BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 NOVEMBER 13-19, 1966
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BILLBOARD HOT 100 TABULATED BY RECORDS RETAIL SALES AND RADIO AIRPLAY
BILLBOARD HOT 100 NOVEMBER 12-18, 1967
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Today, we’ll begin bidding farewell to our WordPress Daily Post theme. It is the very layout on this webpage you have been looking at since the site’s inception (by our late-George Griggs, founder) on January 27, 2012.
Lately, due to several “behind-the-scenes” issues the website has been dealing with in the second half of the year, it is now reality our theme can no longer sustain vital, much required, dated upgrades, apparently.
The “No Comments”, long having been realized on this website for some months now (read here), may just well stem from using our current Daily Post ‘theme’, it is more than likely just “out-dated”, having ran its designed course, not able to handled current website tech fixes as well (as I was recently informed by a Bluehost tech).
And despite the recent WordPress 5.0 upgrades, the theme has failed time and again to uphold the latest updates and several other important WordPress plugins and security changes overall. In short, by keeping the Daily Post theme, it has become more realistic the “missing comments” will not be returning at all — if we continue using the site’s Daily Post theme.
Last week, Motor City Radio Flashbacks went off-line for some extended time (37 minutes!) just after the 2:00 p.m. hour, Friday, November 12 (see below). Unbeknownst to me, Bluhost attempted an upgrade with the theme’s PHP security codes (we have been stuck at PHP 5.6) with their latest version, 7.4. It didn’t work (and this happened before). The tech then had to revert back to the old PHP 5.6 version to get the site back online. PHP security upgrades are essential for all WordPress sites and blogs.
In lieu of that happening, same day, I tried to reach out to the theme’s developers, courtesy of WordPress, to let them know their Daily Post theme needed to be reviewed and most likely needed to be updated (obviously!). I also informed them I still wanted to keep their theme we have been using all these years.
Thus far, not a word in response from their end as of this writing.
As of this coming Friday, the hammer is coming down. Bluhost informed me last week that the PHP 7.4 security upgrade will become mandatory — will take immediate effect, November 20.
Bluhost, in somewhat strong, but kind terms, suggested I should replace our Daily Post with a newer theme. Looks like we have no choice.
Sometime this coming Thursday, November 19, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will have a different look. Our new WordPress theme will be Twenty Fifteen. Having already previewed the selected theme (and the good news — all your posted comments will be visible and back up!!) the layout will look somewhat as close as possible to our (soon-departed) Daily Post theme.
So long, Daily Post. Has it been nearly nine years? It was very good to us . . . indeed, while it lasted.
The above article, authored by Gil Faggen (Radio Editor) was published in Radio-Television Daily in August 1965. The report actually became a WKNR two-page spread (18 in. across x 12 in. vertical), having been folded down the middle. It was inserted in a large-envelope, mailed and distributed to sales personnel and station clients by WKNR VP GM Walter Patterson, sometime shortly thereafter the featured article was published at the time.
This website found and obtained this — rare — 1965 WKNR pamphlet (with the actual WKNR large envelope) earlier this year.
This Radio Report is today’s featured presentation on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
The above Radio Report was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2020. Newspapers.com
The above WJBK newspaper ad feature was ‘clipped,’ saved, and digitally imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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A special THANK YOU to our senior website contributor, Greg Innis, Livonia, MI., for having contributed every single one of these Detroit radio newspaper features for the website.
This official Record Review survey was tabulated overall by each record’s popularity and its appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of WJBK Radio 1500. (1963)
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Previewed for the week of November 15-21, 1963
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THANK YOU
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A special THANKS to Ray Tessier, of Allen Park, MI., for recently contributing this 1963 WJBK survey chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks. 🙂
ALBERT ANDRUS: Hard to fathom in today’s super high tech world. Looks like WordPress 5.0 hasn’t been a worthwhile upgrade. Should have come with a money back guarantee. 🙁
GENE R. KONSTANT: I am proud the program my dad started in 1930 is still on the air 90 years later . . . AND in a foreign language (Polish). Would love anything with his voice on it . . . Gene in Palm Desert @ aol . . . .
RODNEY BALLARD: I listened to Mike almost every evening on KOMA in Moore, OK. We often spoke on the phone. As I remembered it, we were talking on the phone one night when the station lost power. After getting back on the air, he said Rodney the Rodent chewed through the wires. And he often spoke with Rodney on his shows.
I almost went to Elkins DJ school because of J Michael Wilson. I hope he is doing well.
DIANE STEINBERG-LEWIS: It was so good to see the song George Clinton wrote for Funkadelics, “I’ll Bet You”, which was one of two versions he wrote and named after Martha Jean “The Queen’s” well known ending slogan, “I BETCHA“! He wrote two in case she didn’t like one or the other! Makes me laugh!
VICTOR LUTES: Jim Paolucci used to dodge past each other in those cramped little hallways at the former WMJC-95 FM/ WHND-Honey radio outlet around 1985. Did we ever work, Jim? Vic Lutes, Radio Personality
VICTOR LUTZ: Jerry St James used to be Jim’s radio morning partner in 1976, WDRQ. Then one day Jerry went to Chicago radio and the rest is Legendary Radio History, folks. Did this idiot voice, “Quedo”.
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With all due apology, as of this writing, it appears there will be no resolution at all to repair the WordPress 5.0 upgrade after having removed all of your comments — through a technical glitch after the new upgrade — off the pages of this website.
They are still added automatically to our comments section on the site — once approved they are all archived — just no longer visible as before, through no fault of our own, unfortunately.
For my previous comments having posted regarding the above GO HERE.
We appreciate and welcome your comments. Keep them coming. If all else, They will be read. For the moment, I will feature them in a separate post, every month.
Your comments for October 2020 are featured today on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Thanks again . . . always enjoy hearing from each and everyone of you! 🙂
WDRQ-FM Top 22 singles for the week-ending November 4-10, 1975
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A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity and your continuous support.
Above WDRQ music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2020. Newspapers.com.
This featured Tom Dean article (by Howie Buten) was ‘clipped,’ saved, and was digitally imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
Detroit Free Press March 9, 1975
Detroit Free Press March 9, 1975
Detroit Free Press March 9, 1975
Detroit Free Press March 9, 1975
Detroit Free Press March 9, 1975
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Detroit Free Press January 12, 1974
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