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For over 30 years, legendary morning radio personality Joseph Priestley McCarthy broadcast his #1 rated show on WJR-760 in Detroit. “J.P.” regularly interviewed heads of states, world leaders, government officials, corporate figures, champions of sports, entertainment luminaries, and dedicated listeners, highlighting his storied broadcasting career in the Motor City.
One day short of 51 months having passed after this broadcast first aired, J.P. passed away on August 16, 1995.
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our friend, Jim Nuznoff, of Port Charlotte, Florida, for this recent contribution to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks repository. Thanks again, Jim, we are grateful for your generosity and your support for this site, always.
Jim writes (January 9, 2024) — “March 17, 1993. J. P. McCarthy Show featuring a remote broadcast on St. Patrick’s Day, live, from the Pegasus Restaurant in Detroit. This was a somewhat, somber show, according to the news you will hear in the audio. For it was also the time when Detroit area restaurant owner Chuck Muir (along with his wife) was reported missing aboard his sailboat during a storm in the Bahamas. And auto dealership owner and long-time friends, George and Lynn Drummey (of Drummey Olds) were also on board as well. I don’t think they were ever found.”
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Above Thursday Radio courtesy freep.com newspapers archives. Copyright 2024; Newspapers.com
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Hey do you remember the Think Summer campaign Keener launched in Detroit in the winter of 1965?
Well, let’s see . . . . I can still see those Think Summer newspaper ads. And there were those Think Summer button giveaways. There was also a Think Summer contest as well. Recall seeing a few of those Think Summer billboards WKNR posted around town. And then there was that one Think Summer song, yeah . . . that was playing on the radio, on Keener 13!
According to the WKNR music guides posted on Keener13.com, Think Summer by Susan Wayne debuted during the week of February 18, 1965. But by the time Think Summer peaked at the No. 25 spot on WKNR, March 3, 1965, thereafter, that would be it . . . just three weeks on the Keener 13 playlists in short order.
But that was enough for WKNR to generate an imaginary kind of ‘mirage,’ if you will, a brief winter’s thaw we must have felt, at least momentarily, during the station’s contest they off-loaded with that one, huge “summertime” give-a-way at the time. If all else, the Think Summer event became the ultimate radio event during that cold winter here in Detroit, 59-years ago.
Straight from the Keener vaults, and courtesy of WKNR legend, Bob Green. We are showcasing two of those WKNR Think Summer promos (audio under each ad). All from that memorable winter’s brief “summer-time fun” contestants cashed in on while listening to Keener 13 during those two winter months in early-1965.
And at date, we are just nine days away from spring, so . . . .
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Detroit Free Press Thursday, January 28, 1965
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Hot Popularity Fuels Monkees’ Recordings Across Europe and Beyond
NEW YORK — The Monkees are swinging to the top on a global scale. Their Colgems releases, which are distributed by RCA Victor, are following the phenomenal sales pattern set in the U. S. in such foreign countries as England, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Germany Canada, Japan, Australia and the Philippines.
In the U.S., the Monkees’ two album releases, “More Of The Monkees” and “The Monkees,” which holds the one and two spots in Billboard’s best-selling popular LP chart this week, have sold in excess of three million copies. Their two single releases, “Last Train To Clarksville” and “I’m A Believer,” have sold more than 5,000,000 copies.
In England, “I’m A Believer,” has passed the 600,000 sales mark, and their first album, “Monkees,” is selling at a fast-sales clip. The first single release, “Last Train To Clarksville,” which failed to stimulate much interest in its initial round, is now beginning to perk up in sales.
“I’m A Believer” is No. 1 in Holland and Sweden; in the Top 10 in Belgium and Norway; a run-away seller in Canada; in the Top 10 in Japan and Australia, and starting to move up in Germany and the Philippines.
Victor also reports that the Stereo-8 version of the Monkees LP is a fast moving item, and that “More Of The Monkees” is scheduled for Stereo-8 cartridge release later this month. END
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Information, credit, and news source: Billboard; February 11, 1967
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Radio Veteran No Longer Finds Place Nor Pleasure on the Dial at 1270
DETROIT — Veteran deejay Ed McKenzie resigned from station WXYZ here last week in protest of the station’s “formula radio” programming policy.
Detroit radio’s two biggest names, Ed McKenzie, Robin Seymour in the late-1950s.
Rallying to McKenzie’s side was his long-time competitor and another veteran Detroit spinner, Robin Seymour, of WKMH who came out strongly last week for McKenzie and against “formula radio.” Seymour stated: “It’s a crime and a shame when one of the true deejays – one of the men who made the jockey a major factor in broadcasting – has to bow to the dictates of a program director.”
Although Seymour and McKenzie – two of Detroit’s key deejays – have vied for audience ratings for the past 11 years (they occupied the same afternoon time slot) Seymour said they have remained friends — their friendship dating back to the time McKenzie gave Seymour his first radio job at WJBK here.
Seymour has asked McKenzie to appear on his WKMH show this week to discuss the whole formula radio situation and his reasons for leaving WXYZ. Seymour said they will explore the jockey’s need for freedom of programming and speculate on whether the advent of “formula radio” has anything to do with the fact that no new name deejay (other than Dick Clark) has come up from the ranks in recent years.
Seymour said his station, WKMH, is now the only major Detroit station operating on a non-formula programming policy. The outlet did adopt a non – rock and roll format last year, but Seymour said the management dropped the policy last January, and pert record programming back in the deejays’ hands. As a result, the jock said WKMH’s ratings are already showing a small rating climb – the first rating increase for the station in some time.
The WXYZ “formula,” (featuring the Top 40 singles) was adopted by the station about a year ago, and WXYZ vice president in charge of radio, Hal Neal opined “Our interpretation of formula radio is that it is a step forward.”
