By the time you will read this, I will be on my way traveling overseas, during the next two weeks. But Motor City Radio Flashbacks will remain open, business as usual! Here is what I have per-scheduled to post on this site while I will be away. Beginning Friday, September 22:
WXYZ Detroit Sound Survey [September 22, 1964]
AUDIO REMASTERED AIRCHECKSSeptember 25-29 (four airchecks randomly selected from the Aircheck Library, WKQI is new):
WKQI-FM Danny Donabuce [August 30, 1996] Monday, September 25 (NEW!)
CKLW-AM Tom Clay [June 17, 1964] Tuesday, September 26
WMJC-FM Jeff & Jerr [February 28, 1983] Wednesday, September 27
WXYZ-AM Jim Hampton [July 29, 1966] Thursday, September 28
WNIC-FM Harper & Gannon [March 3, 1988] Friday, September 29
AUDIO REMASTERED AIRCHECKSOctober 2-6 (four airchecks randomly selected from the Aircheck Library, WKQI is new):
WKNR-AM J. Michael Wilson [October 3, 1966–July 29, 1967] Monday,October 2
WKQI-FM Roy Stephens [January 25, 1997] Tuesday, October 3 (NEW!)
WKSG-FM Lee Alan [Program: June 13, 1963] Wednesday, October 4
WHND-AM Richard D. Haase [November 15, 1994] Thursday, October 5
WKNR-AM Tom Neal [November 23, 1969] Friday, October 6
All above featured audio airchecks were digitally remastered and restored, audio reprocessed and/or enhanced through theSound Forge Audio Studio 16Magix application software.
I will be back right here, after this brief two week hiatus, on Monday, October 9. In the meantime, keep it right here at Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
And I hope that you will enjoy these ten Detroit radio memories – newly remastered – all over again. Be back soon!
Jim Feliciano | Curator, Motor City Radio Flashbacks
The only place on the web you will find great audio recordings of legendary Motor City disk jockeys, great Detroit radio stations and radio personalities — spanning over six decades — archived here in one place.
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Newly-added to the Aircheck Library repository (as listed below): 05/12/2023
01. CKLW-AM – Dave Shafer – May 25-June 7 1967.mp3
A note to inform all our friends of Motor City Radio Flashbacks that the following pageswill be removedon Saturday, March 26 and they will no longer will be a featured menu item on this site:
1). Do You Remember These? (Published December 14, 2012)
2). For Your Ears Only (all 30 plus files were reuploaded into the Members Only page).
3). Real Men Of Genius (Published February 4, 2014)
[NOTE: The entire 60 RM of G audio files stored in our archive – adding 40 more than what was listed in this page – the files will all be re-uploaded in the Commercials page].
4.) The History of Rock and Roll [CKLW] (Published September 10, 2013)
[NOTE: There was six hours of content (mostly on early R ‘n’ R origins and the Elvis Presley story) listed on this page; to be removed).
5). Michigan State Fair 1954 (Published September 12, 2012)
6). Michigan State Fair 1967 (Published September 21, 2012)
7). Wake Up Uhmerika! (Published January 1, 2013)
[NOTE: The audio files archived in this page will instead be featured (to Gary Burbank’s credit) on posts here (as they were in the past) on Motor City Radio Flashbacks. In its page replacement, a new page will the archived home for 200 WXYZ Radio 1270 Jingles. Coming soon!]
Having been part of Motor City Radio Flashbacks from its early inception (and being non-radio related), the titled subjects (I feel) to be removed has outlived their space and time, here. Instead, the intended purpose of this site will focus on classic Detroit radio and subject matter (or anything else relevant to), which is why this website was created in the first place and moving forward will be about.
— Jim Feliciano
Curator, Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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For the benefit of our friends who may have missed the site’s overall improvements and changes made in many of our special pages (beginning last October 2021), here’s the breakdown:
See the new the Aircheck Library page. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and you will see we’ve recently added growth into the collection. (See: New Aircheck Alerts at bottom of page).
Rebuilt. Revamped. The page has been completely reconstructed, all ads re-uploaded with the page’s new look.
Detroit Radio logos & Bumper Stickers COMPLETED [November 16, 2021] GO HERE
A fresh, redesigned layout, the images re-uploaded are now published for view “up front and center”.
Detroit Radio and DJ Pictures COMPLETED [January 2022] GO HERE
This page will always be a continuous work in progress. We’ve archived an additional 30-plus new photos there. Over 100 photos added thus far. (More DJ pictures will be forthcoming!)
