Twenty years after — Warren Pierce remembers JFK — Thirty five years ago
WJR program guests: Richard Stolley (LIFE); Officer M.N. McDonald (Dallas; Lee Harvey Oswald capture); Detective Jim Leavelle (Dallas; Oswald shooting); David Halberstam (author; ‘The Best And The Brightest’)
This program was initially recorded on reel tape, by the author, thirty-five years ago. November 22, 1983.
This program was made possible through Bob Pratt
A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt of Farmington Hills, MI., for recentlytransferring and preserving this WJR audio program. October 2018
BOB GREEN * CLASSIC WKNR PROMOS * BOB GREEN PRODUCTIONS: REEL I
Bob Green 1966
BOB GREEN PRODUCTIONS
In November 1963, 55 years ago this month, WKMH — 1310 on the dial — faded into the stratosphere while transitioning into a brand new Detroit radio sound.
Today, and in celebration of that event, Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents a myriad of classic WKNR promos heard on ‘Keener Radio’ in the ’60s and early-’70s, courtesy of Bob Green.
A special THANK YOU to Bob Green for providing Motor City RadioFlashbacks with these classic recordings (back in 2001!). The audio presented here was transferred from three separate reeled tapes (boxed) and presented here for the very first time.
BOB GREEN * CLASSIC WKNR PROMOS * BOB GREEN PRODUCTIONS: REEL II
BOB GREEN * CLASSIC WKNR PROMOS * BOB GREEN PRODUCTIONS: REEL III
SPECIAL THANKS
Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends another special ‘THANK YOU’ to Bob Pratt, of Farmington, MI, for transferring three Bob Green Production (reeled) recordings to its present audio format, as they are featured here today.
The Year of the Tiger — 1968? Well, yes. But it was more than that. Far more. It was the year of Detroit . . . when an entire community, an entire city, was caught up in the frenzy of a baseball team trying to win a pennant. Not just any team. Not just any pennant. This was special. This was a stricken city, a worried citizenry, which finally found itself bound together in a common goal.
Corny? Maybe so. We can be pretty cynical. We newspapermen, but there was no doubting the fervor or the fever of the people of our city as they tried mightily to pull the Tigers along to the American League pennant . . . their first pennant in 23 years. That’s a long time, 23 years. You can raise families and send them through college in 23 years. Some can go to war. Some can start raising families of their own. All this happened since the last time the Tigers won the American League pennant.
The mood of our city was anything but gay in the spring of 1968. The summer loomed ominously. The newspaper strike droned on and on . . . but something happened in the middle of 1968. You would pull up to the light at Woodward and Clairmount and the guy in the next car would have his radio tuned up. ” . . . Horton stepping in. Willie’s had two hits tonight.” Or you would pick your way through the mobs at Metropolitan Beach and even though you wouldn’t have a radio, you wouldn’t miss a pitch. ” . . . Stanley leading off second. Northrup off first — here’s the pitch from Katt.” Rouge Park . . . Belle Isle . . . the kitchens of the poshest restaurants in town . . . and those awful moments at the bottom of the Windsor Tunnel when you couldn’t pick up Ernie or Ray — and just when Bill Freehan got around to third base with the tying run. The stirring strains of “Go Get ‘Em, Tigers” everywhere.
A baseball team trying to win a pennant. Men playing a boy’ game. Well, yes. That’s the way it was in The Year of the Tiger — 1968. But it was a year I will never forget. It was a year when an entire community, an entire city, was caught up in the frenzy of a baseball team trying to win a pennant. For a moment I even forgot some of my worries.
— Joe Falls, Sports Editor, Detroit Free Press
TIGERS WIN THE PENNANT!Tiger Stadium September 17, 1968(Click image 2x for largest view)
ABOUT THIS ALBUM
Authored by Joe Falls, his commentary (as worded verbatim in its entirety here) was printed on the B-side of the LP cover, “The Year Of The Tiger ’68”. The album was presented by the National Bank of Detroit and offered exclusively through their NBD outlets in the Detroit area.
“The Year Of The Tiger ’68” was officially released to the public, Friday, October 11, 1968, the day after the Detroit Tigers won the 1968 World Series.
All seven games of the 1968 World Series aired on Detroit radio NBC affiliate WWJ-AM 950 and also on Detroit CBS affiliate WJR-AM 760.
WJR was the flagship station for the Detroit Tigers baseball broadcasts with Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane calling the games.
The 1968 World Series games was telecast on Detroit CBS WJBK TV (Channel 2) and also on Detroit NBC WWJ TV (Channel 4).
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks features Game 6 of the 1968 World Series — today — the represented date the game actually aired 50 years ago, October 1968.
Game 7: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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When the ’68 World Series games came home to Detroit!
NBC Sports Radio covers Game 3 of the 1968 World Series — resuming October 5 on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature the ’68 World Series’ Game 4 on October 6 and Game 5 on October 7, when the games shifted back to Detroit for a three-game home stand, October 1968.
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50th! Reliving the 1968 World Series — as it happened — on Motor City Radio Flashbacks
All seven games of the 1968 World Series aired on Detroit radio NBC affiliate WWJ-AM 950 and also on Detroit CBS affiliate WJR-AM 760.
WJR was the flagship station for the Detroit Tigers baseball broadcasts with Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane calling the games.
The 1968 World Series games was telecast on Detroit CBS WJBK TV (Channel 2) and also on Detroit NBC WWJ TV (Channel 4).
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks features Game 1 of the 1968 World Series — today — the represented date the game actually aired 50 years ago, October 1968.
Game 2: Tuesday,October 3, 2018 Motor City Radio Flashbacks
Detroit Free PressThursday, October 3, 1968 (Dick Mayer)
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