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As tabulated in order by the BIG 8 CKLW — December — 50 years ago. The countdown starts at 12 Noon, Wednesday, December 26, 2018. Catch it HERE
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These were the record singles you bought in 1968. Many went on to become the most popular radio airplays heard on AM radio in Detroit, December, on Top 40 CKLW, WKNR, WXYZ, and conservative album-oriented, easy-listening WJR radio.
(From Motor City Radio Flashbacks. Merry Christmas!)
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The CKLW BIG 30 hits in Windsor/Detroit. This survey was tabulated overall by record popularity appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of CKLW Radio.
Previewed for the week of December 24, 1968
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In Memory of George Griggs
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Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate
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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
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This special holiday recording, “The First Christmas,” was conceived, created, narrated and produced by Bob Pratt.
For three straight years, this program initially aired on 98.7 WBFG-FM in Detroit during the holiday seasons in 1975, 1976 and in 1977.
At the time ‘The First Christmas’ aired in 1975, WBFG was Detroit’s only premiere station known for it’s all-religious broadcasting format.
The call letters WBFG was also the station’s heralded “acronym” as well. The calls represented their out-going religious radio content heard daily 24/7 on the FM side, “We’re Broadcasting For God.”
A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt for sharing this special holiday program with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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A MCRFB Note: In 1980, Trinity Broadcasting sold WBFG to Gary Stevens’ Doubleday Broadcasting. The transaction became the highest ever paid for a radio station in Detroit at the time.
With the new Doubleday acquisition that year WBFG became WLLZ in Detroit.
— Christmas Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life —
Click on (COMPLETE LP) for the complete track listing on this album
A past 100.3 FM Christmas holiday tradition. ‘A Soldier’s Silent Night’. As was broadcast on WNIC in the early-2000’s
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Video made for U. S. Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force
Bob Hope’s annual USO tour of Southeast Asian military bases, 1967. Features Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Earl Wilson, Phil Crosby, Barbara McNair, Madeleine Hartog Bell (Miss World) and the Les Brown Orchestra. (Source notes: You Tube)
Aired on NBC-TV WWJ (Channel 4) in Detroit, 8:30 p.m., January 18, 1968
