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A MCRFB Note: Only the third WKNR music guide having been published, this Keener 13 playlist was issued Thursday, November 21, 1963. The day before WKNR abruptly stopped playing the music, Friday, November 22. For the next four days, the WKNR news department and the Mutual Broadcasting Network took control of the news out coming out of Dallas and Washington (2:00 p.m. Detroit, EST) after the first Mutual bulletin broke over the wires (1:40 p.m.) President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, 56 years ago.
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This is the fourth of four rare (November) WKNR Music Guides featured on the site this month.
All four issues were digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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A special THANK YOU. Above WKNR music chart courtesy of John Freist.
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A MCRFB Note: This WKNR playlist was the premier issue. Thereafter, for the next 8 years and 4 months, WKNR would publish their weekly music guides through March 20, 1972, the very last issue, as dated.
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This is the third of four rare (November) WKNR Music Guides going up on the site this month, on the guides’ respective dates as issued. Look for the fourth November date: November 21, 1963.
All four issues were digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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A special THANK YOU. Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Greg Innis, Livonia, MI.
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE November 5, 1964 1ST. BIRTHDAY ISSUE
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE November 5, 1964 1ST. BIRTHDAY ISSUE
WKNR November 1964
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A MCRFB Note: This WKNR playlist was the first of two special birthday commemorative issues the station ever printed in a large 14×8 size. The second oversized Keener birthday music guide issued was dated November 3, 1965.
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This is the second of four rare (November) WKNR Music Guides going up on the site this month on the guides’ respective dates as issued. Look for these 2 other November dates: November 7, 1963 (Premier issue) and November 21, 1963.
All four issues were digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE November 3, 1965 2ND. BIRTHDAY ISSUE
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE November 3, 1965 2ND. BIRTHDAY ISSUE
WKNR November 1965
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A MCRFB Note: This WKNR playlist was the second of two special birthday commemorative issues the station ever printed in a large 14×8 size. The first oversized Keener birthday music guide issued was dated November 5, 1964.
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This is the first of four rare (November) WKNR Music Guides going up on the site this month on the guides’ respective dates as issued. Look for these 3 other November dates: November 5, 1964 (1st. Birthday issue); November 7, 1963 (Premier issue) and November 21, 1963.
All four issues were digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2019. Newspapers.com.
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A WORD ON THE ABOVE ARTICLE —
THE YOUNG MAN IN PHOTO’S CENTER? . . . JIM SANDERS!
Jim Beasley today.(Photo courtesy Jim Beasley; Facebook)
A few days ago, in search for materials on Eddie Chase (CKLW) in the Detroit Free Press newspaper archives, I inadvertently came across the featured article above.
Looking closely, I noticed the young man centered in the photograph, identified as Jim Beasley. To me, the photo bore a striking likeness to a Jim Sanders (whose real name, by the way, was Jim Beasley), a Detroit radio personality on WKMH in 1963.
But I really wasn’t sure.
Looking for some confirmation, I reached out to Jim, who recently wrote —
“Yup. That was me.
I was 18 there. I was attending Wayne State University then. I sang on WJR as Jim Beasley, was on air and student PD at WDET in 1957 and was the Jim Sanders on WKMH.
We recorded two sides as a quartet. I recording one duet with Jack Costello, “My Little Fool” and I did a single, “Caught, Roped and Tied.” The latter was released in 1959. Under Jim Beasley and the Charmers.
The Classmates were active in 1956-1957. Dick Allman and I left the group in 1958 when it was picked up by DotRecords. He and I did not want to leave college to travel and promote.
Two other singers replaced us forone release on Dot, “Who’s Gonna Take You To The Prom.” The record company put the group on the shelf, and consequently, disbanded before 1960.
Insofar as (former members of) The Classmates, Kris Dorjath is now deceased. I lost contact with Jack Costello. Dick Allman became an ABC TV engineer in New York. He did a lot pioneering graphics for ABC sports. Allman is now retired, living in New York. His mother was an actress on the Lone Ranger radio shows.
“Caught, Rope And Tied” was me recording as Jim Beasley, not the Classmates. “Gotta Go See My Baby” was the Classmates single that did the best in Detroit and throughout the Midwest.
My solo record did best in the South and Europe. It is still streamed in Denmark on rockabilly channels. It was re-released later as part of a rockabilly collection.”
Jim Beasley was a WKMH radio personality and was part of the first original lineup as Jim Sanders when WKNR launched on October 31, 1963. Jim is actively involved in the entertainment field as an actor, singer, dancer, and musician.
He currently resides with his family in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jim Beasley(Photo courtesy of Jim Beasley; Facebook)1956
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
Hey, we have great news shared from our friend, Scott Westerman, over at Keener13.com —
At long last, the Keener legend is in print. It’s a tale 56 years in the making and 4 years in production, with biographical sketches of many of the original WKNR personalities, popular culture highlights from each year of the Keener era and scans of 9 years of WKNR Music Guides.
Motor City Music – Keener13 and the Soundtrack of Detroittells the story of Keener’s birth and how Bob Green, Dick Purtan, Jerry Goodwin, Robin Seymour and others found their way to the Detroit airwaves. There are classic tales of Keener and the Beatles, a contest that almost landed WKNR in court and the station’s power to raise a half million dollars for charity during a newspaper strike.
We meet two of the men behind the scenes, program director, Frank Maruca and chief engineer Jerry Martin, a duo who help craft both the sound and the vibe that made WKNR jump out of your radio and into your heart.
Music guide buffs will love watching their favorite hits ride up and down the charts, watching how the promotional pictures of the announcers morphed over the years and remembering some of the products that Keener helped sell to thousands of fans across the Motor City.
Motor City Music is a true trip down memory lane, a required reference for those of us who followed the music and a loving tribute to the talent that transformed a 5,000 watt AM station that barely covered the market into a powerhouse that became the soundtrack of our lives.
Above article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2019. Newspapers.com.
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