This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
The above WXYZ 06/07/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.
These Radio 1270 top 40 charts was the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based by popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.
For the very first time, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be featuring a dozen or so — as chart dated — of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 surveys throughout the year, 2024.
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Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Code named Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, code named Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on D-Day was far from ideal and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and of developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion.
The amphibious landings were preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 US, British, and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight. Allied infantry and armoured divisions began landing on the coast of France at 06:30. The target 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Strong winds blew the landing craft east of their intended positions, particularly at Utah and Omaha. The men landed under heavy fire from gun emplacements overlooking the beaches, and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes, metal tripods, and barbed wire, making the work of the beach-clearing teams difficult and dangerous. Casualties were heaviest at Omaha, with its high cliffs. At Gold, Juno, and Sword, several fortified towns were cleared in house-to-house fighting, and two major gun emplacements at Gold were disabled, using specialized tanks.
The Allies failed to achieve any of their goals on the first day. Carentan, St. Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands, and Caen, a major objective, was not captured until 21 July. Only two of the beaches (Juno and Gold) were linked on the first day, and all five beachheads were not connected until 12 June; however, the operation gained a foothold which the Allies gradually expanded over the coming months. German casualties on D-Day have been estimated at 4,000 to 9,000 men. Allied casualties were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.
The Allies planned to launch the invasion on 1 May 1944. The initial draft of the plan was accepted at the Quebec Conference in August 1943. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). General Bernard Montgomery was named as commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all land forces involved in the invasion. On 31 December 1943 Eisenhower and Montgomery first saw the plan, which proposed amphibious landings by three divisions with two more divisions in support. The two generals immediately insisted that the scale of the initial invasion be expanded to five divisions, with airborne descents by three additional divisions, to allow operations on a wider front and to speed the capture of Cherbourg. The need to acquire or produce extra landing craft for the expanded operation meant that the invasion had to be delayed to June. Eventually, thirty-nine Allied divisions would be committed to the Battle of Normandy: twenty-two US, twelve British, three Canadian, one Polish, and one French, totalling over a million troops all under overall British command.
The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day, with 875,000 men disembarking by the end of June. Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead. The Germans lost 1,000 men. The Allied invasion plans had called for the capture of Carentan, St. Lô, Caen, and Bayeux on the first day, with all the beaches (other than Utah) linked with a front line 10 to 16 kilometres (6 to 10 mi) from the beaches; none of these objectives were achieved. The five beachheads were not connected until 12 June, by which time the Allies held a front around 97 kilometres (60 mi) long and 24 kilometres (15 mi) deep. Caen, a major objective, was still in German hands at the end of D-Day and would not be completely captured until 21 July. The Germans had ordered French civilians other than those deemed essential to the war effort to leave potential combat zones in Normandy. Civilian casualties on D-Day and D+1 are estimated at 3,000 people.
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Source, information and credit:D-Day Wikipedia
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In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the CBS and NBC radio networks, centered in New York, took control of the day’s wartime news on all of their respective affiliated stations nationwide — special bulletins and all-day broadcasting of the reported allied invasion off the northern coast of France.
In 1944 the CBS Detroit affiliate was WWJ. The NBC Detroit (Blue Network) affiliate was WXYZ. These historic CBS (WWJ 950) and NBC (WXYZ 1270) broadcasts was heard in wartime Detroit over the radio, on this day, 80 years ago.
Audio portions for this presentation was selected from 24 continuous hours of these broadcasts (24 hours per network) we have in our archives. Today, Motor City Radio Flashbacks highlights the first three hours of the D-Day radio broadcasts as it was reported, respectively, on CBS and NBC radio, in the early-hours of Tuesday morning, June 6, 1944.
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It could have been for no one else, for it was like the man. It had great dignity, great beauty, great style, great quality.
And it was done in the city that was proudest of him.
They were not all his friends, those who came. Some were But he would have known most of them by name, for they were a most distinguished group who climbed the steps of the Holy Cross Cathedral on the sun-drenched morning for the solemn pontifical Mass of requiem for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, celebrated by his friend, Cardinal Cushing, who beamed after the ceremony was over.
He would have liked to, the people who did not have tickets to a pew in the cathedral and who waited, nine deep, outside on Washington St. just to get a glimpse of his wife; his mother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy; his senator-brother, Edward, and the others.
He would have had a special salute for them, that slight wave of the hand. And he would have smiled at the cardinal, who beamed after the ceremony was over, and said: “Haven’t I got a lot of nerve to sing along with those people.”
But as the Boston Symphony Orchestra director, Eric Leinsdorf, reminded the cardinal: “It’s the heart which counts, rather than the voice.”
