Month: July 2013

WXYZ-AM 1270 * THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY * JULY 18, 1966

MarqueeTest-2From the MCRFB archive files:

THE TOP 35 HITS ON WXYZ ON THIS DATE IN 1966

 

WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey; No. 14 issued July 18, 1966 under Lee Alan, Program Director; WXYZ

 

 

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(WXYZ 1270 Detroit Sound Survey for July 18, this date 1966; survey courtesy the Jim Heddle Collection. For the previous weekly WXYZ July 11, 1966 survey click here).

Lee Alan, photographed here with the Pixies Three, with Al Valenti and Joel Sabastian on Detroit's Channel 7 teen-dance show Club 1270 in 1963. In that same year, Lee Alan was the No. 1 radio disk jockey in Detroit, holding down a phenomenal 40 per cent share audience.
A ’63 WXYZ FLASHBACK MOMENT: Lee Alan, photographed here with the Pixies Three, with friends Al Valenti and WXYZ’s Joel Sabastian on Detroit’s Channel 7 dance show Club 1270 in 1963. By 1963 Lee Alan was the No. 1 radio disk jockey. It was then Lee Alan commanded a phenomenal 40 per cent captive share of the night-time radio audience in Detroit on WXYZ.

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WE GET PHOTOS! WEXL-AM TRAILER REMOTE PICS 1970

A WEXL FLASHBACK MOMENT:
A 1970 WEXL SNAPSHOT MOMENT: Robert Howe shared with Motor City Radio Flashbacks these two photographs taken in September, 1970. According to Robert, WEXL was doing a radio remote in Warren, Michigan and is seen here standing alongside with WEXL’s country deejay John Ramsey, wearing shades. In reference to the picture on the right, Robert also added, “The old WEXL remote trailer which they may have purchased from WXYZ because there is a photo on your site with an identical trailer with the WXYZ call letters across the front.” Thank you, Robert Howe, for sharing your special memories with Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

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ERNIE DURHAM’S WJLB RHYTHM AND BLUES: JULY 1962

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A MCRFB WJLB FLASHBACK:
A WJLB FLASHBACK MOMENT: “Frantic” Ernie Durham, legendary Detroit R&B disk jockey was on Detroit’s WJLB-AM every evening until 9:00 p.m. Durham was one of the first “rappers,” in a literal sense, who did most of his shows in rhyme. Here, he was photographed at the famous Madison Ballroom in 1958, a block down from the Graystone in Detroit.

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