"Nightflight" Tue Jan 7, 9P-12M ET-Back to the Complete Motown Singles with 1966!

[midnight johnny]

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Well, Happy New Year, Nightflight Listeners!! Here's hoping that your new year finds you healthy and not too cold from this Arctic BLAST!
And with the new year, we restart the Complete Motown Singles. We left off last year with the completion of a great year for Motown...1965. So, naturally, we are moving into another amazing year for the Sound of Young America...1966!!

And tonight's show couldn't be possible without the support of SDF's own Bobby Gardner aka rossholloway, who supplied the show with not only the tracks aired from 1966, but about 75% of all the tracks that are played on this "Nightflight" special presentation. Bobby...thanks for your help and generosity!!

So join me for all this...and more...tonight...on "Nightflight"..on WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans...and we are streaming live worldwide in digital stereo at www.womr.org
Thanks so much!!
John

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Detroit's Fox Theater marquee from the Motortown Review in 1966

[sophisticated_soul]

Hey John-
In 1966, I was only 15 [[with eyes that would glow:)). I was to young to fall in love but I sure knew my music. And 'My Music' was MoTown and 1966 was a very good year. Looking forward to looking back with you and the gang. See y'all then!:cool:

[RossHolloway]

Can't wait to tune in!

[midnight johnny]

Welll....I am now in the studio.....howdy do and how are you????

[MotownLover]

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Here's Me! :cool:

Howdy John and the Gang!!

Gonna be a good show tonight. What else could Motown 1966 be?

Howard in Long Beach, CA

[MotownLover]

Martha and girls with the Tops too!:D

[144man]

Hope 1966, my favourite Motown year, warms everyone up.

Happy New Year to all.

[supremester]

YES!
GO JOHNNY!
This is MY song [[but I'll share with you)

[sophisticated_soul]

NLYBS: If not for you Johnny, if not for you. We all owe you!:)

[RossHolloway]

Atlanta is checking in!

[supremester]

Even Motown makes mistakes.......they also used the album version of I'm Still Waiting on TCMS 1971B [[instead of that butchered 2:59 single edit)

Your mix of NLYBS is definitive!

[144man]

I'm here with you, together till the end of tonight!

[midnight johnny]

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Here's Me! :cool:

Howdy John and the Gang!!

Gonna be a good show tonight. What else could Motown 1966 be?

Howard in Long Beach, CA

Howard....HowdYYYYYYYY!!!

[midnight johnny]

Hope 1966, my favourite Motown year, warms everyone up.

Happy New Year to all.

Martin...Happy New Year...are you with us?

[144man]

Your mix of NLYBS is definitive!

I agree completely.

[midnight johnny]

YES!
GO JOHNNY!
This is MY song [[but I'll share with you)

Nope....MY song...MINE....ALL MINE HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[midnight johnny]

NLYBS: If not for you Johnny, if not for you. We all owe you!:)

That is so sweet of you!!!!! Thank you my friend!!!

[midnight johnny]

Atlanta is checking in!

I'm quite glad you are here!!!!!!

[carole cucumber]

Johnny darlin'

Whenever there is only 1 side of a released single featured in this series it usually means that the b-side was a repeat from another single by the same artist- in this case, "Sad Song" which had already appeared as the b-side of Tamla T 54099 "I'll Always Love You".
I never really understood why, with the wealth of unreleased tunes, Motown would repeat a b-side on any single.

[midnight johnny]

I'm here with you, together till the end of tonight!


Great you will be here, Martin!!

[MotownLover]

This Old Heart Of Mine - Top notch classic Motown in my book. Got to be one of my most favorite Motown tunes. Thanks for playing it!

[midnight johnny]

Johnny darlin'

Whenever there is only 1 side of a released single featured in this series it usually means that the b-side was a repeat from another single by the same artist- in this case, "Sad Song" which had already appeared as the b-side of Tamla T 54099 "I'll Always Love You".
I never really understood why, with the wealth of unreleased tunes, Motown would repeat a b-side on any single.

Carole....thank you!!! And Happy New Year....welcome!

[midnight johnny]

This Old Heart Of Mine - Top notch classic Motown in my book. Got to be one of my most favorite Motown tunes. Thanks for playing it!

Howard....a pleasure!!

