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Welcome to Motor City Radio Flashbacks, the premiere collection of sights and sounds, “memories from the soundtrack of your life“.
Motor City Radio Flashbacks is the offspring of the legendary Detroit Radio Flashbacks website. It is the repository for the most memorable moments we experienced growing up and listening to great Detroit radio.
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January 27, 2012
Write to jim@mcrfb.com
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Hey George – Jim how can I help George do you still have my home number, 2 audio studios plus 3 video studios also George I do not know if you still have the 80 hour of air checks that I send Scott when he first started up.
also is Scott still doing any of your editing Video footage If he is not
1 George I can edit down the WSDS video for you that we send last year
2 who is paying the bills may be able to help a little there too.
Earl and Pam Clark at Screechy -R- Productions Please keep in touch Thanks
SEE YA
I hope to hear honeyradio with Tim Nixon And Boogie Brian again I really really miss hearing them
Tim Nixon lives in Traverse City area Boogie Brian is in the Detroit area working locally at a radio station here it might be WOMC not sure.
Brian,
Thank you for dropping by mcrfb.com. In the event you haven’t noticed our featured Aircheck Library, we have numerous WHND airchecks, as with several with Tim Nixon as well.
Tim Nixon was certainly one of my favorites on Sunday mornings during the era when “All Oldies Honey 560 WHND” reigned supreme here in the Motor City for a string of 18 long years, from 1976 through 1994, before the station, sadly, went silently off the air November 25 of that year.
I still have my Honey Radio (with the soda-fountain shake logo) light blue windbreaker jacket hanging in my closet in plastic, today, for the most part it has been hanging there since I had first purchased it through WHND producer Tom Knight in 1985.
Whenever you may find time, we do have as well “the last show” on WHND with Fred “Boogie” Bryan. The complete show, it is four hours of Honey memories on the last day as WHND said its final good byes to the Motor City for good.
On behalf of George Griggs, Scott Westerman, and mcrfb.com, thanks for dropping by and tell your friends you found us right here for the best in Detroit radio memories!
Just discovered this site…WOW love it already.
Makes me feel as if I walked back in time. Love this site so much. Thanks for all the work that goes into it for
our enjoyment.
Thank you Joy for your expressed acknowledgments. We appreciate your response. Keep ’em posted here for more and you ‘betcha there’s more great Detroit radio stuff coming your way!
What happened to all the sports flashbacks? All the jingles, songs, and stuff about the Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, & Pistons?
We are working on putting them on. The site is still not all the way up. I hope to be adding all that in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for asking.
Did Tom Shannon work at WKBW in Buffalo in the 60’s?
Hi Betty —
Tom Shanon was at WKBD in Buffalo, New York. He started there in 1957. He arrived here in Detroit, coming over at CKLW across the river in Windsor, Ontario in December, 1964.
Thanks for dropping in on us here at MCRFB.
Yes he did!…and also CHUM 1050 Toronto in the 60’s and CKLW in the 70’s!
Gents,
You seem to be on key with radio. Can you help me identify the song after the ID jingle at the beginning of this aircheck of CKLW’s Big Jim Edwards from November 1967.
http://www.thebig8.net/jimnov67.mp3
I know it but I just cannot place it.
Thanks!
73,
Baron Bieber
WZ3F
Baron…I sent you the song which was Please Love Me Forever by Bobby Vinton…..Billboard released September 30, 1967…..
love all of the jingles,have a question about a Insteumental song that they use as hula hoop game on bozo the show in flint,mich!my mom use to have this 45!I rember play it all the time!looking it for months,I thnking it saitwater taffy,thank you,love this site!!!!!!
Hello to my fellow Detroit radio fans, The site is AMAZING. I really like what it’s become. You can spend years navigating all of the wonderful Detroit memories. This city was and is really something. The 1962 aircheck labeled Fred Wolf is actually Paul Winter. This is the unscoped 30 minute tape. I know for sure because this came from the old Aircheck Factory through myself. It’s a great piece of 1962. Take care, Larry Mischel
OMG this is wonderful! Love the WABX aircheck; hope you have more from that era.
Just found this site and LOVE IT!!! As a long-time Detroit area broadcaster, it brings back a lot of memories of the friends I’ve worked with. I’ll be visiting this site often!!!
