Motor City Radio Flashbacks – Page 65 – Memories From the Soundtrack of Your Life

THE VOICE OF SUMMER RECALLED: TIGER BASEBALL IS ON THE AIR! MAY 1977

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DETROIT FREE PRESS | Thursday, May 12, 1977 — For a team that is supposedly tailor-made for Tiger Stadium, it certainly took the Tigers a long time to show it.

But they finally looked right at home Wednesday evening as Ben Oglivie, Phil Mankowski, Mark Wagner and Milt May all smashed home runs to help maul the Minnesota Twins, 8-3.

With all that support, it was easy for Dave Roberts to go all the way, limiting the Twins to five hits to claim his third victory of the season.

Watching the Tigers whack the ball into the seats with such authority, one could only wonder what took them so long.

**Tigers 8. Twins 3**. (Click on box score for largest detailed view)

Going into the game the Tigers had hammered the grand total of seven home runs in their first 11 games at Michigan and Trumbull. Wednesday they hit four in eight innings, including three off Jeff Zahn, previously undefeated and the American League’s lead-leading winner at 5-0.

It was awesome, to say the least, and long overdue.

In their first 11 games at home, in spite of a lineup loaded nightly loaded with left-handed hitters, the Tigers were out-homered by the opposition, 23 to 7 . . . hardly the sort of situation Ralph Houk envisioned when he put together this team together in the spring.

Wednesday’s performance was what the manager had in mind.

Roberts, who had won two in a row after watching his record fall to 1-4, struck out four Twins and walked only one in his best showing since he beat Toronto a month ago.

In addition, the veteran left hander gained some measure of revenge for the pounding he took in Minnesota 11 days earlier when Rod Carew attacked him on the mound at the Twins knocked him out of the game in the second inning.

Roberts never trailed as the Tigers came to his defense with a dozen hits, including 10 in the first four innings off Zahn.

Zahn found himself three runs behind by the time the Tigers finished batting in the bottom of the first, even though they only hit one ball beyond the infield. (See article below for more; click on, tap or stretch article for larger detailed read).

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BASEBALL REFERENCE: For the complete Minnesota Twins vs. Detroit Tigers May 11, 1977 game-day box score and stats — click HERE

**Detroit Free Press** Thursday, May 12, 1977

**The voice of the Detroit Tigers** Ernie Harwell with Paul Carey.

DETROIT RADIO JINGLES! CLASSIC PAMS RE-SINGS BY JAM: WHND HONEY RADIO

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KEENER GOLD! THE WKNR ‘TOP 31’ MUSIC GUIDE: MAY 15, 1967

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The above WKNR chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

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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 WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.

NEW! WKNR ‘KEENER 13’ BACK ON THE RADIO: BOB GREEN

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Audio recording was digitally remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

Bob Green 1966

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NEW! A special thank you to site senior contributor Greg Innis, of Livonia, Mi., for having recently contributed the above featured WKNR audio memory to the Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks collection.

THE NATIONAL TOP 30 TUNES! THIS WEEK, MAY 20, 1957

**BILLBOARD Honor Roll of Hits** May 20, 1957

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For survey week ending May 15

The Honor Roll of Hits comprises the nation’s top tunes according to record sales and sheet sales, disk jockey and jukebox performances as determined by The Billboard’s weekly nationwide sales.

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The above Honor Roll Of Hits music chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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WJBK RADIO 1500! FORMULA 40 SOUND SURVEY: MAY 13, 1957

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The WJBK FORMULA 40 hits was compiled, tabulated and produced by Radio 1500’s Bob Martin and Rosemary McGann.

This survey was tabulated overall by each record’s popularity and its appeal, sales, listener requests and record airplays based on the judgement of WJBK Radio.

Previewed for the week of May 13, 1957

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A SPECIAL THANK YOU

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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 WJBK music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.

NEW! WKNR KEENER 13 BACK ON THE RADIO: J. MICHAEL WILSON

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The featured audio presentation is two WKNR airchecks combined — as one — noted as dated.

WKNR J. MICHAEL WILSON 1965

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NEW! A special thank you to our senior contributor Greg Innis, of Livonia, Mi., for contributing the above featured WKNR audio memory to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks collection.

THIS WEEK! 1963: THE HOTTEST RECORD SINGLE IN THE U.S.A.

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FOURTEEN WEEKS overall on the singles pop charts, “If You Wanna Be Happy” by Jimmy Soul peaks this week at #1 (2 weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100. Beginning May 12 through week-ending, May 25, 1963. (Source: Joel Whitburn’s Pop Annual)

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For our previous Billboard Number One 1963 U.S.A. Hits go HERE

WLBS-FM IDs: “THIS IS 102.7 WLBS, MOUNT CLEMENS”

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WBRB-FM (Mt. Clemons) became the new WLBS-FM in January, 1979.

The “New Music” station, purchased by Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, based in New York, formatted the station with predominantly disco music from the outset. Having dominated the Detroit FM dial with their new “Disco and More” sound, the station’s format was left virtually unchanged for nearly five years on 102.7 FM.

WLBS-FM became the new WKSG-FM, “Kiss 102.7 FM” (Oldies) on November 9, 1984.

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A special THANK YOU going out to Jamie Kerwin of Sarnia, Ontario, for recently contributing the featured WLBS-FM station IDs to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives 🙂

NBC RADIO ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK: THE [WKSG] SOUPY SALES MOLDY OLDIES SHOW!

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