THIS WEEK IN AMERICA! BILLBOARD HOT 100: 09/10/66

BILLBOARD HOT 100 (week-ending) September 10, 1966

 

BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY

BILLBOARD HOT 100 SEPTEMBER 4-10, 1966

 

 

 

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DETROIT’S TOP 40 BEST SELLERS: THIS WEEK! 09/04/1965

BILLBOARD September 4, 1965

 

BILLBOARD 1965 TOP SELLERS IN TOP MARKETS

DETROIT

 

Week Ending September 4, 1965

 

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THIS (Detroit) CHART IS BASED upon territorial sales of the Top 40 single records as reported by retail stores in 15 top markets, respectively. This chart applies to the Detroit market.

Total markets including Baltimore; Boston; Chicago; New Orleans; New York; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland; Detroit; Los Angeles; Miami; San Francisco; Seattle; St. Louis; Washington.

 

 

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E. J. KORVETTE RECORDS! PARADE OF HITS: 08/17/1964

E. J. KORVETTE PARADE OF HITS August 17, 1964

E. J. KORVETTE PARADE OF HITS August 17, 1964

 

E. J. KORVETTE DEPARTMENT STORE

August 17, 1964

 

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PARADE of HITS!

 

E. J. Korvette, the New York based department store chain (with multiple stores scattered throughout six eastern and mid-western states), opened its first two department stores in the Detroit metropolitan area, this month, 57 years ago.

The two store’s grand-opening, locations in Roseville (Gratiot and 12 Mile) and in Southgate, Mi. (Fort and Pennsylvania Rd.) was held on August 15, 1963 (according to The Detroit Free Press).

In the 1960s, the department chain published a weekly ‘Parade of Hits‘ record singles chart (tabulated out of New York). The chart was made available for the retailer’s large in-store record department. The Korvette listing showcased the most popular 40 singles for the week, as was dated, starting every Monday.

By 1974, Detroit had five E. J. Korvette stores on the map. Having expanded to Redford, Southfield and Madison Heights. By that time (and most likely due to retail competitor K-Mart’s growth and dominance in the Detroit market share), the Korvette stores were by then sustaining serious financial and sales decline. By year’s end, 1975, the five stores were no longer in operation in the Detroit area.

Five years later, having declared bankruptcy, the former New York-based department store (having been sold and under new ownership in 1979), officially came to it’s demise on December 24, 1980. What was left of the 17 remaining stores, all were permanently closed.

 

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(Source: E. J. Korvette; Wikipedia, The Detroit Free Press)

 

 

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THE CJSP 710 FASCINATIN’ FIFTY! WEEK OF 08/20/1962

CJSP-AM FASCINATIN’ 50 August 20, 1962

CJSP-AM FASCINATIN’ 50 August 20, 1962

CJSP-AM FASCINATIN’ 50 August 20, 1962

 

 

CJSP 71 RADIO

August 20, 1962

 

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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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WLBS-FM: IT’S THE ONE . . . 102.7 FM DISCO AND MORE

 

WLBS-FM

102.7 FM

 

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WBRB-FM (Mt. Clemons) became the new WLBS-FM in January, 1979.

The “New Music” station, purchased by Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, based in New York, formatted the station with predominantly disco music from the outset. Having dominated the Detroit FM dial with their new “Disco and More” sound, the station’s format was left virtually unchanged for nearly five years on 102.7 FM.

WLBS-FM became the new WKSG-FM, “Kiss 102.7 FM” (oldies) on November 9, 1984.

 

 

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WLBS 102.7: DETROIT FM RADIO DEBUTS A NEW SOUND

Detroit Free Press January 31, 1979

 

DETROIT FREE PRESS

Wednesday, January 31, 1979

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A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

 

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MOTOWN MONDAYS! SPOTLIGHTS ON EARL VAN DYKE

 

—EARL VAN DYKE

MOTOWN FUNK BROTHER

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Earl Van Dyke (July 8, 1930September 18, 1992) was an American soul musician, most notable as the main keyboardist for Motown Records’ in-house Funk Brothers band during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Van Dyke, who was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States, was preceded as keyboardist and bandleader of the Funk Brothers by Joe Hunter. In the early 1960s, he also recorded as a jazz organist with saxophonists Fred Jackson and Ike Quebec for the Blue Note label.

Besides his work as the session keyboardist on Motown hits such as “Bernadette” by The Four Tops, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye, and “Runaway Child, Running Wild” by The Temptations, Van Dyke performed with a small band as an opening act for several Motown artists, and released instrumental singles and albums himself. Several of Van Dyke’s recordings feature him playing keys over the original instrumental tracks for Motown hits; others are complete covers of Motown songs.

His 1967 hit “6 by 6” is a much-loved stomper on the Northern Soul music scene. He was nicknamed “Big Funk”, and “Chunk o Funk”.

Van Dyke played the Steinway grand piano, the Hammond B-3 organ, the Wurlitzer electric piano, the Fender Rhodes, and the celeste and harpsichord. He played a toy piano for the introduction of the Temptations’ hit, “It’s Growing”. His musical influences included Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, and Barry Harris.

Van Dyke died of prostate cancer in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 62.

 

 

 

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Source: Earl Van Dyke; Wikipedia

 


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