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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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For the month of August — each week — Motor CityRadio Flashbacks will feature all 5 weekly music charts WXYZ 1270 published in August 1966.
(The Jim Heddle Collection)
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Radio/TV – Authors – Music Professionals – Celebrities
They’re coming from 15 cities & 7 states. And this will be my very last time with you all.
My invitation to you —
It is my hope you will be part of a sparkling and terrific live program. Be part of a day filled with stories, memories, video and sound. WKNR greats Bob Green, Jerry Goodwin and Paul Cannon will be there. They will present the KEENER story. How it started – why it died.
Bill Hennes, former CKLW program director, will present the CKLW story, along with several of the great Big 8 names who will be there.I will present the life and death of WXYZ-WIXIE, along with the original “All Night” Chuck Daugherty. Great Detroit radio remembered from long ago.
Attending will be over 40 celebrities. All together in the same room. Meet them all personally.International recording start Jack Scott will be there, honoring 94 year’s young Robin Seymour, us, along with us. (Will he sing?)
Also, Charlie Langton and FOX 2 will be there to cover it. And we’ll be shooting video for a TV special as well. More fabulous entertainment is slated for, what will ultimately be, a most memorable event.
Reservations are getting scarce.Remember. Not possible for this to ever happen again. Willyou be there?
NEW! A special THANK YOU to senior website contributor Greg Innis of Livonia, Michigan, for recently donating this WKSG-FM radio aircheck to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
PRODUCED BY JIM HAMPTON. DRAPER & HAMPTON, INC., LOS ANGELES
Syndicated around the nation on the CBS Radio Network some thirty-eight years ago, Jim Hampton (WXYZ, WABX, WJBK, WCAR) recently pulled this special programming from his radio archives and provided this site with 6 hours of the ‘Great American Summer’ shows he produced in the early-1980s.
In these programs you will heargreat memories, events, and many of the hits by artists whose records were heard playing on the radio during the summer months the year they were released.
Jim Hampton and Ken Draper (WCAR, WCFL;Chicago) — Draper & Hampton, Inc., Los Angeles — produced this special summer programming for the CBS Radio Network.
The opening theme song was sung by, written and produced by production director Scott Chapin. Special programming features written by assistant writer, Scott Paton.
Program hosted bythe great Tom Murphy (WCFL)
Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature more of CBS’ ‘Great American Summer’ throughout the 2019 summer months.
So look for them here . . . . meanwhile enjoy your summer! ?
JIM HAMPTON
Featured today the 3rd of6 memorable pops of the ‘Great American Summer’
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A special THANK YOU to Jim Hampton (Palm Springs, CA) for sharing this CBS summer radio summertime memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
The WJBK FORMULA 40 hits was compiled, tabulated and produced by Radio 1500’s Bob Martin and Rosemary McGann.
This survey was tabulated overall by each record’s popularity and its appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of WJBK Radio.
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Previewed for the week of July 29, 1957
Note: By year’s end, 1957, Casey Kasem was no longer at WJBK 1500. Kasem left Detroit for Buffalo’s WBNY, New York, in November 1957. To fill Kasem’s departure, Dan Baxter became the new replacement. Baxter was hired for the all-night shift on WJBK.
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WJBK RADIO 1500 December 1957
— In MemoryofGeorge Griggs —
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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Above WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate
Released May, 1962. A-side: “I Call It Pretty Music But The Old People Call It The Blues (Pt. 1)”
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(Note: The B-side (featured above) is a slower ‘bluesy’ version as opposed the the A-side plug, which is a faster uptempo version of the same song. Produced by Berry Gordy, Jr. Never charted on the Billboard Pop chart nor the Billboard R&B chart)
The Detroit Free Press Editorial Page: ‘As We See It’ (25 June 1972; pg. 26)
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