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WHERE DID ED McKENZIE’S MONIKER ‘JACK the BELLBOY’ ORIGINATED FROM? NOW WE KNOW

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The featured Detroit Free Press article (August 31, 1951) was digitally re-imaged and was entirely restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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Jack the Bellboy.

There were five WJBK personalities who used the JTB moniker in the 1950s and in the 1960s. Ed McKenzie (1951). Tom Clay (1958). Dave Shafer (1962). Terry Knight (1963). Robin Walker (1964).

One other fact: When Ed McKenzie left WJBK for WXYZ in 1952, WJBK retained legal rights to the moniker. Nobody else at WJBK would use the title until Tom Clay was hired in late 1957, when Casey Kasem left Detroit for Buffalo that year. In 1956-57, Casey Kasem had the same late-evening hours as Ed McKenzie, on WJBK. Offered the JTB title by the station, Kasem once stated he simply declined assuming the moniker during the short time while he was there.

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A special thank you to senior MCRFB consultant Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for contributing the Newspapers.com archives (Detroit radio related) articles, ads, and images we have provide for this site since 2016.

Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. ?

PROGRAMMING: THE DETROIT AM RADIO DIAL, TUESDAY RADIO, JULY 9, 1968

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In July 1968, eight months had passed since the two major newspaper temporarily ceased its daily publications on Saturday, November 18, 1967. Both newspapers were shut down by a major union strike.

**Detroit Free Press** Friday, November 17, 1967. Detroit was without their two newspaper dailies for nine months in 1967-1968.

In lieu of the two newspaper’s shutdown, Detroiters found themselves without their two daily newspapers, again, for the second time in four years. The previous newspaper strike/shutdowns was back in July 1964. In substitution, the Detroit American expanded its publication for a greater outreach in the metro-Detroit area throughout the remainder of the strike during this period.

Both newspapers, the Detroit Free Press, and the Detroit News, resumed daily publications after both papers reached a tentative settlement to end the strike on Friday, August 9. Both papers were back in circulation on Saturday, August 10, 1968.

The Detroit Free Press archives includes the Detroit American newspaper publications, covering the months of May, June, and July of 1968.

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The above featured Detroit radio guide was clipped, saved, and digitally re-imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY! WXYZ RADIO 1270: JUNE 28, 1965

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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.

The above WXYZ 06/28/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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By mid-January 1965, the Detroit Sound Survey charts was no longer printed for the public in general. The WXYZ charts, as featured above, were instead published solely for Detroit record retailers, music outlets, one-stop jobbers, and distributors only.

These Radio 1270 top 40 charts was the largest of the WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey charts ever printed, having measured 17.5″ W x 22 L” inches in size. These charts were primarily used for weekly record rank based by popularity, position, retail sales, and were used for record retail rack displays as well.

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Unless this site is able to acquire more of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 chart surveys in the future, this June 28, 1965 chart will be the final presentation. We first began presenting these Detroit Sound Surveys back in February of this year.

Also, if anyone has additional WXYZ charts from 1965 in their collection and are willing to share — scanned or xerox copies would suffice — please contact this site, here:

motorcityradioflashbacks65@gmail.com

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BROADCASTING! DETROIT WJR RADIO AD: JUNE 5, 1967

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BROADCASTING! DETROIT WJR RADIO AD: JULY 10, 1967

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THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY! WXYZ RADIO 1270: JUNE 21, 1965

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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.

The above WXYZ 06/21/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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For the very first time, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be featuring a dozen or so — as chart dated — of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 surveys throughout the year, 2024.

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THE NATIONAL ‘TOP 30’ TUNES! THIS WEEK, 64 YEARS AGO: JUNE 20, 1960

**The Billboard Honor Roll of Hits** June 20, 1960

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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 chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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RECORD WORLD! THE 100 TOP POPS and THE 100 TOP LPs CHARTS: JUNE 12. 1965

**RECORD WORLD 100 TOP POPs** June 12, 1965

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Bob Austin, publisher, and Sid Parnes, editor-in-chief of Record World, and Sam Chase, publisher of Music Business, are pleased to announce the absorption of the publication Music Business and its assets into Record World. We believe that this association will be a strong, constructive force in the industry.

It had been evident to us for sometime that four papers were proving to be a financial burden to the industry, thus limiting the growth of both publications. This step will not only eliminate that burden but will create a highly vital force by taking what has been most positive in both magazines and combining them into one strong entity. Because this combination reflects what, in our opinion, the industry has been requesting and looking forward to,we did everything in our means to achieve it.

Therefore, Music Business has now ceased publication, but many of its features will shortly be incorporated in a newly expanded Record World. There will also be an integration of staffs which will serve the industry as a knowledgeable and experienced working group.

Record World will immediately embark on an extensive expansion program. With the amalgamation of staffs, we will be equipped to cover even more thoroughly every area of interest and use to those associated with the music and record fields.We intend to initiate projects that will be beneficial both to our readers and our advertisers and to reach into areas which are now either not being covered or only lightly touched upon.

With the combination of Record World and Music Business circulations, we believe that we will now be able to offer the second highest paid circulation of any of the trade papers in our field. The strength of this circulation should make itself felt immediately. This move has been made by all the parties concerned in the interests of building a stronger paper for our industry and serving it in the most useful way possible.

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Information, credit, and news source: Record World June 12, 1965

The featured Record World charts were digitally re-imaged and restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks

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**RECORD WORLD 100 TOP LPs** June 12, 1965

POWER 96 FM! WHYT: ‘DETROIT’S BEST MUSIC’ THIS WEEK, JUNE 9, 1986

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

THE DETROIT SOUND SURVEY! WXYZ RADIO 1270: JUNE 7, 1965

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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.

The above WXYZ 06/07/1965 chart survey was digitally restored completely in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

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For the very first time, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will be featuring a dozen or so — as chart dated — of these extremely rare WXYZ 1965 surveys throughout the year, 2024.

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