SEVENTEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Light My Fire” by the Doors peaked this week at No. 01 (3 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100, week July 23 through August 12, 1967. (source: Billboard)
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BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALESAND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 01* The Doors * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 02* Stevie Wonder * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 03* The Association * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 04* Frankie Valli * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 05* Procol Harum * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 06* The Music Explosion * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 07* The Buckinghams * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 08 U.S.A.* Jefferson Airplane * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 09* 5th Dimension * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 10* Four Seasons * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 11* Scott McKenzie * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 12* Sandy Posey * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 13* Every Mother’s Son * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 14* Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 15* Ray Charles * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 16* Hollies * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 17* Tremeloes * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 18* Bar-Kays * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 19* Young Rascals * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 20* Engelbert Humperdinck * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 21* Bettye Swann * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 22* Peaches & Herb * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 23* Smokey Robinson & The Miracles * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 24* Monkees * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD SONG NUMBER 25* Tommy James & The Shondells * 07/29/67
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
DETROIT JULY ’67. THE WEEK THAT WAS
THE DETROIT FREE PRESSMonday, July 24, 1967A National Guardsman on foot patrol scours rooftops for snipers as firemen battle blaze. Detroit, Wednesday July 26, 1967
(For more on the ’67 Detroit riot click dates above to open MCRFB.COM website link)
Looter Killed; 724 Held as Riot Spreads
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DETROIT — (Monday, July 24, 1967) — Governor Romney called in the National Guard and clamped a state of emergency on Detroit Sunday night in an attempt to quell spreading Negro sniping, burning and looting that broke out in the Twelfth and Clairmount area on the city’s west side.
Policemen round up suspects in a Detroit street on July 25, 1967 during riots which had erupted in the city’s west side following a police raid, early Sunday morning July 23. The National Guardsmen, with weapons drawn, hold suspects at bay. (Photo credit: Getty Images; click image for largest view).
Tanks, Jeeps and 2 1/2 ton trucks moved in ahead of infantry units to clear a sealed-off area bounded by W. Grand Blvd., Chicago, Linwood and the Lodge Freeway.
The state of emergency — a step just short of martial law — was ordered by the governor at 9:05 p.m., amid of reports of sporadic rifle fire throughout the city. Three looters were wounded early Monday, one fatally.
When the emergency order was issued, more than 800 stores had been looted, more than 200 persons were arrested and hundreds had been treated in hospital emergency rooms.
At 1 a.m. Monday, Police Commissioner Ray Girardin said a total of 724 persons had been arrested. This included 600 adults and 124 juveniles. The charges ranged from breaking and entering, through felonious assault to curfew violations.
After 17 hours of rampaging by Negroes, triggered by an early-morning police raid on an illegal after-hours liquor spot, the area was a shambles of shattered and demolished stores and blazing buildings.
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— DETROIT FREE PRESS
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THE BILLBOARD TOP 25
July 29, 1967
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These were the records played on the radio prior, during, and after that tragic week remembered still in DetroitJuly 23 through July 29, 1967.
Many went on to become some of the most popular singles heard played on AM Top 40 radio, July 1967, on WKNR, CKLW, and WXYZ. Also as well on soul stations WCHB and WJLB, conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WJR and WJBK radio in Detroit.
For reference purposes the audio tracks 1 through 25 were added in the same order to correlate with this special Billboard chart feature presentation, week-ending 7/29/67.
(Note: Previously posted on Motor City Radio Flashbacks. July 23, 2015)
