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NEW! The featured WCZY audio aircheck and WCZY personality card is courtesy of Roy Stephens
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Category: MCRFB Back On The Radio
Q 95.5 FM! WKQI BACK ON THE RADIO: KEVIN O’NEILL, JULY 1996
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92.3 FM! WMXD BACK ON THE RADIO: GERALD McBRIDE, JANUARY 1996
NEW! Our very first WMXD inclusion to our aircheck repository.
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A special THANK YOU to Jason Belmont of Southfield, MI., for recently donating this WMXD aircheck gem from 27 years ago.
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Z95.5 FM! WCZY BACK ON THE RADIO: STEVE KELLY, OCTOBER 1985
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Robert Zerwekh for this WCZY aircheck he personally recorded, from 38 years ago. From the Robert Zerwekh Collection
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WLLZ 98.7 FM! BACK ON THE RADIO: HARV BLAINE, NOVEMBER 1981
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Robert Zerwekh for this WLLZ aircheck he personally recorded, from 42 years ago. From the Robert Zerwekh Collection
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WRIF 101 FM: BACK ON THE RADIO! ‘THE RIFF’, AUGUST 1998
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Robert Zerwekh. From the Robert Zerwekh Collection
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WHND ‘HONEY 560’ BACK ON THE RADIO: REMEMBERING RICHARD D.
Richard D. Haase was on WHND ‘Honey Radio’ from 1980 to 1994. Richard D. passed away on December 27, 2022 at the age of 87.
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New! A special thank you to Robert Zerwekh. From the Robert Zerwekh Collection
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WDRQ SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE LEE ALAN NEW YEAR’S EVE COUNTDOWN, 1977!
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This WDRQ recording was recently donated to our Detroit radio aircheck collection. Lee Alan’s New Year’s Eve Countdown, on WDRQ, December 31, 1977. This was to be his second, and last, on WDRQ. (Lee Alan hosted one other New Year’s Eve broadcast on WDRQ in 1976). In closing out the year, this exclusive posting is our special featured presentation on Motor City Radio Flashbacks on this last day of 2022.
In this recording, the tape begins – timewise – at the 9:59 p.m. hour (Detroit time) with Lee Alan’s presentation of Chuck Berry performing live at the Walled Lake Casino, sometime late-October, in 1963. Five years ago, we lost Chuck Berry in March 2017. Also in the broadcast you will hear Lee Alan paying a short tribute to Elvis Presley, who passed away four months earlier, August 16, 1977.
The broadcast was taped by our friend, Greg Innis. Greg has kept this tape in his personal Detroit radio airchecks collection for the past 45 years. And as always, this site is indebted to him for having shared this holiday memory. It is presented here for the very first time, today.
You will note this two hour recording highlights listener call-in’s and recollections, stories and sounds. And minutes before the end of the recording you will hear The Horn counting down the seconds to 1978 . . . as was heard on New Year’s Eve night, December 31, 1977.
Enjoy. Lee Alan’s WDRQ New Year’s Eve Countdown . . . . Happy New Year!
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A special THANK YOU to senior site contributor Greg Innis of Livonia, MI., for having provided this featured WDRQ audio memory for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks aircheck repository.
TOM RYAN REMEMBERED. WKNR BACK ON THE RADIO: ‘THE KEENER SOUND’! 1964-1967
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The late Tom Ryan held one of the largest collection of Detroit radio recordings he personally taped during the 1960s, the golden era of Detroit Top 40 radio.
Our featured aircheck today is Tom Ryan’s. The love and depth he held for everything Detroit radio — notably WKNR (including the records of that period he collected as well) was commonly known without question — Detroit radio (of the 1960s) was what he enjoyed listening to and grew to love all the more.
We lost Tom Ryan on April 12, 2020.
While we did not acquire the above recording from him personally, Tom did share this (recorded) WKNR compilation on-air while working as a program producer at Honey Radio, some days after WHND officially signed off the air on November 25, 1994.
Taped off Honey Radio nearly three decades ago, this site has kept the featured Ryan audio presentation, since.
Recently edited and condensed, the taped airchecks were also joined to run concurrent, as one aircheck. Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents several of Tom’s WKNR recordings, here, today.
The Keener Sound recalled.
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WXYZ 1270: BACK ON THE RADIO! FRED WOLF, DECEMBER 1964
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to David Carson for his WXYZ Fred Wolf audio contribution!
David is the renowned historian and noted authority on Detroit radio. He authored the quintessential book on the subject ever published, ‘Rockin’ Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio’.
“A must for any fan of Detroit radio. ‘Rockin’ Down the Dial’ is an easy read and for people like me, there are lots of pictures.” –Dick Purtan, WOMC
His book was published by Momentum Books, Ltd., Troy, MI., in the year 2000. While his book is out-of-print, it is listed on eBay and on Amazon. David Carson resides today in Tennessee. Thanks again, David! 🙂
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