(Above article courtesy freep.com newspapers archive).
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A ’70s “I HEARD IT FIRST ON DETROIT RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
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Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits with MCRFB.COM from 1971.
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A NEW FEATURE ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS!
DETROIT FREE PRESS: WJBK ‘PAYOLA’ ‘WJBK Fires Disk Jockey, Bandstand MC Resigns’
(Above WJBK article courtesy freep.com newspapers archive).
Missed the previous ‘Detroit Radio Back-Pages’ WKNR BOB GREEN feature? GO HERE.
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BILLBOARD HOT 100 TOP FIVE: WEEK-ENDING JANUARY 29, 1966 (click on image 2x for detailed view).
A MCRFB Note: A previous ‘Number One in America ’65‘ single – 01/02/66 – 01/15/1966
NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA ’66 * The Beatles * WEEK OF 01/23/66 – 01/29/1966
TWELVE WEEKS on the singles chart, “We Can Work It Out” by the Beatles peaked this week at No. 01 (1 week) on the Billboard Hot 100, week of January 23 through January 29, 1966. (source: Billboard)
MCRFB Link: For the previous No. 1 record in the U.S.A. 1966 GO HERE.
MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * January 1970 * A Henry Krueger ProductionA ’70s “I HEARD IT FIRST ON DETROIT RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
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Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits with MCRFB.COM from 1970.
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MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * January 1969 * A Henry Krueger ProductionA ’60s “I HEARD IT FIRST ON DETROIT RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
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Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits with MCRFB.COM from 1969.
A ’60S “I HEARD IT FIRST ON DETROIT RADIO” TOP 40 SINGLES FLASHBACK
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Henry Krueger Productions shares this day’s audio ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’ hits with MCRFB.COM from 1968.
Seventy-four years ago. The world is at war. The United States declares war on Japan when Japanese Imperial naval forces bombards U.S. naval and military bases at Pearl Harbor from the air, just three months earlier, December 7, 1941.
Meanwhile, here in the United States, these were the most popular records that was played on the radio — coast-to-coast — during the winter of 1941-1942. They were America’s most popular TEN TOP RECORDS for the week ending February 27.
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From the MCRFB radio news scrapbook: 1942
WWJ WORKS UP SKED OF DEFENSE SHOWS
DETROIT, Feb. 28.— Brief new programs to bring the problems of national defense home to listeners and tie in with support for the armed services are being started on WWJ. Tendency is to work the new trend out experimentally and in small bits, rather than in pretentious programs, thereby minimizing upsets to existing schedules.
Series of letters received from men in the service, sent to relatives, is being presented dally in a program by Ty Tyson, Man in the Service. Listener response appears strong on this program.
Further service tie-ups starts March 10, when Paul Williams goes on four-times a-week as Victory Reporter. Program is being scripted to cover brief human interest and oddity stories from the services, and limited to a five-minute spot at present.
Third program, Defend Detroit, goes on for 10 minutes five afternoons a week, and is worked out with local CCD officials to plug the immediate need of the day. One authority is built up for each day’s broadcasts and the entire five are brought in on Fridays for a half-hour studio show, not broadcast, but staged as a round table of the week’s progress in civilian defense. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; March 7, 1942).
From the MCRFB radio news scrapbook: 1942
Socony, General Mills Sponsor Games on WWJ
DETROIT, Feb. 28.— Harry Bannister, manager of WWJ, on Wednesday signed contracts with Socony-Vacuum Oil Company and General Mills as joint sponsors for direct broadcasts of all local Detroit Tigers baseball games, plus reconstructed broadcasts, based on direct-wire reports, of all out-of-town games. Sponsors are the same as last year, and carry on despite the auto situation, which has hit sponsors in this town hard.
New contract marks some kind of a record for Ty Tyson, who has broadcast games for WWJ for every season beginning in 1927, and will repeat for the 16th year. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; March 7, 1942).