Category: Tom Shannon

SHANNON’S SPOT LIVE ON CKLW-TV . . . OCTOBER 5, 1968

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1968

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CKLW Tom Shannon 1967
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DETROIT — “The Lively Spot,” hosted by CKLW deejay Tom Shannon, bowed here on CKLW-TV (Channel 9) September 30 replacing the Robin Seymour “Swingin’ Time” show.

The show will be seen 3:30-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 6-7 p.m. Saturday when it will be known as “The Tom Shannon Show.”

Shannon will continue his popular 6-9 p.m. CKLW-AM show on the radio. Elmer Jaspan, director of programming for CKLW-TV, predicts Shannon will became a great favorite of Detroit young people on local Detroit/Windsor (Canada) television.

Shannon joined CKLW four years ago. A songwriter, he wrote the 1963 hit, “Wild Weekend,” while a jock in Buffalo. He also wrote “Soul Clappin,” a local hit now currently playing Detroit radio. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; October 5, 1968)

Tom Shannon Show on CKLW TV-9; TV Guide ad March-22-28-1969
Tom Shannon Show on CKLW TV-9; TV Guide March-22-28-1969
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DETROIT RADIO: TOP DJ’S NEWSPAPER ’66 FLASHBACK!

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Sunday, July 31, 1966

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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A NEW FEATURE ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS!

DETROIT FREE PRESS: CKLW-WKNR-WXYZ ‘What About Those “Dirty Songs”?’

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WE’RE ’68 ‘SOUL CLAPPIN’ WITH CKLW TOM SHANNON!

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“SOUL CLAPPIN’ “ (Tom Shannon) * The Buena Vistas * MARQUEE Records (1968)

 

the-buena-vistas-soul-clappin-marquee-detroitTOM SHANNON! “Soul Clappin’,” recorded and produced by Detroit’s  very own The Buena Vistas, was co-written in part by Tom Shannon while a radio deejay at CKLW, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 1967.

— M O T O R    C I T Y   R A D I O   F L A S H B A C K S

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IT’S A ’62 ‘WILD WEEKEND’ WITH CKLW TOM SHANNON!

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TOM SHANNON
 “WILD WEEKEND” (Tom Shannon) * The Rockin’ Rebels * SWAN Records (1962)

 

rockin-rebels-wild-weekend-1962TOM SHANNON! “Wild Weekend,” produced and recorded by Buffalo’s ‘Rockin’ Rebels,’ was co-written in part by (future disk jockey CKLW 1964) Tom Shannon while a radio deejay at WKBW, Buffalo, New York, 1962.

—   M O T O R   C I T Y   R A D I O   F L A S H B A C K S

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