WKNR MUSIC GUIDE (Beatles in Detroit – 3rd of 4 Series) [A] October 1, 1964
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE (Beatles in Detroit – 3rd of 4 Series) [B] October 1, 1964
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Trini Lopez’s Recent Continental Tour In Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera An Overwhelming Success, Europe Wants Him Back
Trini Lopez: Europe’s Biggest Star
Trini’s recent continental tour caused as much commotion in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera as the Beatles did in the U.S.A., and they all want him back again.
MUSIC BUSINESS — (09/26/64) — If you’re part of the Jet set ‘in scene’, or you dig the discotheques and the West Coast sound in any one of its multiple facets, then you’ll appreciate that Trini Lopez is one of the leading members in all these fraternities.
At the risk of sounding a little cliche’d, but because there happens to be no other way of putting it, Trini has become the ‘darling of the discotheques’, not only here, but all over Europe where they originally started.
French scene. We caught Trini in New York last week on a 48 hour stop-over en route back to the West Coast, from a particularly successful two week season at the Paris Olympia, followed by a week of concerts on the Riviera, during which time he starred at the annual gala in Monte Carlo. The event was sponsored by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, and generally only attended by the highest of society as the tickets work out to about $200 a throw! (At least!)
Trini Lopez arrives at Orly Airport in Paris to open his show at the Olympia. (Music Business)
Trini digs working in France, but the French are really wild about Trini – as are the Germans, Italians, Dutch, Belgians, Swiss and Spanish. “This last French trip was fantastic”, he enthused over veal cutlets at Danny’s Hideaway. “Everywhere I went, they went mad.
Greatest ever. “The Paris Olympia season was probably the greatest I’ve ever done. Maurice Chevalier, who never goes to the theatre except to see an opera,came to my opening night. So did Charles Aznavour, Keely Smith and Henry Mancini who was in Europe with his entire family.
“When I noticed Chevalier sitting in the audience, I dedicated a song to him, and everyone stood up and cheered. Then Chevalier rose and took a bow. After the show, he came backstage to talk with me. It was the first time I’d met him. I’m very impressed.
“Keely Smith had been appearing in Germany, so she dropped by to say hello, and I had calls from millions of people. Brigitte Bardot called me from St. Tropez, and said she learned to do the surf from all my albums, and all France is surf crazy.
Steals Show.“The audiences were beautiful. The first time I played the Olympia was earlier this year, when I appeared on the Beatles bill. The newspapers reported then that I’d stolen the show from the Beatles, and although I couldn’t believe a thing like that, when I got back this time the reception was unbelievable.
“There were riots all the time, and I had to keep doing encores. I loved it when some of the audience joined in on some of my songs like ‘Quando Caliento del Sol’, and they liked it when I spoke to them in French.
“When I arrived for the Olympia dates there was a whole crowd of fans at the airport wearing sweaters which gave my name and the dates I was playing the theatre.
“It’samazing. It’s only been a year since I started recording, but there I was in France mixing with allthe great people.”
Maurice Chavalier, Keeley Smith and Charles Aznavour visit Trini backstage on opening night. (Music Business)
Grand Prix award. Infact,Trini Lopez’ French success was consolidated earlier this year when he was awarded the “Grand Prix du Disque” as being the most popular singer inFrance.That’s why it wasn’t so surprising to learn that he had been invited to appear at the annual Gala in Monte Carlo.
“There were riots there too,” he admitted. “And the people that came to that show weren’t just ordinary people. They were real society. Anyway, I came on and did my act, and they kept on banging the tables for an encore, which I couldn’t do. They kept yelling ‘Encore Trini’, but after 45 minutes I was exhausted. In the end they all walked out of the gala without paying their tabs! The next morning, one of the French papers reported that I’d caused a mass riot!
At the discotheque. “After the gala I met Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, and believe it or not, spent an hour with them at the discotheque. Princess Grace is very charming, and spent most of the time talking about Hollywood.
“In Deauville, where he played a concert with Ray Charles, it was the same story. Riots and front page headlines. But after three weeks of wild chaos, which was nothing less than what the Beatles have been getting here, Trini was glad to be back in America.
