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Volume Two - 1964-1966 - Page Ten
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Volume Two - 1964-1966 - continues - HERE
A full-page ad for Los Angeles KRLA DJ Dave Hull’s newly opened Hullabaloo Club in Los Angeles, California. Del Shannon was one of the first major acts to grace the stage, appearing December 22-26, 1965. Ike & Tina Turner opened with a matinee show on the final day.
Next up were Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, performing from December 27, 1965 through January 2, 1966, including the big New Year’s Eve show.
Hull, also known as "The Hullabalooer", had no connection to the NBC TV show “Hullabaloo” which began airing in January 1965, or to the franchise of Hullabaloo teen clubs spawned by the show. He was, however, voted one of the top ten Los Angeles radio personalities of all time.
In addition to Hull, the KRLA staff at the time also included the legendary Dick Biondi, Bob Eubanks (born in Flint, Michigan), and Casey Kasem (born in Detroit, Michigan). Hull and Eubanks had close relationships to the Beatles, producing their Hollywood Bowl appearances in 1964 and 1965, and their penultimate US show at Dodger Stadium in 1966.
Hull’s personal ties with the band, documented by KRLA’s newsletter and magazine BEAT, that also happened to have regular columns by Beatles’ publicists Tony Barrow and Derek Taylor, gave the radio station inside access and advanced releases of Beatles’ records.
In Bill Earl’s 1991 book “Dream-House ", he has this story about Dave Hull:
"We were told a very interesting story about the album, "Sgt. Pepper." The Beatles always liked drinking "Dr. Pepper," before and after their concerts, in America. Apparently, that beverage was not that accessible in England. The Beatles wanted to call their new L.P. record, "Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." ("When I'm 64," for an album title, was simply a working title.) We were told, that it was none other than Dave Hull, who told The Beatles they would be in one big lawsuit, if they used the name "Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." At Dave Hull's suggestion, it was changed from "Dr. Pepper's" to "Sgt. Pepper's." And the rest is history."
For a deep dive into the KRLA story, you can download “Dream House” here:
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/Dream-House-KRLA-Earl.pdf
The Los Angeles radio station KRLA published a newsletter called the “KRLA BEAT”, starting as a four-pager in October 1964 and eventually expanding to 16 pages, loaded with photos. The station had a close relationship to The Beatles, particularly DJ’s Dave Hull and Bob Eubanks. The Beatles’ publicist Tony Barrow had a regular column and the Beatles’ press officer Derek Taylor became the paper’s editor in 1967. Taylor was also one of the main organizers of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, giving the BEAT exclusive access to that landmark event.
Heralded as “L.A.'s rock journalism starts here”, and "the first American newspaper dedicated to coverage of the top-forty rock-and-roll music scene", it may be the most comprehensive, week-by-week, account of the Beatles and other British Invasion groups the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, and Herman's Hermits as they conquered America.
The BEAT also prominently featured Motown artists, and although it is clearly written for the teen market, it provided exposure to a wide range of music (even including Detroit’s Spike Drivers) and in later years, would delve into some “underground” scenes and social issues.
The complete archive of the magazine can be found here:
http://krlabeat.sakionline.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Strip ads in Billboard magazine for Golden World Records in Detroit, Michigan for the weeks of September 25, October 23, and December 4, 1965, featuring “Hungry For Love” by the San Remo Golden Strings, “Agent OO Soul” by Edwin Starr, “The Double O-O Soul of Sonny Stitt”, “Please Let Me In” by J.J. Barnes, “Hungry For Love” by Jimmy Randazzo, “The Beginning of the End” by Little John & Tony, “Concerto For Jazz Lovers” by Sonny Stitt, “Back Street” By Edwin Starr, “Doin’ Things Together with You” by Barbara Mercer, written by Van McCoy, “You And I” by Bob Santa Maria, and “I’m Satisfied” and “Blueberry Hill” by the San Remo Golden Strings.
