NEW! A special THANK YOU to our friend, Tom Howard, of Riverside, California, for this featured WKNR aircheck contribution (he personally recorded 56 years ago) for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks repository.
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Newly restored! This selected audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Newly restored! This selected audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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Audio recording was digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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The featured audio presentation is two WKNR airchecks combined — as one — noted as dated.
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NEW! A special thank you to our senior contributor Greg Innis, of Livonia, Mi., for contributing the above featured WKNR audio memory to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks collection.
J. MICHAEL WILSON | DATE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1968
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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 personally recorded in 1968) to Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
NEW! J. MICHAEL WILSON WKNR aircheck date: *September (12?) 1966
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* THE GARY HUNT COLLECTION *
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This is one interesting J. Michael Wilson aircheck find which Motor City Radio Flashbacks contributor Gary Hunt recently donated for our airchecks archives.
In listening in, this is not the best audio insofar as quality, as you will note. But it is the 10 p.m. night time hour. And you’re listening to the J. Michael Wilson Show in Detroit on WKNR in August 1966.
At first listen, I thought this aircheck probably had been recorded by someone who resided somewhere possibly east of the Detroit map at the time. As we know, the 1310 transmitted signal was deficient during the night time hours after sundown east of the city.
So I wrote back to Gary in regards, and here was his response, “the J. Michael Wilson aircheck was recorded at my best friend’s (Bob Becker) house on Covell Road N.W. Grand Rapids, MI via his TV antenna two stories high on the roof. This was from WKNR FM.”
Amazing. So there you have it. Another rare, but a classic J. Michael Wilson aircheck found, as was aired on the #1 radio station in the Motor City in 1966.
A special THANK YOU to Gary Hunt for sharing this special J. Michael Wilson memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
(Next week! Another NEW Gary Hunt WXYZ Jim Hampton aircheck from August 1966)
A MCRFB Note: Motor City Radio Flashbacks pulled up the WKNR Music Guide for the week of *September 12, 1966. And it appears the numbered song hits on this one WKNR JMW aircheck verifies it was recorded sometime during that particular week, as noted, for this aircheck presentation.
NEW! J. MICHAEL WILSON WKNR aircheck date: Friday, November 18, 1966
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* THE JIM FELICIANO COLLECTION *
NEW! J. MICHAEL WILSON WKNR aircheck date: Wednesday, November 16, 1966
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* THE JIM FELICIANO COLLECTION *
NEW! J. MICHAEL WILSON WKNR aircheck dates:
Tuesday, April 11, 1967 | Monday, May 08, 1967
A MCRFB Note: The presented audio file is actually two WKNR J. Michael Wilson airchecks combined as one, with the noted air dates having been indicated.
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In Detroit, the Monkees scheduled concert at Olympia Stadium was immediately canceled days earlier due to widespread rioting, shootings, fires, and block-to-block looting — affecting local and federal mandated curfews imposed over the entire city through a four day period, week of July 23-27. Sponsored and scheduled by Dick Clark Productions and WKNR for Saturday, July 29, the concert would later be rescheduled for another date in August.
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MCRFB NOTE: Previously featured on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, July 29, 2014
SPECIAL THANKS to Greg Innis for the WKNR J. Michael Wilson audio byte above.