More! Detroit Radio and DJ Pictures (This page has been, and is, still viewable. The page will be restructured with a new look sometime this year. GO HERE
History of Detroit Radio COMPLETED [November 29, 2021] GO HERE
We have a brand new look for this restructured, audio historic, Detroit radio page.
Jim Hampton’s Radio RecallCOMPLETED [November 17, 2021] GO HERE
Restored. Completely revamped, take a look at this new page.
WKNR Contact News COMPLETED [November 14, 2021] GO HERE
Restructured completely. A new Keener Contact News page.
WKNR Podcasts COMPLETED [November 11, 2021] GO HERE
The Keener Podcast page is completed and newly restored.
Radio JinglesCOMPLETED [November 26, 2021] GO HERE
This page was completely restored. All new jingle files will be archived here.
Detroit Sports COMPLETED [November 7, 2021] GO HERE
Restored. And we will soon acquire a new trove of vintage (audio) Detroit Tigers baseball games. They will be added into our sports page archive (and you will be notified on the page when any new audio files are uploaded there).
The dotted title sequence (i.e., WXYZ.Joey.Reynolds.August.16.1966) found on many of the airchecks previously was eliminated during the re-upload process. Adding dots is no longer required on certain files to upload today, as it was added on some of the audio files in 2012. And many of the misspellings found in the title of some of the audio files have been corrected and re-titled.
The site’s repository today now holds over 1,000 airchecks archived and listed!
Completed and finished yesterday evening (February 22), it took 34 days to completely rebuild the Aircheck page in its entirety. It was here where I have been spending much of my time (since Jan 18) instead of on the website on a daily basis.
The good news, I will no longer worry whether this last surviving page (a hold-over from the old 2012 platform, the updated PHP upgrades finally killed it) will abruptly crash on this site anytime soon, if ever. This new rebuilt page on this current 2022 platform will prevent that from happening again.
And so I am happy to say the page is now back up again. Easier to navigate. Better than before . . . . it is all finally done! 🙂
With the exception of a few pages not having been affected, this site is now in the process of uploading all the audio files missing from our site’s page menus on our home page.
Detroit Radio logos & Bumper Stickers COMPLETED [November 16]
Detroit Sports COMPLETED [November 7]
DJ Pictures [January 2022] CURRENTLY A WORK NOW IN PROGRESS (PAUSED 1/17)
For Members Only (huge folder) COMPLETED [October 30]
For Your Ears Only COMPLETED; READ NOTE BELOW [December 6]
(Please Note: All files archived in the ‘For Your Ears Only‘ page has been moved/added into our ‘For Members Only‘ page. The empty page will be the future home for 200 WXYZ 1270 jingles in 2022).
History Of Detroit Radio COMPLETED [November 29]
Jim Hampton Radio Recall COMPLETED [November 17]
Real Men Of Genius (the audio files in this page will be added to the Commercials page)
Michigan State Fair 1954
Michigan State Fair 1967
The History of Rock & Roll
Wake Up Uhmerika!
WKNR Contact News COMPLETED [November 14]
WKNR Podcasts COMPLETED [November 11]
Radio JinglesCOMPLETED [November 26]
Christmas Time (huge folder) COMPLETED [November 3]
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That’s quite a lot to rebuild.
The good news is we haven’t lost anything. I will re-upload every single file from our backed-up folders, which will take some time.
I apologize for this temporary inconvenience.
The old plugin we have been using, ‘List ‘Yo Files‘ (we have used it on this site since January 2012) which listed the entire Commercials folder/files with bullet points (and the above 17 other file pages listed here), as of today, the old plugin will not be in use with the new WordPress PHP security 7.3 upgrade. (If I chose to reactivate its use, the site will not function properly. Older and outdated plugins — not kept updated by the responsible party — can disrupt normal operations or create issues to any site, such as having experienced, according to WordPress).
We were aware for some time that the plugin’s upgrades (by the plugin’s creator) apparently has stopped for some years already.
No longer PHP upgrade compatible, the audio files which the plugin supported was deactivated by WordPress to bring the site back to its normal operations. And along with the plugin’s deactivation went the audio folders and files.
This has happened before. The only remedy was to revert the PHP to an earlier number (in the last case it was reverting back to PHP 5.4 last November). WordPress will not do that any more. Realized, the out-dated plugin essentially outlived its purpose on this site after WordPress elevated the site’s PHP security code to 7.3 — a must requirement — sometime on September 30.
Please bear with me as I begin to manually rebuild these pages, working from the top down, as they were previously featured here (but please be mindful, either or — between posting daily features on the site and dealing with the task at hand — these uploads will be taking much time as well. The above noted three will take the most time).
