THE MAGIC BEHIND THE DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND! ’66

“TELL ME IT’S JUST A RUMOR BABY” (INSTRUMENTAL) * THE ISLEY BROTHERS

INSPIRATION TIME, ‘QBH 1400: A TOUCH OF THE QUEEN

INSPIRATION TIME * “Bless Them, Then Forget Them” * WQBH

A TOUCH of THE QUEEN

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The Queen. The Detroit radio ‘soul’ legend is best known for having devoted much of her air time speaking well of her spiritual faith, to instruct, uplift, and encourage (as well as admonish) with a devotion to inspire her Detroit audience daily (“Inspiration Time”) while at WJLB and WQBH.

If this WQBH radio segment you will find inspiring, this is what she did best. The Queen, she loved nothing more than sharing a word of reason, advice, encouragement, and sharing a word of “love.” Void of the usual radio “entertainment” on her shows, this was what The Queen was best loved and was known for during the four decades Martha Jean was on the radio in Detroit.

WKNR DETROIT RADIO: ’63 NEWSPAPER AD FLASHBACK

“THE BATTLE OF THE GIANTS” * Bob Green Productions * NOVEMBER 1963

Friday, November 1, 1963

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: “’You Rate The Great!”

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WJR 760: A TRIBUTE TO BOB UFER. . . OCTOBER 31, 1981

WJR 760 * Mike Whorf * OCTOBER 31, 1981

THE VOICE of MICHIGAN FOOTBALL REMEMBERED

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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.

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

GARY STEVENS: DALY DRIVE-IN RESTAURANTS! 1964 AD

**DALY RESTAURANT** (#1) 5152 S. Beech Daly, Dearborn Heights, MI., 1964

DALY RESTAURANTS * Gary Stevens * WKNR 1964 AD SPOT

DALY DRIVE-IN RESTAURANTS

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According to their wonderfully nostalgic Daly Restaurant website, there is only one Daly Drive-In (#6) still operating today. Having opened in 1959, it is located at 31500 Plymouth Avenue, Livonia. When WKNR’s Gary Stevens cut this Daly Burger ad in 1964, there were 11 Daly Restaurants in operation. By 1974, there was 17 Daly Drive-Ins altogether having peppered the Detroit map at it’s peak. Daly #1 and #2 were the last to close in 2003.

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