CKLW-AM 800 BACK ON THE RADIO: DICK PURTAN!

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**CKLW-AM 800 * 1979 * DICK PURTAN**

NEW! Dick Purtan CKLW aircheck date: Thursday, May 17, 1979

The Jim Feliciano Collection

A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE TEMPTS, 1968!

**THE TEMPTATIONS’ LP**, ‘*The Temptations Wish It Would Rain*‘ was the 7th Motown studio album the group recorded for the Gordy label. The LP was released in April, 1968. It was the final release from the group’s “Classic-5” era, during which David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams constituted the Temptations’ lineup. ‘*Wish It Would Rain’* also marks the last Temptations solo album to focus on the classic “Motown Sound“, and the last to feature production from Smokey Robinson. Included on ‘*Wish It Would Rain’* are the hit singles “I Wish It Would Rain” and “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)“, both featuring Ruffin on lead vocals and co-written by Motown writer Roger Penzabene, who committed suicide on New Years Eve 1967 because of the breakup described in these two songs. “I Wish It Would Rain’s” b-side, “I Truly, Truly Believe”, is a rare solo showcase for Franklin, the group’s bass singer.
The third single, “Please Return Your Love to Me“, features Kendricks on lead, and was released in July after Ruffin’s departure. The song’s b-side, “How Could I Forget” (led by Paul Williams), is not included here, because it was newly recorded on June 29 to accompany the a-side. The album’s producers were credited to Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson, Henry Cosby, Harvey Fuqua, Deke Richards, and Johnny Bristol. The LP was recorded in 1967 and completed in March 1968. *(Sources: WiKipedia; AllMusic)*

THE BIG 8 CKLW: A NEW YEAR’S EVE COUNTDOWN! ’73

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**CKLW-AM 800 * December 31, 1973** * 12-HRS. NEW YEAR’S EVE COUNTDOWN!

THE BIG 8. 44 YEARS AGO TODAY

Relive the LAST 12 HOURS on CKLW 1973!

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With all the commercials, sports, news and weather of the day, hear the sounds of the Big 8 on New Year’s Eve, 1973, with Pat Holiday, Brother Bill Gable, Johnny Williams, Ted Richards. Ted Richards kicks off the CKLW Top 100 Hits of 1973. And hear the actual midnight countdown with Super Max Kinkel as he ushers in the New Year 1974!

A MCRFB Note: For a more approximate “real-time” experience START the PLAY button at approximately 12:56:40 p.m., this afternoon.

Relive this entire 12 hour non-stop CKLW New Year’s Eve 1973 Countdown, “as it happened.”

HAPPY NEW YEAR from MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS!

CKLW IN REAL TIME!

NEW YEAR’S EVE ’73

*** 12 CONTINUOUS HOURS! AS IT HAPPENED ***

12:56 P.M. through 12 MIDNIGHT – DECEMBER 31, 1973

50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’67!

**ROLLING STONES * 1967**

THIS WEEK IN AMERICA: BILLBOARD HOT 100! 12/30/67

BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY

BILLBOARD HOT 100 December 30, 1967

A MCRFB VIEWING TIP

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These were the record singles you bought in 1967. Many went on to become the most popular radio airplays heard on AM radio in Detroit, December 1967, on Top 40 CKLW and WKNR, and conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WXYZ, WJBK and WJR radio.

THE NATION’S TOP-SELLING 100 SINGLES 1967

WWWW-FM BACK ON THE RADIO: TOM CLAY!

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**WWWW-FM 106 * 1970 * TOM CLAY**

Tom Clay WWWW aircheck date: Thursday, December 24, 1970

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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Dan Murphy, of Boston, MA, for recently donating this WWWW radio aircheck to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

* The Dan Murphy Collection *

MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR: CHRISTMAS, ’67!

**THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW * NBC-TV * THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1968**

THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

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Video made for U. S. Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force.

Bob Hope’s annual USO tour of Southeast Asian military bases, 1967. Features Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Earl Wilson, Phil Crosby, Barbara McNair, Madeleine Hartog Bell (Miss World) and the Les Brown Orchestra. (Source notes: You Tube)

Aired on NBC-TV WWJ (Channel 4) in Detroit, 8:30 p.m., January 18, 1968