Which way's Motown?

[radioman148]

From the Stylistics, don't forget about You Make Me Feel Brand New.

Not gonna forget that one. Great song.

 

[Aquarius]

KONO-AM 860 in San Antonio still plays all those Mo-Town hits from the 1960’s and soul hits from the 1970’s regularly.

https://www.86kono.com/lsp/

 

[radioman148]

KONO-AM 860 in San Antonio still plays all those Mo-Town hits from the 1960’s and soul hits from the 1970’s regularly.

https://www.86kono.com/lsp/

Good for them. Somebody should play those great hits.

 

[TheFonz]

2005, though, would have been 50 years since Bill Haley's recording of "Rock Around The Clock," the song often described as the first rock 'n' roll hit. It was nothing of the sort, of course, merely the first recording of such a song by a white act to get wide airplay. Plenty of rock 'n' roll songs performed by black artists were hits on R&B stations targeting black listeners at least five years before 1955, but I could definitely see an oldies station buying into the "Rock Around The Clock" myth.

I think the key word here is "hit". "Clock" was #1 on the Billboard Pop chart in 1955, the first R&R record to do so. That chart was the industry standard at the time. The Fontaine Sisters' "Hearts Of Stone" and the McGuire Sisters'' "Sincerely" also made #1 that year but they were considered Pop covers of R&B songs.