50TH! THE NATION’S TOP 150 ALBUMS, THIS WEEK IN ’66

A rip from the Billboard pages. THE BILLBOARD TOP LP’S chart, April 16, 1966. (Click on image 2x for largest detailed view).
A rip from the Billboard pages. THE BILLBOARD TOP LP’S chart, April 16, 1966 (click on image 2x for largest detailed view)
Q: What artist had FIVE ALBUMS in the Billboard top 20 LP’s, this week, in 1966?
THE NUMBER ONE LP IN AMERICA! April 16, 1966
THE NUMBER ONE LP IN AMERICA! April 16, 1966
‘GOING PLACES’ * Herb Alpert & The Brass * A&M (COMPLETE LP)
THE NUMBER ONE LP IN AMERICA! April 16, 1966
THE NUMBER ONE LP IN AMERICA! April 16, 1966 (click on image 2x for largest PC view)

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ANOTHER BILLBOARD CLASSIC ‘SOUL’ RECORD AD: ’66

A RCA MUSICOR RECORDS AD BILLBOARD PAGE RIP: “I Love You A 1000 Times,” The Platters April 16, 1966
A MUSICOR RECORDS AD BILLBOARD PAGE RIP: “I Love You A 1000 Times,” The Platters April 16, 1966 (click on image 2x for largest view)
“I LOVE YOU A 1000 TIMES” * The Platters * Musicor Records (1966)

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A MCRFB ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’! WEEK OF 04/13/75

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MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * April 1975 * A Henry Krueger Production

A MCRFB.COM 1975 TOP 10 HITS COUNTDOWN!

TODAY’S ’70s “HEARD THESE FIRST ON THE RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK

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Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s 1975 audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits on MCRFB.COM


Capsule Countdown MCRFB.COM (Pure Yellow Green)

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A MCRFB ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’! WEEK OF 04/12/74

CapCount 4-12-74-(mcrfb)MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * April 1974 * A Henry Krueger Production

A MCRFB.COM 1974 TOP 10 HITS COUNTDOWN!

TODAY’S ’70s “HEARD THESE FIRST ON THE RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK

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Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s 1974 audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits on MCRFB.COM.

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MOTOWN’S ‘RARE EARTH’ BAND FILES PIRACY SUIT . . . JUNE 12, 1971

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB news archive: 1971

Rare Earth Group and Rare Earth Holdings Files Suit In Oakland County Circuit Court

 

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK — Rare Earth — the Detroit based rock group, and the Rare Earth Corp., have become the first performing group to initiate direct court proceedings against suspected tape pirates.

rare-earth-i-know-im-losing-you-rare-earth-(mcrfb)In an unprecedented move, the group and its corporation have filed the first piracy suit recorded in the State of Michigan, and have named, among the defendants, the first blank tape manufacturer, to be cited in a piracy action.

The suit, filed in the Oakland County Circuit Court, names the Lear Jet Corp., Muntz Stereo City, Pan American Distributing Co., Universal Tape Outlet, Stereo City and Harmony House as defendants and claims $1,000,000 in damages.

It seeks to enjoin The Lear Jet Corp. from supplying blank tape cartridges to The Pan American Distributing Co., alleging that by the knowledge of the purposes for which the blank tapes were ordered, Lear Jet “did cause severe financial loss” to Rare Earth.

The suit also seeks to enjoin the other defendants from reproducing and selling all material included in Rare Earth’s albums, “Get Ready” and “Ecology.”

Rare Earth contends that in addition to the contractual violations intrinsic in such a suit, the pirated tapes were “detrimental to the group’s professionalism,” in that “the quality and sound in the defendants product, including stereo 8 reproductions of the selections made from the group’s performances done exclusively for the Rare Earth label, distort the instrumentation and voicing of the group’s renditions, to the detriment of the musical aggregation known as The Rare Earth.”

The group is seeking an injunction under four counts of Michigan law, including MCLA 445,801, making it unlawful to “advertise and disseminate to the public, statements leading the public to believe that the product sold was first class, when they were, in fact, unauthorized reproductions.”

A request for the impounding, of all copies of the tapes still in the possession of the defendants named in the suit, was filed pending the hearing and determination of the action.

The action was filed by Rare Earth’s attorney, Henry Baskin of Cooper, Baskin & Feldstein, and, according to Ron Strasner, the group’s manager, other defendants will be added to the suit as they become known. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; June 12, 1971)

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MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: RARE EARTH, 1970S!


RARE EARTH 1969-1971 (the original six Motown band members) Gil Bridges (saxophone, flute, lead vocals); Eddie Guzman (percussions); Peter Hoorelbeke (drums, lead vocal); Kenny James (keyboards); John Persh (bass, trombone, vocals); Rod Richards (lead guitar, vocals).
RARE EARTH 1969-1971 (the original six Motown band members) Gil Bridges (saxophone, flute, lead vocals); Eddie Guzman (percussions); Peter Hoorelbeke (drums, lead vocal); Kenny James (keyboards); John Persh (bass, trombone, vocals); Rod Richards (lead guitar, vocals). Click on image for largest PC view

RARE EARTH (click image for largest PC view)


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