more than what was listed in this page – the files will all be re-uploaded in the Commercials page].
4.) The History of Rock and Roll [CKLW] (Published September 10, 2013)
[NOTE: There was six hours of content (mostly on early R ‘n’ R origins and the Elvis Presley story) listed on this page; to be removed).
5). Michigan State Fair 1954 (Published September 12, 2012)
6). Michigan State Fair 1967 (Published September 21, 2012)
7). Wake Up Uhmerika! (Published January 1, 2013)
[NOTE: The audio files archived in this page will instead be featured (to Gary Burbank’s credit) on posts here (as they were in the past) on Motor City Radio Flashbacks. In its page replacement, a new page will the archived home for 200 WXYZ Radio 1270 Jingles. Coming soon!]
Having been part of Motor City Radio Flashbacks from its early inception (and being non-radio related), the titled subjects (I feel) to be removed has outlived their space and time, here. Instead, the intended purpose of this site will focus on classic Detroit radio and subject matter (or anything else relevant to), which is why this website was created in the first place and moving forward will be about.
— Jim Feliciano
Curator, Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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For the benefit of our friends who may have missed the site’s overall improvements and changes made in many of our special pages (beginning last October 2021), here’s the breakdown:
See the new the Aircheck Library page. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and you will see we’ve recently added growth into the collection. (See: New Aircheck Alerts at bottom of page).
Rebuilt. Revamped. The page has been completely reconstructed, all ads re-uploaded with the page’s new look.
Detroit Radio logos & Bumper Stickers COMPLETED [November 16, 2021] GO HERE
A fresh, redesigned layout, the images re-uploaded are now published for view “up front and center”.
Detroit Radio and DJ Pictures COMPLETED [January 2022] GO HERE
This page will always be a continuous work in progress. We’ve archived an additional 30-plus new photos there. Over 100 photos added thus far. (More DJ pictures will be forthcoming!)
More! Detroit Radio and DJ Pictures (This page has been, and is, still viewable. The page will be restructured with a new look sometime this year. GO HERE
History of Detroit Radio COMPLETED [November 29, 2021] GO HERE
We have a brand new look for this restructured, audio historic, Detroit radio page.
Jim Hampton’s Radio RecallCOMPLETED [November 17, 2021] GO HERE
Restored. Completely revamped, take a look at this new page.
WKNR Contact News COMPLETED [November 14, 2021] GO HERE
Restructured completely. A new Keener Contact News page.
WKNR Podcasts COMPLETED [November 11, 2021] GO HERE
The Keener Podcast page is completed and newly restored.
Radio JinglesCOMPLETED [November 26, 2021] GO HERE
This page was completely restored. All new jingle files will be archived here.
Detroit Sports COMPLETED [November 7, 2021] GO HERE
Restored. And we will soon acquire a new trove of vintage (audio) Detroit Tigers baseball games. They will be added into our sports page archive (and you will be notified on the page when any new audio files are uploaded there).
To ‘Program’ A Radio ‘DJ’ Or Not. The Debate Lingers
By BILL GAVIN Billboard Contributing Editor
Some radio people don’t like the term “disk jockey.” Nobody seems to know where or when the term originated. In spite of many attempts to find amore suitable substitute,thename hasstuck and has come into common usage. Webster’s dictionary says, “disk jockey: aperson who conducts aradio programof recorded music, interspersed with chatter, jokes and commercials.” There is some question whether the word is properly “disk” or “disc,” but since lexicographers give the two spellings identical meanings, we are apparently free to make our own choice of spelling.
In a search for amore distinctive title for the tradeof“conductingaradio programof recorded music,” somestations publicize their disk jockeys as “personalities.” This has always struck me as an awkward and highly misleading term. Fortunately, it has not become widely used.
A current fad is to refer to the station’s dj’s as “the good guys.” Whether or not this implies that the dj’s of all other stations are bad guys, I wouldn’t know. It is not likely, however, that our dictionaries will ever list “good guys” or “personalities” as synonymous for“disk jockeys.”
