“WHAT’S GOING ON” (INSTRUMENTAL) | MARVIN GAYE (James Jamerson; bass-emphasis)
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PAMS DALLAS! WXYZ CUSTOMS and AUDITIONS: 1967 and 1968
WXYZ ‘PAMS’ JINGLES HEARD on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WXYZ-AM | “AUDITIONS and CUSTOMS” | 1967-1968
PAMS INCORPORATED, DALLAS, TX
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BY THE BEGINNING of 1967 WXYZ 1270 was no longer into the top 40 foray. By year’s end, 1966, the ABC brass in New York decided instead to introduce the ABC-owned station in Detroit with an easy-listening, contemporary format. A format no longer geared for its previous teen audience. Instead, WXYZ became, “The Good Life”.
We present today a composite of customs and auditions jingles created by PAMS in Dallas for WXYZ in 1967. You will note one of the prominent jingle(s) heard in this package was created for the station’s Cash Call contest, what would become their popular cash-giveaway game geared for their new adult radio following, early-on, and having played well into 1970.
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The featured PAMS WXYZ jingle package was audio enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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Licensed by PAMS, Dallas, this PAMS jingles package was made available (in the early 2000s) by Ken R Productions, Toledo, Ohio.
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP SINGLES OF 1964!
— THE BEATLES —
Debuted #78 week-ending March 28, four weeks playing the Billboard Singles chart, “Do You Want To Know A Secret” climbs to #5, this week, April 12 through week-ending April 18, 1964.
Source: Billboard Pop Singles
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP SINGLES OF 1964!
— THE BEATLES —
Debuted #68 week-ending February 1, twelve weeks playing the Billboard Singles chart, “Please Please Me” drops to #16, this week, April 12 through week-ending April 18, 1964.
Source: Billboard Pop Singles
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP SINGLES OF 1964!
— THE BEATLES —
Debuted #86 week-ending March 7, 6 weeks playing the Billboard Singles chart, “From Me To You” drops out at #58 (final week on chart), last week, week-ending April 11, 1964.
NOTE: ‘From Me To You” was the flip-side title to the Beatles’ VJ single, “Please Please Me”, which dropped to #9, last week, April 11, 1964.
Source: Billboard Pop Singles
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP SINGLES OF 1964!
— THE BEATLES —
Debuted #79 week-ending April 4, 1964, three weeks playing the Billboard Singles chart, “Thank You Girl” climbs to #49, this week, April 12 through week-ending April 18, 1964.
Source: Billboard Pop Singles
KEENER RADIO: AUDIO MUGSHOTS! KEY MEN OF MUSIC, ’65
WKNR JOCKS | 1965 | KEENER RADIO
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Note: A special THANK YOU to Bob Green (Bob Green Productions) of Houston, Texas, for providing this WKNR 1965 audio memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks 🙂
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For our previous (March 11, 2020) WKNR audio ‘mugshots’ post featuring the 1964 Keener jocks, go HERE
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Audio enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
NEW! WKNR ‘KEENER 13’ BACK ON THE RADIO: DICK PURTAN
WKNR RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
DICK PURTAN | DATE: MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1967
— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our website contributor Peter Faulkner of Calgary, Alberta, for donating this WKNR-AM radio aircheck (he recorded in 1967) for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks archive.
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THE PETER FAULKNER COLLECTION
WBFG-FM: A PROPHECY FULFILLED. THE FIRST EASTER STORY
A PROPHECY FULFILLED * WBFG 98.7 * APRIL 10, 1977
‘A PROPHECY FULFILLED’
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“HE IS RISEN!”
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ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
This special Easter holiday recording, “A Prophecy Fulfilled,” was conceived, created, and was produced by Bob Pratt.
For three straight years, this program was broadcast on 98.7 WBFG-FM in Detroit during the Easter holiday seasons in 1975, 1976 and in 1977.
At the time ‘A Prophesy Fulfilled’ first aired in 1975, WBFG was Detroit’s foremost 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 daily religious radio content heard 24/7 on the FM side, “We’re Broadcasting For God.”
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A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt for sharing this special Easter holiday broadcast with Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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— 44 YEARS AGO —
Sunday, April 10, 1977
THIS WEEK, 1964: 57 YEARS AGO! THE HOTTEST HIT IN THE U.S.A.
NUMBER 1 IN AMERICA | APRIL 4-MAY 2, 1964
— NUMBER ONE 1964 —
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TEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Can’t Buy Me Love” by The Beatles peaked at #1 this week (5 weeks overall) on the Billboard Hot 100. Week ending, April 4 through week ending, May 2, 1964. (Source: Billboard)
For our previous Billboard 1964 Number One U.S.A. Hits go HERE