Home Sweet Home.”You know the song, ‘I Love To Be In America,’ well that’s me,” he said. “There’s no place like home, even though I won’t be here too long.
“I noticed in my absence that my Latin album took off like crazy. I’ve wanted to record an LP in Spanish ever since I started singing, but I had no idea it would be such a big seller. I’m even more thrilled because I’m doing dates in South America later this year.
Henry Mancini drops by with his daughters Monica and Felice to say hello. (Music Business)
“Trini says it looks like he won’t be playing any discotheques here for quite a while yet, even though he would love to. He’s not scared of being labelled the “darling of the discotheques” as he admits to being a middle of the road singer who had to start off somewhere.
Surf Sound. He feels the discotheque sound is predominantly West Coast and exciting, but in France, it is labelled as the surfing sound, and its interpretation there has nothing to do with groups like the Beach Boys.
He is surprised and thrilled by his universal success, and proudly pointed out that “If I Had A Hammer,” his first disc on Reprise, reached number 1 in 20 countries, and sold in excess of 5,000,000.
Tight Schedule.”I want to go back to Europe again,” he said, “And I’ve been invited to play dates in Beirut, Germany and Israel, as well as France, Scandinavia and England. They all wanted me this time, but my schedule was too tight.
“I’d like to come back to New York too. I dug that booking at Basin Street East, and would like to play there again. I also enjoyed my recent concert at Forest Hills.
“But although I still live at home in Texas, I plan to move to the West Coast soon. That’s the greatest place of all.” END
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Information, credit and news source: Music Business; September 26, 1964
Trini Lopez died on August 11, 2020. He was 83. For his obituary, published in Rolling Stone please go HERE
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE (2nd of 4 Series) [A] September 24, 1964
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE (2nd of 4 Series) [B] September 24, 1964
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BILLBOARD CAPITOL RECORDS LPs AD page rip: SEPTEMBER 28, 1968
AT THE MIGHTY HAMMOND X-77 ORGAN
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DENNIS DALE McLAIN is a sensitive, talented musician who throws baseballs. He is not, in his own words, a “ballplayer who plays the organ.”
He leads his own Denny McLain Quintet in the off-season when the Detroit Tigers are caged for the fall and winter hiatus, and in 1968 the swingin’ little McLain combo not only performed on the Ed Sullivan CBS-TV show but in Las Vegas and half-dozen cities in the Middlewest as well.
This is Denny’s first record.
He completed the twelfth tune (“By The Time I Get To Phoenix“) just minutes before he raced to Tiger Stadium in a driving rain. There he crushed the Cleveland Indians 13-1 for his 23rd victory of the year, propelling him three days ahead of the “unbreakable” Lefty Grove 31-4 record which no other American League hurler has come near in nearly 40 years.
Denny picked the songs himself. He chose his own musicians. Ralph Terrana’s unconventional Tera Shirma Studios on Detroit’s Livernois Avenue provided the settings.
The 24 year-old McLain, who weighs 200 pounds, recalls that music was always “terribly important” to him, even as a child.
“My father played records much of the time around our house, “Denny recalls. “Mostly I remember Frank Sinatra things. And even when I was playing baseball on sandlots, before I got into Connie Mack and American Legion baseball, I was crazy about music.”
McLain was born and reared in the Chicago area. At Mt. Carmel High School he racked up a 38-7 mark as a hurler. In his professional game at Harlan, Ky., in 1962 (he was just 18) he fashioned a no-hitter, but the Chicago White Sox, who owned his contract, somehow failed to protect him from the first-year draft. Detroit picked him up for the $8,000 waivers fee.
He was 16-6 for the Tigers in 1965 after pitching for the Bengals’ farm clubs in Duluth, Knoxville and Syracuse. In ’66 McLain went 20-14, and in ’67, plagued by a leg injury, he still went 17-16 for the Tigers who missed the pennant in the last game of the year, winding up tied with the Minnesota Twins for second place, only a single game behind the triumphant Boston Red Sox.
