A WABX-FM 99 DETROIT 1967 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!



Friday, November 10, 1967

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WABX ‘New Sound of Hip Radio in Detroit’ 

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MOTOWN SNAPSHOTS MEMORY: STEVIE WONDER, ’60S


AUGUST 1967. MOTOWN’S SUBSIDIARY Tamla Records released Stevie Wonder’s 7th album, titled, I Was Made To Love Her.’ The album debuted (#133) on the Billboard LP chart, week ending September 23-30. The album would produce one single. Fifteen weeks on the pop chart, I Was Made To Love Her peaked (2 weeks) at #2, July 29, 1967. At nine weeks on the Billboard Top LP chart, the album peaked #45 (2 weeks) on November 25, 1967.

A 16-YEAR OLD STEVIE WONDER, London, England. February, 1966.

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PROGRAMMING THE DETROIT RADIO DIAL: 03/22/1955


Tuesday, March 22, 1955

DETROIT FREE PRESS: RADIO PROGRAMS FOR TUESDAY

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THE DETROIT RADIO DIAL. 62-YEARS AGO TODAY


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MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACKS: SPINNERS LP! 1970

 

 

THE SPINNERS RELEASED their second and their final album for Motown Records, in October, 1970. Appropriately titled, ‘2nd Time Around,’ the album would comprise of various tracks the Spinners recorded from 1968 through 1970. The LP included what would be their biggest single (pop #14; soul#3) with Motown, “It’s A Shame.” “2nd Time Around” would be the only album with G. C. Cameron with the group. By the time they released their third LP, 1973, they were under contract with Atlantic Records.

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(Source: Spinners; Wikipedia)

 

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A CKLW-AM 800 DETROIT NEWSPAPER ’71 FLASHBACK!








Sunday, October 10, 1971

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “CKLW’s Rosalie — The Most Powerful Lady in Popdom”

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A 1963 DETROIT WXYZ RADIO NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!

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Friday, March 15, 1963

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

Ad photo L-R: Dave Prince, Lee Alan, Joel Sebastian, Paul Winter, Don Zee.

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ-AM 

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MCRFB.COM Detroit Radio Back Page Ads

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50TH! THE NATION’S TOP 150 ALBUMS, THIS WEEK IN ’67

A rip from the Billboard pages. THE BILLBOARD TOP LP’S chart March 18, 1967 (click on image 2x for largest detailed view)
Q: What second album still holds the longest weeks in the Billboard Top LP’s, this week, in 1967?

THIS WEEK’S TOP LP’s. 50 YEARS AGO

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