[midnight johnny]

Johnny darlin'

Whenever there is only 1 side of a released single featured in this series it usually means that the b-side was a repeat from another single by the same artist- in this case, "Sad Song" which had already appeared as the b-side of Tamla T 54099 "I'll Always Love You".
I never really understood why, with the wealth of unreleased tunes, Motown would repeat a b-side on any single.

...and that last point is VERY true!!!!

[MotownLover]

When I Had Your Love has REALLY grown on me over the recent years. I love to play it super loud. Great production!!!:cool:

[144man]

I always liked "When I Had Your Love" better than the A-side.

[RossHolloway]

I wonder what an Isley Brother's version of Shake Me, Wake Me would have sounded like?

[MotownLover]

What MAGIC Levi and the Tops have!! So smooth with solid, full production. Can't beat it, no way! I was strongly attached to the Tops' Second Album for these reasons..such harmony! :-)

[midnight johnny]

What MAGIC Levi and the Tops have!! So smooth with solid, full production. Can't beat it, no way! I was strongly attached to the Tops' Second Album for these reasons..such harmony! :-)

Yes....both Tops' first and second albums are favorites of mine....and the Andantes are all over those LPs!!

[MotownLover]

Yes....both Tops' first and second albums are favorites of mine....and the Andantes are all over those LPs!!

So true...:)

[supremester]

I've never understood the relative failure of Get Ready - I loved it from day 1. It peaked at 29 with only 3 weeks in the top 40! I cannot get it.

[MotownLover]

I never understood why the Tempts' "Get Ready" didn't do better on the US pop charts. If I recall it went top 10 in the R&B charts, yes?

[R. Mark Desjardins]

Happy New Year, John! Sure "getting' ready" for more of your radio shows throughout 2014.

[midnight johnny]

Happy New Year, John! Sure "getting' ready" for more of your radio shows throughout 2014.

Mark...Happy New Year to you too!! Great to see you....are you with us??

[MotownLover]

I never understood why the Tempts' "Get Ready" didn't do better on the US pop charts. If I recall it went top 10 in the R&B charts, yes?

I see that it went #1 on the 1966 Billboard R&B charts! Only #29 on the Pop singles chart.

[RossHolloway]

Can someone explain Marv Johnson's career at Motown?

[RossHolloway]

Hey MJ- It's not much better down here in Atlanta, it's currently 18 degrees.

[midnight johnny]

Hey MJ- It's not much better down here in Atlanta, it's currently 18 degrees.

Hey BG.....I'll take that 8 degrees and raise you 20 more!!!

[RossHolloway]

Hey BG.....I'll take that 8 degrees and raise you 20 more!!!

My next move is to South Beach

[midnight johnny]

My next move is to South Beach

Ohhhhhhhhhh....take me with you!!!!

[144man]

Excellent lyrics on "Truly Yours". "Where Is That Girl" is superb.

[RossHolloway]

Ohhhhhhhhhh....take me with you!!!!

Sure! This cold is for the birds.

[midnight johnny]

Sure! This cold is for the birds.

....ohhhhhh....those poor birds...............

[sophisticated_soul]

....ohhhhhh....those poor birds...............

Now you know why they attacked!;)

[midnight johnny]

Now you know why they attacked!;)

Really!!! ........speaking of birds.....

[sophisticated_soul]

Well this show was definitely NOT for the birds!:) Thanks John. Thank you one and all. 1966, how could so much time have gone by so quickly. Perfect closing track [[and perfectly extended!), so we open with "He's All I Got" next week? See y'all next time:cool:

[144man]

Great show. Now wrap up warm, y'all.

[midnight johnny]

Well this show was definitely NOT for the birds!:) Thanks John. Thank you one and all. 1966, how could so much time have gone by so quickly. Perfect closing track [[and perfectly extended!), so we open with "He's All I Got" next week? See y'all next time:cool:

Joseph...thanks! Yeah...1966 is going on almost 50 years ago....cheeeeezzzzzzzzz!!
Actually for the timing of the show I had to skip Chris Clark's "Do I Love You[[.....)"....which will definitely be played next time!

[midnight johnny]

Great show. Now wrap up warm, y'all.

Martin...thanks...and thanks for being part of the festivities!!!!