Day: December 5, 2013
WXYZ-AM 1270 * THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY * DECEMBER 5, 1966
From the MCRFB archived files:
THE TOP 35 HITS ON WXYZ ON THIS DATE IN 1966
WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey; Week no. 34 issued December 5, 1966 under Lee Alan, Program Director; WXYZ
(WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey for December 5, this date 1966; survey courtesy the Jim Heddle Collection. For the previous weekly WXYZ November 28, 1966 survey click here).
HEY! LOOK WHAT WE GOT HERE: STEVE DAHL (WABX) WLUP-FM!
Steve Dahl, after having left WABX-FM in Detroit for the Windy City in 1978, Dahl made a name for himself nationally while at WLUP in Chicago with his memorable (and most disastrous) “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. For more on this story and Steve Dahl’s early-career in Detroit radio on WABX, go here. Steve Dahl WLUP promotion photo; 1979. (This image offered on eBay in 2012).