WWJ ‘PAMS’ Customs Series ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WWJ-AM * “Audio ’67 WWJ Detroit” * 1967-1969
ABOUT THESE ’67-’69 WWJ JINGLES
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00:00 to 03:53 – These cuts are a vocal and music custom package by Pams of Dallas, first created, January 1967.
03:53 to 06:32 – In March 1970, WWJ commissioned Pams of Dallas to create a new package to commemorate their 50th anniversary. According to a WWJ staffer, the station began operations August 20, 1920. (Note the change in sports anchors.)
In 1970, Norm Plumber was doing sports. Norm is Bob
Kelley from Toledo, ex WTOD-1560, and until recently at WRQN 93.5 Bowling Green – Toledo. (Another piece of mindless trivia, the same group sang the jingles for WTAC Flint Pams Series 40).
06:32 to 08:19 – Closer to the anniversary, WWJ had some old Pams cuts remixed from the March 1970 package, and a few new cuts, some notably re-sung.
08:19 to 15:27 – We’re back to 1969 with a variation of the 1967 package. This is also a Pams of Dallas custom package. (Note the error at 11:23 in the call sign. 14:37 Norm appears again.)
— Frederick Vobbe
A MCRFB Note: Frederick Vobbe was the former engineer at Media One’s WHNE/WHND/WMJC in Birmingham, MI., late-70s through the 1980s.
He currently resides in Lima, Ohio, where he is chief engineer for radio and television station in that market.
A special THANK YOU to Fred Vobbe for providing further, otherwise unknown, information about this WJR PAMS jingle package — ’67-’69 — featured today on this website.
