WWJ DETROIT RADIO 1990 PRESS PHOTO: SONNY ELIOT
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WXYZ DETROIT RADIO PRESS PHOTO: FRED WOLF, 1959
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WXYZ RADIO 1270 DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: 11/7/1966
WXYZ 1270
— THIS WEEK in NOVEMBER 1966 —
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio from reports of record sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
— The Jim Heddle Collection —
This WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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WXYZ DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: THE TOP 100 HITS! 1965
WXYZ 1270
— SOUND SURVEY TOP 100 DETROIT RECORDS for 1965 —
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This list was selected from our weekly surveys as was determined by WXYZ Radio, based on reports by leading record outlets, record sales and popularity in the Detroit area throughout 1965.
— The GREG INNIS Collection —
This WXYZ (year-end) 1965 chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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A special THANK YOU to Greg Innis, Livonia, Mi., for previously sharing this WXYZ music chart with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
MIKE JOSEPH: WHO INVENTED SHORT TOP 40 PLAYLIST?
— MIKE JOSEPH —
A DETROIT TOP 40 RADIO PIONEER
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Before there was Bill Drake, Ron Jacobs, Paul Drew in the mid-1960s, in the beginning of Top 40 radio in the 1950s there was Mike Joseph. In essence, before the KHJ phenomenon was to hit the radio top 40 industry in 1965, Joseph was the perennial radio programmer who birthed the shortened ’30 hits playlist’ in Buffalo’s WKBW in 1957.
Mike Joseph also transcended the short playlist concept here in Detroit when WKMH hired the legendary programmer in 1963. Under Mike Joseph, WKMH became the former on October 31, 1963 — becoming the new WKNR Radio 13 — short playlist and all — and the rest is Detroit radio history.
In the early 1980s, Mike Joseph would return back to Detroit. WJR and station owner Capital Cities Communications hired Joseph for program consultancy for its adult, easy-listening WJR-FM — turning it instead into a new and successful Top 40 powerhouse in the Motor City in 1982 with his ‘Hot Hits’ formula — the new FM WHYT 96.3.
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A MCRFB NOTE: This page/article was taken from a R&R (Radio & Records) special edition published in 1996. The magazine, ‘Bill Gavin’s Top 40’, was published twenty-three years ago in recognition of the 40th anniversary, birth of top 40 radio, 1956.
WHYT-FM 96 HOT HITS’ SURVEY: THIS WEEK! 11/04/1982
WHYT HOT HITS!
— 37 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK —
November 4, 1982
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— In Memory of George Griggs —
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
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Above WHYT music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
WKNR’ RARE! KEENER 13 NOVEMBER CHARTS: 11/07/63
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A MCRFB Note: This WKNR playlist was the premier issue. Thereafter, for the next 8 years and 4 months, WKNR would publish their weekly music guides through March 20, 1972, the very last issue, as dated.
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This is the third of four rare (November) WKNR Music Guides going up on the site this month, on the guides’ respective dates as issued. Look for the fourth November date: November 21, 1963.
All four issues were digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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A special THANK YOU. Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Greg Innis, Livonia, MI.
VINTAGE AMERICAN HOME ELECTRONICS AD: 11/1963
— AN AMERICAN HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT AD from 1963 —
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Above 1963 GE ad digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
VINTAGE AMERICAN HOME ELECTRONICS AD: 03/1964
— AN AMERICAN HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT AD from 1964 —
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