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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.
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Audio recording digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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NEW! A special thank you to our senior contributor Greg Innis, of Livonia, Mi., for donating the above featured WYUR audio memory to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks collection.
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Audio recording digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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NEW! A special thank you to our friend and contributor John Freist, of Roseville, Mi., for donating the above featured CKLW audio memory to the Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks repository.
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Audio recording digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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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.
A Motor City Radio Flashbacks selection from the Aircheck Collection
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Audio recording digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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Audio recording digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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This WNIC recording, having been long-held as part of our Detroit radio collection, essentially was found incomplete in its recorded form. And while the recording’s quality varies, nevertheless its contents is worthy, in my view, for posting today as our featured presentation on this New Year’s Eve, 2021.
The WNIC broadcast was recorded on two 100 minute cassette tapes. In the process of enhancing the audio, I removed, having edited in part, about a half hour of the recording found in the b-side of tape one. This was due to excessive ‘wow and flutter’ having been picked up during the recording process. Also, it bears noting the official ‘countdown to 1983’ (in-studio with Lee Alan) was not found in the recordings as well. What we do have is what you will be listening to today.
Nevertheless, this was a special WNIC New Year’s Eve presentation. The broadcast was taped by our friend Greg Innis. He has kept them in his personal Detroit radio airchecks collection for the past thirty-nine years. As you listen, you will immediately note it is chock-full of listener call-in’s, great memories, stories and sounds, having shared with a large WNIC audience by The Horn on New Year’s Eve night, December 31, 1982.
Lastly, in commemoration of this featured presentation, I also added extensively more to Lee Alan’s exclusive feature (he shared for the broadcast) of Chuck Berry’s live performance at the Walled Lake Casino near the end of the recording.
Enjoy. Lee Alan’s New Year’s Eve Party on WNIC. 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 WNIC audio gem for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks aircheck repository.
JIM JEFFRIES | DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1966
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Today we are showcasing a selected WKNR Jim Jeffries audio file from the Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks library.
Having been long archived in the collection, this audio file was digitally renewed and enhanced in sound. We are delighted to feature this Jim Jeffries aircheck once again — REMASTERED — from what the audio previously sounded like HERE.
Also corrected was the recording’s speed pitch, having upped the speed slightly to a more ‘normal’ state than what the original recording archived sounded previously.
For more on Jim Jeffries we previously featured on Motor City Radio Flashbacks, go HERE.
Another classic Motor City radio flashback, indeed. Jim Jeffries on WKNR, fifty-five years ago, August 14, 1966.
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KIM CARSON | DATE: THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1979
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our newest contributor Dave Preston — formerly of WDRQ — for recently donating the featured Kim Carson FM 93 radio aircheck (he recorded in 1979) to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks’ airchecks archive.
Kim Carson’s tenure with Detroit radio began with WDRQ, 1978-1985; WCZY, 1985-1989; WCSX-FM. Prior to her arrival to the Motor City, Kim Carson was at Rockford, Illinois’s WROK, 1977-78.
For our previous Dave Preston aircheck contribution — featuring Don Geronimo on WDRQ (8/6/2021) — go HERE
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The featured WDRQ aircheck was audio enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
JOEY REYNOLDS | DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1966
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Today we present a selected WXYZ Joey Reynolds audio extraction from the Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks library.
Long archived in the collection, this audio file has been digitally renewed, enhanced in sound, much improved overall (note there are several ‘drop-out’ flaws in place from the original recording).
Also corrected was the recording’s faster speed pitch, having slowed the recording down to a more ‘normal’ state than what the original recording archived sounded previously.
Another classic Motor City radio flashback. Joey Reynolds on WXYZ. This month, fifty-five years ago.
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The original featured recording was posted HERE on Motor City Radio Flashbacks seven years ago, September 12, 2014.
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