Day: September 25, 2017

WKNR TOP 31 DETROIT KEENER HITS: THIS WEEK 09/1964

WKNR MUSIC GUIDE September 24, 1964 (click on chart image for largest view)
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE September 24, 1964 (click on chart image for largest view)
WKNR ‘KEENER 13’ September 24, 1964

53 YEARS AGO. SEPTEMBER 1964

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.

 

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MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: SHORTY LONG 1969

“DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS,” was a song that was written by William “Mickey” Stevenson and Shorty Long in 1964. The song would be the very first single Motown Records inaugurated for their new subsidiary label, SOUL, that same year. Shorty Long’s tenure while at Motown produced 8 singles and two albums, ‘Here Comes Da Judge’ and ‘The Prime Of Shorty Long,’ the latter LP posthumously released after his death in 1969. Long’s two biggest singles were “Function At The Junction,” having reached the #4 position on the R&B chart in 1966. His biggest hit was in 1968, when his single, “Here Comes Da Judge,” peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #8 and also hit #4 on the national R&B chart. Incidently, “Devil With The Blue Dress” never made the Billboard chart. Tragically, Shorty Long died on June 29, 1969. He was 29. (Source: Wikipedia; All Music)
DETROIT FREE PRESS Monday, June 30, 1969

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DETROIT MOTOWN MONDAY: BEATLES FLASHBACK, ’64

THE BEATLES SECOND ALBUM (U.S.) 1964
MONEY * The Beatles * THE BEATLES’ SECOND ALBUM
THE BEATLES’ SECOND ALBUM (U.S.) 1964
3 of 3. For our 2nd. of 3 Beatles’ Motown songs ‘SECOND ALBUM’ feature GO HERE.

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