Category: Mickey Schorr

MICKEY SHORR! SPOTLIGHTING HIS WXYZ SHOW THEME: “NIGHT TRAIN” [1952] by JIMMY FORREST

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Mickey Shorr transitioned from WJBK to WXYZ during the summer of 1957. He was a disk jockey at WJBK for two years, starting there in 1955. When Ed McKenzie left WXYZ in the spring of 1959, Mickey Shorr took over his 3 to 6:15 p.m. weekday show. For a time Mickey also conducted McKenzie’s old Saturday Dance Party on WXYZ-TV. Denied ever having taken any pay-for-play, commonly referred to as “payola,” Schorr was terminated by WXYZ during the height of the scandal in November of 1959.

We are presenting Mickey’s show’s opening theme – NIGHT TRAIN – heard nightly when he signed-on at 7:15 p.m. at Radio 1270 in Detroit, some 65-70 years ago.

_______________Audio digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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DETROIT RADIO ’57 NEWS PRINT ADS: CKLW AND WXYZ

Detroit Free Press February 6, 1957
Detroit Free Press February 6, 1957

Wednesday, February 6, 1957

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: CKLW / WXYZ

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DETROIT WXYZ AM 1270 1959 NEWSPAPER FLASHBACK!

Saturday, November 28, 1959

A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE

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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WXYZ-AM Shorr Fired by WXYZ; Denies He Took Payola 

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ALL GIRL JOCKS: ’67 WABX-FM . . . AUGUST 19, 1967

From the MCRFB news archives:

Girls ‘Man’ Deejay Mikes at WABX-FM

 

 

 

 

 

 

99 WABX-FM vintage poster ad from the late-1960s. (Click on image for larger view).

Detroit — Last Monday, on August 14, 1967, WABX-FM began a new all-girl deejay policy and the ladies will be playing jazz oriented pop music and humor. The girls will be featured 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. daily, and noon to midnights on Sundays. Jim Rockwell remains to do his daily 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. jazz show. John Small is the WABX station manager.

The man responsible for the station’s new image is Mickey Shorr, program manager and creative director of Century Broadcasting Corp., which owns WABX-FM. Shorr is originally from Detroit,  where he once was a Top 40 disc jockey with WJBK, WXYZ, CKLW and the former WKMH, now presently WKNR.

Shorr first used the all-girl formula on WSDM-FM in Chicago where it became very successful. Instead of calling his WABX-FM girls “disc jockeys,” Shorr labels them as “Mickey’s Collection.”

The girls will tape lead-outs from records, commercials, and humorous bits rather than actually broadcasting live from the studio. They represent different nationalities and have names like Curry, Halavah, Supersport and Lo-Cal. END.

 

(Information and news source: Billboard; August 19, 1967).

 

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