THE BUENA VISTAS * 1968
— BILLBOARD Peaked #88 JUNE 22, 1968 —
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Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the first live album by Stevie Wonder. The album was released on the Tamla record label (catalog #240) in May 1963, the same month as the single release of “Fingertips” (catalog #54080). “Fingertips” topped both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the R&B Singles chart, and Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius topped the Billboard 200 (#1), in 1963. The “live” LP comprised of only 7 songs, and “Fingertips” was the longest, nearly 7 minutes long. This is the last album to use the “Little” in Stevie Wonder’s name. Starting with the next album, his name goes by just “Stevie Wonder.” (Source: WiKipedia and All Music)
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From the MCRFB MUSIC NEWS archive: 1964
‘Top Teenage Idols Regale Fans at Michigan, Fox’
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DETROIT (December 30) — Non fans of rock-and-roll music are hereby alerted that, on the pretext of making a sociological trip, they have had an opportunity to discover new worlds at the Michigan Theater these early mornings while watching a proceeding called the first annual T.A.M.I. Show. Tonight’s show completes the engagement.
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— DETROIT FREE PRESS
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If you were just one of the hundreds of thousands who signed up to be a member of the “Burger Club,” you made it a point to stay tuned nightly to the Scott Regen Show.
The popular Keener 13 deejay “Scott Burger” (whose picture bore on the card as well) would call out a selected member’s number (printed on the card; registered to the card holder) for various station prizes and cash giveaways for Burger Club members — exclusively — listening to his 7-10 nightly show in 1966 and 1967.
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From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1968
Music Happenings In and Around Detroit Town, 1968
DETROIT — (03/1968) –The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Masonic Temple Auditorium, Friday Feb. 23. The show was a WKNR-FM Russ Gibb production presentation. . . Ernie Durham, WJLB disk jockey who has for years hosted a Sunday night record hop at the 20 Grand for those 17 and over, will begin a weekly Friday night hop at the club for teenagers 14 to 17. In addition to presenting popular recording acts, Durham also plans to sponsor talent shows on those evenings . . . . Sybil Burton Christopher, originator of Arthur, the popular discotheque in New York, is opening a similar establishment here called the Woodward Streetcar. The Four Seasons performed a Detroit concert Friday Feb. 23 . . . . Sammy Davis Jr., will entertain at the annual Fight for Freedom dinner to be held at Cobo Hall April 28. Cleveland’s Mayor Carl Stokes will be the principal speaker at that affair. . . . Marian Anderson performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s last Kresge Concert at the Ford Auditorium Tuesday, Feb. 13 . . . . Count Basie, Miriam Makeba, Wes Montgomery, and Jimmy Smith Trio, the Oscar Peterson Trio, and comic Richard Pryor performed together for a one-night jazz concert at Cobo Arena, Friday Feb. 23.
Diana Ross and the Supremes are now doing one-nighters across northern United States, including college campuses . . . . The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas left town recently to participate in the Motor Town Revue at the Japanese Festival which will tour Japan for one month. The artists have be en scheduled for TV appearances, concerts, and will entertain U. S.troops stationed in areas in and about Japan . . . . The Pop Concert Committee of Wayne State University has scheduled its first pop concert for Friday, March 22, at the Ford Auditorium. Dionne Warwick has been chosen to headline the concert, along with other acts still to be selected . . . . Robbie Dee, disk jockey on WCHB, has been promoted to production manager of that station . . . . Hello People are booked into the Chessmate for one week beginning March 12. . . . Leon Isaac is the new early afternoon disk jockey for WJLB . . . . Currently in progress is the Memphis Sounds Show at the Riviera Theater through Thursday (March 29). Among the artists on that show are J. J.Barnes, Pat Lewis, the Holidays, Eddie Floyd, Pig Meat Markham, Ruby Andrews, and Barbara Mercer. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; March 02, 1968)