Day: March 11, 2015

KING FEATURES: BEATLES CARTOONS ON ABC-TV 1965!

Beatles cartoon LTD.

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 M O T O R   C I T Y   R A D I O   F L A S H B A C K S

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The Beatles cartoons were televised on Saturday mornings in the US from September 25, 1965 to April 20, 1969 on the ABC Television Network.

A MCRFB ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: A special THANK YOU goes out to Kail Tescar for allowing Motor City Radio Flashbacks to use his remarkably splendid Beatles cartoon image(s) above and below. For more on Kail Tescar’s wonderfully created Beatles cartoon arts, you can visit his website here.

For previous Beatles’ cartoon features on MCRFB.COM go HERE and HERE.

Beatles Cartoon Frame

 Copyrighted material. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

 

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

NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA ’65 * Beatles  * WEEKS OF 3/7 – 3/20/1965

TEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Eight Days A Week” by the Beatles peaked No. 1 (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100, weeks of March 7, 1965 through March 20, 1965. (source: Billboard).

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

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WAY-BACK DETROIT RADIO PAGES: WXYZ . . . JULY 2, 1949

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB radio scrapbook pages: 1949

WXYZ Radio Sign Of Times

 

 

 

 

 

FLASHBACKDETROIT (June 25) —WXYZ goes formally into the business of selling space, as well as time July 1, when it unveils a new Translux sign, said to be the world’s largest measuring 90 by 7 feet, atop the Maccabees Building.

Space on the sign has been sold to 12 participating sponsors on one year contracts, in advance of opening — 

Hickory Oil Company, Philco Distributors, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, DeSoto-Plymouth Dealers’ Association, Altes Brewing Company, Gordon Baking Company, Monroe Auto Equipment, Robert Hutton & Company, Pilgrim Laundry, Bronte Champagne & Wines, Felix Rhymes and Maccabees Building.

The sign will carry commercials, public service messages, and promotions for WXYZ, in addition to time, temperature and weather information and news flashes. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; July 2, 1949).

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