A special THANK YOU to our senior site contributor Greg Innis of Livonia, MI., for recently providing this rare WXYZ Don Zee Detroit radio audio memory to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks aircheck repository.
Category: WXYZ
WXYZ RADIO 1270! DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: OCTOBER 6, 1964
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— OCTOBER 6, 1964 —
This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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The above WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
— A SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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A special THANK YOU to Larry Good, of Saline, MI., for contributing this featured WXYZ chart — October 6, 1964 — with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Last year, Larry contributed 16 (rare!) WXYZ 1964 charts for the website’s archive. Thank you for your WXYZ Detroit radio contributions. Kindly appreciated! 🙂
WXYZ RADIO 1270 BACK ON THE RADIO: JOEY REYNOLDS
WXYZ RECALLED on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
JOEY REYNOLDS | DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1966
— JOEY REYNOLDS —
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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 MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS AIRCHECKS COLLECTION
The original featured recording was posted HERE on Motor City Radio Flashbacks seven years ago, September 12, 2014.
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1966: THE 4 SEASONS SINGS JOEY REYNOLDS FOR WXYZ!
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In 1966, WXYZ radio promoted heavily Joey Reynolds’ anticipated arrival from Cleveland to Detroit. Having been discovered by Lee Alan on radio WIXY 1260 while on a business trip there, one of the station’s promotions was having distributed for their listeners this record 45, “Joey Reynolds’ Theme”, as recorded by The 4 Seasons. Joey Reynolds was the late-night personality on Radio 1270 from 9-midnight. Short-lived at the station, Reynolds tenure on WXYZ was a little over 6 months, from April to October of that year.
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This audio feature was restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
WXYZ RADIO: A RADIO 1270 NEWS PRINT AD! JANUARY 1964
— THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1964 —
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Above article/ad courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2021. Newspapers.com
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The above featured WXYZ ad was digitally re-imaged by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD
Missed any of our previous ‘Detroit Radio Back-Pages‘ features? GO HERE
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BROADCAST HOUSE: A WXYZ 1270 BROCHURE, CIRCA 1963
WXYZ 1270 | BROADCAST HOUSE | SOUTHFIELD
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A rare ABC/WXYZ Radio brochure from early-1963. The featured flyer was distributed freely for station visitors, clients, sales staff, and media personnel. The Broadcast House studios was located on Ten Mile Rd., near Northwestern Hwy., in Southfield, Michigan.
WXYZ 1270. Fifty-eight years ago.
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NOTE: For a formidable look-back of WXYZ and its legendary, Detroit broadcasting glory years (previously published on this site), please go HERE.
— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to Ray Tessier, of Allen Park, MI., for contributing this rare WXYZ brochure with Motor City Radio Flashbacks 🙂
THE RAY TESSIER COLLECTION
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The above WXYZ flyer was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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THE HIGH SCHOOLERS! WXYZ SALUTES THE CLASS OF ’63 and ’64
WXYZ SALUTES DETROIT HIGH SCHOOLS | A-B-C | ’63-’64
THE WXYZ ‘PAMS’ HIGH SCHOOLERS!
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In 1963, WXYZ commissioned PAMS of Dallas to create a plethora of outstanding jingles saluting all the high schools in the metropolitan Detroit area. They were aired mostly during the Detroit high school graduation season and were highlighted on WXYZ during the Detroit high school football seasons, 1963 and 1964.
At the time, WXYZ chose to tally every high school in alphabetical order on the Detroit map with their own jingle, from A through Z. The presented WXYZ jingle sampler was created for high schools lettered A, B, and C . . . from All Saints to Cody High.
Throughout the decades having passed since, many of the named schools recalled in this PAMS sampler, those institutions no longer exist today. But you just may find your high school’s ‘jingle’ played here — as they were selectively saluted on WXYZ radio, some 58 years ago.
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NOTE: For all the other WXYZ High School tributes — 1963-1964 — you can find them archived HERE
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THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: THIS WEEK! JUNE 13, 1966
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NUMBER ONE! WXYZ
“SUNNY” | BOBBY HEBB | PHILLIPS
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ
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Previewed for the week of June 13-June 19, 1966
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— THE JIM HEDDLE COLLECTION —
This WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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PAMS DALLAS! WXYZ CUSTOMS and AUDITIONS: 1967 and 1968
WXYZ ‘PAMS’ JINGLES HEARD on MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WXYZ-AM | “AUDITIONS and CUSTOMS” | 1967-1968
PAMS INCORPORATED, DALLAS, TX
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BY THE BEGINNING of 1967 WXYZ 1270 was no longer into the top 40 foray. By year’s end, 1966, the ABC brass in New York decided instead to introduce the ABC-owned station in Detroit with an easy-listening, contemporary format. A format no longer geared for its previous teen audience. Instead, WXYZ became, “The Good Life”.
We present today a composite of customs and auditions jingles created by PAMS in Dallas for WXYZ in 1967. You will note one of the prominent jingle(s) heard in this package was created for the station’s Cash Call contest, what would become their popular cash-giveaway game geared for their new adult radio following, early-on, and having played well into 1970.
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The featured PAMS WXYZ jingle package was audio enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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Licensed by PAMS, Dallas, this PAMS jingles package was made available (in the early 2000s) by Ken R Productions, Toledo, Ohio.
A CERTAIN LIFE MADE FOR RADIO: THE SAGA OF JACK THE BELLBOY
ED McKENZIE
— ‘Jack the Bellboy’ —
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Ed McKenzie. During his prime years on radio WJBK and by the time McKenzie left the station for WXYZ in January 1952, he was by then recognized, having been established in the trade as the “Nation’s Number One Disc Jockey.”
Today, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will feature “the saga” of Ed McKenzie. His life and his times in Detroit radio, and what brought this Detroit broadcast (and jazz) legend to prominence. Not just here in the Motor City, but also around the country in the 1940s and 1950s.
Ed McKenzie passed away in 2001. He was 90.
The featured and extensive article was initially published in the quarterly journal, International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC; Summer 1995).
The article authored by Stan Kuwik.
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Note: This article was submitted to Motor City Radio Flashbacks in 2019 by “Radio Muze”. It originated from a former Detroiter — who resides today in Los Angeles — who expressed desire his name remain undisclosed.
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The entire IAJRC 1995 article was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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