DAVE PRINCE WKMH aircheck date: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1961
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to senior website contributor Greg Innis of Livonia, Michigan, for recently donating this WKMH-AM radio aircheck to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
* THE GREG INNIS COLLECTION *
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NEW! DAVE PRINCE WKMH aircheck date Sunday, April 8, 1962
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* THE JIM FELICIANO COLLECTION *
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This classic WKMH Futuresonic package was retrieved from the Motor City Radio Flashbacks jingles collection and will be deposited under our ‘Radio Jingles’ menu bar found on the main home page.
UPDATE: Also, for further information regarding this WKMH 1961 Futuresonic package, we heard via email from WKNR’s Bob Green (Thurs., May 2, 2:28 p.m.):
“They [the WKMH Futuresonic package] were produced in 1961 by Futursonic of Dallas. The “Day” series was incredible, with the sounds of The HI-Los, The 4 Freshmen and the Kirby Stone 4.”
(Thank you Bob Green for your recent comments having shared with Motor City Radio Flashbacks! 🙂 )
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WKMH
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: AT WKMH | “Bob Seymour DJ Veteran at 25”
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TO A DETROIT BROADCASTING LEGEND, ROBIN SEYMOUR
In celebration on the occasion of Robin Seymour‘s recent 91st birthday this week, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, Motor City Radio Flashbacks presents today, “Cruisin’ 1956.” Motor City Radio Flashbacks is showcasing some of Robin Seymour’s greatest Detroit radio memories, reflections he shared from his illustrious broadcasting career on the Detroit radio dial spanning over three decades from the 1940s – 1970s.
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By Jerry Hopkins
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The CRUISIN’ history of rock and roll radio begins in 1956, one of the most exciting years in “pop” history, and to take us down this memory lane (with a beat) is Robin Seymour of WKMH, which was, when he joined it, a little-known station In Dearborn, Michigan. Robin came to the suburban Detroit station from the Armed Forces Radio Network and he brought with him a voice that mixed the warm, confidential tone of an intimate friend with the slick disc jockey rap we all know today, a blend which made him a natural for housewives and teenagers alike.
WKMH’s Robin Seymour
Robin never had any particular ethnic identification or allegiance but the “Bobbin’ with Robin Show” quickly found its audience, as he constructed a bright, orderly program that featured (almost exclusively) the records listed on the sales charts printed by the music press. He also was among the first of the nation’s deejays to ask his listeners what they thought about new records, and hosted some of the earliest sock hops and commercial tie-ins with local record stores. In 1953 he was named “Disc Jockey of the Year” by Billboard, the music trade magazine. The following year he was given the same title by another publication, Hit Parader.
1956: President Eisenhower underwent an operation to relieve blockage of the small intestine due to ileitis, but physicians said he would be physically fit to run for re-election. Scientists said radiation was a peril to the future of humanity, Egypt seized the Suez Canal and the United Nations established the first international police force on the Sinai Peninsula. The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable system went into effect. The Hungarians revolted. Six Marine recruits were marched into a stream at Paris Island and drowned. The Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Massachusetts. And Elvis Presley and the spread of rock and roll nearly pushed everything else in this list of news stories right out of the conversation.
This was the year Elvis recorded Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, Hound Dog and perhaps half a dozen other million-selling songs . The first of these (Hotel) appeared in the number one position the end of April and that song or another by Elvis occupied the same lofty spot twenty-five of the year’s remaining thirty-six weeks.
1956 was the year “rock ‘n’ roll” became an angry epithet, blamed by psychiatrists and religious leaders (not to mention thousands of parents) for the rise in juvenile delinquency; some even said it was all a part of some Communist plot. Elvis and his pack of noisy imitators were called obscene and there were real riots at dozens of concerts. There were non-rockers on the record charts, to be sure, but it was Carl Perkins’ Blue Suede Shoes and Bill Haley’s Alligator that became a part of the New Culture, not Gogi Grant’s Wayward Wind and Morris Stoloff’s Picnic. The war babies had come to teen-age.
Most adults in ’56 thought it was a fad and that “it” would go away. Most radio listeners believed otherwise. There were a number of rock giants on the popular music charts in 1956 and many had made their abrupt and rhythmic appearances there after serving an apprenticeship in the ghetto called rhythm and blues.
That’s what 1956 was: the teen-age 1776. There’d been rumblings earlier, but this year all the lines were drawn.
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“Recreating one of his old radio shows from 1956 is Robin Seymour, who then was with WKMH in Dearborn, Michigan. He had come to this suburban Detroit station from Armed Forces Radio and soon his warm, confidential tone had won him teenagers and housewives alike. His BOBBIN’ WITH ROBIN show was the reason BILLBOARD named him Disc Jockey of the Year in 1953, and HIT PARADER magazine did the same in 1954. Today he’s in television and concert promotion in Detroit. For this album, Robin Seymour was the first of the seven disc jockeys in the CRUISIN’ series selected as the best living representatives of Fifties and Sixties radio from seven top American radio cities.”
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The “Cruisin'” series was conceived, created and was produced by Ron Jacobs. The “Cruisin’ 1956” album was released by Increase Records, June 1970.
