This official Record Review survey was tabulated overall by each record’s popularity and its appeal, sales, listener requests and record air plays based on the judgement of WJBK Radio 1500 (1964)
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WJBK RADIO 15 RECORD REVIEW July 17, 1964
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Above WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
This article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2024. Newspapers.com
The featured Detroit Free Press article (August 31, 1951) was digitally re-imaged and was entirely restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Jack the Bellboy.
There were five WJBK personalities who used the JTB moniker in the 1950s and in the 1960s. Ed McKenzie (1951). Tom Clay (1958). Dave Shafer (1962). Terry Knight (1963). Robin Walker (1964).
One other fact: When Ed McKenzie left WJBK for WXYZ in 1952, WJBK retained legal rights to the moniker. Nobody else at WJBK would use the title until Tom Clay was hired in late 1957, when Casey Kasem left Detroit for Buffalo that year. In 1956-57, Casey Kasem had the same late-evening hours as Ed McKenzie, on WJBK. Offered the JTB title by the station, Kasem once stated he simply declined assuming the moniker during the short time while he was there.
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Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. ?
DETROIT FREE PRESS Wednesday, May 25, 1977 — Believe it or not, one of the reasons Ralph Houk temporarily turned John Hiller into a starting pitcher was to try to build the veteran’s confidence back up.
If nothing else, the Tiger’s accomplished that much Tuesday night at Tiger Stadium.
Although Hiller was no match for California’s record-setting Nolan Ryan, he certainly had nothing to be ashamed of as the Angels stopped the Tiger’s three-game winning streak, 2-1.
Angels 2-Tigers 1(Click on box score for largest detailed view).
Ryan was his customary over-powering self, permitting three singles and striking out 12 to set an American League record for such feats. It marked the 75th time since joining the Angels in 1972, that Ryan had struck out 10 or more batters in a ball game.
THE ANGELS’ fireballing right-hander has enjoyed 89 such games in his major-league career, dating back to his days with the New York Mets, which leaves him just 8 shy of the major league record, held by Sandy Koufax.
But let the record show, John Hiller struck out five himself while only allowing five hits in his most impressing nine-inning effort against the Angels.
[See Detroit Free Press article below for more. Click on, tap or stretch article for larger detailed read].
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WJR served as the flagship station for the Detroit Tigers Radio Network, with Paul Carey producing broadcasts for the network from 1964 to 1971.
When Ray Lane transitioned to television, Carey teamed up with Ernie Harwell as a play-by-play announcer for the 1973 season, a role he held for 19 seasons. Except for his last three seasons, he also took on engineering duties for the broadcasts.
In early 1991, Carey announced his retirement at the end of the season, with his final Tigers broadcast taking place on the last day of the 1991 season—marking the final baseball game at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. In 2012, Carey was honored as the third recipient of the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association’s Harwell Lifetime Contribution Award, following Harwell and John Fountain.
Carey passed away on April 12, 2016, in Rochester, Michigan, due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at the age of 88.
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Detroit Free Press, 05/25/1977 | Copyright 2024. Newspapers.com
BASEBALL REFERENCE: For the complete California Angels vs Detroit Tigers May 24, 1977 game-day box score and stats — click HERE
DETROIT FREE PRESS May 25, 1977 [A]
DETROIT FREE PRESS May 25, 1977 [B]
THE VOICE OF THE DETROIT TIGERS Ernie Harwell with Paul Carey.
Newly restored! From the MCRFB collection. This selected audio recording was digitally remastered for this feature presentation by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends warm, Birthday wishes to Dick Purtan. Happy Birthday, Dick! We hope your day was truly special. And thank you again, for all those great D.P. radio memories you shared with us for well over four decades on both sides of the Detroit radio dial. ?
The CKLW HIT PARADE represents the judgement of CKLW’s record selection committee as to the relative popularity of of current recordings in the Motor City area and is conditioned by such factors as industry tabulations, local record sales, and telephone requests.
The featured CKLW 07/11/1967 chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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CKLW FUN RADIO 8 HIT PARADE July 11, 1967 [D]
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A sincere thank you Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
In July 1968, eight months had passed since the two major newspaper temporarily ceased its daily publications on Saturday, November 18, 1967. Both newspapers were shut down by a major union strike.
Detroit Free Press Friday, November 17, 1967. Detroit was without their two newspaper dailies for nine months in 1967-1968.
In lieu of the two newspaper’s shutdown, Detroiters found themselves without their two daily newspapers, again, for the second time in four years. The previous newspaper strike/shutdowns was back in July 1964. In substitution, the Detroit American expanded its publication for a greater outreach in the metro-Detroit area throughout the remainder of the strike during this period.
Both newspapers, the Detroit Free Press, and the Detroit News, resumed daily publications after both papers reached a tentative settlement to end the strike on Friday, August 9. Both papers were back in circulation on Saturday, August 10, 1968.
The Detroit Free Press archives includes the Detroit American newspaper publications, covering the months of May, June, and July of 1968.
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By 1992, in it’s third year run on radio syndication and under sponsorship of the Chrysler Corporation, The Americans was broadcast on over 1,000 American radio stations and was heard across the Armed Forces Radio Network in 80 countries around the world.
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
The above WXYZ 06/28/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.
These Radio 1270 top 40 charts was the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based by popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.
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Unless this site is able to acquire more of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 chart surveys in the future, this June 28, 1965 chart will be the final presentation. We first began presenting these Detroit Sound Surveys back in February of this year.
Also, if anyone has additional WXYZ charts from 1965 in their collection and are willing to share — scanned or xerox copies would suffice — please contact this site, here:
motorcityradioflashbacks65@gmail.com
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The first minute into this recording you will hear is the voice of WXYZ personality, Jim Davis. The snippet was recorded the previous day, Thursday, October 19, 1972.
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