Is there any way that I can hear some of these old promos, etc? When I click on them it just takes you to an empty page—Thank You—Jim
Hi Jim
Enjoy the site! So sorry to hear about Griggs, I may have spoke to him in the past, I worked at Keener in the early 70’s along with a few other stations. I have some stuff you might be interested in, let’s talk.
Lisen to you on my way to the Gym and times that you are on in the morning. Great show and all the 60 oldies, I know you have just about been everywhere in the US have you been to Turtle creek Pen. My mother was born there and it is off the beaten path. Is cousin Brucie in your same building.
Just found this site when I clicked to hear Alan Almond
I am looking for a family member that was on the show they were on I think 1966. 1967 they were called the Deltas, four guys, I really want to find a copy of that show,I have been trying to find them for a bout a year now. Please help me. E mail also please thank you
Hello there! As I write this I am transferring a 45 year old WKNR FM log recorder reel from October of 1970. It is from a collection of them I purchased many years ago that included both AM and FM tapes from March to October of 1970. As you may know, log recorder tapes were off-air recordings done for commercial performance or if something controversial happened and management needed a playback of the incident. They were recorded at a very slow speed so as to maximize available reel space. They contain hour after hour of continuous WKNR radio, uncut. I sold copies of some of the recordings years ago from the AM tapes. Most of the 1970 tapes on this very site came from those transfers. I have never circulated the FM transfers. If you want to see what one of the boxes looks like, I have posted a picture here.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91273627/IMG_5408.JPG
Thanks, and I enjoy your site very much!
Kip Brown
Three Rivers, Michigan
Does anyone know where Louie “Yeah Baby” Roberts ended up? He was on Z-95.5, WNIC, WOMC and I think WDRQ.
WDRQ’s a ball!
Hi it’s Jimmy James at WCXI radio I can’t get to songs is there a new password
Bold Venture Press has a license to reprint “WYXIE Wonderland” by Dick Osgood. The book is scheduled for release in September, and we are beginning to layout the text and graphics. If you have or know of any vintage advertisements — Green Hornet, Wolf’s Wigloo, etc. — please make suggestions with appropriate links.
Regarding the identity of “Brother John” on WXYZ-FM in 1969, he was John Rydgren (1932-1988) https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15294080
Around 1990 I met his son in Colorado, John, Jr., who, like his dad, had a monster voice. As a result, I had him record some promo and ID material for the station I was operations manager of at the the time.
Thank you Mike! I just saw this THANK YOU for the add. I just got the same feedback from another source so this just about clears up the mystery in regards to “Brother John.” Much appreciated. 🙂
Thought I had posted this but I can’t find it so I will try again. I have tape of the top 113 of 1868 on WKNR AM and a lot of WKNR FM as well. I have posted two parts thus far:
http://www.lettheuniverseanswer.com/2018/02/14/wknr-am-1968-countdown-wknr-fm-free-form-april-1969
http://www.lettheuniverseanswer.com/2018/02/17/wknr-am-fm-detroit-double-shot-part-two
I was a graduate student studying Communications at the University of Windsor in 1979/80.
WTWR ,Tower 92 , became my station, as I am from Toronto, and this station played my kind of music, and also invited on air dedications.
I had met a special gal at that time, Nancy ( Moss, back then ), from Southfield, and I made an on air dedication to her, and she heard it !!!
I was quite pleased about that !
The next year I was at Syracuse University, to earn a Masters degree, ( TV & Radio)and eventually ended up on air in Toronto, launching with the Fan 590 ( all sports, of course ) in September of 1992 and hosting the late night show until the end of 2012. ( On air as “Stormin” Norman Rumack, the “Late Night Vampire” )
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed listening to Tower 92 my one year living in Windsor !!! Your website is pretty awesome !
BTW: The nightclubs in Southfield and West Bloomfield were pretty lively in those days !
I haven’t spoken to my friend Nancy since 1982, so I hope she’s doing well ! If anyone reading this knows her, please tell her I said hello !
Thanks again WTWR !!!
Old DJ from KORK Las Vegas, NV from 1975-78. Trying to find jingle package from this time, done by Century 21 productions out of Dallas. Dick Starr and Mike Eisler I believe were prominent there and I believe Mike came to your company…as a 66 year old guy, I’d love to get a copy of our old KORK jingles. I have them on carts and reel-to-reel but good luck finding either…any help would be the only I’ve ever found…have a copy of Century 21 Productions Series 1849, which is where I heard a few of the KORK jingles…Thanks
Ron Murphy
ronthemailman@yahoo.com
Why is Frank Brodie’s name spelled as “Brody” in the post? Looking over some old Big 8 surveys, it was always spelled “Brodie!”
