The CKLW HIT PARADE represents the judgement of CKLW’s record selection committee as to the relative popularity of of current recordings in the Motor City area and is conditioned by such factors as industry tabulations, local record sales, and telephone requests.
The featured CKLW 07/11/1967 chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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CKLW FUN RADIO 8 HIT PARADE July 11, 1967 [D]
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A sincere thank you Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
In July 1968, eight months had passed since the two major newspaper temporarily ceased its daily publications on Saturday, November 18, 1967. Both newspapers were shut down by a major union strike.
Detroit Free Press Friday, November 17, 1967. Detroit was without their two newspaper dailies for nine months in 1967-1968.
In lieu of the two newspaper’s shutdown, Detroiters found themselves without their two daily newspapers, again, for the second time in four years. The previous newspaper strike/shutdowns was back in July 1964. In substitution, the Detroit American expanded its publication for a greater outreach in the metro-Detroit area throughout the remainder of the strike during this period.
Both newspapers, the Detroit Free Press, and the Detroit News, resumed daily publications after both papers reached a tentative settlement to end the strike on Friday, August 9. Both papers were back in circulation on Saturday, August 10, 1968.
The Detroit Free Press archives includes the Detroit American newspaper publications, covering the months of May, June, and July of 1968.
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Above Thursday Radio courtesy freep.com newspapers archives. Copyright 2024; Newspapers.com. This featured Detroit Free Press image is courtesy of MCRFB senior advisor, Greg Innis.
The above featured Detroit radio guide was clipped, saved, and digitally re-imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By 1992, in it’s third year run on radio syndication and under sponsorship of the Chrysler Corporation, The Americans was broadcast on over 1,000 American radio stations and was heard across the Armed Forces Radio Network in 80 countries around the world.
A special thank you to Lee Alan for having shared with Motor City Radio Flashbacks this special featured audio presentation.
This program was conceived, created, produced, and is narrated by Lee Alan. Property of Lee Alan and leealancreative.com. Audio was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
The above WXYZ 06/28/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.
These Radio 1270 top 40 charts was the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based by popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.
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Unless this site is able to acquire more of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 chart surveys in the future, this June 28, 1965 chart will be the final presentation. We first began presenting these Detroit Sound Surveys back in February of this year.
Also, if anyone has additional WXYZ charts from 1965 in their collection and are willing to share — scanned or xerox copies would suffice — please contact this site, here:
motorcityradioflashbacks65@gmail.com
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Newly found! Newly added! Newly remastered! From the MCRFB collection. This selected audio recording was digitally remastered for this feature presentation by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
The first minute into this recording you will hear is the voice of WXYZ personality, Jim Davis. The snippet was recorded the previous day, Thursday, October 19, 1972.
California’s Wild Surf Sound Sweeping Across the Nation
HOLLYWOOD — A batch of West Coast labels — Liberty, Dolton, Capitol, Del-Fi and Dot — have helped turn the surfin’ fad into America’s latest musical craze, with the help of swinging records, astute promotion and a dash of showmanship.
Riding with the surfing wave when it was little more than a “shore break,” these firms and a few others, helped turn it into a “cruncher.” Right now one of these labels, Del-Fi, is devoting 50 per cent of its activity to the surfing market.
One of the first national surfing hits was originally issued on the Candix label. It featured the Marketts and was called “Surfer’s Stomp.” Liberty picked up the master and turned it into a national hit, which made the top 10 of Billboard’s “Hot 100.” The Marketts also had the first surfing LP, also called “Surfer’s Stomp,” which has sold more than 50,000 albums.
Another pioneering surfing hit, also originally issued on the Candix label, featured the Beach Boys, and was called simply “Surfin’.” The record was issued in December of 1961 and by January, 1962, had turned into a big West Coast hit. The Beach Boys were signed shortly after by Capitol.
National Noise
Since then, there have been a number of national surfing hits, both singles and LP’s. The Beach Boys, on Capitol, have had two big singles, “Surfin’ Safari” and “Surfin’ U.S.A.” The Chantays on Dot had a solid hit with “Pipeline.” The Marketts’ second big hit was “Balboa Blue.” And currently Jan and Jean, on Liberty, have a big, big smash with their recording of “Surf City,” a disk that jumped to No. 10 on Billboard’s “Hot 100” this week.
Del-Fi is not the only label to work hard on surfing disks. Liberty and its subsidiary label Dolton, have issued a surfing LP with the Ventures (on Dolton), and another with the Marketts called “The Surfing Scene” and the latest Jan and Dean “Jan and Dean Take Linda Surfin’.”
Capitol hasn’t been idle, either. In addition to the Beach Boys the label has one of the biggest West Coast surf names in Dick Dale. His sales of LP’s and singles on the Coast have been solid both on his own label Del-tone, and on Capitol. In order to try to break his disks nationally, especially his new single and LP “King Of The Surf Guitar,” the firm is sending him on a national tour under the aegis of GAC. And the Beach Boys have a tour being set by the William Morris office.
Hearse Contests
Del-Fi has “Win a Hearse” contest going in San Francisco, Portland, Washington, Seattle, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and Dallas, to help its record by the Lively Ones, and to cash in on the surf hearse nuttiness.
Dot has recently issued singles by the Surfaris, Gene Gray and the Sting Rays, and has a good selling LP in the Chantays’ “Pipeline” album.
As of now the surfing trend in the music world, born just a year and a half ago, appears to be on the verge of a national and possibly international breakthrough.
The big firms are getting on the band wagon, even those located in the East. Recently a Chicago label, Stacy Records, issued a surf record that had a touch of folk-country to it. It is called “Doin’ the Surfin’ Hootenanny,” with Al Casey, and it is reportedly getting attention from both markets. END
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Information credit and source:Billboard, June 29, 1963
This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
The above WXYZ 06/21/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.
These Radio 1270 top 40 charts was the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based by popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.
For the very first time, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be featuring a dozen or so — as chart dated — of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 surveys throughout the year, 2024.
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The featured CKLW 07/11/1967 chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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