“WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE” * Tom Clay * MOWEST Records (1971)
“WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE” | TOM CLAY
Category: MCRFB Flashback Record ’45
WE’RE ’68 ‘SOUL CLAPPIN’ WITH CKLW TOM SHANNON!
“SOUL CLAPPIN’ “ (Tom Shannon) * The Buena Vistas * MARQUEE Records (1968)
TOM SHANNON! “Soul Clappin’,” recorded and produced by Detroit’s very own The Buena Vistas, was co-written in part by Tom Shannon while a radio deejay at CKLW, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 1967.
— M O T O R C I T Y R A D I O F L A S H B A C K S
IT’S A ’62 ‘WILD WEEKEND’ WITH CKLW TOM SHANNON!
“WILD WEEKEND” (Tom Shannon) * The Rockin’ Rebels * SWAN Records (1962)
TOM SHANNON! “Wild Weekend,” produced and recorded by Buffalo’s ‘Rockin’ Rebels,’ was co-written in part by (future disk jockey CKLW 1964) Tom Shannon while a radio deejay at WKBW, Buffalo, New York, 1962.
— M O T O R C I T Y R A D I O F L A S H B A C K S
DETROIT MOTOWN MONDAY RECORD FLASHBACK ’68!
THE FANTASTIC FOUR * “I Love You Madly (Instrumental)” * SOUL (Motown; 1968)
STEVE LAWRENCE HITS DETROIT RADIO WITH ‘MORE’ ’63
“MORE” * Steve Lawrence * COLUMBIA
(DETROIT WJR 760; WCAR 1130; WJBK 1500; WKMH 1310; WXYZ 1270; CKLW 800/1963)
KAI WINDING HITS ON DETROIT RADIO WITH ‘MORE’ ’63
“MORE” * Kai Winding * VERVE Records (1963)
DETROIT WJR 760; WCAR 1090; WJBK 1500; WKMH 1310; WXYZ 1270; CKLW 800/1963
EDWIN STARR RECORD DEDICATION TO SCOTT REGEN!
EDWIN STARR 1966 SALUTE TO A DETROIT RADIO BROADCAST LEGEND
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BY SUMMER’S END 1966, “SCOTT’S ON SWINGERS” became reality. It became a recorded single ’45 promo having been written by Charles Edwin Hatcher, who expressed into lyrics a song dedicated especially to WKNR radio deejay Scott Regen in Detroit.
Released on Ed Wingate’s Ric-Tic label (Detroit) and numbered RT-109 X, it has been estimated by several Wingate associates since that only 20 to 50 of these recordings were pressed as singles at the time. And were all issued by the label as a single-sided record 45 disk with a blank flip-side.
When this recording was made in 1966, and just six months after his arrival at WKNR in Detroit from WHB Kansas City, Scott Regen was by then a dominant influential source promoting the ’60s music scene — having connected well with the ‘Detroit sound’ with his Detroit radio audience during his nightly shows on Keener 13. Whether it be Barry Gordy’s Motown, Ed Wingate’s Golden World Records, national or otherwise, Scott Regen immersed himself into the music he played on the radio when he was on.
As it was, it was of no consequence within a short span of several months after his arrival here in June, 1965, Scott Regen was established in 1966 as the No. 1 night-time radio deejay overall here in the Motor City. And to those of us who still remember, 1966 was also the year WKNR’s Scottie Regen would be permanently immortalized in words and in song. “Dedicated To Scott Regen,” it was written, produced and was recorded by a young, aspiring 23-year old R&B recording artist, then, who went by the name of Edwin Starr in Detroit.
Charles Edwin Hatcher (Edwin Starr) passed away in 2003. But he left a most significant lasting tribute to a legendary WKNR radio talent remembered in Detroit — still today — nearly five decades after this recording was made. Thank you again, Scottie Regen, for those special Keener moments you shared with all of us on the radio here in Detroit —
“… Yeah, listen to his show every night, ’cause the records he plays they are outta sight. So if you see Scott Regen, if anybody see Scott Regen, stop him ON SIGHT.”
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“SCOTT’S ON SWINGERS (S.O.S.)” * Edwin Starr * RIC-TIC Records (Detroit; 1966)
THE SHY GUYS RECORD DEDICATION TO SCOTT REGEN!
THE SHY GUYS’ 1966 SALUTE TO A DETROIT RADIO BROADCAST LEGEND
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IN DETROIT, BY YEAR’S END 1966, the phrase “Burger” would become synonymous with the name of the Keener deejay who went on to create it while on WKNR, Scott “The Burger” Regen.
In wake of Regen’s “Burger Club” popularity on his No. 1 show and listener demand for membership to the “Royal Order of Regen Burgers,” a local Detroit high school band, the ‘Shy Guys’ (Oak Park, MI) took to the recording studios later that year to cut this (now extremely) rare 45 vinyl pressing they made in dedication to the “Scott Regen Show on WKNR” (as indicated on the label).
