WXYZ 1270 JINGLE * “GOOD MORNING THE WORLD IS BRIGHT!” * 1965
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CLASSIC DETROIT RADIO SOUND BYTES: WXYZ-AM ’60s
WXYZ 1270 JINGLE * “COLOR RADIO IS HERE!” * 1965
CLASSIC DETROIT RADIO SOUND BYTES: WXYZ-AM ’60s
WXYZ 1270 JINGLE * “COME ALONG WITH WIXIE!” * 1965
DETROIT RADIO: WHYT-FM ’85 NEWS PRINT FLASHBACK!
Friday, January 25, 1985
A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WHYT | “WHYT SAYS STUDIO TAKEOVER WAS HOAX”
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WHYT-FM BACK ON THE RADIO: J. J. WALKER!
DETROIT RADIO: WHYT-FM ’85 NEWS PRINT FLASHBACK!
Wednesday, January 30, 1985
A DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WHYT | “WHYT HOAXERS GET HEAV-HO”
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WHYT-FM POWER 96.3 SURVEY: THIS WEEK! 04/14/1986
WHYT DETROIT’S BEST MUSIC
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32 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
April 14, 1986
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In Memory of George Griggs
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WCZY-FM: THE Z 95.5 ALL HIT LIST! WEEK OF 04/11/1988
WCZY DETROIT’S ALL HIT MUSIC
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30 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
April 11, 1988
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FLASHBACK MOTOR CITY MUSIC HAPPENINGS . . . MARCH 2, 1968
From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1968
Music Happenings In and Around Detroit Town, 1968
DETROIT — (03/1968) –The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Masonic Temple Auditorium, Friday Feb. 23. The show was a WKNR-FM Russ Gibb production presentation. . . Ernie Durham, WJLB disk jockey who has for years hosted a Sunday night record hop at the 20 Grand for those 17 and over, will begin a weekly Friday night hop at the club for teenagers 14 to 17. In addition to presenting popular recording acts, Durham also plans to sponsor talent shows on those evenings . . . . Sybil Burton Christopher, originator of Arthur, the popular discotheque in New York, is opening a similar establishment here called the Woodward Streetcar. The Four Seasons performed a Detroit concert Friday Feb. 23 . . . . Sammy Davis Jr., will entertain at the annual Fight for Freedom dinner to be held at Cobo Hall April 28. Cleveland’s Mayor Carl Stokes will be the principal speaker at that affair. . . . Marian Anderson performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s last Kresge Concert at the Ford Auditorium Tuesday, Feb. 13 . . . . Count Basie, Miriam Makeba, Wes Montgomery, and Jimmy Smith Trio, the Oscar Peterson Trio, and comic Richard Pryor performed together for a one-night jazz concert at Cobo Arena, Friday Feb. 23.
Diana Ross and the Supremes are now doing one-nighters across northern United States, including college campuses . . . . The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas left town recently to participate in the Motor Town Revue at the Japanese Festival which will tour Japan for one month. The artists have be en scheduled for TV appearances, concerts, and will entertain U. S.troops stationed in areas in and about Japan . . . . The Pop Concert Committee of Wayne State University has scheduled its first pop concert for Friday, March 22, at the Ford Auditorium. Dionne Warwick has been chosen to headline the concert, along with other acts still to be selected . . . . Robbie Dee, disk jockey on WCHB, has been promoted to production manager of that station . . . . Hello People are booked into the Chessmate for one week beginning March 12. . . . Leon Isaac is the new early afternoon disk jockey for WJLB . . . . Currently in progress is the Memphis Sounds Show at the Riviera Theater through Thursday (March 29). Among the artists on that show are J. J.Barnes, Pat Lewis, the Holidays, Eddie Floyd, Pig Meat Markham, Ruby Andrews, and Barbara Mercer. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; March 02, 1968)
50TH! TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: TOP HITS OF ’68!
SPANKY & OUR GANG * 1968
