Motown Flashback: Six GREAT Motown acts headlining the Fox marqee in 1966 -- tickets for the show were $2.50 to get inside! — **MOTOWN FLASHBACK:** Six GREAT Motown acts PLUS three headliners on the Fox marquee in 1966. That’s NINE stage acts — a single ticket price would get you in for the entire show: **$2.50**!

**A Motor Town Revue flashback**: The Marvelettes (four members then) live on stage at the Detroit Fox Motor Town Revue, Sunday, November 17, 1963

**A Motor Town Revue flashback:** Motor Town Revue with the Marvelettes on stage at the Detroit Fox Theater, Sunday, November 17, 1963

**DETROIT FREE PRESS** Motor Town Revue ad, Sunday, November 17, 1963

Motor Town Revue flashback: Smokey live on stage at the Detroit Fox Theater in 1963 — **A Motor Town Revue flashback:** Smokey live on stage at the Detroit Fox Theater, Saturday, November 16, 1963.

Motor Town Revue flashback: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles onstage at the 1963 Motor Town Revue at the Detroit Fox — **A Motor Town Revue flashback:** Smokey Robinson and the Miracles onstage at the 1963 Motor Town Revue at the Detroit Fox Theater. Saturday, November 16.

A Motor Town Revue flashback: The Miracles and Smokey live onstage doing 'the monkey' at the Detroit Fox in 1963 — **A Motor Town Revue flashback:** The Miracles and Smokey live onstage doing their “Mickey’s Monkey” Motown act at the Detroit Fox Theater on Woodward Avenue, Saturday, November 16 1963. **Also** **below**: **a RARE video featured flashback** — one hour of Robin Seymour’s ‘**Teen Town**‘ — *The Motown Story 1965* — watch it here, the entire Detroit CKLW-TV9 teen dance show (from 1965) on *Motor City Radio Flashbacks!*

**A Motor Town Revue flashback:** An authentic Motor Town Revue poster. Detroit Fox Theater, December, 1967.

50TH: BUDDY HOLLY REMEMBERED TODAY 1959 – 2009

Des Moines Register: Artist Mark Marturello created this print in Tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in 2009. You can download this beautiful print free, here. — Des Moines Register (online): Artist *Mark Marturello* created this commemorative print in tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in 2009. You can download this beautiful but poignant print offer – **FREE** – you’ll find it here.

Des Moines Register: A 50th Anniversary Commemorative to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson is online. Besides other great features, see the Surf Ballroom - The Green Room - as it looks today. View the panoramic 360 view while you're there. — Des Moines Register (online): A 50th Anniversary Commemorative to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson is online. Besides other great features, see the Surf Ballroom – The Green Room – as it looks today. View the **Green Room** panoramic 360 view while you’re there, and view *The Final Hours* time-line, go here.

WKMH: A BOB GREEN MEMORY WITH ANDY WILLIAMS

Special Thanks to Bob Green for this sharing this photograph with Motor City Radio Flashbacks. (L-R) Bob Green, Frank Maruca, Andy Williams. That’s Robin Seymour seated right (glasses) glancing up at Andy Williams.

WXYZ-AM WARTIME BACK-PAGES: RADIO AT WAR, ’45

A special THANK YOU goes out to our friend, James Heddle, Tucson, Arizona, for his recent contribution to our website — in sharing this historic and rare WXYZ (1945) wartime radio booklet with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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WHEN ‘THE NATION’S NEW SINGING SENSATION’ FIRST CAME TO DETROIT: MAY 25, 1956

A Motor City Radio Flashback memory: 1956

A Moment in Time: Elvis Takes Detroit In ’56

DETROIT, March 09, 2012 — Elvis Presley, “the nation’s new singing sensation,” came to Detroit for the first time on Friday, May 25, 1956. He was booked to perform “in person” live on stage at the Fox Theater for three performances for that date.

The 21-year old singing phenom was winding up his tour in the Midwest that spring, having previously stopped in St. Paul, Minn., and in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. Presley also performed at the Ellis Auditorium in Memphis Tennessee on May 15, then took a ten-day break from his tour while home before heading north to the Motor City.

Elvis Presley Detroit Fox Theater May 25, 1956 — Actual Elvis Presley Fox Billboard *(click on image for larger view)*

In the Lacrosse, Wisconsin performance Presley’s hip-thigh gyrations on stage compelled the editor of the local newspaper to complain to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, of various reports picked up that Elvis’ act consists of ‘sexual gratification on stage.’

At the Detroit concert, the general admission ticket price to see Elvis was $1.50, all seats were available at that set admission price. In the earlier two shows, a young Lee Alan, who was then the all-night deejay at WJLB, emceed the event by introducing Elvis before the Detroit Fox crowd. Robin Seymour, the popular radio personality on WKMH then, also met Elvis Presley backstage during one of the three Fox concerts.

In 2006, FTD released a book, entitled, A Moment In Time: 4 Days in ’56 on November 29 that year. It was authored by Michael Rose. Rose had assembled these May 25 Detroit photographs while capturing a glimpse of Elvis Presley’s life during 1956. A snapshot in time, many of these photographs reportedly have never been published before, according to the author.

The following evening, Saturday, May 26, Elvis was in Columbus, Ohio. Then it was off to Dayton, Ohio for two performances at the University of Dayton Fieldhouse on Sunday, May 27, before heading back home to Memphis, on Monday, May 28, 1956.

But here in Detroit in 1956, these images captured a moment in time in the lives of these Detroiters when “the nation’s new singing sensation” swept their city by storm during one memorable evening in May of 1956.