WKNR ‘PAMS’ SERIES 39A ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WKNR-AM 1310 * “Lee Sherwood Series” * 1970
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WKNR 13 DETROIT ‘TOP 30’ HITS FOR SEPTEMBER 7, 1970
“GOD, LOVE, ROCK & ROLL” * Teegarden & Van Winkel * WESTBOUND Records
“STAY AWAY FROM ME” * Major Lance * CURTOM Records
WKNR-AM BACK ON THE RADIO WITH: SCOTT REGEN!
WKNR LIVES HERE 24/7 ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
From the MCRFB aircheck archives featuring: WKNR-AM (’70) w/ SCOTT REGEN
50TH! BEATLES INVADES MOTOR CITY! SEPTEMBER, 1964
S E P T E M B E R 6 , 1 9 6 4 : T O D A Y I N M U S I C H I S T O R Y
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1 9 6 4 : T H E B E A T L E S performed two sold-out concerts at the 15,000-capacity Detroit Olympia on this day. The other acts on the bill were (in order of appearance) The 
Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry and Jackie DeShannon, before the Fab Four took the Olympia stage. After the concerts the British band stayed overnight at the Whittier Hotel near downtown Detroit before leaving for their next scheduled stop at the Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens, Monday, September 7. Both Beatles Olympia September 6 appearances sponsored by top 40 radio WKNR, Detroit.
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Pop Music History: September 6, 1964
WKNR (Bob Green) BEATLES IN DETROIT * Beatles Olympia Press Conference * 9/6/64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQh6wLMUd1g
WKNR BEATLES IN DETROIT PROMO * WKNR (Bob Green) Productions * 9/6/1964
“…Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites.” — George Harrison, Detroit; 9/6/64
A WKNR ‘KEENER 13’ MUSIC GUIDE! SEPTEMBER 1, 1965
I’LL MAKE ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE * RONNIE DOVE * 1965
SCOTT WESTERMAN WKNR KEENER13.COM PODCASTS!
The Keener Podcast: “JAM”
By request, more from the jingle jungle. We play the Jam Song and preview the Pams box set. WCBS craters with Jack, Moog passes on and Funkadelic turns 50. Plus rare music from Patty & The Emblems, Boyce and Hart and Lee Rogers. Scott Westerman hosts. (Hear the show 31 minutes 29 MB MP3).
(Podcast “Jam” description above courtesy the Keener13.com archives; August, 2005).
A SPECIAL ‘THANK YOU’ goes out to our friends and host of the official WKNR website, Scott Westerman and Steve Schram, for granting MCRFB.COM honors allowing us to archive every one of those memorable classic keener13.com podcasts Scott produced for the WKNR website from 2004 through 2006. These WKNR/S.W. podcasts were acclaimed by many then as the consummate podcast medium at the time — a new form of entertainment, communication art suited for the internet — a template model how all podcasts should sound like when first launched on the WKNR website, 2004. We agree.
Today, MCRFB will showcase the August, 2005, “JAM” podcast — there are over forty podcasts we have listed the WKNR website produced a decade back. For Detroit radio purists alike, this was podcasting “Keener” gold for the 21st. century!
To relive the WKNR experience 24/7 visit http://keener13.com/ On Facebook? Visit Keener 13 there as well for all the news and updates and more. We salute you both, Scott Westerman, Steve Schram! Well over a decade there — still keeping those fabulous KEENER MEMORIES alive.
M O T O R C I T Y R A D I O F L A S H B A C K S
THE KEENER PODCAST * Jam * KEENER13.COM (August 2005)
WKNR-AM BACK ON THE RADIO: SEAN CONRAD!
WKNR HEARD 24/7 ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WKNR-AM 1310 * SEAN CONRAD * 1970
WKNR MUSIC GUIDE * AUGUST 3, 1970
MCRFB COMMERCIALS: WKNR ‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT’
WKNR ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ MOVIE TICKETS GIVEAWAY * Bob Green * AUGUST 1964
EDWIN STARR RECORD DEDICATION TO SCOTT REGEN!
EDWIN STARR 1966 SALUTE TO A DETROIT RADIO BROADCAST LEGEND
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BY SUMMER’S END 1966, “SCOTT’S ON SWINGERS” became reality. It became a recorded single ’45 promo having been written by Charles Edwin Hatcher, who expressed into lyrics a song dedicated especially to WKNR radio deejay Scott Regen in Detroit.
Released on Ed Wingate’s Ric-Tic label (Detroit) and numbered RT-109 X, it has been estimated by several Wingate associates since that only 20 to 50 of these recordings were pressed as singles at the time. And were all issued by the label as a single-sided record 45 disk with a blank flip-side.
When this recording was made in 1966, and just six months after his arrival at WKNR in Detroit from WHB Kansas City, Scott Regen was by then a dominant influential source promoting the ’60s music scene — having connected well with the ‘Detroit sound’ with his Detroit radio audience during his nightly shows on Keener 13. Whether it be Barry Gordy’s Motown, Ed Wingate’s Golden World Records, national or otherwise, Scott Regen immersed himself into the music he played on the radio when he was on.
As it was, it was of no consequence within a short span of several months after his arrival here in June, 1965, Scott Regen was established in 1966 as the No. 1 night-time radio deejay overall here in the Motor City. And to those of us who still remember, 1966 was also the year WKNR’s Scottie Regen would be permanently immortalized in words and in song. “Dedicated To Scott Regen,” it was written, produced and was recorded by a young, aspiring 23-year old R&B recording artist, then, who went by the name of Edwin Starr in Detroit.
Charles Edwin Hatcher (Edwin Starr) passed away in 2003. But he left a most significant lasting tribute to a legendary WKNR radio talent remembered in Detroit — still today — nearly five decades after this recording was made. Thank you again, Scottie Regen, for those special Keener moments you shared with all of us on the radio here in Detroit —
“… Yeah, listen to his show every night, ’cause the records he plays they are outta sight. So if you see Scott Regen, if anybody see Scott Regen, stop him ON SIGHT.”
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“SCOTT’S ON SWINGERS (S.O.S.)” * Edwin Starr * RIC-TIC Records (Detroit; 1966)
