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Many of the above titled Billboard ‘Top 40’ R&B singles were also the most popular radio plays heard on two Detroit’s soul stations 1400 WJLB and 1440 WCHB on the AM dial, December 1967. 

As tabulated by Billboard, the featured R&B Top 50 record singles and R&B Top 30 LP listing was the nation’s most popular and best-selling soul records, for the week-ending December 9, 1967.

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Chart survey digitally restored and re-imaged by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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NOTES: In the R&B Top 50 listing, you will find there are eight (8) Detroit Motown singles and note as well a single by Detroit’s own Parliaments on the Revilot Records label.

In the R&B top 30 LP’s, marking the charts this week are seven Motown names and groups having comprised the list. It bears noting as well, Detroit’s Aretha Franklin’s second LP on the Atlantic label is positioned in the top 5, holding strong in sales at 16 weeks on the chart. Franklin’s debut LP, positioned at #26 for two weeks, still holds strong at 36 weeks on the Billboard R&B LPs survey.

The hottest soul LP in America on this date in 1967, you will note is in the Top 10. Nearly a year on the soul charts, The Temptations’ Greatest Hits holds an astounding 52 weeks listing overall in the Top Selling R&B LPs.

The Billboard Hot R&B singles and LPs. This week, fifty-four years ago. December 1967.

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