Written, produced and recorded by the four band members, the ‘Shy Guys’ (pictured below) comprised of Ron Nelson (lead vocals; guitar), Marty Lewis (vocals; bass), Stu Howard (vocals; guitar) and Mark Finn (vocals; drums).
The band previously recorded “We Gotta Go,” off the Panik label (No. 5111) and Palmer Records (No. 5008). The Shy Guys “We Gotta Go,” made it’s WKNR debut (No. 28) on May 16, 1966 according to keener13.com.
The song was voted No. 1 for several nights on the “Top 3-Plus 1” voting nightly on the Scott Regen Show — after one week (May 22) on the WKNR guides. Six weeks on the WKNR Music Guides (May 16 through June 20), “We Gotta Go” peaked No. 15 WKNR on June 6, 1966.
“The Burger Song,” on the Burger Records label, was a special “off-shoot” recording (from the original Panik Records label) numbered 5004. “Scott Burger.” So let’s hear it again. One more time. As was recorded and dedicated exclusively — and only — by the ‘Shy Guys’ for WKNR’s Scottie Regen, 1966.
“The Burger Club is growing fast, you gotta join today. All you need is your radio, to swing the ‘Burger’ way . . . ”
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A MCRFB NOTE
The official WKNR Scott Regen “Burger” membership card above, property/courtesy the official Keener13.com website. For more on Scottie Regen revisit the entire Keener experience only at KEENER13.COM!
“THE BURGER SONG (WE GOTTA GO)” * The Shy Guys * BURGER Records (1966)
50TH! GEORGE MARTIN PLAYS ON ‘RINGO’S THEME’ ’64
‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT’ THE GEORGE MARTIN ORCHESTRA
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When the Beatles appeared for a three week session at the Paris ‘Olympia’ in January, 1964, John and Paul were concerned with the problem writing all the new songs for their first film — as yet untitled — and in addition they had to cook up a brand new single for release in February.
They had a piano moved into their suite at the Hotel Georges V, and they set to work. By the end of their stay they had laid the foundations for the film songs and written ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ — the single which we recorded in our EMI Paris studios. At this time Paul played me his first ideas for ‘And I Love Her.’
Later, when I was busy orchestrating the background score it was decided to use Beatles music in the background whenever possible. Hence, ‘This Boy’ became ‘Ringo’s Theme’ in the Towpath sequence, and ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ was burned into a Jazz waltz for Grandpa’s chase scene from the Police Station. ‘If I Fell’ was not used orchestrally in the film, but I liked the tune so much I did a score anyway, and the end result is here.
I get great pleasure out of arranging the Beatles’ materials, and when the orchestra musicians comments on the quality of the music they are playing, I get an even bigger thrill telling them who wrote it.
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Music score from the film . . . ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
— George Martin; EMI Records Limited (1964)
GEORGE MARTIN’S “AND I LOVE HER”/”RINGO’S THEME” ’64
George Martin Orchestra’s “And I Love Her,” made it’s initial debut on the Billboard singles chart in July, 1964, the same month the Beatles ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ film (and their film album) made its theatrical debut in cities across America. The Martin instrumental, a song composition penned by Lennon-McCartney for the film, stayed 4 weeks on the charts (“Bubbling Under” the top 100) having peaked at No. 105 on August 1, 1964.
But the flip side of Martin’s “And I Love Her,” entitled, “Ringo’s Theme (This Boy),” another Martin instrumental score from the movie, rose much higher in popularity on the Billboard “Hot 100” several weeks later, in lieu after the film’s soundtrack score having been released by United Artists, on June 26, 1964.
“Ringo’s Theme (This Boy),” peaked higher than “And I Love Her,” having topped off at No. 53 during its eight week run on the Billboard “Hot 100,” on September 12, 1964.
In Detroit, “Ringo’s Theme” made the playlist on album-oriented radio stations WJR, WWJ, WCAR, WQTE and WJBK (as heard here), which incidentally by that time WJBK dropped it’s top 40 format for an easy-listening conservative radio sound in August, 1964.
This year, come July, will mark 50 years having passed since the release of the George Martin single and that of the Beatles’ film, ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ In observance of the Fab Four’s 1964 theatrical film release, also comes the exciting news ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ will hit the silver big screen once again in major cities across the country on July 4, 2014.
JUST FOR FUN! MRS. MILLER SINGS ‘DOWNTOWN’ 1966!
“DOWNTOWN” * Mrs. Miller * CAPITOL RECORDS (1966)
M A Y 21 , 1 9 6 6 : T O D A Y I N M U S I C H I S T O R Y
1966: Four weeks on the singles charts, Mrs. Miller’s “Downtown” peaks at No. 82 on the Billboard ‘HOT 100’ today, May 21.
Today In Pop Music History: May 21, 1966
