Month: February 2023

THE SCOTT REGEN 1 PLUS 3 VOTING: WKNR #2! TIM TAM, FEBRUARY 1966

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“Wait A Minute” debuted on the WKNR Music Guide at #28 for the week of December 22, 1965. The group from Allen Park peaks their new Palmer Records single at WKNR on January 19, 1966 at #3. Seven weeks overall at WKNR, the single drops to #9 on its final week on the music guides, February 2, 1966.

“Wait A Minute” was voted #2 for consecutive nights by Keener listeners during the Scott Regen 1 Plus 3 Voting for nearly a week in January, 1966.

A side note: “Wait A Minute” was co-written by Tom DeAngelo, who also at the time was managing Tim Tam & The Turn-Ons. In late 1967, DeAngelo became DJ Johnny Williams at CKLW in Windsor, Ontario. Tom DeAngelo (a.k.a. Johnny Williams) passed away in April 2020.

The above Billboard February 5, 1966 ad was digitally re-imaged and restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

Audio digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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Z95.5 FM! WCZY BACK ON THE RADIO: STEVE KELLY, OCTOBER 1985

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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Robert Zerwekh for this WCZY aircheck he personally recorded, from 38 years ago. From the Robert Zerwekh Collection

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TM PRODUCTIONS: DETROIT RADIO JINGLES! WXYZ 1971

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The TM Companies (1967–1979)

In 1967 TM Productions began as a music production company, producing commercial jingles and broadcast station identifications (IDs). Jim Long (born Timothy John Moynihan; February 7, 1943 – May 30, 2022) conceptualized and co-produced an entirely new approach to station IDs which provided stations a natural flow from commercial breaks to station IDs to music programming, increasing listenership and ratings. Called “Phase 2”, “The Propellants” and “The Winning Score”, these programs were quickly adopted by top stations including KILT Houston, WCFL Chicago and KHJ Los Angeles (also WXYZ ABC in Detroit).

TM Studios, Inc. is a radio jingle and promotional music service company based in Dallas, Texas. It is currently the oldest radio jingle company still in business, with roots tracing back to 1955 when Tom Merriman (the original “TM” in TM Studios) founded Commercial Recording Corporation (which closed in 1968). Tom Merriman left CRC in 1967 and founded TM Productions (later known as TM Communications, Inc. – a publicly traded company) with Jim Long. By this time, Century 21 Productions (later known as Century 21 Programming, Inc.), another Dallas jingle company, was founded.

Both jingle companies remained in business until 1990, when TM Communications, Inc. and Century 21 Programming, Inc. merged to become TM Century, Inc.

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Source: Jones Radio Networks [Wikipedia]

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