John Kennedy was not what you would call a connoisseur of the musical classics. He liked music, and wherever he went as President he brought with him a phonograph that played nearly constantly in his room.
His selections of recordings was mostly those of his era, and some called them square. But he had fine taste.
Senator Ted Kennedy, Mrs. Rose Kennedy, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston. Sunday, January 19, 1964. (Credit: Boston Globe)
He would have appreciated the magnificent compositions of Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor by the 55 musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the 180 voices of the three choral groups and the responses in the Mass by the seminarians from St. John’s.
He would have been pleased too, that his wife was pleased. He fully appreciated her taste in the classics. At the conclusion of the Mass she walked across the front of the church and thanked Leinsdorf. She called his work “magnificent.” This was the way it was in the church and on television — even for those with an untrained ear.
As one of the distinguished symphony patrons put it as he walked through the door of the cathedral at the conclusion of the Mass:
“I have never heard anything like it in any church, any place in the country.”
For the Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday there had never been anything like it in this country either. The requiem had been performed in Vienna at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in 1956 on the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, but it was the first time it had been done in a church in the United States — while millions watched the Mass on (NBC) television in their homes.
[Note: The NBC televised Mass (Detroit; WWJ-TV 4) was also simultaneously broadcast live over the NBC Radio Network, including WWJ-FM 97.1 in Detroit. The recorded audio is exclusively featured for this presentation, below.]
John F. Kennedy admired talent. It was why he opened the White House to it during his short administration.
The Detroit Free Press FM radio listing, Sunday, January 19, 1964 (Click or tap over image for detailed view).
He told the Nobel Prize winners gathered in the great East Room one night that the White House had not seen such great talent since Thomas Jefferson dined there alone. It was another sad day who were close to John Kennedy –those who had worked next to him during the political campaigns and while he was President.
There was Cong. Torbert MacDonald, who was a close Harvard friend in college days and who served with him in Congress; there was former Senator Benjamin A. Smith, who worked the streets of Wisconsin and West Virginia during the 1960 primary campaigns, and there were Theodore Sorensen, who served as his right arm in the Senate and in the White House. Some of them, such as Sorensen, walked into the church virtually unnoticed by the people around them.
But as the cardinal said, there was a “beauty in this morning.”
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents A Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass in memory and in observance of the May 29, 1917 birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. One hundred and seven years ago, today.
The live broadcast aired on WWJ FM, Detroit, Sunday morning, 10 a.m., January 19, 1964.
Article featured published in the Boston Globe, Monday, January 20, 1964. Photo credit: Boston Globe
The John F. Kennedy Memorial prayer card (featured in the article) is from the Jim Feliciano collection.
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This January 19, 1964 NBC radio broadcast serves as our special tribute to President Kennedy’s memory, on this day, May 29, 2024. The program presented today, marks 60 years since the broadcast first aired. Having been in our archives for five years, we are featuring this recording for this occasion, and for the very first time.
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The Sunday, January 19, 1964, NBC television and radio broadcast was recorded at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, Massachusetts, by RCA Victor. Recorded in stereo. RCA (see album cover at top) first released the recordings with a 2-LP record set — LSC-7030 — February 1964.
Produced by Richard Mohr. Recording engineered by Lewis Layton.
Audio digitally remastered. Audio courtesy of Bob Green Productions
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This article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2024. Newspapers.com
Originally printed in black and white, the featured Detroit Free Press ad was digitally re-imaged, colorized, and was entirely restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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A special THANK YOU to WKNR legend Bob Green (Bob Green Productions) of Austin, Texas, for having shared with us, years ago, this May 1965 WKNR promo for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives.
Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for providing the above Detroit Free Press WKNR 1310 ad (May 20, 1965) for this site, as featured today.
A special thank you to senior MCRFB consultant Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for contributing the Newspapers.com archives (Detroit radio related) articles, ads, and images we have provide for this site since 2016.
Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂
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Tape Player Installer Advertises Heavily in Weekly Ads on Local Radio in SE Michigan
DETROIT — An $1,800 investment about five years ago has grown into the flourishing Michigan Mobile Radio, Inc., which bills itself as the “world’s largest automotive sound specialist.” The present 11,000- square-foot installation handles the complete Muntz line of 4-track stereo tape CARtridge players for car and home.
Jack Frankford, 27-year-old president of the corporation, estimates sales of about 500 units a month from the present 11,000-square-foot outlet, which does retailing and installations.
Michigan Mobile also carries the cartridge catalogs of ITCC and Muntz, and recently completed a deal with Motown Records to distribute Motown tapes in 4-track cartridge. Frankford said the Motown arrangement means the label will sell and promote tapes as a separate item for the first time. The importance of Motown in the Detroit scene was evidenced by Frankford’s initial order of 1,500, followed by an additional 1,500 order.
