MOTOWN MONDAYS! MOTOWN RECORDS FLASHBACK: THE TEMPTATIONS, 1965

Released January 16, “My Girl” peaked at #1 (1 week; week-ending March 6) on the Billboard Top Pop Singles charts in 1965. Final week on Billboard (week-ending April 10; 13 total weeks on the charts) drops out at #29.

Released January 9, “My Girl” peaked at #1 (6 weeks; charted 16 total weeks overall) on the Billboard Top R&B Singles charts in 1965. B-side: “Don’t Look Back”

GORDY 7038 Sources: Billboard Top Pop Singles and Billboard Top R&B Singles

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KEENER GOLD! THE WKNR ‘TOP 31’ MUSIC GUIDE: WEEK OF APRIL 9, 1964

WKNR MUSIC GUIDE April 9, 1964

WKNR MUSIC GUIDE April 9, 1964

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A sincere thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.

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

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RADIO AM 760! WJR BACK ON THE RADIO: J. P. McCARTHY, APRIL 1994

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A MCRFB NOTE: C-SPAN televised the J. P. McCarthy Morning Show in its entirety (4 hours) on April 6, 1994, 29 years ago today.

Throughout this entire show, you will hear the voices of Gene Fogel, Dan Streeter, Dick Heifner, Joel Alexander, Dennis Nuebacher, with the day’s news, traffic, weather and sports. And of course, J.P. speaking with guests and taking calls throughout the broadcast.

At time this broadcast was simulcast on C-SPAN, J. P. McCarthy was at WJR for 27 years. The WJR morning ‘voice of the Great Lakes’ passed away on August 16, 1995. J. P. was 62.

NEW! A special THANK YOU to the anonymous donor (from Allen Park, MI.) who expressed he remain as, ‘unnamed’. Thanks again for providing this rare J. P. McCarthy audio memory which aired — on this day — 29 years ago.

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TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF 1965! GARY LEWIS

Debuted #88 week-ending April 3, 1965, “Count Me In” peaks at #2 (2 weeks) on the Hot 100, week-ending, May 8, 1965. Having charted 11 weeks overall — on its final week on Billboard, the single drops out at #39 for the week-ending, June 12, 1965.

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Source: The Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts [1965] Billboard Top Pop Singles

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TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF 1965! GARY LEWIS

Debuted #62 week-ending January 16, 1965, “This Diamond Ring” peaks at #1 (2 weeks) on the Hot 100, week-ending, February 27, 1965. Having charted 12 weeks overall — on its final week on Billboard, the single drops out at #23 for the week-ending, April 3, 1965.

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Source: The Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts [1965] Billboard Top Pop Singles

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RECORD WORLD | SON OF JERRY LEWIS OR, THE FAMILY JEWEL . . . APRIL 3, 1965

Gary Lewis a Star On First Disk

 

 

NEW YORK — It’s a lot easier for interviewers nowadays, with all these second generation show biz youngsters like Gary Lewis taking over. (Indeed, youngsters in general.) You have your stet questions—with a 19-year-old you can’t talk rack jobbing, you can’t rummage his past, you can’t ask him how he handles drunks in night clubs, etc.

Gary Lewis 1965

You meet a Gary Lewis, son of comedian Jerry Lewis ( the biggest thing to hit Paramount Pictures since Cecil B. De-Mille and the bathtub scene), and a lad whose first record, “This Diamond Ring” (with his vocal-instrumental group, the Playboys), climbed to No.1 nationally, and it’s still early enough to ask:

Question: How did the record come about?

Answer: Snuff Garrett, my A&R man at Liberty Records, met Dad and hoped to sell him on a record idea he’d had for along time. But Dad’s film schedule was too heavy, so he suggested that our group might interest Snuff. My mother acted as our agent and financed the recording session for “This Diamond Ring”.

Question: How did your group get together?

Answer: I’d had a set of drums for about five years, but I didn’t started playing them in earnest until about a year ago. I was attending the Pasadena Playhouse at the time, and pretty soon I was joined by A1Ramsay, on bass guitar; John R. West, cordavox; Dave Walker and Dave Costell, guitarists.They were all from Pasadena. We played parties and then spent a good deal of last summer performing at Disneyland.

Question: Has it been easier to make the grade having a famous and influential father?

Answer: It’s been harder, I think. Maybe he could open a door for us but then we really had to show something. People would think, oh, he’s Jerry Lewis’ son—what does he think he can do? Then we were really on our own. (The answers sound as familiar as the questions after a while.)

Question: How does your father feel about your entering show business?

Answer: He approves. My Dad gives me advice and counsel more as a father than as a performer. This makes it rather easy because when he’s home he’s “Dad” and on the screen he’s Jerry Lewis the movie star.

Question: What next?

Answer: Well, we did a movie some time ago at Universal called “Swingin’ Summer” that is just coming out. And I’m going back to the Coast now to do a cameo role in Dad’s current film, “The Family Jewels.” We’ll do part of a musical number for this sight gag bit Dad has dreamed up for us. Incidentally, Dad plays seven different people in this picture, and they all get together in one scene! We’re also doing a Dick Clark road tour and more TV.

(Gary had just done the Ed Sullivan Show” and was wondering how all the teens who had been phoning and dropping by had found out where he was staying while visiting New York. Then he remembered he had signed an autograph for a teen-age female at the Sullivan theater on the only thing he had available: a matchbook from the Americana Hotel.)

Question: Have you done any other films?

Answer: Yes, several years ago I sang “The Land of La La La” in my father’s “Rock-A-Bye Baby.”

Question: Have you studied acting?

Answer: Yes, at the Pasadena Playhouse, where I did things like “Mourning Becomes Electra.” I think they’ve helped prepare me, too.

Question: Do you want to be a comedian?

Answer: I’d have to be awfully good, or have a completely different style from my father’s. I don’t know. Everyone says my seven-year-old brother, Chris, will be the next comedian in the family. (There are six Lewis children, all boys. Gary’s the oldest.)

Question: What are your latest records?

Answer: The album, “This Diamond Ring,” and the new single, “Count Me In.”

He’s a likeable individual, flexible of slender face and body, quick to smile with a natural propensity toward clowning, resembling Jerry a few pounds ago when he first came along in those “My Friend Irma” movies but with enough embryo Gary to speak well for his future. He moves a lot in his hotel suite, from couch to chair to phone table to wall, like a kind of an itch.

The same kind of itch, perhaps, that brought the five-year-old Jerry Lewis to a borscht belt stage singing “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?” Hmmm. Son Gary’s first hit was “This Diamond Ring.” Yes, times have certainly grown easier for everyone, especially now that things are looking up for Gary Lewis. END

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Information, credit and news source: Record World, April 3, 1965

Gary Lewis & The Playboys on Hullabaloo, with his dad, Jerry Lewis, hosting the show (late 1965).

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