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These article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2024. Newspapers.com
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Hey do you remember the Think Summer campaign Keener launched in Detroit in the winter of 1965?
Well, let’s see . . . . I can still see those Think Summer newspaper ads. And there were those Think Summer button giveaways. There was also a Think Summer contest as well. Recall seeing a few of those Think Summer billboards WKNR posted around town. And then there was that one Think Summer song, yeah . . . that was playing on the radio, on Keener 13!
According to the WKNR music guides posted on Keener13.com, Think Summer by Susan Wayne debuted during the week of February 18, 1965. But by the time Think Summer peaked at the No. 25 spot on WKNR, March 3, 1965, thereafter, that would be it . . . just three weeks on the Keener 13 playlists in short order.
But that was enough for WKNR to generate an imaginary kind of ‘mirage,’ if you will, a brief winter’s thaw we must have felt, at least momentarily, during the station’s contest they off-loaded with that one, huge “summertime” give-a-way at the time. If all else, the Think Summer event became the ultimate radio event during that cold winter here in Detroit, 59-years ago.
Straight from the Keener vaults, and courtesy of WKNR legend, Bob Green. We are showcasing two of those WKNR Think Summer promos (audio under each ad). All from that memorable winter’s brief “summer-time fun” contestants cashed in on while listening to Keener 13 during those two winter months in early-1965.
And at date, we are just nine days away from spring, so . . . .
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A MCRFB Note: This attached post was previously published on this site on January 29, 2012.
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Detroit Free Press Thursday, January 28, 1965
A special THANK YOU to WKNR’s Bob Green, of Austin, TX., for having contributing the featured WKNR promos presented today, on this page.
Thanks again, Bob Green, for sharing with us these wonderful, Keener 13 memories!
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. 🙂
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NEW! A special THANK YOU to our friend, Tom Howard, of Riverside, California, for this recent contribution for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks repository.
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A MCRFB Note: This WKNR Music Guide was the chart J. Michael Wilson previewed for the week of January 4, 1968 in our recently featured WKNR aircheck, dated January 8, 1968. Hear it again, HERE.
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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 WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
NEW! A special THANK YOU to our friend, Tom Howard, of Riverside, California, for this featured WKNR aircheck contribution (he personally recorded 56 years ago) for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks repository.
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The 113 records and 13 albums and their positions on this “Keener Hits of 1969” Music Guide were determined by mathematical computation, considering each record’s and album’s position and duration on each of the WKNR Music Guides during the past 52 weeks and does not necessarily reflect the comparative sales of these records and albums.
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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.
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
The above WKNR chart was digitally restored 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 WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
The above WKNR chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
A special THANK YOU going out to Larry Good, of Plymouth, Michigan, for providing Motor City Radio Flashbacks this rare WKNR November 21, 1963 chart survey, in its original form, for our collection.
Authenticated. In it’s printed originality, the correct WKNR Teal-colored lettering and bordering has been applied to this featured chart.
DETROIT — A four-way battle is shaping up in this market with the immediate changeover in programming at WKMH.
WKNR NEW RADIO 13 personality DJ lineup. November 1963
The Dearborn-based 5,000-watter has introduced a new set of calls, WKNR, several new airmen, and a radical switch from the soft sound in music to a “30 plus 1” format. Detroit will be one of the few markets where severe competition is taking place among three or more pop music stations.
The Knorr-owned outlet has been under the program doctoring of consultant Mike Joseph for many months. Soft standards had been the path for more than a year. WKMH (Now WKNR) was once the major pop music outlet in the market. Today a major fight is developing between the new WKNR, RKO’s 50,000-watter, CKLW (which recently added Tom Clay in the late p.m. slot to help accentuate their positive pop sound), WJBK, Storer-owned swinger, and WXYZ, the ABC-owned pop-rater.
Mort Crowley (KHJ defector) broadcasts 5 to 9 a.m. followed by the Motor City’s famous Robin Seymour in the 9 to noon slot. Jim Sanders is handling the noon to 3 shift with Gary Stevens hosting the 3 to 7 p.m. segment. Bob Green goes up to midnight and Bill Phillips holds the fort as the all-nighter. END
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Information, credit and news source: Billboard, November 16, 1963
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The above WKNR chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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