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A 1960S MOTOR CITY MUSIC FEATURE RECALLED: 1965!

A ’60s Detroit Music Moment Revisited: 1965

‘MOTOWN RECORDS, MAN, WHICH IS BIG, REALLY BIG’

FROM THE BACK-PAGES OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

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SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1965

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EIGHT DOORS OPEN OFF THE first floor hallway at 2652 W. Grand Boulevard and when they are closed, the tiny passageway grows eerie. You are alone there, but with a distant sound of music — that is part blues, part gospel and a lot of rhythm. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .

— DETROIT FREE PRESS

DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, March 21, 1965

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DETROIT MAGAZINE (Detroit Free Press) Sunday, March 21, 1965

MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK! JIMMY RUFFIN 1967

‘**JIMMY RUFFIN SINGS TOP TEN**.’ If there was ever a “*greatest hits*” album Motown came close having produced for Jimmy Ruffin, this LP was it. By the time of its release in early-1967, it produced 4 singles, three songs having made the *Billboard Hot 100*. The first single off the album, *“As Long As There Is L-O-V-E Love,”* was initially released in 1965, but failed to crack the singles chart. *“What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted,”* was released during the summer of 1966, and it would be Ruffin’s biggest. The single broke top ten *(#7 Pop; #6 R&B)* and stayed 17 weeks riding the chart. A follow-up, *“I’ve Passed This Way Before” (Pop #17),* was released later that year. The fourth single off this album, *“Gonna Give Her All The Love I Got” (Pop #29; R&B #14)* made Billboard in February 1967. It was also Ruffin’s last Top 40 single with Motown.

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MOTOWN SNAPSHOT MEMORIES: GLADYS KNIGHT ’70s

**RECORDED LATE -1972, ‘NEITHER ONE OF US‘** would become the last album *Gladys Knight and the Pips* would record for Motown. By March 1973, when this LP was released, the group by that time had signed to record with *Buddah Records* in February. Their 1973 single, *“Daddy Could Swear I Declare,”* would become the second single taken off the album by the group, having made the top 20 *(pop #19; R&B #2)* after it’s release in April. The first single from the LP, *“Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye),”* would become the last single prior Gladys Knight & The Pips departure from Motown. But it would become one of their biggest. The single peaked at #2 (2 weeks) on Billboard, April 4, 1973. The single (*Soul S 35098*) was released on December 26, 1972.

DETROIT WXYZ AM 1270 1966 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!

Saturday, April 16, 1966

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ-AM Joey Reynolds

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