This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
— THE JIM HEDDLE COLLECTION —
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In December 1965, Motown Recording artists, The Supremes, booked a 13 day engagement at the popular Detroit nightclub venue, The Roostertail. According to the Detroit Free Press, the Supremes were scheduled beginning Friday, December 17 through Wednesday, December 29.
After their Detroit engagement, the group toured the south for several days with The Lovin’ Spoonful. The Detroit Free Press (Sunday, December 5, 1965) reported that The Supremes, “one of the hottest singing groups in the world” was close to completing their seventh album for Motown Records, ‘I Hear A Symphony‘.
The 1965 world famous Detroit girl group was also scheduled to tour the east, and they “will be the first entertainers (with Judy Garland) to appear in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, will go to Hollywood for their third appearance with Ed Sullivan, and will get as far as San Juan, Puerto Rico,” according to the newpaper.
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The Supremes/Roostertail ad below appeared in the Detroit Free Press — 55 years ago today — Thursday, December 9, 1965.
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THIS SURVEY REFLECTS RETAIL SALES, REQUESTS AND POPULARITY AS JUDGED BY THE 93 FM MUSIC DEPARTMENT
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NUMBER ONE SINGLE ON WDRQ
— “EROTIC CITY” by PRINCE | WARNER BROS. —
WDRQ-FM Top 30 singles and albums for the week of December 3, 1984
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NUMBER ONE ALBUM ON WDRQ
— ‘THE WOMAN IN RED’ by STEVIE WONDER | MOTOWN —
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STREAMING THIS AFTERNOON ON DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION
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To view the DPTV program stream: click on the highlighted link just below the Scott Morgan photo.
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— DPTV.ORG * SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 * 4:00 PM —
Robin Seymour September 2019 (Photo credit: Kevin Willett)
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Scott Morgan of The Rationals talks Robin Seymour on DPTV.(Photo credit: William Kubota; WTVS)
BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 5, 1964
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“The listing of records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, listener requests and CKLW’s judgement of the record’s appeal.”
PREVIEWED FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 3-9 1968
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—49 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK—
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Heard in the United States, Detroit, Michigan, CJSP was a Canadian station situated on the AM dial at 710 KHZ. The station was owned by Sun Parlour Broadcasting. A daytimer, the CJSP studios was located across the Detroit River in Leamington, Ontario. In 1962, CJSP was a Top 40 station when the featured Fascinatin’ 50 chart went to print, 58 years ago, this week.
CJSP signed on in March 1955. The station’s call letters was retained for 12 years until September 1967, when the CRTC (Canadian Radio Television Commission) approved the station’s request to change its calls to CHYR. The daytimer’s new calls letters also adopted a new station moniker, C-H-Y-R, popularly referenced by the late 1960s as, ‘CHEER Radio’.
By late 1967, the station had the distinction having operated under two licenses, in the daytime it was CHYR and during the night-time hours it switched over to CHIR. Sometime in 1974, the calls letters were re-amended and became CHYR-7 during the station’s broadcasting night-time hours.
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Ray Tessier, of Allen Park, MI., for recently contributing this rare CJSP chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
From the Ray Tessier Collection . . . more CJSP charts to come!
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