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BIG EIGHT CKLW! MOTOR CITY BIG 30 HITS: 09/10/1968

CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 10, 1968 (Click on chart image 2x for largest view)
CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 10, 1968 (Click on chart image 2x for largest view)
CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 10, 1968 (Click on chart image 2x for largest view)
CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 10, 1968

49 YEARS AGO. SEPTEMBER 1968

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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

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BIG EIGHT CKLW! MOTOR CITY BIG 30 HITS: 09/12/1967

CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 12, 1967 (Click on chart image 2x for largest view)
CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 12, 1967 (Click on chart image 2x for largest view)
CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 12, 1967 (Click on chart image 2x for largest view)
CKLW BIG 30 RECORDS September 12, 1967

50 YEARS AGO. SEPTEMBER 1967

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: MIRACLES, 1962!

“YOU’VE REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME,” was a song written and composed by Smokey Robinson of the Miracles. The single became the 10th single the Motown group released to hit the Billboard Hot 100, having peaked #8 in February 1963. The single also hit the #1 position on the U.S. R&B chart that year. In 1963, the Beatles recorded their cover-version of the Smokey Robinson composition. Their Motown-titled song cover was released as an album track, one of three Motown compositions that was included in their U.S. 1964 Capitol Records LP, ‘The Beatles Second Album.’

 

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: MARVELETTES, ’66

THE MARVELETTES GREATEST HITS album, Tamla 353, was released in 1966. The album peaked at #84 on the Billboard (Pop) LP chart that year. “Please Mr. Postman,” included in this Marvelettes compilation album, was the first single to hit #1 for Motown (Tamla) on the Billboard singles pop chart in 1961. The 1966 “hits” album made top 10 on the national R&B LP chart, peaking #4.
Katherine Anderson, Wanda Young and Gladys Horton. The Marvelettes, 1966

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MARTHA JEAN. ‘THE QUEEN’ OF DETROIT URBAN RADIO

MARTHA JEAN ‘THE QUEEN’ circa 1990s.

Martha Jean Steinberg

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A special THANK YOU to Diane Steinberg Lewis, daughter of Martha Jean Steinberg, for recently sharing with Motor City Radio Flashbacks this lovely portrait of Martha Jean. August 12, 2017.

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A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN

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