CAROLYN CRAWFORD
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Released February 13, 1965, “My Smile Is Just A Frown (Turned Upside Down)” peaked at #39 (1 week) on the Billboard R&B chart in 1965. B-side: “I’ll Come Running”
MOTOWN 1064 (Source: Billboard Top R&B Singles)
Note: Carolyn Crawford was the 1963 winner of the Tip Top Talent Contest promoted by Detroit soul radio, WCHB. The prize? The then 14 year-old talent was awarded an audition to record with Motown Records!
CKLW RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
NEW! DICK PURTAN CKLW aircheck date: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978
— DICK PURTAN’S FIRST SHOW on CKLW —
— ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
A special THANK YOU to senior website contributor GREG INNIS of Livonia, MI., for sharing this CKLW audio memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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TWENTY-TWO WEEKS on the singles chart, “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies peaked this month at No. 01 (4 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending September 14 through October 13, 1969. (Source: Billboard)
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MCRFB Link: For the previous No. 1 record in the U.S.A. 1969 GO HERE.
BREAD ‘GUITAR MAN’ ALBUM (1972)
SEALS & CROFTS ‘SUMMER BREEZE’ ALBUM (1973)
ERIC CLAPTON ‘MONEY AND CIGARETTES’ ALBUM (1974)
PRODUCED BY JIM HAMPTON. DRAPER & HAMPTON, INC., LOS ANGELES
Syndicated around the nation on the CBS Radio Network some thirty-eight years ago, Jim Hampton (WXYZ, WABX, WJBK, WCAR) recently pulled this special programming from his radio archives and provided this site with 6 hours of the ‘Great American Summer’ shows he produced in the early-1980s.
In these programs you will hear great memories, events, and many of the hits by artists whose records were heard playing on the radio during the summer months the year they were released.
Jim Hampton and Ken Draper (WCAR, WCFL;Chicago) — Draper & Hampton, Inc., Los Angeles — produced this special summer programming for the CBS Radio Network.
The opening theme song was sung by, written and produced by production director Scott Chapin. Special programming features written by assistant writer, Scott Paton.
Program hosted by the great Tom Murphy (WCFL)
In closing out the 2019 summer, Motor City Radio Flashbacks features today the final hour of CBS Radio ‘Great American Summer’.
So long, summer . . . 🙁 Hope your 2019 summer was fabulous! ?
JIM HAMPTON
Featured today the 6th (and final) hour of the ‘Great American Summer’
Missed any of our featured 2019 summer series of the ‘Great American Summer’? GO HERE
And finally, this website extends a warm THANKS to Jim Hampton (Palm Springs, CA) for sharing this great CBS radio summertime memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
MARVIN GAYE
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Released November, 1964. Recorded at the Graystone Ballroom (owned by Berry Gordy), Detroit, 1964. A demo record single, “This Is The Life” was released to promote Marvin Gaye’s fourth career Tamla LP 259 ‘Hello Broadway’ (Side 2; Track 2).
Never having charted, this audition Tamla demo recording was not slated for the Billboard Pop or the R&B singles charts.