Not only is the real difference of opinion over what to call adisk jockey, there isalso some little variety in what is expected of him on the job. More than one program director has said: “We don’t want any time-and-temperature jocks.” They were referring, of course, to the standard minimum for “top 40″ dj’s, whose air words are strictly limited to time signals, weather announcements, station’s call letters and their names, all endlesslyreiterated. Specialpromoannouncements are fully written out, and the rest are detailed instructionsaboutwhen, whereandhowto identify the various records. The ability to adlibis not considered an essential qualification for such an assignment.
Although a lot of progressive radio people turn uptheir nosesatsuch astereo-typed formula operation, many stations employ it with considerablesuccess.Ithascertain advantages:It guarantees the briefest minimum of talk between records; the station sounds the same at all times of the day; and an experienced dj can speedily master the job and high salaries for skilled men are unnecessary, which has a beneficent effect over head costs. Such advantages are important in smaller markets, where potential billings are limited, but a number of large cities also include similar minimum operations.
When the controls and limitations are removed from the disk jockey, and he is told to make his show colorful and entertaining.the question is: what does he have to say? All too often what he has to say turns out to be self-important, long winded, unfunny and down right dull. One of the most frequent failings of the so-called personality dj is his insistence on intruding himself at every possible opportunity. To him the music he plays is simply a breathing space in a continuous monolog. In a few rare cases, such a spotlight seeker may hold a big rating; in most cases he is soon recognized as a colossal bore, who is better suited to a job as a carnival barker or tourist guide.
One well-known program director decided a few years ago that he would make his dj staff personalities “by the book.” He established an elaborate system specifying what the dj’s could say, should say, and must say. Wit and humor were not simply permitted, they were required. Card files of gags and stories were inconstant use. An elaborate set of musical jingles was spotted rigidly through every hour oft he broadcast day. Did it work? Yes, it did, and the fact that it worked so well was a tribute to this particular program director’s imaginative genius. It is not, however, a system that could be recommended for general use.
The new school of disk jockeys that is emerging these days is well trained in the arts of brevity, pacing and production. The humor is spontaneous rather than lifted from a gag file. The comments are relevant, with a minimum of personal reference. Most of all, the music is the show, and the dj’s function is simply to present his show in as interesting a manner as possible.
There’s no reason why a disk jockey has to be an automation. He can sound like a human being. Its unfortunate that more of them don’t.END
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Information, credit, and news source: Billboard; March 21, 1964
Debuted #91 week-ending April 29, 1962, “Fly Me To The Moon” peaks at #14 on the Hot 100, week-ending, February 23, 1963. Having charted 13 weeks overall — on its final week on Billboard, the single drops at #52 for the week-ending, March 23, 1963.
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
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“Walk Like A Man” by The Four Seasons debuted on the Billboard single charts at #40, for the week ending, January 26, 1963. The single would make its eventual climb to its three-week stay at the top — its sixth week on the charts — from February 24 through week-ending March 16, 1963.
Thirteen weeks overall on the pop single charts, “Walk Like A Man” dropped to #54 on its last week on Billboard, week-ending April 20, 1963.
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The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy’s Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, soul and R&B music history.
The group that later became the Miracles was formed in 1955 by five teenage friends from Detroit, Michigan, under the name the Five Chimes. Three of the founding members, Smokey Robinson, Warren “Pete” Moore, and Ronnie White, had been singing together since they each were around the age of eleven. The group, influenced by acts such as Billy Ward and His Dominoes and Nolan Strong & the Diablos, featured Clarence Dawson and James Grice in the original lineup.
All of the group’s original members attended Northern High School in Detroit. After Dawson quit the group and Grice dropped out to get married, they were replaced by Emerson “Sonny” Rogers and his cousin Bobby and changed their name to the Matadors.
