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The CKLW BIG 30 hits in Windsor/Detroit. This survey was tabulated overall by record popularity appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of CKLW Radio.
Previewed for the week of December 19, 1972
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Jack Dominico Scafone, Jr., age 83 of Sterling Heights, died Thursday, December 12, 2019 at the Warren Campus of Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital. He was born January 24, 1936 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, son of the late Jack Sr. and the late Laura (nee: Franks) Scafone.
Jack Scafone, (under his stage name, Jack Scott), was a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2011 and was called “undeniably the greatest Canadian rock and roll singer of all time.”
Scott spent his early childhood in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan. When he was 10, Jack’s family moved to Hazel Park, a suburb of Detroit. He grew up listening to hillbilly music and was taught to play the guitar by his mother Laura. As a teenager, he pursued a singing career and recorded as “Jack Scott.” At the age of 18, he formed the band, Southern Drifters. After leading the band for three years, he signed to ABC-Paramount Records as a solo artist in 1957.After recording two gold-selling local hits for ABC-Paramount in 1957, he switched to the Carlton record label and had a double-sided national hit in 1958 with “Leroy” / “My True Love.” The record sold over one million copies, earning Scott his first gold disc. Later in 1958, “With Your Love” reached the Top 40. In all, six of 12 songs on his first album became hit singles. On most of these tracks, he was backed up by the vocal group, the Chantones.
Jack served in the United States Army during most of 1959, just after “Goodbye Baby” made the Top 10. The year 1959 also saw him chart with “The Way I Walk.” Most of his Carlton master tapes were believed lost or destroyed until Rollercoaster Records in England released a vinyl EP, “Jack Scott Rocks”, and the CD, “The Way I Walk”, which were, for the most part, mastered from original tapes rather than the disc dubs used for previous reissues.
At the beginning of 1960, Scott again changed record labels, this time to Top Rank Records. He then recorded four Billboard Hot 100 Hits; “What in the World’s Come Over You”, “Burning Bridges”, “Oh Little One”, and “It Only Happened Yesterday”. “What in the World’s Come Over You” was Scott’s second gold disc winner. Scott continued to record and perform during the 60’s and 70’s. His song “You’re Just Getting’ Better reached the country charts in 1974. In May 1977, Scott recorded a Peel session for BBC radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.
Scott had more US singles, in a shorter period of time (41 months), than any other recording artist, with the exception of The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Connie Francis. Scott wrote all of his own hits, except one; “Burning Bridges.” It has been said that “with the exception of Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley, no white rock and roller of the time ever developed a finer voice with a better range than Jack Scott, or cut a more convincing body of work in rockabilly, rock and roll, country-soul, gospel or blues.”
In 2007, Jack Scott was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. In 2011, he was honored to have been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Later Scott was nominated for the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. In 2015, Jack’s latest (and final) album, “Way to Survive” was released. Along with filling countless hearts and homes with his music over the years, many of Jack’s songs were also featured in numerous movies, as well as being covered by many artists in their shows and events. He continued singing and touring, and lived in a suburb of Detroit.
Jack was the beloved husband of Barbara Ann. Dearest father to his daughters and their husbands, and his stepsons. Jack also leaves his grandchildren, and his loving siblings, to treasure his memory.
Memorial donations are welcomed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 . . . or towww.stjude.org.
A special THANK YOU to Greg Innis for recently contributing this WCHB December 15, 1969 ‘Soul’ chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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RADIO & RECORDS Bill Drake THE TOP 40 STORY (1977)
RADIO & RECORDS Bill Drake THETOP 40 STORY (1977)
RADIO & RECORDS Bill Drake THE TOP 40 STORY (1977)
RADIO & RECORDS Bill Drake THE TOP 40 STORY (1977)
RADIO & RECORDS Bill Drake THE TOP 40 STORY (1977)
— BILL DRAKE —
The Top 40 Story
In this special edition we have interviewed the key programmers that helped shape the direction of the format to its present state. Our sincere thanks to Gordon McLendon, respected as the most creative radio programmer in history. Almost every format heard on the radio today has been influenced by this man. We are also indebted to Rick Sklar, VP ABC Radio, who has guided the ABC stations to dominant market positions,
Bill Drake, who had the most dramatic effect on the format and is still today the most successful programmer with over 200 stations currently under his guidance.
