Category: Motown

THIS WEEK 50 YEARS AGO: THE HOTTEST HIT IN THE USA!

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NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA ’65 * The Four Tops * WEEK OF 6/27 – 7/03/65

FOURTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “I Can’t Help Myself” by The Four Tops peaked this week (AGAIN!) at No. 01 (1 week) on the Billboard Hot 100 week of June 27 through July 03, 1965. (source: Billboard).

 MCRFB Link: For the previous No. 1 record in the U.S.A. 1965 GO HERE.

MCRFB Note: Knocked off from the No. 1 position last week by the Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man,” The Four Tops, “I Can’t Help Myself,” previously was the No. 1 single (1 week) on Billboard for the week of  June 13-19, 1965.  This Motown single was on top at No. 1 — twice — on the chart, two separate weeks during June-July, 1965.

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HERE COMES THE JUDGE! A MOTOWN PHRASE FOR ’68!

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“HERE COMES THE JUDGE” * Shorty Long * SOUL (June, 1968)

YEAR 1968 (MCRFB2)

A MCRFB Note: The phrase “here come the judge,” came off the heels of the TV popularity of the NBC prime-time comedy show, Rowan and Martin’s ‘Laugh-In.’ Pigmeat Markham first donned the catchy phrase during the NBC series’ second season in 1968. Locally, Motown’s Shorty Long found himself caught up with ‘the judge’ act as well. His single made the ‘soul radio’ playlist on Detroit’s R&B WCHB-AM and WJLB-AM, June, 1968.

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