THE SUPREMES * Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone * MOTOWN 1967
Category: Flashbacks
INDIANA GOV. PUTS DOWN ‘PORNOGRAPHIC’ WAND TUNE . . . FEBRUARY 1, 1964
From the MCRFB NEWS Archive: 1964
The Kingsmen Hit Deemed Lyrically ‘Obscene and Suggestive’
INDIANAPOLIS — “Louie Louie” has been fingered by Indiana’s first citizen, Gov. Matthew Welsh, as being “pornographic.” The Governor, who after hearing the hit Wand recording by the Kingsmen, told people his “ears tingled.” Welsh then promptly fired off a request to Reid Chapman, president of the Indiana Broadcasters Association, requesting that the record be banned from all radio stations in the State, and Chapman, vice-president of WANE AM-AV, Fort Wayne, dutifully passed Welsh’s request on to his membership.
Reports from the capital city reveal that a high school student from Frankfort, Ind., was first to send the Governor a copy of the allegedly pornographic recording. College students from Miami University in Athens, Ohio, followed suit by providing Welsh with copies of printed “obscene lyrics.”
A spokesman at Indianapolis’ WIBC, the city’s top-rater, said that the record (this week No. 6 in the nation) was No. 4 at the station for the past two weeks, but is not currently being played.
Group W’s 50,000-watt outlet in Fort Wayne reports that the station has never played the record, but is carefully investigating all the allegations. It was learned that attempts by WOWO and other stations to capture the lyrics from the Wand waxing was nearly impossible because of the allegedly unintelligible rendition as performed by the Kingsmen.
Sources at Sceptor-Wand Records in New York flatly stated that “not in anyone’s wildest imagination are the lyrics as presented on the Wand recording in any way suggestive, let alone obscene.”
The feeling at the diskery is that a bootleg version may be the culprit.
It also seems likely that some shrewd press agentry may also he playing an important role in this teapot tempest. Exactly whose press agent is hard to pin down at this point. END
___
(Information and news source: Billboard; February 1, 1964)
HOLLY DEATH TO BE MARKED BY STATIONS . . . FEBRUARY 1, 1964
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1964
Radio Nationwide To Observe Holly’s Passing 5 Years Ago
NEW YORK — Radio stations across the country are preparing to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly, Monday, February 3.
During Holly’s short recording career of two years, he amassed under the aegis of Coral Records, a continuous string of best sellers, such as “Peggy Sue” and “That’ll Be The Day.” Currently, there are six Holly albums available. ‘The Buddy Holly Story” holds the distinction of being represented for 160 consecutive weeks on the national best- selling album chart.
Coral Records has been continually releasing newly discovered performances by Holly which were made prior to his emergence as a star in 1957.
In conjunction with the February 3 date, Decca branches and distributors will be contacting local radio stations to assist in setting special tributes to the former recording artist. END
___
(Information and news source: Billboard; February 1, 1964)
For more on Buddy Holly archived on Motor City Radio Flashbacks — click the link below:
WHEN THE MUSIC DIED
February 3, 1959
A WKNR ‘KEENER 13’ OLDIES ALBUM PROMO AD, 1964!
(Click on image for largest view)
WKNR OLDIES BUT GOODIES VOL. 1 * Bob Green Productions * WKNR 1964
A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK ’69! DAVID RUFFIN
WAY-BACK DETROIT RADIO PAGES: WWJ . . . SEPTEMBER 01, 1945
From the old MCRFB RADIO scrapbook: 1945
AIR PROFILE OF THE MOTOR CITY
Scripps Dynasty Feature of WWJ Broadcast Party
___
DETROIT, Aug. 25, 1945 — Highlight of the WWJ silver anniversary show Monday (August 20) was probably the public realization for the first time that radio has come of age sufficiently to establish a real continuity of tradition. This was embodied in the veritable dynasty of the Scripps family association with the station.
Two generations were present, William E. Scripps, president of The Detroit News, and his grandson, William J. Scripps, who was general manager of WWJ until entering the armed forces. Interest actually dated back still another generation to the late James E. Scripps, father of William E. Scripps, and founder of The News, who, together with his son, provided the funds to establish an experimental wireless station here in 1902.
Thomas E. Clark, pioneer wireless inventor, who built and developed this station, resulting in the ultimate establishment of WWJ in 1920, was especially honored at the broadcast and at the party in the Book Cadillac Hotel which followed.
Clark’s showbiz experience takes the pioneer history of radio still further back to the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, when he was in charge of the General Electric exhibit. Clark there was intrigued by the operations of Nikola Tesla in early wireless, and returned to GE, headquarters to begin his own experiments.
Entertainment program at the party following the broadcast included a 35 minute sketch roasting every well-known station character, with Joe Gentile, of CKLW, in the lead role. Event was attended by station staff, press and radio figures of the town, and their guests, crowding the grand ballroom of the hotel. END
___
(Information and news source: Billboard; September 01, 1945)
MCRFB UPDATE: ADDED A NEW ‘VISITOR’ HIT COUNTER!
A NEW COUNTER ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS!
___
The previous Motor City Radio Flashbacks counter is no longer functional as of today. The counter calculated the number of pages every visitor would hit per each visit on any given time. Blue Host determined the counter having been used on this website since November 6, 2013 is obsolete for this website’s template. Motor City Radio Flashbacks has averaged 240-250,000 page hits per month. The counter numbers stopped at 9,220,645.
As of 2:00 p.m., today (01/24/2017), Motor City Radio Flashbacks will have a NEW counter activated. But this counter will instead reflect the NUMBER OF VISITORS coming to the website. It will give a more accurate and real-time assessment how many people visits MCRFB.COM around the clock, 24/7, daily. The counter will began actively recording actual website visitors at 9,220,646 as of time indicated counter will launch.
PROGRAMMING THE DETROIT RADIO DIAL: 01/19/1959
Monday, January 19, 1959
DETROIT FREE PRESS: MONDAY RADIO GUIDE
(Above article courtesy freep.com newspapers archives. Copyright 2017; Newspapers.com).
___
A MCRFB Viewing Tip: On your PC? For a larger detailed read CLICK ON IMAGE 2x and open to second window. Click image to return to NORMAL image size.
On your mobile device? Take your index finger and thumb and “stretch” across the featured article to magnify larger print view.
Click your server’s back button to return to MCRFB home page.
THE DETROIT RADIO DIAL. 58-YEARS AGO TODAY
A MCRFB ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’! WEEK OF 01/17/77
MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * January 1977 * A Henry Krueger Production
A MCRFB.COM 1977 TOP 10 HITS COUNTDOWN!
TODAY’S ’70s “HEARD THESE FIRST ON THE RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
___
Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s ’77 audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits on MCRFB.COM
