NEW! JERRY ST. JAMES WDRQ aircheck date: MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1977
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* THE GREG INNIS COLLECTION *
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A special THANK YOU to senior website contributor GREG INNIS of Livonia, MI., for sharing this WDRQ audio memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WABX-FM
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SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
“Hot Fun In The Summertime” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. August 1969
THREE DOG NIGHT
“Easy To Be Hard” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. August 1969
THE YOUNGBLOODS
“Get Together” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. August 1969
GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP
“This Girl Is A Women Now” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. August 1969
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
“Green River” was playing the Billboard Pop Singles chart and Detroit Top 40 radio on this date. 50 years ago. August 1969
NEW! JERRY GOODWIN WKNR aircheck date: TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1966
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* THE GARY HUNT COLLECTION *
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A special THANK YOU to Gary Hunt of Grand Rapids, MI., for contributing this special Jerry Goodwin memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
In sharing, Gary Hunt stated he personally taped this featured WKNR audio recording directly from the WKNR AM studio board — 53 years ago this day — August 1966.
PRODUCED BY JIM HAMPTON. DRAPER & HAMPTON, INC., LOS ANGELES
Syndicated around the nation on the CBS Radio Network some thirty-eight years ago, Jim Hampton (WXYZ, WABX, WJBK, WCAR) recently pulled this special programming from his radio archives and provided this site with 6 hours of the ‘Great American Summer’ shows he produced in the early-1980s.
In these programs you will hear great memories, events, and many of the hits by artists whose records were heard playing on the radio during the summer months the year they were released.
Jim Hampton and Ken Draper (WCAR, WCFL;Chicago) — Draper & Hampton, Inc., Los Angeles — produced this special summer programming for the CBS Radio Network.
The opening theme song was sung by, written and produced by production director Scott Chapin. Special programming features written by assistant writer, Scott Paton.
Program hosted by the great Tom Murphy (WCFL)
Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature more of CBS’ ‘Great American Summer’ throughout the 2019 summer months.
So look for them here . . . . meanwhile, enjoy what remains left of your summer! ?
Featured today the 4th of 6 memorable pops of the ‘Great American Summer’
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A special THANK YOU to Jim Hampton (Palm Springs, CA) for sharing this CBS summer radio summertime memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
WJR 760 * Ernie Harwell * AUGUST 20, 1986
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Ernie Harwell passed away on May 4, 2010. He was known as “the voice of the Detroit Tigers” for over 40 years. He called his last Tiger game in Toronto, on September 29, 2002. In 1981, Harwell was awarded baseball’s most prestigious Ford C. Frick Award.
He became only the fifth baseball broadcaster enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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“2 nothing the Tigers lead in the last half of the eight inning . . .”. . .
A special THANK YOU to our senior website contributor Greg Innis for recently providing Motor City Radio Flashbacks with this Detroit Tigers Broadcasting (Ernie Harwell) audio play-by-play memory, as aired on WJR radio, Wednesday evening, August 20, 1986.
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