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On the Front Cover:
Caption reads: The WPGC Money Plane over RFK Stadium. Watch the Metro Skies for the WPGC Money Plane with the Money Message and Win Cash.
The plane flew in 1973-74. On the bottom was an electronic billboard with a message that listeners could recite the next morning with Harv Moore to win $100.
Hear Jim Collins congratulate a winner.
See a 'For Sale' ad for the plane two years later in the Post.
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Note:
'Brother Louie' by Stories below would go on to be the
#1 song of the year on the WPGC
Top 100 of 1973.
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#1 on WPGC Today in 1973
It is difficult to imagine anyone else doing, 'Half-Breed' other than Cher. Not surprisingly, the song was written with her specifically in mind. Producer, Snuff Garrett had already revitalized her singing career with, 'Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves' and gave Sonny & Cher their first Top Ten hit since, 'The Beat Goes On' with back to back hits, 'All I Ever Need Is You' and 'A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done'. To say he was on a roll would be an understatement; his next record with Cher, 'The Way Of Love' was yet another Top 10. Planning on having her next do, 'The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia', Sonny overruled him, fearing backlash from the South. At that point, Garrett left. Read more on Cher.
Though 'The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour' was doing well on TV, Sonny's influence on Cher's recording career was waning by that point. It was clear her ambitions were beyond the duo and while he wanted to hold on to a good thing, she did not. By 1973, their days as a singing duo were over. Holding on to 'Half-Breed' for several months, Garrett once again teamed up with Cher on the song. It became the second #1 single for the new MCA Records (formed by absorbing its own subsidiaries, Decca, Kapp & Uni). It also became Cher's second #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 for two weeks and spent its first of two consecutive weeks at #1 on the WPGC All Hit Music survey on 10/13/73. See enlargement.
When the couple divorced and the TV show eventually came to an end, Cher continued to have success on the charts and has the distinction of being the only artist to have ever had a #1 hit on at least one of the Billboard charts in every decade from the '60's through the '10's, as well as holds the record for the longest chart span between #1's in 1965 with, 'I Got You Babe' to 'Believe' in 1999. Selling over 100 million records alone would have cemented her place in entertainment history. Her illustrious film career speaks for itself, as do the Grammy, Emmy & Academy Awards she has won over the course of her stellar career. See the music video from their TV show. |
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