Paul Drew, who until recently was VP Programming for RKO, and Kent Burkhart, a man who has been taught by the best and has since added quite a bit to the format himself.
If it were not for these people and the many others involved in the creation of this publication, taking the time to share their knowledge, the opportunity to learn from history might still not exist.
RADIO & RECORDS
BILL DRAKE
Bill Drake (January 14, 1937 – November 29, 2008), born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.
It was later at KYNO in Fresno, California that he met Gene Chenault, who became his business partner. Together, the pair developed highly influential radio programming strategies and tactics, as well as working with future “Boss Jocks” (their new name for on-air radio talent).
Drake-Chenault perfected theTop 40radio format, which had been created byTodd Storz, Gordon McLendonand other radio programmers in the late 1950s, which took a set list of popular songs and repeated them all day long, ensuring the widest possible audience for the station’s music.Jingles, news updates, traffic, and other features were designed to make Top 40 radio particularly attractive to car listeners. By early 1964, the era of the British Invasion, Top 40 radio had become the dominant radio format for North American listeners and quickly swept much of the Western world.
(Source: WiKipedia)
RADIO & RECORDS Bill Drake TOP 40 1977
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WXYZ RADIO 1270 Detroit Sound Survey DECEMBER 12, 1966
THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY
— DECEMBER 12, 1966 —
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets inthe Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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. . . By 1967, the band was traveling to performances in Redding’s Beechcraft H18 airplane. On December 9, 1967, they appeared on the Upbeat television show produced in Cleveland. They played three concerts in two nights at a club called Leo’s Casino. After a phone call with his wife and children, Redding’s next stop was Madison, Wisconsin; the next day, Sunday, December 10, they were to play at the Factory nightclub, near the University of Wisconsin.
Otis Redding, The Barkays, 1967
Although the weather was poor, with heavy rain and fog, and despite warnings, the plane took off. Four miles (6.4 km) from their destination at Truax Field in Madison, the pilot radioed for permission to land. Shortly thereafter, the plane crashed into Lake Monona. Bar-Kays member Ben Cauley, the accident’s only survivor, was sleeping shortly before the accident. He woke just before impact to see bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and exclaim, “Oh, no!” Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seat belt. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. As a non-swimmer, he was unable to rescue the others. The cause of the crash was never determined. James Brown claimed in his autobiography The Godfather of Soul that he had warned Redding not to fly in the plane.
The other victims of the crash were four members of the Bar-Kays—guitarist Jimmy King, tenor saxophonist Phalon Jones, organist Ronnie Caldwell, and drummer Carl Cunningham; their valet, Matthew Kelly; and the pilot, Richard Fraser.
Redding’s body was recovered the next day when the lake was searched. The family postponed the funeral from December 15 to 18 so that more could attend. The service took place at the City Auditorium in Macon. More than 4,500 people came to the funeral, overflowing the 3,000-seat hall. Redding was entombed at his ranch in Round Oak, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Macon. Jerry Wexler delivered the eulogy. Redding died just three days after re-recording “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” He was survived by Zelma and four children, Otis III, Dexter, Demetria, and Karla. On November 8, 1997, a memorial plaque was placed on the lakeside deck of the Madison convention center, Monona Terrace.
(Source: Wikipedia)
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
—Tuesday, December 12, 1967—
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Otis Redding photographed standing before his personal plane, 1967. (Photo credit: Zelma Redding)
Otis Redding’s personal plane rests on a barge after having been pulled up from lake Monona, Madison, Wisconsin. December 1967
