COCA COLA * THE VOGUES (1966) * THE COCA COLA CO.
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COCA-COLA ADS: THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE! ’65
COCA COLA * THE SUPREMES (1965) * THE COCA COLA CO.
COCA-COLA ADS: THINGS GO BETTER WITH COKE! ’67
COCA COLA * JAY & THE TECHNIQUES (1967) * THE COCA COLA CO.
NEW! CKLW 80 BACK ON THE RADIO: DAVE SHAFER
CKLW RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
CKLW-AM 800 * 1965 * DAVE SHAFER
NEW! DAVE SHAFER CKLW aircheck date: THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1965
* THE Mike Lockhart COLLECTION *
CKLW RADIO 80. 55 YEARS AGO TODAY
— ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
A special THANK YOU to Mike Lockhart of Ferndale, MI., for sharing this 1965 CKLW audio memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
A LEE ALAN JULY 4TH. CELEBRATION: ‘THE AMERICANS’
A SPECIAL ‘INDEPENDENCE DAY’ NARRATIVE * LEE ALAN * LEEALANCREATIVE.COM (A)
A SPECIAL ‘INDEPENDENCE DAY’ NARRATIVE * LEE ALAN * LEEALANCREATIVE.COM (B)
HAVE A GREAT 4TH of JULY HOLIDAY!
— A Special THANK YOU to Lee Alan —
INDEPENDENCE DAY 2020
HAPPY 4TH! CHARLIE VAN DYKE’S TRIBUTE TO THE FLAG
—CHARLIE VAN DYKE—
THE FLAG
… Is it possible to wave the flag too much … provided of course, that you wave it with integrity….
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Charles Leo Steinle aka Charlie Van Dyke, first launched his career in radio broadcasting in 1966, as a nineteen-year old with the legendary KLIF 1190 in Dallas, Texas. By the early 1970s, and rapidly-rising in the industry known for his baritone pipes, his distinct voice behind the radio microphone would eventually carry him to major markets around the country.
Harnessed by Bill Drake for his RKO radio stable, stops would include morning drives at KFRC in San Francisco, KHJ in Los Angeles, a short stint at CKLW in Windsor/Detroit and then it was on to WRKO in Boston.
But it’s the Bicentennial Year. 1976.
Seemingly what was lacking was a narrative to commemorate the country’s bicentennial celebration for that year. And that’s when Van Dyke decided to step in.
According to Charlie Van Dyke, he had retained a particular speech his uncle had written and prepared for an oratory-speech contest while in high school. His mother, in adding to the Van Dyke story, had saved a copy of that award-winning speech. That narrative saved would become The Flag.
With minor changes in the lyrics, Clive Fox worked on the produced project for release through United Artists Records. Jimmy Haskell would provide the music behind Van Dyke’s saturated, patriotic salute he voiced-over in The Flag.
Today, while no longer in radio, Charlie Van Dyke continues to free-lance his voice talents for media markets in both radio and television affiliates across the country.
Charlie Van Dyke, we thank and salute you for your acclimated 1976 display and show for true-American patriotism!
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A MCRFB NOTE: Previously posted on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, February 5, 2012.
CHARLIE VAN DYKE * THE FLAG * JULY 4, 1976
THE GUEST LIST! IT STARTS TODAY ON BIG8RADIO.COM
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–THE GUEST LIST–
65 GUESTS! 65 LISTS!
Your last chance to hear them all. The Guest List re-plays begin today, July 1, through Sunday July 5, and it all starts at 10am Eastern/7am Pacific time. The Guest List:
Wednesday: singer Keith Hampshire, musician Bill King, The Wrecking Crew’s Denny Tedesco and Don Randi, Bill Loop (Edward Bear)
Thursday: Sirius/XM’s Phlash Phelps and Pat. St. John, Doug Podell and Robbie Lane (Robbie Lane & the Disciples)
Friday: PBS-TV’s T.J. Lubisnksy, Detroit News journalist/Author Susan Whitall and west coast musicians Probyn Gregory, Rob Bonfiglio, Morty Coyle, Jim Laspesa and Derrick Anderson
Saturday: Big 8 Day – Scott Regen, Tom Shannon, Gary Burbank, Frank Brodie, etc.
Sunday: Documentary producer Michael MacNamara (“Radio Revolution”), John Landecker (WLS), Art Vuolo, Dennis Mitchell (Breakfast With The Beatles), Peter Foldy (“Bondi Junction”/ “Roxanne”)
The Guest List will stream at the top of each hour beginning 10:00 a.m. through 10:00 p.m. each day, July 1-5. The Guest List. Listen HERE. Only on big8radiocom!
— CHARLIE O’BRIEN —
— A VIEWING TIP —
ON YOUR MOBILE DEVICE? Tap on Guest List schedule guide, below. Open to second window. “Stretch” across your device screen to magnify for largest print view.
A MCRFB NOTE: Yours truly — curator of this website — check out my Guest List Top 10 selections at 8:00 p.m., tonight.
Thank you, Charlie O’Brien, honored in having made your Guest List as well 🙂
THE GUEST LIST * Jim Feliciano * APRIL 23, 2020 (date initially having first aired)
RADIO SPOT: NOXZEMA MEDICATED SHAVING CREAM
RADIO AD: ALKA SELTZER . . . NO MATTER WHAT SHAPE
MOTOWN MONDAYS: SPOTLIGHTS THE ’70S SUPREMES!
—THE SUPREMES—
STONED LOVE
“Stoned Love” is a 1970 hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the last Billboard Pop Top Ten hit for the group, peaking at number seven, and their last Billboard number-one R&B hit as well, although the trio continued to score top ten hits in the UK into 1972. This single and “Up the Ladder to the Roof” are the only top-ten Supremes singles to feature Jean Terrell on lead vocals instead of Diana Ross, who left the group in January 1970 to pursue a solo career. In the UK, it was the post-Ross Supremes’ biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the singles chart. The single spent six weeks in the UK top ten and five weeks in the US top ten.
After a few lines of the song were revised by the producer, “Stoned Love” was recorded during the spring of 1970. The instrumental track was recorded with The Funk Brothers and at least 30 other session musicians in Detroit at Motown Studio B (the former Golden World studio), while Jean Terrell, Mary Wilson, and Cindy Birdsong recorded their vocals in New York. The song was originally written and recorded as “Stone Love”, but during the process of mixing and releasing, it was mislabeled as “Stoned Love”.
A plea for love and peace similar to those recorded by Sly & the Family Stone in the late 1960s, the lyrics of “Stoned Love” were a plea for the people of the world to end conflict and animosity between each other, specifically the Vietnam War.
The Terrell-led Supremes—now rebranded as “the Supremes;” known unofficially at first as “the New Supremes”, and in later years informally called “The ’70s Supremes”— scored hits including “Up the Ladder to the Roof” (US number 10, UK number 6), “Stoned Love” (US number 7, UK number 3) and “Nathan Jones” (US number 16, UK number 5), all of which were produced by Frank Wilson. These three singles were also R&B Top Ten hits, with “Stoned Love” becoming their last No.1 R&B hit in December 1970.
The Motown songwriting and production team, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, produced another Top 20 hit for the group It was a Supremes/Four Tops duet version of Ike & Tina Turner’s “River Deep – Mountain High”.
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Source: Stoned Love; Supremes; Wikipedia
A MCRFB NOTE: For a more in-depth story of the Supremes’ ‘Stone Love‘ release, check out this excellent blog from October 17, 2017, as was penned by noted Motown author and historian Adam White
Stoned Love * acapella
