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Newly restored! From the MCRFB collection. This selected audio recording was digitally remastered for this feature presentation by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks extends warm, Birthday wishes to Dick Purtan. Happy Birthday, Dick! We hope your day was truly special. And thank you again, for all those great D.P. radio memories you shared with us for well over four decades on both sides of the Detroit radio dial. 🙂
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The CKLW HIT PARADE represents the judgement of CKLW’s record selection committee as to the relative popularity of of current recordings in the Motor City area and is conditioned by such factors as industry tabulations, local record sales, and telephone requests.
The featured CKLW 07/11/1967 chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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A sincere thank you Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
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In July 1968, eight months had passed since the two major newspaper temporarily ceased its daily publications on Saturday, November 18, 1967. Both newspapers were shut down by a major union strike.
In lieu of the two newspaper’s shutdown, Detroiters found themselves without their two daily newspapers, again, for the second time in four years. The previous newspaper strike/shutdowns was back in July 1964. In substitution, the Detroit American expanded its publication for a greater outreach in the metro-Detroit area throughout the remainder of the strike during this period.
Both newspapers, the Detroit Free Press, and the Detroit News, resumed daily publications after both papers reached a tentative settlement to end the strike on Friday, August 9. Both papers were back in circulation on Saturday, August 10, 1968.
The Detroit Free Press archives includes the Detroit American newspaper publications, covering the months of May, June, and July of 1968.
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Above Thursday Radio courtesy freep.com newspapers archives. Copyright 2024; Newspapers.com. This featured Detroit Free Press image is courtesy of MCRFB senior advisor, Greg Innis.
The above featured Detroit radio guide was clipped, saved, and digitally re-imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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Audio lightly digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
Audio lightly digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
A special THANK YOU to Charlie O’Brien for contributing this 2024 big8radio CKLW 1973 Countdown Memorial Day presentation for this site’s archive.
A special thank you to Lee Alan for having shared with Motor City Radio Flashbacks this special featured audio presentation.
This program was conceived, created, produced, and narrated by Lee Alan. Property of Lee Alan and leealancreative.com.
Audio was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
The above WXYZ 06/28/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.
These Radio 1270 top 40 charts was the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based by popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.
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Unless this site is able to acquire more of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 chart surveys in the future, this June 28, 1965 chart will be the final presentation. We first began presenting these Detroit Sound Surveys back in February of this year.
Also, if anyone has additional WXYZ charts from 1965 in their collection and are willing to share — scanned or xerox copies would suffice — please contact this site, here:
motorcityradioflashbacks65@gmail.com
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