“REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE” (INSTRUMENTAL) * FOUR TOPS * 1966
Month: June 2017
WWWW-FM. IN REMEMBERING JOE WADE FORMICOLA
IN MEMORY
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Former WWWW-FM/WYCD Detroit Country morning legend Joe Wade Formicola passed away, Tuesday May 30, 2017. He died due to an undisclosed illness.
Joe Wade was the morning man at Detroit’s WWWW from 1987 to 1995. He was named CMA Personality of the Year in 1988. Joe Wade Formicola was recently inducted in the Country Radio Hall of Fame, Nashville, Tennessee, in February 2017.
Along with WYCD alumi Linda Lee (Linda passed away, March 2017), he will be posthumously inducted in the country hall’s ‘Class of 2017,’ on Wednesday, June 21.
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Photos: Joe Wade Formicola (main) in 1993. Joe Wade (WWWW; bottom left) in 1986. Joe Wade (WWWW; bottom right) in 1988.
WWWW-FM ON THE RADIO: JOE WADE FORMICOLA
WWWW RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
WWWW-FM 106.7 * 1992 * JOE WADE FORMICOLA
Joe Wade Formicola WWWW aircheck date: Thursday, April 2, 1992
WAKE UP UHMERIKA! EARL PITTS’ GREATEST RADIO BITS!
WAKE UP UHMERIKA! EARL PITTS’ GREATEST RADIO BITS!
PRESS IMAGE: A DETROIT MEDIA LEGEND! SOUPY SALES
NBC RADIO: THE SOUPY SALES ‘MOLDY OLDIES’ SHOW!
SOUPY SALES MOLDY OLDIES SHOW: 04 * Soupy Sales * NBC RADIO NETWORK (1986)
A MCRFB Note: The nationally syndicated NBC Radio Soupy Sales ‘Moldy Oldies Show‘ was heard Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-11 a.m., in Detroit, having premiered on WKSG-FM 102.7, Sunday, April 6, 1986.
(source: Detroit Free Press, Saturday, March 29, 1986)
HEAR IT AGAIN! From the MCRFB.COM archive: Our THIRD install of the ‘SOUPY SALES MOLDY OLDIES SHOW’ No. 03 — GO HERE.
PRESS IMAGE: A DETROIT MEDIA LEGEND! SOUPY SALES
