THIS WEEK IN AMERICA! BILLBOARD HOT 100: 12/21/68

**Billboard Hot 100** *December 21, 1968*

BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY

BILLBOARD HOT 100 DECEMBER 21-27, 1968

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These were the record singles you bought in 1968. Many went on to become the most popular radio airplays heard on AM radio in Detroit, December, on Top 40 CKLW, WKNR, WXYZ, and conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WJR radio.

THE NATION’S TOP-SELLING 100 SINGLES 1968

BILLBOARD CHRISTMAS CHART: TOP SELLERS! 12/25/65

**BILLBOARD** **Top Christmas Sellers** *December 25, 1965*

THE TOP HOLIDAY RECORDS. 53 CHRISTMASES AGO

(From Motor City Radio Flashbacks. Merry Christmas!)

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BIG EIGHT CKLW: MOTOR CITY BIG 30 HITS! 12/24/1968

**CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS** December 24, 1968

CKLW. THIS WEEK. 50 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 1968

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The CKLW BIG 30 hits in Windsor/Detroit. This survey was tabulated overall by record popularity appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of CKLW Radio.

Previewed for the week of December 24, 1968

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate

28 HOURS: ‘AN ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS’ ON RADIO WJR!

A WJR HOLIDAY TRADITION

**28 CONTINUOUS HOURS of CHRISTMAS MUSIC and MEMORIES**

‘An Original Christmas’

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TONIGHT! 8:00 P.M., Christmas Eve through 12 M., Christmas Day on wjr.com or on iHeartradio.com!

**JIM HAMPTON * AN ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS** * WJR (MASTER PROMO 2018)

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: ‘FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN’

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS * WBFG * DECEMBER 24, 1977

A Prophecy Fulfilled

Isaiah 9:6

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

‘THE FIRST CHRISTMAS’

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

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This special holiday recording, “The First Christmas,” was conceived, created, narrated and produced by Bob Pratt.

For three straight years, this program initially aired on 98.7 WBFG-FM in Detroit during the holiday seasons in 1975, 1976 and in 1977.

At the time ‘The First Christmas’ aired in 1975, WBFG was Detroit’s only premiere station known for it’s all-religious broadcasting format.

The call letters WBFG was also the station’s heralded “acronym” as well. The calls represented their out-going religious radio content heard daily 24/7 on the FM side, “We’re Broadcasting For God.”

A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt for sharing this special holiday program with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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DECEMBER 24, 1977

A MCRFB Note: In 1980, Trinity Broadcasting sold WBFG to Gary Stevens’ Doubleday Broadcasting. The transaction became the highest ever paid for a radio station in Detroit at the time.

With the new Doubleday acquisition that year WBFG became WLLZ in Detroit.

MOTOWN! ’73: A (VERY) MOTOWN CHRISTMAS ALBUM

**A MOTOWN CHRISTMAS (Various Artists) * MOTOWN** (COMPLETE LP) * 1973

— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —

Click on (COMPLETE LP) for the complete track listing on this album

02 DAYS: OUR SPECIAL CHRISTMAS 2018 COUNTDOWN

**THE CARPENTERS * DECEMBER 24** (No. 2)

‘SOLDIER’S SILENT NIGHT,’ READ BY FATHER TED BERNDT

A 2003 WNIC 100.3 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY MEMORY

A past 100.3 FM Christmas holiday tradition. ‘A Soldier’s Silent Night’. As was broadcast on WNIC in the early-2000’s

‘A SOLDIER’S SILENT NIGHT’ as read by FATHER TED BERNDT

CHRISTMAS, ’67: MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

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Video made for U. S. Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force

Bob Hope’s annual USO tour of Southeast Asian military bases, 1967. Features Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Earl Wilson, Phil Crosby, Barbara McNair, Madeleine Hartog Bell (Miss World) and the Les Brown Orchestra. (Source notes: You Tube)

Aired on NBC-TV WWJ (Channel 4) in Detroit, 8:30 p.m., January 18, 1968

SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS! A 1964 HOLIDAY LP MEMORY

**BEACH BOYS * THE BEACH BOYS’ CHRISTMAS ALBUM** (COMPLETE LP) * 1964

— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —

Click on (COMPLETE LP) for the complete track listing on this album