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The late Tom Ryan held one of the largest collection of Detroit radio recordings he personally taped during the 1960s, the golden era of Detroit Top 40 radio.
Our featured aircheck today is Tom Ryan’s. The love and depth he held for everything Detroit radio — notably WKNR (including the records of that period he collected as well) was commonly known without question — Detroit radio (of the 1960s) was what he enjoyed listening to and grew to love all the more.
We lost Tom Ryan on April 12, 2020.
While we did not acquire the above recording from him personally, Tom did share this (recorded) WKNR compilation on-air while working as a program producer at Honey Radio, some days after WHND officially signed off the air on November 25, 1994.
Taped off Honey Radio nearly three decades ago, this site has kept the featured Ryan audio presentation, since.
Recently edited and condensed, the taped airchecks were also joined to run concurrent, as one aircheck. Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents several of Tom’s WKNR recordings, here, today.
The Keener Sound recalled.
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Audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
