“STUBBORN KIND OF FELLOW” (INSTRUMENTAL) * Marvin Gaye * 1962
Month: October 2014
WJZZ-FM 106 BACK ON THE RADIO! ROSETTA HINES
WJZZ RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WJZZ-FM 105.9 * ROSETTA HINES * June 6, 1996 | February 1, 1996
NEW! Rosetta Hines WJZZ aircheck date(s) Thursday, June 5, 1996 and February 1, 1996
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* THE JIM FELICIANO COLLECTION *
FIVE YEARS THIS WEEK: WHEN ‘SMOOTH JAZZ’ DETROIT SIGNED OFF 98.7
Smooth Jazz WVMV-FM Faded Into Detroit Radio History, This Week, Five Years Ago
October 02, 2009 2:48 PM
Smooth Jazz Radio Station WVMV 98.7 Announcing Format Switch
By Bill Shea | Crain’s Detroit Business
DETROIT — Detroit’s self-billed smooth jazz radio station WVMV 98.7 is expected to announce a format switch today. (MCRFB: Play audio bar below).
The smooth jazz format is apparently moving to an HD2 channel, but it’s not yet clear what the terrestrial broadcast format will be.
Station executives would lease only limited information, and said an on-air announcement is coming at 4 p.m. today.
Deb Kenyon, CBS Radio’s senior vice president and market manager for its Detroit stations, issued a statement: “98.7 Smooth Jazz is moving to a new home. New media and new technologies have given us the chance to still keep this programming on the air. We know that Smooth Jazz is a favorite station for many people and we’re glad to say we aren’t going away, we’re just moving,” she wrote.
The station was ranked 11th in the Detroit market in listenership by Washington D.C.-based audience measurement service Arbitron. The ratings, the most recent available, are for Monday through Sunday, 6 a.m. to midnight, for June, July and August.
CBS Radio also owns WWJ 950 AM (news talk), WXYT 97.1 FM/1270 AM (news talk), WOMC 104.3 FM (oldies) and WYCD 99.5 FM (country) locally.
WVMV station went on the air in 1961 as WBFG broadcasting religious programs. In 1980, it became WLLZ, a rock station under the name “Detroit Wheels.”
Westinghouse bought the station in 1989, and it became a CBS property when the network bought Westinghouse in 1995. That year it became a modern rock station.
Later that year, it switched to smooth jazz-new adult contemporary and switched to the WVMV call letters in early 1996. END
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Source: Crain’s Detroit Business October 2, 2009
WVMV SIGN OFF * Steve Stryker Asst. PD * OCTOBER 2, 2009 [5:00 P.M.]
SMOOTH JAZZ DETROIT: THE SOUND OF SADE V98.7 FM
SADE * Smooth Operator (Smooth Jazz Version) * ‘DIAMOND LIFE’ LP (PORTRAIT 1985)
A MCRFB Note: “Smooth Operator,” by Sade, would be the very last song WVMV V98.7 would play signing off their “Smooth Jazz” format, just after 5:00 p.m., Friday, October 2, 2009. “Smooth Operator” was also the very first song WVMV played having signed-on with their new station format in 1996.
THE ’67 SOUND THAT WAS! PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS
PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS * Him Or Me * COLUMBIA (Billboard No. 5. 6/10/67)
THE ’67 SOUND THAT WAS! PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS
PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS * Ups And Downs * COLUMBIA (Billboard No. 22. 3/18/67)
FLASHBACKS! REELING IN THE YEARS EVERLY BROTHERS
FROM THE MCRFB MUSIC COLLECTION: ’63 MEMORIES!
FROM THE MCRFB MUSIC COLLECTION: ’64 MEMORIES!
PAUL REVERE, FOUNDER OF RAIDERS FAME, DIES AT 76
OBITUARIES
Paul Revere dies at 76, founded Paul Revere and the Raiders
By Claire Noland | LA TIMES Staff Writer | October 5, 2014, 3:14 PM
Paul Revere, a teenage businessman who found an outlet for his entrepreneurial spirit in the form of a campy rock ‘n’ roll band that capitalized on his name, wore Revolutionary War-era costumes and cranked out a string of grungy hits in the mid-1960s, has died. The founder of Paul Revere and the Raiders was 76..
Revere died Saturday of cancer at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho, his longtime manager Roger Hart told the Associated Press. After a near-constant touring schedule in recent years, Revere retreated six months ago to his adopted home state because of health issues, said his tour manager, Ron Lemen.
Along with singer and saxophonist Mark Lindsay, Revere, a keyboard player, formed a band called the Downbeats in Boise in 1959. Within a few years they would become Paul Revere and the Raiders, string together top-10 pop hits including “Kicks,” “Hungry” and “Good Thing” and become fixtures of Dick Clark’s weekday afternoon TV show “Where the Action Is.”
MCRFB note: For the rest of this Los Angeles Times Paul Revere Obituary article (October 5, 2014), please GO HERE.
Claire Noland | Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times