Also, in lieu of all this, there may be some days during the week you may not find new posts and features on this page. On certain days I will be working more in expediting the files back up on this site (there is no one else running this website — only me).
We will inform all our Motor City Radio Flashbacks friends when each task has been completed. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for your patience.
Passing a short note to inform our friends we will be away all next week for a late-summer break — but will be back here on Motor City Radio Flashbacks on Monday, September 20.
But be advised, this website remains open 24/7, always. And just maybe you may find something of interest here you might have missed, there’s really much to see here!
This site has already amassed over 6,150 posts and features to date, since January 2012. Thank you for your visits, contributions and your support! In the meantime, and until then, keep it right here. There’s more to come . . . on Motor City Radio Flashbacks! 🙂
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS
NEW COUNTER! JUNE 24, 2021
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Numbers do count! We now have a brand-new counter. We wanted to grasp a more comprehensive, visitor numbers count for this site and I am delighted to say it has been found. The plugin is called — Awesome Visitor Counter — and according to the plugin’s WP page, it is “The Best Visitor Counter Plugin for WP.”
You will note as well the plugin also provides a count number below each featured post. It is a significant rolling count now tagged below every exhibit on every page. Now over 600 pages to date!
The latest counter launched, 6:00 pm, Thursday, June 24. And thanks to you, the numbers keep growing with every visit to this site. Take a look. You can see the latest count numbers located at the left-bottom of the site’s page.
Again, thank you so much. You made Motor City Radio Flashbacks what it is today. As you can see now, the latest site’s numbers certainly reflect well of that. 🙂
Today, we’ll begin bidding farewell to our WordPress Daily Post theme. It is the very layout on this webpage you have been looking at since the site’s inception (by our late-George Griggs, founder) on January 27, 2012.
Lately, due to several “behind-the-scenes” issues the website has been dealing with in the second half of the year, it is now reality our theme can no longer sustain vital, much required, dated upgrades, apparently.
The “No Comments”, long having been realized on this website for some months now (read here), may just well stem from using our current Daily Post ‘theme’, it is more than likely just “out-dated”, having ran its designed course, not able to handled current website tech fixes as well (as I was recently informed by a Bluehost tech).
And despite the recent WordPress 5.0 upgrades, the theme has failed time and again to uphold the latest updates and several other important WordPress plugins and security changes overall. In short, by keeping the Daily Post theme, it has become more realistic the “missing comments” will not be returning at all — if we continue using the site’s Daily Post theme.
Last week, Motor City Radio Flashbacks went off-line for some extended time (37 minutes!) just after the 2:00 p.m. hour, Friday, November 12 (see below). Unbeknownst to me, Bluhost attempted an upgrade with the theme’s PHP security codes (we have been stuck at PHP 5.6) with their latest version, 7.4. It didn’t work (and this happened before). The tech then had to revert back to the old PHP 5.6 version to get the site back online. PHP security upgrades are essential for all WordPress sites and blogs.
In lieu of that happening, same day, I tried to reach out to the theme’s developers, courtesy of WordPress, to let them know their Daily Post theme needed to be reviewed and most likely needed to be updated (obviously!). I also informed them I still wanted to keep their theme we have been using all these years.
Thus far, not a word in response from their end as of this writing.
As of this coming Friday, the hammer is coming down. Bluhost informed me last week that the PHP 7.4 security upgrade will become mandatory — will take immediate effect, November 20.
Bluhost, in somewhat strong, but kind terms, suggested I should replace our Daily Post with a newer theme. Looks like we have no choice.
Sometime this coming Thursday, November 19, Motor City Radio Flashbacks will have a different look. Our new WordPress theme will be Twenty Fifteen. Having already previewed the selected theme (and the good news — all your posted comments will be visible and back up!!) the layout will look somewhat as close as possible to our (soon-departed) Daily Post theme.
So long, Daily Post. Has it been nearly nine years? It was very good to us . . . indeed, while it lasted.
Update! Scott Regen recently shared more of his personal thoughts on the Beatles with Motor City Radio Flashbacks. Read what he had to say HERE.
SCOTT REGEN. Talking Beatles. Their influence in music, society and the group’s impact on Eastern spirituality in Western culture. Today on Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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By the time you will read this, I will be on my way traveling overseas, during the next two weeks. But Motor City Radio Flashbacks will remain open, business as usual! Here is what I have per-scheduled to post on this site while I will be away. Beginning Friday, September 22: 
