Detroit Radio Back-Pages – Motor City Radio Flashbacks

WXYZ 1270: OSGOOD and WABER on TOP OF THE NEWS, AUGUST 1957

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MCRFB Note: Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for providing the above Detroit Free Press WXYZ 1270 ad (August 21, 1957) for this site, as featured today.

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WJR RADIO 760: PAUL WINTER [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD . . . SEPTEMBER 4, 1972

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WHERE DID ED McKENZIE’S MONIKER ‘JACK the BELLBOY’ ORIGINATED FROM? NOW WE KNOW

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The featured Detroit Free Press article (August 31, 1951) was digitally re-imaged and was entirely restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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Jack the Bellboy.

There were five WJBK personalities who used the JTB moniker in the 1950s and in the 1960s. Ed McKenzie (1951). Tom Clay (1958). Dave Shafer (1962). Terry Knight (1963). Robin Walker (1964).

One other fact: When Ed McKenzie left WJBK for WXYZ in 1952, WJBK retained legal rights to the moniker. Nobody else at WJBK would use the title until Tom Clay was hired in late 1957, when Casey Kasem left Detroit for Buffalo that year. In 1956-57, Casey Kasem had the same late-evening hours as Ed McKenzie, on WJBK. Offered the JTB title by the station, Kasem once stated he simply declined assuming the moniker during the short time while he was there.

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TONIGHT, 7 P.M. . . . ON KEENER 13: THE SCOTT REGEN SHOW! MAY 20, 1965 [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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A special THANK YOU to WKNR legend Bob Green (Bob Green Productions) of Austin, Texas, for having shared with us, years ago, this May 1965 WKNR promo for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives.

Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for providing the above Detroit Free Press WKNR 1310 ad (May 20, 1965) for this site, as featured today.

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COMING TO WKNR . . . NEW KEENER DJ! MAY 17, 1965 [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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WXYZ RADIO 1270: OCTOBER 10, 1955 [The Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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MCRFB Note: Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for providing the above Detroit Free Press WXYZ 1270 ad (Sunday, October 2, 1955) for this site, as featured today.

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WCHB ‘SOUL RADIO’ 1400! APRIL 24, 1964 [The Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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WXYZ RADIO 1270! MAY 4, 1953 [The Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

**The Detroit Free Press** Monday, May 4, 1953

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WEXL RADIO 1340! JANUARY 26, 1965 [The Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

**THE DETROIT FREE PRESS** Tuesday, January 26, 1965

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WXYZ RADIO 1270! NOVEMBER 9, 1960 [The Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

**Detroit Free Press** Wednesday, November 9, 1960

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