MCRFB RADIO ADS: “BORROW CONFIDENTLY! HFC” ’61


DETROIT FREE PRESS Monday, January 21, 1957 (click above ad 2x for largest detailed view)

HFC Household Finance Co. * 1961

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WXYZ-AM BACK ON THE RADIO: DICK PURTAN!


WXYZ RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

WXYZ-AM 1270 * 1977 * DICK PURTAN

NEW! Dick Purtan (“Lou Schuck Night”) WXYZ aircheck date: Thursday, April 28, 1977

The Jim Feliciano Collection



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PRESS IMAGE FROM DETROIT RADIO’S PAST: WXYZ, ’74!

WXYZ DICK PURTAN with TOM RYAN and Lou Schuck (Press Photo) 1974

A MCRFB NOTE (the caption back of photo reads): Dick Purtan, left, and Tom Ryan, right, claim Lou isn’t allowed in the studio with his cigar and that Lou always wear Banlon shirts. Here, the daunting Lou Schuck proves them wrong.” 🙂



 

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’50S ROCK N ROLL ICON, FATS DOMINO, REMEMBERED

FATS DOMINO circa 1955 (Credit: Getty Images; Photo inserts: Detroit Free Press; 12/01/1956 and 08/17/1957)

Fats Domino, Early Rock ‘n’ Roller Pioneer With a Boogie-Woogie Piano, Is Dead at 89




DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, December 1, 1956 (Note: The Graystone Ballroom was located 4237 Woodward in downtown Detroit)

DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday, August 17, 1957 (Note: The Shubert Theater was located 153 Laffayette in downtown Detroit)

DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, February 18, 1958 (click on image 2x for largest detailed view)


 

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A DETROIT ‘JBK RADIO 1957 BACK-PAGE: THE DJ SAYS



Saturday, February 16, 1957

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WJBK-AM ‘U.S. Musicians Succeeding As Goodwill Ambassadors’ 

(Above WJBK related article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2017. Newspapers.com).


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DETROIT MOTOWN MONDAY RECORD FLASHBACK ’67!



THE FOUR TOPS * 1967

A MCRFB Note: The title of the song in the above 1972 Motown “YESTERYEAR” single re-issue is an obvious misprint. “You Keep Running Away,” written by Holland-Dozier-Holland, would be one the the last few singles the Four Tops recorded written by the Motown song-writing trio prior their departure from the label, latter 1967.



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