Here you go Jim, from the actual CKLW Music Survey (cover) June 10, 1969 🙂 — https://usaradiomuseum.com/?p=77810
Jim — thanks for the reply. I could not view your cover of the CK survey, but the following appears on a web search. Could this be the one you intended? By the way, thanks for a great webpage!
https://usaradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CKLW-Frank-Brodie.jpg
Thank you kindly Jim for your response! I knew it was spelled Frank ‘Brodie,’ looking at it, I thought, Brody? So I changed the spelling in this instance. Regardless, I cannot believe that someone did a typo spelling that name at the time, so as I pulled the CKLW chart I have for 1969, I went along with the spelling in this case. I cropped the Brody photo in photo shop and I used it borderless instead. I can email it to you if you’d like. Thanks Jim, your comments about the website is well appreciated!
Hi, I was on Detroit Bandstand and was one of the original dancers and am looking for pictures and or copies of the aired shows. Can you help? Thanks.
I’ve been trying for years to find the version of Gina that served as Jimmy Launce’s theme song. All I can find is Johnny Mathis’ version. Can anyone help? Thanks.
Bobbi, thank you for your query. We will be featuring the theme song played on the Jimmy Launce show on WJR, tomorrow. As you know, Jimmy played the instrumental version of the Johnny Mathis hit, near the close of his daily show. And it was “Gina” by Don Costas.
do you have the theme of JP Macarthy’s focus radio show or know the name of it thanks
I just discovered a WLLZ 98.7 license plate. Any idea what year they were issued?
The Big 30 chart that you featured today (with the “?” below one of the gentlemen) I had e-mailed to Charlie O’Brien several months ago, asking if he could identify the mystery man. He was going to check with Pat Holiday, who is in the pic, but I never heard back from him. Since you and he correspond, could you see if he had any luck? I’m guessing the fellow is either an A&R man or a station salesman. Thanks — love the site!
Jim, thanks for your kind comments regarding the site. Charlie O’Brien informed me the “mystery man” on the CKLW chart cover featured was none other that program director at the time, Alden Diehl. (?) Mystery solved! 🙂
Hello;
I would like to ask how I can contact two gentleman who have contributed images to this site, for a copy or contact info to Jim Feliciano for a copy of the E. J. Korvette Parade of Hits record list, posted here on Septer 18, 2020. Also, I would like to contact M J Rosenbluth, or associate, for info on the WMCA AM 570 original transmitter building image, located in NJ. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
I, was wondering would there be any problem with me downloading the classic commercials on dvd for my own personal use? I look forward to your feedback in this matter.
Richard Janes
Hi – found this site today as I was looking for information about the WXYZ “talk radio” psychic “JACQUI” – I believe her last name began with a K (Kendall or something?)… Anyway, I took a trip down memory lane looking at some things here – How Wonderful! I’m sure I have some nostalgia in my folks home regarding old Detroit radio (my Dad saved, well a lot) that I can share… How does one become a “member” here? I see the “member password” sign-in page, but I don’t see where to actually Sign Up? Can anyone help, please? Thank You!
Hi Kristen, thank you for your nice comments, you having recently found this site. I would be more than happy to have you as a “member” to the site. But read please our featured post first, published on September 30 — those “Membership” pages (password protected) are currently down (but temporarily) and are slated for reconstruction. As soon as the page(s) will be restored I will share with you our membership information. Thanks again, and if you have anything relating Detroit radio you may be willing to share, please feel free to drop us a line anytime here. 🙂
there were 2 men Bill Murray and Gorgeous George. they were the M.C,s for Motown back in the day but it seems that people have for gotten them. How do I know because I am a daughter of one of the gentlemen. they kept things going during the live shows. Wow how did they just get lost in time!
Does anyone remember the WJR Halloween radio dramas “The Rat” starring Jimmy Launce and “The Thing in My Backyard” starring I’m not sure who (one of the prominent radio hosts or producers back then, maybe Hal Youngblood?) that were broadcast in the late Seventies or maybe 1980? I have partial recordings of them, but I can find nothing online about them – I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone and nobody but he remembers them. Anyone?
Hi, great stuff here. What’s the copywrite status on the audio? I have a not for profit radio podcast and I would love to include some clips.
I’m in Canada if that matters.