Day: June 18, 2012
FLASHBACK ADS: MUSICOR RECORDS * 1967
FLASHBACK ADS: “MISSION IMPOSSIBLE” * LALO SCHIFRIN * 1968
FLASHBACK POP MUSIC HISTORY: JUNE 18
From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: JUNE 18
1966: The No. 1 song on the R&B charts is “Hold On, I’m Coming,” by Sam and Dave.
1967: After wresting the coveted closing spot for the Who, Jimi Hendrix wows concert-goers at the Monterey Pop Music Festival by setting his guitar on fire during his performance.
1967: Apple Records is formed.
1974: Rare Earth drummer (also lead singer for the band) Peter Hoorelbeke is arrested for throwing his drumsticks into the crowd at the end of the band’s concert.
1975: Elvis Presley enters Memphis’ Mid-South Hospital, ostensibly for an “extensive eye-examination;” reports persist, however, that the King is actually having his ‘crow’s feet’ removed from his aging face.
1987: After only two years of marriage, Bruce Springsteen is separated from his first wife, model and actress Julianne Phillips.
1993: Having sold their label to Polygram three years earlier for a reported $500,000 million dollars, A&M Records founder Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss announce their intention to leave the company entirely. Begun in 1962, A&M was one of the first artist-owned labels, and the first successful independent label.
2002: Billy Joel is admitted to Connecticut’s Silver Hill Hospital for ten days in order to control his commonly known compulsive and habitual-drinking problems.
2004: Ray Charles’ funeral is held in Los Angeles at the First AME Church, featuring performances by Stevie Wonder, Glen Campbell, Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson. Non-performing attendees included Little Richard, Clint Eastwood, and Berry Gordy, Jr.
Birthdays: 1942: Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings); 1942: Carl Radle (Derek and the Dominoes); 1942: Richard Perry; 1947: Sandy Posey; 1952: Ricky Gazda (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes); 1953: Jerome Smith (KC and the Sunshine Band)
Deaths: Danny Cedrone (Bill Haley and the Comets), 1954; Hank Medress (The Tokens); 2007.
Recordings: 1958: “Stupid Cupid,” Connie Francis; 1959: “I Want To Walk You Home,” Fats Domino.
Charts: Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” hits No. 1 on the charts. James Taylor’s “Handy Man” enters the charts.
Certification: Electric Light Orchestra’s ‘OLE ELO’ (LP); certified gold by the RIAA.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day . . . . J U N E 1 8.
KING FEATURES NEW BEATLES CARTOONS . . . OCTOBER 30, 1965
A MCRFB NEWS brief: 1965
Beatles Cartoon Ratings Success Saturday Mornings on ABC-TV
NEW YORK — King Features is reportedly planning another TV cartoon series based on a popular recording group. The company’s “The Beatles Series,”aired over Saturday morning over ABC-TV, has been running over a month, and, according to the Nielsen ratings, is reaching over 50 per cent of the audience with sets turned on in their time period. The series, produced in London by TV Cartoons, LTD., uses the English-accented animated-sounding voices of the Fab Four and the actual Beatles hit recordings in every episode as well. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; October 30, 1965)
This copyrighted Beatles cartoon image was created by Kail Tescar. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
A MCRFB NOTE: The Beatles cartoon series premiered on the ABC Television Network, Saturday September 25, 1965. The last Beatles cartoon episode aired on April 20, 1969. Al Brodax and the King Features team created the cartoon series in New York.
KING FEATURES: BEATLES CARTOONS ABC-TV ’65 & ’66!
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A MCRFB ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: A special thank you goes out to Kail Tescar for allowing Motor City Radio Flashbacks to use his remarkably splendid Beatles cartoon image(s) above. For more on Kail Tescar‘s wonderfully created Beatles cartoon arts, you can visit his website here.
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BEATLES RECORDS BOOMING ON GLOBAL SCALE . . . FEBRUARY 29, 1964
From the MCRFB news archives: 1964
BEATLES GROSS $17,000,000 PLUS IN 6 MONTHS
NEW YORK — In the six months prior to the peak of their American success, Beatles records grossed $17,500,000, according to EMI Managing Director John Wall.
This figure, which does not include the huge sales of Beatles records here in the United States, shows the staggering impact the group has had on the record industry around the world.
Beatles records, whether “I Want To Hold Your Hand” or “I Saw her Standing There,” have risen to the top of the charts around the world on a grand scale. Besides England and the United States, the Beatles have topped charts globally whether in Australia, Eire, France, Holland, New Zealand, Norway and Hong Kong. Yet to be tapped by the hot British band are the Spanish speaking nations in Europe and South America, Germany and Japan.
The push is already on. In Spain, for instance, strong publicity is being done to further advance the pop group’s sensational rise. Also, the Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and other Beatles chart hits is gaining widespread popular airplay on the radio in Spain. A recent cover of the Spaniard fan magazine Discomania showered the Liverpool group with a large feature coverage. As planned, the strategy would be to further promote the “new Liverpool sound” which could potentially translate into a huge global market share there as well.
With the Beatles’ music popularity on the rise in Spain, it is anticipated it may become easier to introduce Beatle records through Central and South America, in the coming months ahead. It is commonly known that Spanish-speaking nations are tougher markets for English-speaking artists.
For the powerful German market, the Beatles have cut records in that country’s native language. This country has become a tough market for English-speaking artists in recent years as well. The German Beatles disks were cut in France during the group’s recent tour there prior to coming to America. END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; February 29, 1964).