BILL GARCIA WKNR aircheck date: Tuesday, October 13, 1970
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to David Milatz, of Rochester, MI, for donating this WKNR radio aircheck to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
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* THE DAVID MILATZ COLLECTION *
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DETROIT FREE PRESS: WKNR
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NINETEEN WEEKS on the singles chart, “Hey Jude” by the Beatles peaked this week at No. 01 (9 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. September 22 through November 23, 1968. (Source: Billboard)
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ARTIE FIELDS PRODUCTIONS * “Go Get ‘Em Tigers” * 1968
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In commemorating the 50th anniversary when the Detroit Tigers won it all in October ’68, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be presenting the complete 7 games of the 1968 World Series.
Look for each respective game to be posted on the represented dates the game actually aired over NBC radio affiliate WWJ 950 in Detroit, October 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 2018.
With each posted game featured, you will find game-day links, next-day newspaper pages and clippings (courtesy of the Detroit Free Press archives) and many photos from the ’68 Series.
This exclusive 1968 World Series presentation will be a memorable commemoration recalling that ’68 Detroit magical baseball year we celebrated fifty years ago. Truly, still remembered as . . . “the year of the Tiger.”
So look for it here.
Beginning next week, Tuesday, October 2. Only on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
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In Memory of George Griggs
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Above WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patty Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
From the MCRFB MUSIC NEWS archive: 1965
‘WKNR Adds DC5 Cobo Hall Show with High School Journalists’ Press Conference’
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DETROIT (DECEMBER 17) —At least 150 high school journalists were “glad all over” last Friday night. WKNR invited them to question the Dave Clark Five at a press conference before their Cobo Arena concert. The minute Dave Clark, Mike Smith, Lenny Richardson, Denis Payton and Rick Huxley into the Polar Bear Room in the Veteran’s Memorial, flashbulbs and question started popping.
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— DETROIT FREE PRESS
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