The only one of these tracks that we have previously posted is Edwin Starr’s “Agent Double-O Soul”, so here, we cue up an evening’s worth of Golden World Records:
The San Remo Golden Strings – Hungry For Love (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RDckwXxL-c
Sonny Stitt – The Double O-O Soul of Sonny Stitt (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ4q8THninY
J.J. Barnes – Please Let Me In (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbMZ9CVP8vw
Sonny Stitt – Concerto for Jazz Lovers (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYf1C32EChM
Edwin Starr – Back Street (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdb_9l-rvY
Barbara Mercer - Doin’ Things Together with You (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaXOgwP_9vo
The San Remo Golden Strings – I’m Satisfied (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5du-PECbuU
The San Remo Golden Strings – Blueberry Hill (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXi9P46qPoA
An ad for the Woolies at the Union Ballroom in East Lansing, Michigan, December 5, 1965.
The Byrds returned for their second Michigan appearance a little over four months since their Michigan debut at Band Canyon in Bay City, with these shows on December 5, 1965 at Daniel’s Den in Saginaw. Their single “Turn! Turn! Turn!” had hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart just the day before, becoming their second, and final, Number One hit.
Opening for The Byrds was the local group Bobby Rigg & the Chevelles, who would later be enlisted by guitarist Dick Wagner to form the New Bossmen, later Dick Wagner & the Bossmen, then Dick Wagner & the Frosts, and finally, simply, Frost.
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
An ad for Louis Armstrong in Lansing, Michigan on December 6, 1965.
A Tilghman Press poster for Marvin Gaye at the Sportsman Club in Oakland, California, December 9, 1965.
This is the earliest poster that we’ve found so far by Leni Sinclair, from December 10, 1965. Just six months earlier, Magdalene Arndt, one of the original co-founders of the Detroit Artists Workshop, had married co-founder John Sinclair on June 12th.
Leni Sinclair’s photography would become internationally renowned and with Stanley Mouse gone off to find his fame in San Francisco, we consider Leni Sinclair to be our original Detroit rock poster artist.
A full-page Bell Records ad in the December 18, 1965 issue of Billboard magazine with the single “Jenny Take A Ride” by Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels.
A poster with the Supremes opening for Judy Garland at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on December 17, 1965.
Judy Garland performed the first concert at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on December 17, 1965, following the completion of the first year of indoor baseball with the Houston Astros’ 1965 season. The Supremes opened the show, for which Garland was reportedly paid $43,000 for her appearance, about $350,000 in today’s dollars.
A Brunswick Records ad for the first duet single by two of their stars, Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker, which was listed in the potential Top 60 in the December 11, 1965 issue of Billboard magazine. The record did not perform as well as predicted, peaking at #93, but an impromptu, possibly inebriated, seriously X-rated version surfaced on some compilations decades later, and man, is it nasty!
Jackie Wilson & LaVern Baker – Think Twice (Version X) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA64mhwfoZc
A backstage photo from the Dave Clark Five’s third Michigan appearance, at Cobo Arena in Detroit on December 10, 1965. In the dark suits are the MC5 who had won the opening slot, Terry Knight & the Pack were also on the bill.
The MC5’s original bassist Pat Burrows tells how they almost opened a show for the Rolling Stones:
“Back then, they were called record hops. It was on the radio all the time. You'd listen to radio...CKLW was one, in Windsor, Ontario, that would push the MC5 all the time. We were supposed to play with the Rolling Stones. We had a gig set up, and the editor of one of the large papers in Detroit...his kid had a band, and somehow he got us bumped off. Yeah! We were supposed to play like Detroit, Toronto, Montreal with the Stones, and this kid's father got us bumped off, two or three days before the show. Wayne and Fred were devastated! And we didn't get to play the shows; this other group did. I felt bad about it, but I didn't take it as bad as Fred. Fred, I thought, was going to commit suicide! It didn't happen.
