Category: WXYZ
TM PRODUCTIONS: DETROIT RADIO JINGLES! WXYZ 1971
Featured TM jingles audio remastered by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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The TM Companies (1967–1979)
In 1967 TM Productions began as a music production company, producing commercial jingles and broadcast station identifications (IDs). Jim Long (born Timothy John Moynihan; February 7, 1943 – May 30, 2022) conceptualized and co-produced an entirely new approach to station IDs which provided stations a natural flow from commercial breaks to station IDs to music programming, increasing listenership and ratings. Called “Phase 2”, “The Propellants” and “The Winning Score”, these programs were quickly adopted by top stations including KILT Houston, WCFL Chicago and KHJ Los Angeles (also WXYZ ABC in Detroit).
TM Studios, Inc. is a radio jingle and promotional music service company based in Dallas, Texas. It is currently the oldest radio jingle company still in business, with roots tracing back to 1955 when Tom Merriman (the original “TM” in TM Studios) founded Commercial Recording Corporation (which closed in 1968). Tom Merriman left CRC in 1967 and founded TM Productions (later known as TM Communications, Inc. – a publicly traded company) with Jim Long. By this time, Century 21 Productions (later known as Century 21 Programming, Inc.), another Dallas jingle company, was founded.
Both jingle companies remained in business until 1990, when TM Communications, Inc. and Century 21 Programming, Inc. merged to become TM Century, Inc.
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Source: Jones Radio Networks [Wikipedia]
WXYZ RADIO 1270: DETROIT SOUND OFFICIAL HIT SURVEY! DECEMBER 22, 1964
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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A special THANK YOU to Larry Good, of Saline, MI., for generously contributing this featured WXYZ chart — December 22, 1964 — to Motor City Radio Flashbacks
The above WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
WXYZ 1270: BACK ON THE RADIO! FRED WOLF, DECEMBER 1964
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to David Carson for his WXYZ Fred Wolf audio contribution!
David is the renowned historian and noted authority on Detroit radio. He authored the quintessential book on the subject ever published, ‘Rockin’ Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio’.
“A must for any fan of Detroit radio. ‘Rockin’ Down the Dial’ is an easy read and for people like me, there are lots of pictures.” –Dick Purtan, WOMC
His book was published by Momentum Books, Ltd., Troy, MI., in the year 2000. While his book is out-of-print, it is listed on eBay and on Amazon. David Carson resides today in Tennessee. Thanks again, David! 🙂
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Audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
WXYZ RADIO 1270: THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY! DECEMBER 5, 1966
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.
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The above WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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A special thank you to Jim Heddle of Tuscon, Arizona, for having contributed the above WXYZ 1270 playlist chart featured for the site’s archives.
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WXYZ RADIO 1270! DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: OCTOBER 13, 1964
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This list is selected each week by WXYZ Radio reports of records sales gathered from leading record outlets in the Detroit area and other sources available to WXYZ.
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A special THANK YOU to Larry Good, of Saline, MI., for contributing this featured WXYZ chart — October 13, 1964 — to Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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WXYZ RADIO 1270! THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: OCTOBER 10, 1966
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.
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The above WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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A special thank you to Jim Heddle of Tuscon, Arizona, for having contributed the above WXYZ 1270 playlist chart featured for the site’s archives.
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WXYZ 1270: DICK PURTAN! A 1972 [Detroit Free Press] DETROIT RADIO BACK-PAGE AD
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Above article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2022. Newspapers.com
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Missed any of our previous ‘Detroit Radio Back-Pages‘ features? GO HERE
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On September 15, 2022, Detroit Public TV debuted their newest television production. It is a documentary commemorating and the extraordinary life and times of long-time Detroit radio legend and morning personality, Dick Purtan.
Titled ‘Detroit Remember When: A Tribute to Dick Purtan‘, DPTV.org tagged the hour-long film with this disclaimer . . . .
“The special documentary highlights Purtan’s life on and off the air, told through audio and video clips, archival film and interviews with Purtan, his family, friends and colleagues. The 60-minute documentary film features some of the most memorable moments from Purtan’s top-rated morning show, his successful radio career and consistent community outreach.”
If you missed viewing the PBS film this past weekend, ‘Detroit Remembers When: A Tribute to Dick Purtan‘ is currently still available for your viewing, courtesy of Detroit Public Television, HERE.
More of this PBS Dick Purtan television special, from the DPTV website . . . .
“Fans of Detroit radio can celebrate the life and extraordinary career of Dick Purtan in a televised remembrance of his legendary journey as a radio personality and community philanthropist, to premiere on DPTV Sept. 15 at 9 p.m. as part of a “Detroit Remember When” segment. This special documentary highlights Purtan’s life on and off the air, told through audio and video clips, archival film and interviews with Purtan, his family, friends and colleagues.
The 60-minute documentary film features some of the most memorable moments from Purtan’s top-rated morning show, including his infamous “Put-on Calls,” where he entertained generations of Detroiters with a whimsical mix of radio satire, one liners and dead pans delivered to his audience each day along with his “Purtan’s People” ensemble cast and crew.
“In addition to his successful radio career, the film looks back on Purtan’s community outreach on behalf of the many charities he supported and the ways he used his position of influence behind the microphone to help the less fortunate.”
Congratulations, Dick Purtan!
And thank you. For all those wonderful memories and humor you shared with us on the radio dial throughout the decades’ past . . . those special D. P. moments on the radio your Detroit listeners and fans could never, ever forget. 🙂
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MCRFB AUDIO CALL-OUT: EDDIE CHASE on CKLW, WXYZ, ‘MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’
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Motor City Radio Flashbacks is in search of anything audio relating Eddie Chase, renown Detroit radio legend in the 1940s and 1950s on WXYZ and CKLW.
His granddaughter, Kathleen Thompson (resides in Anchorage, Alaska), and for the benefit of her immediate family as well, has reached out to this site for any audio recordings of Eddie Chase on the radio, which may include his top-rated WXYZ show program, Make Believe Ballroom. Material we have yet to find and add into our Detroit radio archive.
If there is someone out there who may possibly have a recording of this Detroit radio treasure, please contact me at (copy and paste):
motorcityradioflashbacks65@gmail.com
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WXYZ RADIO 1270 | THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY: JULY 11, 1966
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.
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The above WXYZ chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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A special thank you to Jim Heddle of Tuscon, Arizona, for providing this WXYZ 1270 playlist chart from July 1966 to our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives.
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