HONOR ROLL! THE NATIONAL ‘TOP 10’ LAST WEEK: 1950

**THE BILLBOARD HONOR ROLL OF HITS** July 1, 1950

THE NATIONAL 10 TOP TUNES

WEEK-ENDING June 23, 1950 70 YEARS AGO

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The nation’s ten top tunes, The Honor Roll of Hits, is determined by a scientific evaluation of various degrees of each song’s popularity as measured by survey features of The Billboard’s Music Popularity Chart.

WJBK | WXYZ | WKMH | CKLW

The Billboard June 17-June 23 chart featured 10 of the most popular radio plays heard on four Detroit top 40 radio stations on the AM dial in 1950.

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A ‘WAY-BACK’ DETROIT RADIO PROGRAM: 06/26/1950

**THE DETROIT FREE PRESS** June 26, 1950

Monday, June 26, 1950

Free Press Guide to Detroit Radio Stations

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SOUL SHOTS: BILLBOARD TOP 30 SOUL HITS! 06/29/1963

**BILLBOARD TOP 30 R&B SINGLES** June 29, 1963

WCHB 1440 DETROIT

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BILLBOARD WEEK OF 06/23/63 – 06/29/1963

The majority of the above Billboard designated ‘Top 30’ R&B records were also the most popular radio plays heard on Detroit’s soul station 1440 WCHB on the AM dial.

As tabulated by Billboard, for the week-ending, June 29, 1963.

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A MCRFB Note: This week, you will note Motor City Radio Flashbacks selected (randomly) 6 R&B singles off this special Billboard Top 30 R&B Singles chart, June 29, 1963.

The six featured singles were as numbered: #3; #6; #14; #16; #25; #29.

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DETROIT WJZZ FM RADIO PRESS PHOTO: ROSETTA HINES

**WJZZ ROSETTA HINES** (*Press Photo*) **1976**

DETROIT ‘CHB RADIO PRESS PHOTO: DR. WENDELL COX

**WCHB DR. WENDELL COX** (*Press Photo*) **1981**

WJLB RADIO PRESS PHOTO: MARTHA JEAN ‘THE QUEEN’

**WJLB MARTHA JEAN ‘THE QUEEN’ STEINBERG** (*Press Photo*) **1975**

RADIO SHACK! CONSUMERS STEREO ELECTRONICS, ’64

**A Radio Shack Catalog** *page rip* from 1964

RADIO SHACK HOME ELECTRONICS 1964

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56 YEARS AGO

Tape recorders. Home stereo components. Portable record players. Transistor radios

A look back at some of the ’60s home electronics American consumers were buying from the Radio Shack chain, 1964. These pages were taken from the Radio Shack catalog from that year.

Motor City Radio Flashbacks found an amazing website online where you can view the entire archived Radio Shack publications — where you can view page-to-page — every single catalog from 1936 to 2005.

It’s a ‘Realistic’ electronics back-page from the past! Check out these RS brand products once having marketed and priced from 56 years ago.

radioshackcatalogs.com

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DETROIT TOP DEEJAYS PICKS THE WEEK’S TEN HITS: 1966

— Friday, June 17, 1966 —

THE WEEK’S TOP 10 DETROIT RECORDS

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The above featured Week’s Top Singles article was clipped, saved, and imaged digitally from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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DETROIT TOP DEEJAYS PICKS THE WEEK’S TEN HITS: 1967

— Friday, June 16, 1967 —

THE WEEK’S TOP 10 DETROIT RECORDS

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DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGES: JIM HARPER! WMGC-FM

Sunday, July 1, 2001

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: JIM HARPER

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