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MOTOWN MONDAY | MOTOWN OUT OF KING SUIT . . . OCTOBER 19, 1963
Dr. King Attorney Retracts Infringement Suit Against Motown Records
DETROIT — Involvement of Motown Record Corporation in a multi-defendant infringement suit lodged last week by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was an error, and the company’s name has now been dropped from the suit, according to Motown spokesmen.
According to officials of Motown, King and the record company’s president, Berry Gordy Jr., are close friends and that when King’s attorney, Clarence Jones, filed the suit, he was not aware of this and of previous agreements made between the two men, and added the name of Motown to those of the other defendants, Mr. Maestro, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Records.
The action stems from the alleged unauthorized use on records of King’s recitation, “I Have a Dream,” used at various integration rallies, on which he says he obtained a copyright.
The Motown use of the recitation appeared on an LP of a mass meeting and rally earlier this year in Detroit. Motown says it will soon issue another LP, titled “The Great March On Washington”. END
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Information, credit and news source: Billboard, October 19, 1963
A MCRFB Note: For a more in-depth publication relating as close to this October 1963 Billboard story, read this TIME article dated February 20, 2020, HERE
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THIS WEEK IN BILLBOARD: THE NATION’S TOP LPs! WEEK ENDING, OCTOBER 16, 1965
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Eight weeks on the Billboard LP’s chart, The Beatles’ ‘Help‘ is at the #1 spot, week-ending, October 16, 1965. The American LP version of Help! reached the number one spot on the Billboard Top LPs chart for nine weeks starting on 11 September 1965. In the US, the Capitol album sold 1,314,457 copies by 31 December 1965 and 1,594,032 copies by the end of the decade [Source: Help (Album) Wikipedia]
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COLUMBIA MASTERWORK! A NEW GARRARD PHONOGRAPH w/ AM FM STEREO TUNER: BILLBOARD AD!
Columbia advertisement published in Billboard, week-ending, October 17, 1964
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ROCK-OLA! PUSH BUTTON HITS FOR ’63-1964: BILLBOARD JUKEBOX GOLD
Rock-Ola advertisement published in Billboard, week-ending, October 12, 1963
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WKMH RADIO 1310: FEBRUARY 20, 1963 [Detroit Free Press] RADIO BACK-PAGE ADS
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Above article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2023. Newspapers.com
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: WKNR RECALLED! TOM NEAL ON THE RADIO
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: WHND RECALLED! RICHARD D. ON THE RADIO
Note: Richard D. Haase last broadcast at WHND Honey Radio, as dated.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: WKSG RECALLED! LEE ALAN IS BACK IN THE ’60S
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NEW! FOR THE ARCHIVE: WKQI RECALLED! ROY STEPHENS ON THE RADIO
A special THANK YOU to Roy Stephens for this recent contribution into our Motor City Radio Flashbacks collection.
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