INSPIRATION TIME * Thursday, January 15, 1987 * WQBH
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THE QUEEN
Martha Jean Steinberg.
The veteran Detroit radio ‘soul’ legend was known having devoted her air time speaking well of her fervent beliefs in God, spirituality, and of her faith. To instruct, uplift, and encourage (as well as admonish) with a devotion to inspire her Detroit audience daily (“Inspiration Time”) when she on the air at WJLB and on WQBH.
If this WQBH radio segment you may find all-too inspiring, this was what she did best — as no other — reaching out and delivering words of encouragement daily to her Detroit following on the radio dial.
The Queen, she loved nothing more than sharing a voice of reason, advice, and a call for love. Void of the radio “entertainment” segues on her shows, reaching out to a city she loved became her platform — having touched many souls — for nearly four decades Martha Jean was heard on the radio in the Motor City.
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Martha Jean “The Queen” passed away on January 29, 2000.
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— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
A special THANK YOU to Diane Lewis Steinberg (Martha Jean’s daughter) — for sharing this WQBH radio memory featuring Martha Jean — recorded 33 years ago — with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
DETROIT — (September 2) — Bang recording artist Van Morrison visited Detroit on promotion Friday and Saturday (August 18 -19) . . . TheMerry-Go-Round were in Detroit Monday (August 21) to do some promotional work . . . Talent playing at the Michigan State Fair which began Friday (August 25) and runs through Monday (September 4) included Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66; Diana Ross and the Supremes; Buddy Greco with Buddy Rich and theKing Cousins; the New Vaudeville Band; the Rationals, Question Mark and the Mysterians, and theSandpipers . . . Ted Lucas of the Misty Wizards sold a song toJay and the Techniques and it may be their next single. Lucas wrote the Wizards’ current Reprise single “It’s Love” . . . Bobby Darin opens at the Roostertail on Sept. 7.
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Information and news source: Billboard; September 2, 1967
Question Mark & The Mysterians. One of the many acts billed for the Michigan State Fair, at the fairgrounds in Detroit, August and September, 53 years ago.
Detroit Free PressSunday, August 27, 1967(click on ad 2x for largest PC view; tap on image and stretch ad on your mobile device for detailed view).
The CKLW BIG 50 (plus) hits in Windsor/Detroit. This survey was tabulated overall by record popularity appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of CKLW Radio. (1964)
Previewed for the week of September 9-15, 1964
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The above CKLW chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
— A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
THANK YOU
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A special THANKS to Ray Tessier, of Allen Park, MI., for recently contributing this CKLW 1964 survey chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks. 🙂
To some who may have already noticed, for several week now, after WordPress automatically upgraded to WordPress 5.5 sometime on August 22, no longer are any of your comments you posted on this site — past or present — are currently visible below their respective posts at this time, as they all were before.
Accordingly, WordPress Level 2 techs spent many hour on this website yesterday (and I was on the phone with Bluhost last night for over 4 hours) in their attempts in trying to fix the problem. For the most part the site was pretty much in disarray yesterday. We also temporarily lost every one of our much needed 17 WordPress plug-ins we use to help construct, navigate the site and its appearance on a daily basis. Without them, essentially, you cannot operate the website, or any website for that matter.
The’ Comments’ issues, unfortunately, has not, as of yet, been corrected nor has been resolved. But the comments each of you posted are still archived on the site, we just can’t read them at this time on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, as before, prior the upgrade. You will note in the image (one example below) there is still a “comments” count number indicated (i.e. 113) but no 113 comments to show!
Late last night, we heard from WordPress:
I completely understand that you are still experiencing issues with comments not showing on the posts on the website after upgrading WordPress. I am sorry to hear that you have been having difficulties with this. I will definitely look into this issue. Thank you for providing screenshots. I have checked your account and was able to replicate the comments issue from our end. I also see that currently you are having WordPress version 5.5.1 for the website. Reviewing the website admin dashboard, it seems you are already having all comments listing. It seems the issue is with the theme Daily font you have installed for the website not supporting change in default comment type in the database since WordPress 5.5 upgrade. Updating theme to default theme seems to be loading the comments properly on the posts. You can check the following link to know more about it:
This link is significant because Motor City Radio Flashbacks is not the only website having experienced, or currently experiencing the missing “comments” problem! The link indicates others are experiencing the same “comments’ issue we now have, after the 5.5 upgrade on their WordPress websites as well.
So here is where we currently stand.
The WordPress tech recommended using another “theme” template (ours is Daily Post) or reverting our Daily Post theme to default. Since I am not clear even as having understood their recommendation nor as to how in following, I am not willing to take that one chance — it may be I could lose everything we’ve done in the past eight years to where the website is today, archives, posts, etc., I won’t go there.
