“The listing of records herein is the opinion of CKLW based on its survey of record sales, correlated with listener requests.”
The featured CKLW chart was digitally restored in its entirety by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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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 CKLW music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
The Top 100 Hits of 1967 Countdown premiered at big8radio.com on Saturday, May 27, at 3pm EST. / Encore presentation aired Monday, May 29 at 12 Noon EST.
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The featured CKLW Big 100 Hits of 1967 chart is courtesy of Charlie O’Brien, and Big 8 Radio.
For the benefit of our friends who might’ve missed the broadcast this past Memorial Day holiday weekend, the CKLW Top 100 of 1967 broadcast will be archived in our Aircheck Library and can be heard anytime — ON DEMAND — on this featured page at Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
A Big 8 Radio production. Another exclusive CKLW audio presentation. Brought to you by Big 8 Radio. 🙂
The Top 100 Hits of 1967 Countdown premiered at big8radio.com on Saturday, May 27, at 3pm EST. / Encore presentation aired Monday, May 29 at 12 Noon EST.
For the benefit of our friends who might’ve missed the broadcast over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the CKLW Top 100 of 1967 broadcast will be archived in our Aircheck Library and heard anytime — ON DEMAND — on this featured page at Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
A special THANK YOU to Charlie O’Brien for recently contributing this special Big 8 Radio / CKLW 1967 Countdown program (May 2023) for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archive.
Another Big 8 Radio production. An exclusive CKLW audio presentation. Brought to you by Charlie O’Brien and Big 8 Radio. 🙂
Surrounded by his two daughters and members of his family, Dave Prince passed away peacefully on May 24, 2023. He was 91. Dave Prince leaves behind three daughters and a son.
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In Remembrance of Dave Prince
NEW!A special THANK YOU to Motor City Radio Flashbacks’ senior contributor, Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for providing this CKLW Dave Prince audio gem for the archives. From his collection, Greg personally recorded this aircheck in February 1987. Thirty-six years ago.
[Audio produced by Jim Davis a.k.a. Big Jim Edwards]
THE CKLW TOP 100 1967! Make plans to tune in Memorial Day Weekend for The CKLW Top 100 of 1967 Countdown. This Big 8 Radio special holiday presentation begins on Saturday, May 27, at 3pm eastern / Monday May 29 at Noon eastern time.
NEW! A special THANK YOU to CKLW’s own Charlie O’Brien, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, for providing this classic Davy Shafer ‘Fun Radio 8‘ aircheck gem for this site’s aircheck archive, from 56 years ago.
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NOTE:The featured CKLW Dave Shafer aircheck is actually two airchecks combined — as dated — edited as one.
Audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
NEW! The featured CKLW audio aircheck is courtesy of Michael Lockhart, Ferndale, MI. Thank You! Michael recently donated this (60 year-old) CKLW audio memory for the site’s aircheck repository.
Audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
According to renown Detroit radio historian David Carson (author of ‘Rockin’ Down The Dial’), Bud Davis began his only one-station career at CKLW in 1942, by first working in the mail room and adding duties as a transcription operator and as staff announcer. After serving in World War II in the Royal Canadian Navy, Davis returned to CKLW and began doing early “Platter and Chatter” shows and began to attract a much-younger listening radio audience.
Eventually, during the early-1950s, Davies ranked well in listener popularity with his two shows, “Good Neighbor Club” and “Your Boy Bud”, “when he played records and took the votes of fans in his ‘Battles of the Bands’ and ‘Singers'” at CKLW during the mid-day hours.
It was by the mid-1950s when Davies reputably drew a strong teen audience and was by then a huge teen favorite at CKLW. By 1956, he was doing daily on-air split-shifts. Two hours in the afternoon (1:30 – 3:30 p.m.) and one hour and a half hour in the evening (7:30 p.m. to 9). In between the two shifts, Bud also hosted ‘Top Ten Dance Party’ on CKLW-TV 9. Bud introduced Elvis Presley on stage at the Fox Theater, when he first appeared in Detroit in July of 1956.
Davis, by early-1961, was moved to the late afternoon hours at CKLW and began drawing a more mature, cross-over listening audience playing “the latest hits and engaging his listeners with his popular ‘Shafer Bread Quickie Quiz’ segments. At the time, CKLW went country in the evening hours, with a show called “Sounds Like Nashville.” By May of 1963, Bud Davis replaced Toby David as the new morning man (David going full-time at TV 9) at CKLW. Dave Shafer moved up in the afternoon slot held previous by Davies.
After 29 years at CKLW, for reasons never fully explained, Bud Davies was released from CKLW in August of 1966. Long retired from the radio business and living in Florida, Bud Davies passed away on October 20, 2006.
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Credit and source information: ‘Rockin’ Down The Dial’, by David Carson Momentum Books Ltd., Troy, MI. Copyright 2000
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