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Newly restored! From the MCRFB collection. This selected audio recording was digitally remastered for this feature presentation by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends warm, Birthday wishes to Dick Purtan. Happy Birthday, Dick! We hope your day was truly special. And thank you again, for all those great D.P. radio memories you shared with us for well over four decades on both sides of the Detroit radio dial. 🙂
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Robert Zerwekh. From the Robert Zerwekh Collection.
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On September 15, 2022, Detroit Public TV debuted their newest television production. It is a documentary commemorating and the extraordinary life and times of long-time Detroit radio legend and morning personality, Dick Purtan.
Titled ‘Detroit Remember When: A Tribute to Dick Purtan‘, DPTV.org tagged the hour-long film with this disclaimer . . . .
“The special documentary highlights Purtan’s life on and off the air, told through audio and video clips, archival film and interviews with Purtan, his family, friends and colleagues. The 60-minute documentary film features some of the most memorable moments from Purtan’s top-rated morning show, his successful radio career and consistent community outreach.”
If you missed viewing the PBS film this past weekend, ‘Detroit Remembers When: A Tribute to Dick Purtan‘ is currently still available for your viewing, courtesy of Detroit Public Television, HERE.
More of this PBS Dick Purtan television special, from the DPTV website . . . .
“Fans of Detroit radio can celebrate the life and extraordinary career of Dick Purtan in a televised remembrance of his legendary journey as a radio personality and community philanthropist, to premiere on DPTV Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. as part of a “Detroit Remember When” segment. This special documentary highlights Purtan’s life on and off the air, told through audio and video clips, archival film and interviews with Purtan, his family, friends and colleagues.
The 60-minute documentary film features some of the most memorable moments from Purtan’s top-rated morning show, including his infamous “Put-on Calls,” where he entertained generations of Detroiters with a whimsical mix of radio satire, one liners and dead pans delivered to his audience each day along with his “Purtan’s People” ensemble cast and crew.
“In addition to his successful radio career, the film looks back on Purtan’s community outreach on behalf of the many charities he supported and the ways he used his position of influence behind the microphone to help the less fortunate.”
Congratulations, Dick Purtan!
And thank you. For all those wonderful memories and humor you shared with us on the radio dial throughout the decades’ past . . . those special D. P. moments on the radio your Detroit listeners and fans could never, ever forget. 🙂
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends warm, belated Birthday wishes to Dick Purtan. Happy Birthday, Dick! We hope your day was truly special. And thank you again, for all those great D.P. Detroit radio memories you shared with us — over four decades — on the dial 🙂
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The above photo is courtesy of Jackie Purtan; Dick Purtan Facebook page.
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NEW! A special thank you to our senior contributor Greg Innis, of Livonia, Mi., for donating recently the above featured CKLW audio memory to the Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks collection.
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Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂
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DICK PURTAN | DATE: MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1967
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our website contributor Peter Faulkner of Calgary, Alberta, for donating this WKNR-AM radio aircheck (he recorded in 1967) for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks archive.
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WKNR RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
DICK PURTAN WKNR aircheck date: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1966
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THE PETER FAULKNER COLLECTION
WXYZ RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WXYZ-AM 1270 * 1972 * DICK PURTAN
DICK PURTAN WXYZ aircheck date: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 02, 1972
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WCZY RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WCZY DICK PURTAN aircheck date: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1987