Frankford, using the image of “Crazy Jack,” has relied heavily on radio advertising to spur business, buying 43 broadcast hours a week on stations in the Detroit area and nearby Canada. The idea is to hit the potential buyer via the car radio. The nickname was born as an ad lib, by a local disk jockey. It was used by Frankford when he began operations in a former car wash of 2,400 square feet because he felt the Michigan Mobile name would sound too imposing for the relatively small operation. The firm’s present advertising agency developed the name further to personalize the corporation.
After going from car lot to car lot since the age of 16 repairing auto radios, Frankford opened his first outlet to sell car radios in 1960. Late that year the business was expanded to include citizen bands. In 1962 Motorola Vibrosonic sound units were added, with record players coming 18 months later, the A. R. C. (Automatic Record Changer) Electronics 45 r.p.m. machine. Late in 1964 and early the next year, cartridge players were added.
Michigan Mobile Radio also is involved in the distribution of cartridges to other dealers, both in and outside of Michigan. Frankford pointed out that the cartridge market was different from the record field, thus making it difficult for record distributors to hit major outlets in the automotive field, including service stations.
Frankford said there were now three distinct markets, records, 8-track cartridges and 4-track cartridges. He conceded he couldn’t supply record dealers, who work through their record distributors, but he said he supplies an inventory of cartridge product to non-record outlet. END
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Information, credit, and news source: Billboard May 14, 1966
This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
The above WXYZ 05/03/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.
These Radio 1270 top 40 charts were the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based on popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.
For the very first time, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be featuring a dozen or so — as chart dated — of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 surveys throughout the year.
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our friend, Jim Nuznoff, of Port Charlotte, Florida, for this recent contribution for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks repository.
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At 7:54 a.m., Tuesday morning, April 25, 1972, ‘Stereo Island’ WKNR-FM morning personality Jim Cutler stated without explanation that it was “an important day in the Motor City” and, with that, moments later said a final goodbye and closed a chapter in Detroit radio history with a final song, “Poem For My Little Lady,” by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.
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Jim writes (January 9, 2024) — “On the date noted on this aircheck, WKNR FM transitioned to WNIC-FM. I did simultaneously had recorded as well, the WKNR-AM to WNIC-AM at the approximate time when the transition took place. But, unfortunately, it was ruined by someone at the studio who threw the wrong switch. That action resulted in several seconds of dead air. Insofar as the AM side, I no longer have that ‘WKNR to WNIC’ tape today.” –Jim Neznoff
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Ernie Durham, an alumnus of New York University with a journalism major, secured his initial radio position as a newscaster on WDET in Detroit during the early 1950s. During his tenure there, he also commenced hosting a jazz program. In 1955, upon joining WJLB, Durham found himself broadcasting in two different cities during his formative years in the industry. His schedule involved hosting a 3-6 p.m. show on Flint’s WBBC (formerly a Booth station, later transitioning to WTRX), followed by an immediate transition to Detroit for his nightly 8 p.m. slot on WJLB (the flagship station of Booth Broadcasting). Today, he is esteemed as one of Detroit’s broadcasting icons. After leaving WQBH, Durham returned to WDET prior to his passing in December 1992.
Today we are presenting Ernie Durham’s WJLB show-opening theme. This one from 1955 – HAND CLAPPIN’ – by Red Prystock.
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Compiled by the Music Popularity Chart Dept. of Billboard, from national retail store and one-stop sales reports, and radio airplay reports.
April
Main Article: April 1966
April 2 – The Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations.
April 3 – Luna 10 is the first man-made object to enter lunar orbit.
Detroit Free Press Saturday, April 9, 1966 (Double-click over newspaper image 2x for largest detailed PC view. Or, tap on and stretch the image across your mobile device screen for detailed view).
April 5 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
April 7 – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the embargo against Rhodesia (authority is given April 10).
Kenyan Vice President Oginga Odinga resigns, saying “invisible government” representing foreign interests now runs the country. He will head a new party, the Kenya People’s Union.
The South Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
April 15 – An anti-Nasser conspiracy is exposed in Egypt.
An artificial heart is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a Houston, Texas, hospital.
The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.
Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rasta leaders.
Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November 1963 and October 1965.
April 24 – Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.
A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).
April 28 – In Rhodesia, security forces kill seven ZANLA men in combat; Chimurenga, the ZANU rebellion, begins.
April 30 – Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000).
Source Credit: 1966 (April) Wikipedia
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It could have been for no one else, for it was like the man. It had great dignity, great beauty, great style, great quality.