Denny is a strong-willed, impulsive man who speaks his mind bluntly. He has the erupting, violent temper of the Irish and it frequently flairs. He considers “For Me” (the Latin ballad popularized by Steve Lawrence) to be the “maddest, swingin’est track” in this debut album and for sheer ballad beauty–and soul–Denny picks “Lonely Is The Name.” “But the other 10 tunes are pretty darned good, too,” he adds.
McLain’s musicians on all selections in this album comprise Bob Schneider, tenor sax; Ernie Skuta, trumpet and flugelhorn; Eddie Kayne, string bass; and Eddie Demetrak, drums. They are the same musicians with whom Denny works on his personal appearances in the off-season.
Denny lives with his young daughter and son in the Detroit suburb of Farmington. Mrs. McLain is the former Sharon Alice Boudreau, brunet daughter of the great old shortstop and field manager Lou Boudreau who later became a popular baseball announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
“I am proud of this first album,” Denny says. And then, stomping the gas pedal of his bright red Pontiac as he swings onto the freeway from the Livernois off-ramp, he makes another comment:
“When it’s all said and done some day in the future,” he muses, “I hope they will remember Denny McLain as an outstanding professional musician.”
NOTES BY DAVE DEXTER (Capitol Records)
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NOTE: LP notes taken from the Capitol Records album, ‘Denny McLain At The Organ’ ST 2881 (back cover). Released in 1968
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BILLBOARD | SEPTEMBER 28, 1968
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DETROIT FREE PRESS — Sunday, September 15, 1968 — The Tigers won Denny McLain his 30th game Saturday and sent goose pimples down the back of the entire country.
Roaring from behind in the ninth inning, just like they’ve done all year, Detroit pulled it out for McLain in a win-it-or-bust rally, 5-4.
The victory made McLain the first man to win 30 games in 34 years, as the whole country and 44,087 fans at Tiger Stadium watched the drama unfold in spellbound fascination.
Willie Horton capped the two-run surge by belting a drive just out of the reach of pulled-in left-fielder, Goose Gosger, to knock in Mickey Stanley, and touch off the wildest scene at Tiger Stadium in 30 years.
Detroit had to pull it off because McLain was removed for a pinch hitter in the inning. If the team had merely tied the game, the decision would have been in the hands of another pitcher and Denny would have had to wait until next Wednesday.
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But as Stanley danced across the plate, the Tiger dugout exploded, led by McLain. First they mobbed Stanley at the plate, then the entire team rushed to grab Horton. Stanley finally picked up McLain bodily and hauled him off the field.
But the fans wouldn’t go home. They stood at their seats yelling for McLain until the pitcher came back on the field to take a bow.
Even then, several hundred fans stayed outside the Tiger clubhouse chanting “We Want Denny” long after the players had gone.
Denny McLain September 14, 1968
Going for the 30 victories was supposed to be drama enough. But the way it all ended made the affair vaguely unreal–as if McLain would suddenly strip-off his false face, reveal that he was really Paul Newman and the whole thing was a gigantic Hollywood put-on.
Reggie Jackson, the young Oakland rightfielder, looked as though he was going to steal the spotlight from Denny. He belted two homers, cut down one runner at the plate and made a leaping catch in right personally to account for the 4-3 score as the Tigers came up in the ninth.
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Diego Segui, who had entered the game in the fifth, had choked off Detroit on three singles. The only runs scored on a three-run Norm Cash homer in the fourth that had given Detroit a brief lead.
But Al Kaline came up to bat for McLain to start the ninth inning and worked Segui for a 3-2 walk.
Dick McAuliffe fouled off two sacrifice bunts and finally fouled out to third baseman Sal Bando in front of a silent Detroit dugout.
But Stanley ripped a solid single right over second base as Kaline, showing no trace of his leg injury, darting around to third.
The next hitter was Jim Northrup. He tapped a slow roller down the first base line, and in the game’s biggest play, Kaline broke for the plate.
Danny Cater raced in for the ball and made an off balanced throw that sailed over the head of catcher Dave Duncan, Kaline and Duncan collided with Kaline scrambling for the plate on his hands and knees to score as Stanley galloped to third.
