featuring events, birthdays and anniversaries on this day through the years.

with Peter Mayne

including two golden oldies in today's Firm Offer

at 6.0 a review of the new Top 30 album chart. including at 5.30 Newsbeat with Peter Mayne

with an appreciation of Smokey Robinson
Even before SMOKEY helped to found the Tamla
Motown label in 1957 he was playing and writing songs with the Miracles in a Detroit basement, watched by a young Diana Ross.
As there were only eight employees in the early Tamla days, he was involved in everything and his talents for producing and arranging flourished within the Motown ' family spirit'.
He later introduced Diana Ross to the ' family ' head. Berry Gordy , to start her phenomenally successful career.
On writing he has said,
' I just write about things that people can relate to, and would be the same if I wrote them in 1920 or 2000.' A magic that has been highly successful for him and other major Motown artists
Producer TEDDY WARRICK