WHFI RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WHFI-FM 94.7 * 1969? 1970? * TOM CLAY
TOM CLAY WHFI aircheck date (unknown): 1969 or 1970
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt, of Farmington Hills, MI, for recently donating this WHFI radio aircheck (unscoped!) to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
* The Bob Pratt Collection *
ABOUT THIS WHFI AIRCHECK
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Tom Clay’s Detroit radio resume lists the legendary jock having been on WJBK, WQTE, CKLW and WWWW. But we cannot find any indication he was ever on WHFI.
So, was he? We can only speculate, as this WHFI aircheck bears supporting, possibly he was there for a very brief period of time (days? weeks maybe?) — either sometime late-1969 or earlier-1970. By late summer, 1970, Tom Clay was on WWWW-FM.
Regardless, we present today an extremely rare aircheck find, thanks to Bob Pratt, who recorded it (again, no date). It’s Tom Clay on 94.7 FM WHFI.
For sure he was on WHFI!
A friend and I visited the station one time when he was on the air on HFI, to see an actual legend!
He was playing MOR greats, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett et cetera, stuff he liked. Really pouring his soul into those airwaves, the thing that only could he do so well.
The fact that there aren’t more reminisces about him spread across the Internet spectrum baffles the heck out of me.
He was “Just a guy”, Tom Clay.
…and that’s the way he signed a letter to me years earlier when I was a teenager and wrote a fan letter to him. His letter and the envelope were jet black with WHITE ink. Impressive and I never forget that.