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Denny McLain and Willie Horton in the Tigers dressing room after the game. September 14, 1968
HORTON came up and Segui took him to a 2-2 count. All the Oakland players were drawn in close for a play at the plate to cut off the potential winning run.
Willie hit one that Gosger would have caught if he had been playing in normal depth–but Stanley would have scored anyhow after the catch.
Horton was given a single on the hit–which was the most ignored scoring decision of the year. No one would have cared less among the worked up Tigers.
The A’s took an early 2-0 lead in the fourth on Jackson’s first homer following a Cater single.
But Cash connected in the Detroit half of the inning off Chuck Dobson behind a walk and Horton’s single.
The lead lasted only until Oakland came to bat in the fifth. McLain walked Duncan to lead off. He was bunted to second and Bert Campaneris tied the score with a single to left.
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SI July 29, 1968
THEN JACKSON unloaded in the sixth to give Oakland the lead. It was his 28th of the year and the 30th off McLain. For a while, it looked as that were to be the only 30 Denny would reach Saturday.
Segui, who was beaten by a Bill Freeman homer in the 10th on Detroit’s visit to Oakland two weeks ago, was a tough customer. When he got Gates Brown with two on in the eighth, it seemed as he would make it all the way.
But the ninth inning turned him into a loser.
McLain wound up giving up six hits, walking just one and striking out 10. That brought his strikeout total to 265, just 10 short of Hal Newhauser’s club record.
THE MAESTRO, 1968 (Photo: Detroit Free Press archives)
That will be his next mark when he starts again, probably Wednesday night against the Yankees.
And almost forgotten in the general hilarity following the game–the victory reduced the magic number to four, Detroit wins or Baltimore loses, for the Tigers winning the pennant.
Detroit Free Press, 9/15/1968; Copyright 2021; Newspapers.com
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1968
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ERNIE HARWELL / RAY LANE | COMPLETE GAME | SEPT. 14, 1968
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE (Beatles in Detroit – 1st of 4 Series) [A] September 17, 1964
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE (Beatles in Detroit – 1st of 4 Series) [B] September 17, 1964
BEATLES IN DETROIT ’64 | WKNR EXCLUSIVE 1ST of 4 GUIDES
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BIG8RADIO.COM | BROADCAST DATE: SEPTEMBER 4-6 2021
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The Top 100 has been compiled from the weekly RKO Giant Radio 80 ‘CK Surveys of 1965. The listing reflects total record sales, requests, highest chart positions and number of weeks on the charts.
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Charlie O’Brien for contributing this featured 2021 Special Edition (brochure) of the ‘CKLW Top 100 of 1965’ with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
NOTE: Missed the ‘CKLW Top 100 of 1965’ broadcast? You can listen to the program in its entirety HERE.
ALSO: For a free downloadable version of the CKLW Top 100 of 1965 chart featured today on this page, please go HERE.
We recently uncovered an extremely rare CKLW year-end playlist for 1965 from a private collection, kept undisclosed for well over 55 years.
On Saturday, September 4, Big 8 Radio streamed the Official CKLW Top 100 of 1965 — for the first time over the Labor Day weekend — exactly as the chart was tabulated by the CKLW music department over five decades ago.
An encore presentation of the CKLW Top 100 of 1965 Countdown was also broadcast HERE at www.big8radio.com — Labor Day Monday, September 6 at NOON ET.
The year-end chart was never distributed nor made available to the public, and we believe the numbered playlist/countdown probably never aired on CKLW that year.
And last, we are pleased to say our special four-page souvenir chart of the CKLW Top 100 of 1965 is now available — FREE DOWNLOAD — on the Big 8 Radio official webpage (click the link above).
For our friends who may have missed the stream, it is now available (anytime) — ON DEMAND — here on Motor City Radio Flashbacks. Join us for this special 5-hour ‘CK 2021 broadcasting experience. The CKLW Top 100 of 1965. Presented here — exclusively — by Big 8 Radio. 🙂
— Charlie O’Brien
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BEATLES IN DETROIT ’64 | WKNR EXCLUSIVE 3RD of 4 GUIDES
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