Author: Jim Feliciano

HARWELL. THE VOICE OF SUMMER’S PAST REMEMBERED

ERNIE HARWELL * Signature Calls * ERNIE HARWELL’S AUDIO SCRAPBOOK

‘SIGNATURE CALLS’

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Besides the voice of Ernie Harwell, the various narratives you will hear  throughout the entire audio book is by Raleigh, N.C. sports broadcaster Gordon Miller. Occasional questions you will also hear is by veteran Duke University sports broadcaster Bob Harris.

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Ernie Harwell passed away on May 4, 2010. He was commonly known as “the voice of the Detroit Tigers” for over 40 years. He called his last Tiger game in Toronto, on September 29, 2002. In 1981, Harwell was awarded baseball’s most prestigious Ford C. Frick Award. That same year he became only the fifth baseball broadcaster enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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THE VOICE of SUMMER REMEMBERED

(Audio source and link: Ernie Harwell’s Audio Scrapbook; 2009)

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DETROIT WXYZ AM 1270 1966 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!

Saturday, April 16, 1966

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ-AM Joey Reynolds 

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DETROIT WXYZ AM 1270 1966 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!

Friday, April 22, 1966

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ-AM ‘Pal Joey Has Spies’ 

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DETROIT WXYZ AM 1270 1966 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!

Friday, September 23, 1966

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ-AM ‘Why Joey Is Not on Radio’

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK! THE ‘TEMPTS, 1964

IN JANUARY 1964, MOTOWN RECORDS released The Temptations first album, aptly titled, ‘Meet The Temptations.’ This album would also be a first for a new entry member of the group, David Ruffin. Ruffin had replaced member Al Bryant, who was released by Berry Gordy in December 1963. This album features, as main lead, Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who divided the twelve songs listed on the album. A track off the album, “The Way You Do The Things You Do,” written by Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers, became a Top 20 chart-topper (lead singer: Eddie Kendricks) as it was their first single. It would reach #11 on the Billboard pop chart on April 11, 1964. The album would be released by the Gordy label in monaural sound only.
THE TEMPTATIONS circa 1964

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WKNR TOP 13 DETROIT KEENER HITS: THIS WEEK IN 1966!

WKNR March 30, 1966
WKNR (No. 01) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 02) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 03) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 04) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 05) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 06) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 07) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 08) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 09) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 10) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 11) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 12) * 03/30/66
WKNR (No. 13) * 03/30/66
WKNR March 30, 1966

WKNR MUSIC GUIDE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1966

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All THIRTEEN top Keener hits (1-13) were selected from this WKNR Music Guide (03/30/1966) for your listening enjoyment here.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

In Memory of George Griggs

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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.

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GENE MEROLLIS CHEVROLET: YOU SAVE A WEEK’S PAY!

GENE MEROLLIS CHEVROLET (Ads) * “Gene Merollis What A Great Great Guy!” * 1966
DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursday, July 28,1966

ABOUT THOSE ‘GENE MEROLLIS CHEVROLET’ RADIO ADS

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Gene Merollis Chevrolet, once located in Garden City, created in the 1960s what would become THE MOST recognized 30-second radio ads ever produced for any car dealership in the entire Detroit metropolitan area.

Gene Merollis Chevrolet, every spot ever so humorous along with their catchy phrases, “where you save a week’s pay,” and “that’s where money-saving deals begin,” those same radio advertisements played daily on Detroit radio would catapult the Garden City dealership to #1 status for 15 years.

Gene Merollis sold the most GM Chevy cars anywhere on the Detroit map from 1963 through 1978.

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“Gene Merollis what a great, great, guy!”

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