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BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 DECEMBER 20-DECEMBER 26, 1970
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Specs Howard and Dick Kernen March 30, 2012 (Photo credit: Specs Howard School Facebook page)
DICK KERNEN 1938-2020
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In memory of Dick Kernen’s passing, we will feature a statement, here, from Specs Howard. December 18, 2020
SPECS HOWARD STATEMENT — DICK KERNEN’S PASSING
Dick Kernen was much more than a colleague. He became, over the years, a dear friend. The day I hired Dick Kernen, all those decades ago, I could not have possibly known what a difference he would make in my life, the lives of the staff and the lives of thousands of Specs Howard School students and graduates. His passion for the broadcasting world permeated his every encounter. He was loved well beyond the walls of the school. Broadcast industry leaders relied on Dick for his unique brand of advice, his encyclopedic knowledge of the business and his “oh-so-Kernen” way of looking at the world. He was one of a kind and will be missed forever. Our hearts go out to Dick’s wife Char and the entire Kernen family.
— Specs Howard
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(Posted by Holly Kraus on Fr., December 18, 2020. Specs Howard School of media Arts; official blog page)
REMEMBERING DICK KERNEN
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Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media noted, “Joining the Specs Howard School of Broadcasting (as it was known at the time) was the wisest — and ONLY — career move Dick ever made. He really loved helping young people get into radio. And I know of no one who has personally started more radio careers in Michigan — and maybe all over the country.”
The RAMP RADIO and MUSIC PROS page remembers the broadcasting legacy of Dick Kernen. You can view their page, HERE.
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A FINAL WORD
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Dick Kernen.
He was one of a kind. Loved by his students, he was respected by his peers throughout the broadcasting medium, not only here, everywhere around the country.
With a desire to get into the radio trade at a young age, I was blessed in having him as my class instructor a long time ago. When I was just but a handful of students who attended the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts (as it was called then) in 1980-1981.
Sometime shortly after completion of my courses there, the phone rings. Dick Kernen was calling. My first stop, WJLB.
A tutor, a mentor, that he was. But Dick Kernen was more than that. For he single-handedly impacted the many lives in the profession he so loved, having served so well. For a phenomenal six decades of his life.
‘Christmas Album’ is a late-1968 album by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. It was the group’s eleventh release. The LP edition of the album was issued twice. The album contains a mixture of popular Christmas-season music, mostly American secular standards. Collaborating with Alpert in the production was his usual cadre of musicians: Nick Ceroli (drums/percussion), Bob Edmondson (trombone), Tonni Kalash (trumpet), Lou Pagani (keyboards), John Pisano (guitars/mandolin) and Pat Senatore (bass). Perennial sideman, Julius Wechter, appears on marimba and percussion. Alpert provides lead vocals on “The Christmas Song” and “The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle,” and there are also appearances by a studio choir and string instruments, arranged by Shorty Rogers.
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(Source: Wikipedia)
— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
Click on (COMPLETE LP) for the complete track listing on this album.
Keener original, Robin Seymour, has written a long awaited autobiography. “The DJ That Launched 1,000 Hits” is a fascinating read and a required addition to the library of every true Keenerfan. We caught up with Robin, now in his 90th decade of life, for a taste of the treasures to be found in his extraordinary memoir.
— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
“THE ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS SHOW“
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Aired on the night of December 18, 1966 on Detroit NBC WWJ-TV (Channel 4), 10:00 p.m., 54 years ago, on this day. Guests: Andy and his brothers (The Williams Brothers), Bob, Dick and Don. His wife, Claudine Longet, and The Osmond Brothers.
(Source: Detroit Free Press; Sunday, December 18, 1966)
THE ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS SHOW * NBC-TV * SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1966
The long anticipated WKNR book by Scott Westerman in print and available!
MOTOR CITY MUSIC!
At long last, the Keener legend is available and in print (published in 2019). It’s a tale 56 years in the making and 4 years in production, with biographical sketches of many of the original WKNR personalities, popular culture highlights from each year of the Keener era and scans of 9 years of WKNR Music Guides.
Motor City Music – Keener13 and the Soundtrack of Detroittells the story of Keener’s birth and how Bob Green, Dick Purtan, Jerry Goodwin, Robin Seymour and others found their way to the Detroit airwaves. There are classic tales of Keener and the Beatles, a contest that almost landed WKNR in court and the station’s power to raise a half million dollars for charity during a newspaper strike.
We meet two of the men behind the scenes, program director, Frank Maruca and chief engineer Jerry Martin, a duo who help craft both the sound and the vibe that made WKNR jump out of your radio and into your heart.
Music guide buffs will love watching their favorite hits ride up and down the charts, watching how the promotional pictures of the announcers morphed over the years and remembering some of the products that Keener helped sell to thousands of fans across the Motor City.
Motor City Music is a true trip down memory lane, a required reference for those of us who followed the music and a loving tribute to the talent that transformed a 5,000 watt AM station that barely covered the market into a powerhouse that became the soundtrack of our lives.
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2020.Newspapers.com.
The above featured Week’s Top Singles article was clipped, saved, and imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
“These are the week’s top 45 rpm singles, as selected by Detroit’s top disc jockeys and the consensus of sales in Detroit and the U.S. as reported by Billboard, international recording news weekly.”
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“Sleigh Ride” was covered by the American girl group The Ronettes. The Phil Spector-produced recording has become the most popular version outside the traditional pop standard genre, charting yearly in Billboard’s Top Ten U.S. Holiday 100 and was #26 in 2018 in the Hot 100. It features the well-known “Ring-a-ling-a-ling, ding-dong-ding” background vocals, and the clip-clop and the whining of a horse at its beginning and end.
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(Source: Wikipedia)
— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
‘The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album’ is the seventh studio album by the Beach Boys, released in November 1964. It contains five original songs and seven standards on a Christmas theme. The album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching number six in the US Billboard 200 chart in its year of release and eventually going gold. Music historian James Perone wrote that it is “regarded as one of the finest holiday albums of the rock era”.
While leader Brian Wilson produced and arranged the rock songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger for the Four Freshmen, a group Wilson idolized) to arrange the forty-one piece orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which the Beach Boys would apply their vocals. One single was released from the album, the original song “The Man with All the Toys” backed with the group’s rendition of “Blue Christmas”. “Little Saint Nick”, a single which had already been released the previous year, was included on the album.
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— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
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THE BEACH BOYS * THE BEACH BOYS’ CHRISTMAS ALBUM (COMPLETE LP) * 1964
