Originally Posted by
stingbeelee
Hey Marv;
Don't forget the Lighthouse "Pretty Lady"; the songs from the Poppy Family; and Bill Amesbury with "Virginia; talk to me like you do". I believe the Can-Con rule was part of the demise of CKLW; I think the rule was you had to play 3 songs from Canadian artists every hour. Some of the Can-Con songs never made it on the US national charts. I recall on the back Ronnie Dyson's first album, he thanks CKLW for breaking him out nationally. Because Motown was housed here, radio stations across the nation looked to the Detroit stations - CKLW, WKNR, WJLB and WCHB for breakout hits. Rosalie Trombley was known as a person who could break you nationally, like Parliament-Funkadelics [[I Bet You was number 1 on their charts in 1969).
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