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Note: A special THANK YOU to Bob Green (Bob Green Productions) of Houston, Texas, for providing this WKNR 1965 audio memory with Motor City Radio Flashbacks 🙂
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For our previous (March 11, 2020) WKNR audio ‘mugshots’ post featuring the 1964 Keener jocks, go HERE
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Audio enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
DICK PURTAN | DATE: MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1967
— SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT —
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our website contributor Peter Faulkner of Calgary, Alberta, for donating this WKNR-AM radio aircheck (he recorded in 1967) for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks archive.
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AN AMERICAN HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT AD from 1967
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Above 1967 ADMIRAL ad digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
AN AMERICAN HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT AD from 1967
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Above 1967 WOLLENSAK ad digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
AN AMERICAN HOME ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT AD from 1967
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Above 1967 FISHER ad digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
ERNIE HARWELL (w/ George Kell) * Al Kaline Interview (Spring Training) * MARCH 1962
April 6, 2020
In Remembrance
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Remembering Al Kaline
The above Al Kaline interview was aired on WKMH, the Detroit Tigers flagship stations (Knorr Broadcasting) during the Tiger’s spring training season, March 1962.
December 19, 1934 – April 6, 2020
— ABOUT THESE IMAGES —
Above newspaper images courtesy from the freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2021. Newspapers.com.
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— The Ed Sullivan Show —
The entire Ed Sullivan Show catalogue has hit the streaming platforms!
On June 12, 2020 came news Universal Music Enterprises and Sofa Entertainment brokered a deal to license and make available the entire Ed Sullivan video performance from the Sofa library, who acquired the entire catalogue in 1990. UME will make available the entire catalogue for public streaming in restored, digitized form, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Since its premiere launch on June 12 2020, more videos have been added on the official Ed Sullivan You Tube channel, highlighting the Motown sound. As reported, it will take three years to upload the more than 10,000 performances which aired Sunday evenings on CBS-TV from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971.
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For more on this story, go HERE.
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Note: Ed Sullivan passed away on October 13, 1974. He was 73.
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NEW! For this ‘Motown’ Monday, we are featuring three classic Motown video performances from the Ed Sullivan Show:
Gladys Knight & The Pips (1968), The Temptations (1971), The Temptation and Diana Ross & The Supremes (1967)
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MORE Ed Sullivan Motown performances will be forthcoming on Motor City Radio Flashbacks!
A PROPHECY FULFILLED * WBFG 98.7 * APRIL 10, 1977
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“HE IS RISEN!”____________
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
This special Easter holiday recording, “A Prophecy Fulfilled,” was conceived, created, and was produced by Bob Pratt.
For three straight years, this program was broadcast on 98.7 WBFG-FM in Detroit during the Easter holiday seasons in 1975, 1976 and in 1977.
At the time ‘A Prophesy Fulfilled’ first aired in 1975, WBFG was Detroit’s foremost premiere station known for it’s all-religious broadcasting format. The call letters WBFG was also the station’s heralded acronym as well. The calls represented their daily religious radio content heard 24/7 on the FM side, “We’re Broadcasting For God.”
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A special THANK YOU to Bob Pratt for sharing this special Easter holiday broadcast with Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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