Coincidentally, both Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers were born in the same hospital on the same date (February 19, 1940), despite not actually meeting each other until they were fifteen. In 1957, Sonny Rogers left to join the United States Army and Claudette Rogers, his sister, who had been singing with the sister group the Matadorettes, joined them shortly afterwards, and in 1958, the group became the Miracles. Following two years of courtship, Smokey and Claudette married in November 1959.
The group’s extensive work with Berry Gordy and Tamla Records gave the parent label Motown Record Corporation its first million-selling hit record with the 1960 Grammy Hall of Fame smash, “Shop Around”, and further established themselves as one of Motown’s top acts with the hit singles “You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me“, “What’s So Good About Goodbye”, “Way Over There”, “I’ll Try Something New”, “Mickey’s Monkey”, “Going To A Go-Go”, “(Come ‘Round Here) I’m the One You Need”, “Just A Mirage”, “If You Can Want”, “More Love”, “I Don’t Blame You At All”, “Ooo Baby Baby”, the multi-award-winning “The Tracks of My Tears”,”My Girl Has Gone’ “Special Occasion”, “I Second That Emotion”, “Baby Baby Don’t Cry”, the number-one Pop smashes “The Tears of a Clown” and “Love Machine”, “Do It Baby”, and “That’s What Love Is Made Of”, among numerous other hits
Referred to as Motown’s “soul supergroup”, the Miracles recorded 26 Top 40 Pop hits, sixteen of which reached the Billboard Top 20, seven top 10 singles, and a number one single, “The Tears of a Clown”, while the Robinsons and Tarplin were members.
Following the departure of Tarplin and the Robinsons, the rest of the group continued with singer Billy Griffin and managed by Martin Pichinson who helped rebuild the Miracles, they scored two final top 20 singles, “Do It Baby” and “Love Machine”, a second No. 1 hit, which topped the charts before the group departed for Columbia Records in 1977, recording as a quintet with Billy’s brother Donald Griffin replacing Marv Tarplin, where after a few releases, they disbanded in 1978. In all, the group had over fifty charted hits by the time they disbanded.
On the R&B charts, the Miracles scored 26 Top 10 Billboard R&B hits, with 4 R&B No. 1’s, and 11 U.S. R&B Top 10 Albums, including two No.1’s.
Bobby Rogers and Ronald White revived the group as a touring ensemble sporadically during the 1980s and again in the 1990s. Following White’s death in 1995, Rogers continued to tour with different members until he was forced into retirement due to health issues in 2011, dying less than two years later. Bobby Rogers died in March 2013, 2 weeks after his 73rd birthday. Pete Moore died November 19, 2017, on his 79th birthday. Former members Carl Cotton, Marv Tarplin and Donald Griffin are also deceased (in 2003, 2011, and 2015 respectively).
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Information and credit source: “The Miracles” Wikipedia
The dotted title sequence (i.e., WXYZ.Joey.Reynolds.August.16.1966) found on many of the airchecks previously was eliminated during the re-upload process. Adding dots is no longer required on certain files to upload today, as it was added on some of the audio files in 2012. And many of the misspellings found in the title of some of the audio files have been corrected and re-titled.
The site’s repository today now holds over 1,000 airchecks archived and listed!
Completed and finished yesterday evening (February 22), it took 34 days to completely rebuild the Aircheck page in its entirety. It was here where I have been spending much of my time (since Jan 18) instead of on the website on a daily basis.
The good news, I will no longer worry whether this last surviving page (a hold-over from the old 2012 platform, the updated PHP upgrades finally killed it) will abruptly crash on this site anytime soon, if ever. This new rebuilt page on this current 2022 platform will prevent that from happening again.
And so I am happy to say the page is now back up again. Easier to navigate. Better than before . . . . it is all finally done! 🙂
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“The listing of records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, listener requests and CKLW’s judgement of the record’s appeal.”
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