“We opened for the Dave Clark Five, and then they even threw some crumbs at us. They said, "Here's some tickets to some other shows." We didn't want 'em. We said, "Nah, we don't want that shit." That's where we played with Terry Knight and the Pack, who turned out to be Grand Funk....Mark Farner. We played with them a couple of times.”
The Gang began a weekly Saturday night gig at the Cellar in Trenton, Michigan, starting December 4, 1965. Poster/flyer by an unknown artist.
An ad for The Supremes appearance in Baltimore, Maryland, November 26, 1965.
“Work/3” published by the Detroit Artists Workshop in December 1965, with cover photo by Leni Sinclair.
The back cover of “Work/3” published by the Detroit Artists Workshop in December 1965, with artwork by Jerry Younkins.
An ad for the Spike Drivers, appearing at Gino’s Falcon Show Bar in Detroit, Michigan from an entertainment newspaper dated December 2, 1965.
A Capitol Records poster for the Beatles’ album “Rubber Soul”, released on December 3, 1965. In retrospect, it is the exact half-way point in the band’s career, both stylistically (coming after “Help” and before “Revolver”), and numerically (being the sixth of twelve official studio albums).
The front page of the first issue of The Paper in East Lansing, Michigan, dated December 3, 1965, started by Michael Kindman and Laurence Tate and published by students of Michigan State University.
Gino Washington with The Lourds at Club BMF in Redford, Michigan, December 3, 1965.
An ad for Club Gay Haven with Johnny Rivers for eleven shows, November 30, 1965 through December 8th. Making the most of his first Michigan visits, combined with his debut at the Michigan State Fair in August, giving him a total of 17 shows between the two gigs.
Detroit’s Cobo Hall opened in 1960 with the opening events being a Florists Telegraph Delivery convention and an auto industry dinner with keynote speaker, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The first concert was Jerry Lee Lewis on May 17, 1961. Dr. Martin Luther King premiered his first “I Have a Dream” speech there in June 1963. In 1965, the Detroit Auto Show, November 27, 1965 through December 5th, celebrating its 50th year, came to Cobo for the first time and would continue to be held there to this day.
It became the city’s premier venue for traveling national and international stars and for large local charity events like the “Benefit for Detroit’s Retarded Children”. We bet that many of you remember the slow circular crawl on to, and off of, the roof-top parking.
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
'BRIAN, YOU'RE SO ESOTERIC!!!' – placard hoisted by a member of the audience when the Rolling Stones appeared at the Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan on November 26, 1965.
Keith Richards used a Gibson Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Box in the recording of the song "Satisfaction" mainly because he thought the riff would end up being played by horns and thought the tone would be a good sketch for them to follow later. The Maestro FZ-1 was invented (by accident) during the recording of Marty Robbin’s song “Don’t Worry” in 1961. A faulty tube pre-amp gave the guitar solo that starts at 1:27 in the song a crunchy, fuzzy sound that proved to be the reason for the song’s popularity. The session engineer, Glen Snotty, reverse-engineered the broken channel and reproduced it in a transistorized unit and sold it to the Gibson guitar company. Gibson sold out of all available units after the release of “Satisfaction”.
We almost passed on this video because Keith’s guitar is so low in the mix, but everything else sounds fine and it’s a good, four-minute long performance. One thing that is really striking is that Charlie Watts maintains a single drum-hit beat with no breaks and no fills – just a freaking machine!
The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEjkftp7J7I
Marty Robbins – Don’t Worry (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WBBcH6OPU
A full-page Atlantic Records ad in the November 27, 1965 issue of Billboard magazine for the single “You Made Me Love You” by Aretha Franklin.
Poster for a benefit concert for the USO at Madison Square Garden in New York City, November 14, 1965, with an appearance by The Supremes.
Miles Davis began a six-night stand at the Grand Lounge in Detroit, Michigan, November 16, 1965.
