“Oh, Pretty Woman,” drops to No. 5 on the Billboard charts, this week in 1964, October 24. While this week marks only it’s ninth week on the charts (see Billboard Hot 100, below), the song previously held No. 1, three consecutive weeks, October 3-10-17, 1964.
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 01 IN U.S.A.* Manfred Mann * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 03 IN U.S.A.* J. Frank Wilson * 10/24/64
BILLBOARDSONG NUMBER 04IN U.S.A.*Gale Garnett* 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 05 IN U.S.A.* Roy Orbison * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 08 IN U.S.A.* Betty Everett & Jerry Butler * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 09 IN U.S.A.* The Beach Boys * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 10 IN U.S.A.* The Honeycombs * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 11 IN U.S.A.* The Hondells * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 12 IN U.S.A.* Roger Miller * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 14 IN U.S.A.* Dean Martin * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 15 IN U.S.A.* The Nashville Teens * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 19 IN U.S.A.* The Impressions * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 27 IN U.S.A.* Peter & Gordon * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 28 IN U.S.A.* Andy Williams * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 29 IN U.S.A.* Frank Sinatra * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 46 IN U.S.A.* Sandy Nelson * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 47 IN U.S.A.* The Kingsmen * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 58 IN U.S.A.* Ruby & The Romantics * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 66 IN U.S.A.* Billy Strange Orchestra * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 77 IN U.S.A.* Dionne Warwick * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 80 IN U.S.A.* The Ventures * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 85 IN U.S.A.* The Everly Brothers * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 89 IN U.S.A.* The Dixie Cups * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 95 IN U.S.A.* The Ronettes * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 96 IN U.S.A.* Maxine Brown * 10/24/64
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 October 24, 1964
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These were the records you bought. Many went on to become some of the most popular singles heard played on AM Top 40 radio, October of 1964, on WKNR, CKLW,WXYZ and conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WJR and(conservative new-comer) WJBK in Detroit.
WKNR AM-FM * Bob Green Productions * Bill Gavin Radio Program Conference/1971
BOB GREEN PRODUCTIONS, HOUSTON, TX 77056
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU goes out to Bob Green for sharing this WKNR productions audio gem with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
This “jingles retrospective” was produced and created by Bob Green for the sixth annual ‘Bill Gavin Radio Program Conference.’ The event was held at the Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11-14, 1971.
BING CROSBY * Just A Prayer Away * (No. 08) 6/2/45
DUKE ELLINGTON (w/ Joya Sherrill; vocals) * I’m Beginning To See The Light * (No. 09)
TOMMY DORSEY (w/ Bonnie Lou Williams group; vocals) * I Should Care * (No. 10)
WAY-BACK RADIO – JUNE 1945
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70 years ago. The world still at war. While the nation celebrated VE Day (Victory in Europe) the previous month, May 8, the war continued on with Japan in the Pacific.
Meanwhile, here in the United States, these were the most popular records that was played on the radio — coast-to-coast — during the winter-spring of ’45. They were America’s most popular TEN TOP RECORDS for the week ending June 2nd.
DETROIT HEADLINES. JUNE 2, 1945
70 YEARS AGO. ABOUT THIS FEATURE
Certainly this was not the music of our generation, nor that of the present as well. But from time to time this website will bring light to a certain time in decades’ past. These were the bands and artists Americans found themselves enamored with. The ’40s era. The greatest generation? Many historians arguably would agree today it was.
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DETROIT (May 26, 1945) — Check of all major local stations indicates that emphasis on local programming is continuation of fairly long-time trend. In general, it has been something the stations has been doing for the last three years.Typically, WWJ has increased programming cost heavily in last two years, and WWJ has had a 73-piece symphony orchestra sponsored by a cut-rate department store for the two and a half years in a full hour Saturday night show with barely any mention of the sponsor.
Trend is definitely continuing, with new developments, both commercial and sustaining, tending away from the all-platter shows, except in post-midnight and early-a.m. hours, where they appear to have a permanent useful place. WWJ for the last year has done a job with Nurses In Action, dramatizing the nurse recruiting campaign, and Victory Matinee, devoted each Wednesday afternoon to a different war effort cause and using the full talent resources of the station. Another show of typical operations here is Tenth Floor, Please, sponsored by a department store, which dramatizes the story of products sold on this floor.
In the last year, WJR pioneered in inter-station contacts for ideas, sending out five teams of station men, paired from different departments — typically the commercial manager and the program director — on one-week junkets around the country to inspect station operations in other cities.
Recently a swing quartet from the Motor Bar was put on the air for 15 minutes at 9:45 — at a cost of $65.00 daily — chiefly to break into the general soap opera schedule with something that wasn’t transcriptions, until change of schedule forced its abandonment.
Check on inter-station cooperation indicate this is largely by letter elsewhere. WXYZ, typically, reports frequent interchange of ideas, and requests for info on how the station has solved particular problems — such as what they do on department store programs. Most of these correspondence come from stations of the affiliated Blue. Station has made a practice of working closely on production with clients and agencies, in contrast to WJR, where the station typically done its own particular show packaging and then offered the product for sale.
Recorded programs on WXYZ have been reduced some 50 per cent in the past year — chiefly in favor taking net shows, rather than local production, in which the station was already strong, originating at least three week serials — notably Lone Ranger. Another trend toward better programming here is the move away from short records in favor of the larger disks with a full 15-minutes of music, or re-broadcasts.
The move toward better programming emphasis appears concentrated in smaller towns, typified by Michigan Radio Network, which has heavily moved this way within the past three months. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; June 2, 1945).