Ed McKenzie on WXYZ circa 1955
McKenzie on the other hand expressed his opinion that this “formula” did not jibe with his interpretation of radio as “being intimate and friendly.” He stated that his ratings were dropping since the “formula policy” has gone into effect and that he would sooner “dig ditches or sell hot dogs” than go back to formula radio because “I can’t do something I don’t believe in.”
The radio station disagreed with McKenzie’s use of bird calls on the air and his “on the air” comment on office typing and the programming. The station also found themselves in disagreement with McKenzie about their new policy to boost the station on his programs, which the jockey termed `unnecessary.”
McKenzie’s 3 p.m. to 6.15 p.m. spot is being taken over by Mickey Shorr, who will have another replacement for his own Night Train program. Reportedly making between $60,000 and $80,000 a year in his 29th year with radio. McKenzie was Jack the Bellboy at WJBK before he changed to WXYZ radio in 1952. END
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Information, credit and news source: Billboard, March 16, 1959
Ella Fitzgerald guests on WXYZ with Ed McKenzie, circa 1954.
Projected One Million Stereo FM Receivers Will Be Sold, 1963
NEW YORK — FM STEREO’S HOTTEST MARKETS. One million stereo receivers will be sold this year. Not bad for for a medium which celebrated it’s second birthday this month.
A 1963 Philco AM-FM table radio.
About 730,000 of the anticipated 1.4 million American-made radio-phonographs will be equipped for FM stereo reception; another 130,000 of 280,000 TV-radio-phonograph combinations will have it. Add at least another 100,000 for table-model FM stereo radios and FM-stereo equipped imports of various types, plus another 50,000 or so component tuners, and you have well over a million sets going to the public this year. (The radio-photo and TV-radio-phono estimates were made by the Electronics Industries Association; other estimates tabulated by Billboard).
FM stereo is a valuable adjunct to a phonograph. It vastly increases the consumer’s enjoyment — and the dealer’s profits. It can be sold easily with a good demonstration. The same is true of FM stereo table radio.
THERE ARE NOW 228 FM stereo stations in the U.S., and about 10 in Canada. FM stereo can truly be called a nationwide medium today. The American stations are located in 209 cities in 44 States plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. FM stereo signals can be received in every one of the top 50 U. S. metropolitan market areas — and in many, many less populated areas.
FM stereo is far hotter in some areas than others, of course. In these “hot” areas, every radio-phono sold should contain FM stereo. FM listeners are subject to a constant barrage of FM-stereo talk on their favorite stations, and this talk can be converted to sales with a little effort.
These are FM stereo’s hottest cities (not necessarily in order): Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Houston, Seattle. Each one of these cities has at least 5 FM stations broadcasting in stereo. Detroit has six. Los Angeles and Seattle will soon add their sixth. San Francisco, long reputed to be the hottest FM-stereo town of all, probably deserves this reputation. With five stations already broadcasting in stereo, three more have purchased stereocasting equipment and presumably will soon begin stereo, to make San Francisco the nation’s first eight-stereo-station city.
The second-hottest group of stereo cities (in order of number of stereocasting stations) consists of San Diego, Miami (with a fifth station due to begin soon), Boston, Dallas-Ft. Worth also expecting No. 5 on the air soon). Each of these cities currently has four FM stereo program sources.
Three-stereo-stations areas are Washington; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Cleveland; Eugene-Springfield, Oregon; Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
There are at least 18 cities where listeners have a choice of two FM stereo stations. Geographically, they’re scattered from border-to-border and coast-to-coast. They are Phoenix, Birmingham, Fresno and Sacramento, California; Atlanta; Honolulu; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Grand Rapids, Michigan; New York; St. Louis; Greensboro, North Carolina; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Portland, Oregon; Pittsburgh, Providence, Norfolk, Nashville.
There’s no particular pattern of geographic location or city size in the spread of FM stereo. In many cases, a good, well-operated FM stereo station (such as San Francisco’s KPEN) will build an audience and inspire its competitors to “go stereo.”
A typical home entertainment unit, FM stereo phonograph console, 1963.
NEW YORK, YOU WILL NOTE, is rather far down on the list. The city has never been a trail-blazing town in home entertainment. New York’s FM stereo boom may come soon, however, as at least three more stations are preparing to start stereocasting. For serious music lovers, who are now served with some stereo by WQXR-FM, there will be New York’s municipal station WNYC-FM, which hopes to eventually stereocast all of its live concert broadcasts, and ABC’s WABC-FM, which will program separately from its AM affiliate, presumably serious music. For those who prefer lighter music, the popular WPAT-FM will supplement WTFM. now programming stereo 24 hours daily.
NEXT STEREO CITIES. Between 50 and 75 more FM stations will begin stereocasting between now and the end of 1963. These are expected to open up more new markets for stereo equipment sales.
Among the upcoming new FM stereo market areas where stations are now equipping themselves to start stereo broadcasting: Mobile, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Boulder, Colorado; Columbus, Georgia; Boise, Idaho; Champaign, Illinois; Louisville; St. Joseph, Missouri; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Dover, Springfield, and Toledo, Ohio; Warren and York, Pennsylvania; Seneca, South Carolina; Greenville, Johnson City and Lebanon, Tennessee; Lubbock and Midland, Texas; Bellingham, Washington; Eau Claire, Green Bay and Wausau, Wisconsin; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Aguadilla and Isabele, Puerto Rico.
If your business is located in or near any of these cities, its not too early to prepare for the advent of FM stereo. Your customers should be told that FM stereo is coming, and advised to be ready for it. You should be ready for it, too., with an adequate supply of FM-stereo-equipped instruments., and armed with knowledge of what it’s all about. END
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Information, credit and news source: Billboard,June 29, 1963
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