As to an optional switch to a different theme at this time, in 2013 we tried that. Twice.
They are not all the same, functions were different in appearance of our posts as well. And so we went back to our initial Daily Post theme, and we’ve been happy with what we have here, ever since.
Not sure if the “comments” will return soon. But I suggest you can still post your comments (I can read them in the site’s dashboard) — despite they are not currently visible — they will be automatically archived, once having been approved. Thus far, we have well-over 2,000 of your comments here. Including several more having been added to date — as recently as yesterday — right here on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Aside of all this, as of late last evening and as of today, Motor City City Radio Flashbacks is up and running normally. As before.
Again, WordPress is fully aware of this particular problem, having outlined. It is our hope the WordPress team will find a viable fix and visibly “restore” every single one of your comments, you posted on the site, from past to date.
We sincerely appreciate and enjoy reading every single one of your comments. In the meantime, please stay safe, enjoy your Labor Day Monday!
NEW! A special THANK YOU to our newest website contributor, Peter Faulkner, of Calgary, Alberta, for recently donating this WKNR-AM radio aircheck (he personally recorded in 1970) with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
NEW! JOHNNY WILLIAMS CKLWaircheck date: FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1973
— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our latest website contributor, Christopher Bigaoulette, of Norman, Oklahoma, for recently donating this 1973 CKLW aircheck with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
E. J. Korvette, the New York based department store chain (with multiple stores scattered throughout six eastern and mid-western states), opened its first two department stores in the Detroit metropolitan area, this month, 57 years ago.
The two store’s grand-opening, locations in Roseville (Gratiot and 12 Mile) and in Southgate, Mi. (Fort and Pennsylvania Rd.) was held on August 15, 1963 (according to The Detroit Free Press).
In the 1960s, the department chain published a weekly ‘Parade of Hits‘ record singles chart (tabulated out of New York). The chart was made available for the retailer’s large in-store record department. The Korvette listing showcased the most popular 40 singles for the week, as was dated, starting every Monday.
By 1974, Detroit had five E. J. Korvette stores on the map. Having expanded to Redford, Southfield and Madison Heights. By that time (and most likely due to retail competitor K-Mart’s growth and dominance in the Detroit market share), the Korvette stores were by then sustaining serious financial and sales decline. By year’s end, 1975, the five stores were no longer in operation in the Detroit area.
Five years later, having declared bankruptcy, the former New York-based department store (having been sold and under new ownership in 1979), officially came to it’s demise on December 24, 1980. What was left of the 17 remaining stores, all were permanently closed.
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(Source: E. J. Korvette; Wikipedia, The Detroit Free Press)
The above E. J. Korvette chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
— ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Ray Tessier, of Allen Park, MI., for recently sharing this rare E. J. Korvette chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks 🙂
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JUST A NOTE TO LET YOU KNOW. . . for the third day now (update; Aug 14), we are not able to access our site’s media library — due to a possible plugin glitch (Jetpack and Classic Editor), after having updated the two plugins on August 11 (we were notified that we should).
Accordingly, Bluhost indicated the response time from WordPress can take up to 24 hours. Bluehost techs have tried to correct the glitch, but was not able to fix the specific problem.
Therefore, there can be no new daily posts or features until WordPress corrects the media uploading problem. As we await, hopefully we will hear from WordPress sometime soon, hopefully they will today.
In the meantime, there is A LOT of features you can browse on this site. Our dashboard indicates we are close to approaching our 5,800 featured post before the year’s end!
So check out our special menu bars on the site’s face-page. Check out also the archive listed (click on anything from A to Z) in our Categories section.
Also we just added a NEW counter on April 1, this year (scroll down to the bottom and center of the face page). We wanted to approximate traffic to the site in real-time. In over four months — as of this writing — there has been 1,213,335 page hits since April 1 alone, and the numbers just keep rising.
Thank you so much 🙂
We apologize for this sudden and unexpected pause. But we will be back up as soon as the problem can be corrected . . . . stay tuned . . . . (not having heard anything yet from WordPress — we are still in wait as of Friday morning, August 14)!
BILLBOARD HONOR ROLL OF HITS (Week Ending) August 17, 1963
THE NATIONAL TOP 30 HITS
THIS WEEK August 1963 57 YEARS AGO
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The Honor Roll of Hits comprises the nation’s top tunes according to record sales and sheet sales, disk jockey and jukebox performances as determined by The Billboard’s weekly nationwide sales.
WJBK | WXYZ | WKMH | CKLW
The Billboard August 11-17 1963 Honor Roll of Hits featured 30 of the most popular radio air plays heard over four Detroit top 40 radio stations on the AM dial in 1963.
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