A special THANK YOU this website extends to Detroit radio historian Greg Innis for sharing recently with Motor City Radio Flashbacks this extremely rare and collectible (scanned) WKNR 1st. issue music guide.
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The Greg Innis Collection
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “’You Rate The Great!”
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Three years ago, Detroit radio lost a friend.
In respect, today, our website honors the memory of our friend, George L. Griggs, founder, Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
MCRFB.COM will resume website operations, Thursday, November 2.
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Long known and since immortalized as ‘The Voice of Michigan Football,’ Bob Ufer served as the impassioned play-by-play broadcaster for Michigan Football games, his broadcasting career having spanned 36 years.
According to WiKipedia, Ufer called Wolverines football on WPAG from 1945 to 1976 and on Detroit’s WJR from 1977 to 1981. In 1978, he was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.
Nine days after his last broadcast, Bob Ufer succumbed having lost his battle with cancer, Monday, October 26, 1981. He was 61.
This broadcast initially aired on WJR radio, Monday evening, October 26, 1981. It was re-broadcast, Saturday, October 31. This special tribute to Bob Ufer was written, narrated and was produced by Mike Whorf, WJR.
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These were the record singles you bought thirty-eight years ago. Many went on to become the most popular radio airplays heard on AM-FM radio in Detroit, October 1979.
NEW! Dick Purtan (“Lou Schuck Night”) WXYZ aircheck date: Thursday, April 28, 1977
The Jim Feliciano Collection
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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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ: ‘Now for Another Chilling Episode of Manooga-Man’
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(Above WXYZ related article is courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2017. Newspapers.com)
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “’What You Hear Is What You Get”
(Above WXYZ ad courtesy freep.com newspapers archive. Copyright 2017; Newspapers.com).
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