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BIG 8 CKLW MOTOR CITY BIG 30 HITS: THIS WEEK, 1967!
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * Human Beinz * CKLW (No. 01) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * Joe Tex * CKLW (No. 02) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * John Fred & The Playboy Band * CKLW (No. 03) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * The Foundations * CKLW (No. 04) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * The Union Gap * CKLW (No. 05) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * The Beatles * CKLW (No. 06) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * The Impressions * CKLW (No. 07) 12/26/67
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * Aretha Franklin * CKLW (No. 08) 12/26/67
CKLW TOP 30 HITS TABULATED BY LOCAL RETAIL SALES AND NATIONAL RADIO AIRPLAY
MCRFB.COM has every song selection on this CKLW playlist archived in it’s music library. All CKLW TOP EIGHT HITS (1-8) titles were selected by the author for your listening enjoyment.
CKLW BIG 30 HITS * The Marvelettes * CKLW (HIT PREVIEW) 12/26/67
CKLW, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1967
These were the records you bought. Many went on to become some of the most popular singles heard played on AM and FM STEREO radio, December of ’67, including stations WKNR, WXYZ, WCAR and WJBK, Detroit.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
In Memory of George Griggs
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Above CKLW chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’66!
“Devil With A Blue Dress On” * Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels * New Voice (1966)
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’66!
“I’m Your Puppet” * James & Bobby Purify * Arista (Bell) Records (1966)
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’66!
“Single Girl” * Sandy Posey * M-G-M Records (1966)
9 MIL PAGE HITS ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
IN MEMORY of GEORGE L. GRIGGS (1949-2014) FOUNDER, MCRFB.COM
Motor City Radio Flashbacks attained its first million page hits mark on May 29, 2014. MCRFB.COM achieved the 8 million mark on THIS DATE.
TODAY MARKS 9,000,000 AND WE’RE ROLLIN’! THANK YOU!
JIM HAMPTON’S 2016 ‘ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS’ ON WJR
STARTS TODAY — 3 P.M. — ON 760 WJR
SEASON‘S GREETINGS DETROIT!
JIM HAMPTON
H E L L O A G A I N, J I M H A M P T O N H E R E . You know, after working as an air personality at WXYZ, WJBK and WCAR in Detroit, I moved to WLS as Production Director. One of my assignments was to create a 12-hour Christmas special that the station could play and give the entire staff the Holiday off.
After I moved to Los Angeles to work in radio syndication, among the thousands of programs I produced were numerous Christmas specials. There were short-form features, long-form specials and 24 hour formats.
In addition to great Christmas music, all of the programs I produced were filled with special features, stories, comedy, the amazing comments of little children, and, of course, interviews with everyday people and superstar celebrities.
The program content includes Contemporary and Classic Christmas songs. From Mathis to Crosby, from Whitney to Barbra, and from The Ronettes to Jose Feliciano.
Plus, there are numerous vignettes about how Christmas customs came about, lots of celebrity drop-ins (Clint Eastwood, Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis and many more), Tom Murphy (otherwise known as “world-famous” Tom Murphy offers his Holiday anecdotes, there are old radio clips from classic performers of the 40’s (Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns & Gracie Allen, to name a few), and the delightful, heartwarming and honest voices of little children reflecting on their favorite day of the year.
All in all, for 2016, it is an extended 18-hour Holiday celebration for the whole family. It just may become the soundtrack of Christmas get togethers from now on. Hope you will join me this Saturday, Christmas Eve, through midnight into Sunday, Christmas Day for this special 2016 holiday event on Detroit’s 760-AM WJR. (For dates and hours please see the above Original Christmas 2017 ad).
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Written, produced and hosted by Jim Hampton, ‘AN ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS’ can be heard from anywhere in the world. Listen Live over iHeart Radio, wjr.com, and of course throughout the Midwest on News/Talk 760 WJR.