The first issue of the Fifth Estate newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, November 19, 1965.
The Fugitives at an All-Campus Mixer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 20, 1965.
A full-page Motown Records Christmas ad in the November 20, 1965 issue of Billboard magazine with the slogan, "the sound of young America".
Poster by Murray Poster Printing for the Supremes in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on November 21, 1965.
An ad for the Roostertail supper club in Detroit, Michigan, November 10-21, 1965, and an ad for the Club Gay Haven in Dearborn, a few months earlier, in August. What they have in common is that both gigs feature Rusty Day & the Midnighters.
An ad for The Supremes appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 25, 1965 with the Lovin’ Spoonful as opening act.
A London Records ad for the Rolling Stones 1965 US tour, including their second Detroit appearance, at the Cobo Arena on November 26, 1965. Local group Terry Knight & The Pack were the openers.
A poster by the Murray Poster Printing Co. with John Lee Hooker as part of a Verve-Folkways Records’ “Blues Bag” at the Café Au Go-Go in Greenwich Village, NYC, November 24-27, 1965.
A full-page Tamla Motown ad for Stevie Wonder’s single “Uptight (Everything's Alright)”, released on November 22, 1965. It became his second #1 on the Billboard magazine’s R&B singles chart, and his second Top Ten on the Hot 100 chart, peaking at #3.
We don’t know how anyone can hear the opening blast of horns on this track and not be totally overwhelmed by the triumphant majesty of what Motown had achieved.
Stevie Wonder – Uptight (Everything’s Alright) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIGZrwlTZc
Ads for Chuck and Joni Mitchell at the Side Door in Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 20-21, 1965.
A full-page Verve Record ad for the Ella Fitzgerald album “Ella in Hamburg” in the November 20, 1965 issue of Billboard magazine. The live recording, from a concert on March 26, 1965, featured the accompaniment of Detroit’s Tommy Flanagan and his trio.
An ad for the Supremes with the Lovenspoonfuls (sic) for an afternoon show at the Oklahoma State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City on November 14, 1965.
A Tamla Motown Records ad in the November 6, 1965 issue of Billboard magazine. Nobody sings like Smokey Robinson. Also, a second ad.
The Miracles – My Girl Has Gone (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Bpj8GtnPw
The movie “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine”, released on November 6, 1965, starring Vincent Price, with the theme song performed by Diana Ross & the Supremes. The track was released only as a single-side promo.
We also have a link to the full movie, if you’ve got 88 minutes to spare, we liked the first six.
The Supremes - Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAwAqLAdt2E
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (movie) (1965)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1x68ra
From the legendary nine-month run at the strip club in Jackson, Michigan by Bob Seger & the Town Criers at the Roseland Club, we put this in 1965, based on the Tuesday date, November 9, 1965, the Sunday date must have been an error.
The Supremes took a two and a half week bus tour, for sixteen shows, with the unlikely touring mates, the Lovin’ Spoonful, November 10-28, 1965.
An ad for the Bossmen, Lindells, and Kingsmen at Daniel’s Den in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, November 12, 1965.
An ad for Chuck and Joni Mitchell, back at the Chess Mate in Detroit, November 2-7, 1965.
Poster/ad for a Motown Revue, billed as the “Biggest Show of Stars ‘65”, in Miami, Florida, November 2, 1965.
A story on the Supremes in the Miami News during their ten-night engagement at the Café Pompeii at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, December 23, 1965 through January 1, 1966. The group also rode in the Orange Bowl Parade.
Another Christmas and another year-end home-coming run of the Motortown Revue at the Fox Theater in Detroit with a gorgeous Globe Poster. 1965 had been another banner year for Motown, releasing over 125 singles and over 30 albums. We don’t know how anyone can hear the opening blast of horns on this track and not be totally overwhelmed by the triumphant majesty of what Motown had achieved.
Stevie Wonder – Uptight (Everything’s Alright) (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIGZrwlTZc