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STARTS TODAY — 3 P.M. — ON 760 WJR
MERRY CHRISTMAS! – Jim Hampton
ALAN ALMOND. ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS’
ALAN ALMOND * Twas The Night Before Christmas * WNIC (11:57 PM; 12/24/78)
REMEMBERING ALAN ALMOND
1948-2015
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A CLASSIC WNIC HOLIDAY MEMORY
The legendary voice of late-night Detroit radio was stilled in 2015. Alan passed away, June 16. He was 67. In remembrance of his passing, on this website, please go HERE.
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WE REMEMBER
DECEMBER: A GEORGE WINSTON LP, CHRISTMAS SOLO
DECEMBER * George Winston * 1982
‘THE ANDY WILLIAMS CHRISTMAS ALBUM’ . . . DECEMBER 21, 1963
From the MCRFB CHRISTMAS NEWS archive: 1963
ANDY WILLIAMS’ YULE MARK; TOPS TWO CHARTS FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY 1963
(This Holiday post previously was featured on Motor City Radio Flashbacks on December 24, 2015, December 23, 2014 and December 24, 2013)
NEW YORK — Columbia’s Andy Williams gave the label a first place in both the singles and albums derby, according to Billboard’s special Christmas sales recap last week. For the first time in the Christmas listings, Williams scored with his “White Christmas” single and his “Andy Williams Christmas Album.”
In the album running, Columbia held the top position with eight of the 25 packages listed, including three in the top 10. RCA Victor took second-honors with four on the parent label and two others on its low-priced Camden line. Capitol placed third with three Christmas best sellers. On the charts with one album each were Decca, Mercury, 20th-Century Fox, London, Liberty, Philles, MGM and Argo.
In the singles area, Decca and Capitol tied with four listings each out of 16 records reported showing healthy sales on this week’s best-selling Christmas singles charts. Liberty placed two on the list (both by the Chipmunks) while Columbia, 20th-Century Fox, King, Mercury, Epic and Warner Brothers landed one each on the Billboard special Christmas list for 1963. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; December 21, 1963).
THE 1963 CHRISTMAS TOP 10 ALBUMS
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The Christmas Top 10 best-selling albums Billboard listed (from 25) for December 21, 1963:
No. 1: “Andy Williams Christmas Album,” Columbia; No. 2: “Sounds Of Christmas,” Johnny Mathis, Mercury; No. 3: “Little Drummer Boy,” Harry Simeone Chorale, 20th-Century Fox; No. 4: “This Christmas I Spent With You,” Robert Goulet, Columbia; No. 5: “Elvis Christmas Album,” Elvis Presley, RCA Victor. No. 6: “Merry Christmas,” Bing Crosby, Decca; No. 7: “Christmas Greetings From Mantovani and his Orchestra,” London; No. 8: “Merry Christmas,” Johnny Mathis, Columbia; No. 9: “Christmas With The Chipmunks, Vol. 2,” David Seville and the Chipmunks, Liberty; No. 10: “Christmas Song,” Nat King Cole, Capitol Records.
This 2016 Christmas Holiday Season
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This Christmas 2016 Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents “The Andy Williams Christmas Album” in its entirety from 1963.
Aside from his best-selling Christmas recordings, Andy Williams brought us some of the best in televised Christmas specials into our homes during the Christmas holiday season as well, for nearly five decades, singing seasons’ praise with profound holiday spirit and Christmas joy. Andy Williams passed away in September, 2012.
HAVE YOURSELF A HAPPY, MERRY CHRISTMAS
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If only for a moment, in playing this album, imagine it’s Christmas-time 1963 once again. We hope this holiday album will take you back to a special time and place, to a memorable holiday seasons’ past we cherished with loved ones, our families, and with friends we were truly blessed having then when we first heard this beautiful, special Andy Williams yule-tide recording for the very first time . . . Christmases past, long, long ago.
AND TO ONE AND TO ALL GOOD NIGHT
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