Name: Jay B.
Date: May 6, 2008
Comments:

I just wanted to express my sincere appreciation for your work on this site. It is wonderful.
That's an understatement, for sure.
My object is to download and primp and edit some of this stuff, using DC7 audio restoration software. I would like to compile of collection of material that is as close to "studio reels" as can be had. Whatever I am able to develop will be made available to you if you have any interest.
I also expressed my appreciation to Art Vuolo for his significant contributions.
But Art's a busy dude and I haven't heard back from him.
I would give a body part to have the Anita Kerr signatures made for WXYZ right around 1960, that sound verrrrrrrry similar to the jingle she produced at that same time for WLS. I believe that if anyone has these, it would be one Lee Alan. Without doubt, they would be remembered and appreciated by collectors other than just myself. If you have any question, yes, I grew up here and actually remember most of this stuff.
Keep up the admirable, world class effort. Many thanks!

-Jay B. in metro Detroit

Name: Gary O'Brien
Date: Mar. 31, 2008
Comments:

WOW....I just sat here forever listening to these great cuts. You don't just have a great site, you have preserved history. I spent 25 years in Detroit radio and worked with many many people aired on your site. It brought tears to my eyes to hear Paul Christy and Dave Shafer again. Both were my program directors on several occasions. Two of the greats in the industry no longer with us. Thank you for your hard work and keeping the golden days of radio preserved for those of us who loved it.

Gary O'Brien
WNIC, WOMC, WLCS, WCZY, Honey Radio and at the end WYUR

Name: Eugene
Date: Mar. 3, 2008
Comments:

Hello Scott, my name is Eugene and I grew up and still live here in
Phila., Pa. As a teen growing up, I enjoyed listening to Top 40th radio
stations, not only here in Philly, but around North America at night. I
now enjoy listening to old airchecks on the Internet, especially CKLW.
I'm a frequent visitor to Detroit Radio Flashbacks. I recently heard a
composite aircheck on Airchexxs.com, from the upper Midwest, from 1971,
that featured some CKLW airchecks. All of the air personalities I
heard, I remembered, except one--Don O'Brien, who referred to himself
as Don "Do Run" O'Brien. Do you know anything about him--what air shift
he worked or how long he was there? Also, what about Hank O'Neill? I
know he worked weekends there for a short time. I heard a short
aircheck of him on WCCW, Traverse City from 1992 on the DRF site. Do
you know what other stations he worked at?

One last question, Mack Owens who worked at WKNR in 1971, is he the
same Mack Owens who worked weekends here in Philly, on WFIL in the
early 70's?

Scott, any info you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for
your time and consideration.

Eugene F

Name: Michael D.
Date: Feb. 23, 2008
Comments:

Hi Scott,

Love the site!

I lived in the Detroit area from 1967 to 1993 and heard,
first ear, most of the changes that took place over those
years.

I especially enjoyed the "underground radio years" of 1967
to 1971. I know it went beyond that but, really, in the
early 70's, the concept lost steam, and listeners.

Over the past several years, I have amassed all the
"Detroit" music I could find, from
Motown, Fortune and all the independents. My collection is
vast and varied.

Over that same period of time, I have never run across any
(very few)airchecks of the great WABX-FM. Although 40 years
hence, I still find it hard to believe that SOMEONE
did not have the reel to reel going to capture a very
important chapter in our musical history!

Have you run across anyone who shares this passion? Would
love to hear from whomever.Keep this great site going.

Best Michael, Palm Harbor, Florida

Name: Jerry
Date: Feb. 23, 2008
Comments:

Hey Scott,
I have to say......It's a SUPER DUPER web site. I don't even know how I found it.

I have been a radio guy since 1980 but answered the phones at WABX downtown Detroit and at the Oak Park studios on 8 mile in the 70s. The first radio station I ever went to was WAAM-AM in Ann Arbor back in the 1970s I met a guy named Tom Gray and I know Jim Harper was at the station too. I went to Specs Howard and got my first radio gig at Ann Arbors own WIQB-FM doing weekends 12a to 6a and then the fun started I started working all the shifts, worked at the Sister Station WNRS-AM doing the news, then the station started playing oldies it was then called Winners 13. I left IQB and went to WAMX-FM in A2 J.P. Collins was the PD. That then became KOOL 107. WOW too much info.

At any rate, I went through about thirteen Program Directors and worked with a bunch of talent one guy I remember well was was Joey "The Boogie Man" Ryan he worked at WDRQ for years he started working for KOOL 107 when Ray Prosser was PD...some Jocks are still around Rob Rienhart for one is doing a show called Acoustic Cafe.

There is one guy I wonder what ever happened to...John Jeffries he had a voice deeper than the Grand Canyon and worked at every radio station in town including WIQB. Where are you John?

Man, I could go on and on, maybe some other time. I read one of the emails on your web site asking about Fred "Boogie" Bryant he's working at WOMC.

Thanks for letting me write. I love radio!

Jerry Leveske AKA Jerry Stevens and Sunny Jo Sunshine Westland,MI

Name: Jeff
Date: Jan. 21, 2008
Comments:

Scott,

What a great website you have created!
My name is Jeff Goodridge and I worked at "The Super Q" for just a short while during the late summer and early fall of 1972. I did the all night show during the Al Casey/Jerry Clifton era.

It was an unorthodox version of the "Q" format. Hey - my air shift was six hours a day/six days a week with the same handful of records to play day in and day out. Seriously, we only aired about 150 oldies and the Top 25. Can you imagine "My Ding A Ling" by Chuck Berry being in power rotation? It was, and
I got to play it about three times a day - day in and day out! So, I had to get a little creative to entertain myself and hopefully the listeners as well. The Midnight-1AM and 5-6AM Pulse hourly ratings were pretty good as I remember. Of course, you know how memories go as the years go by.

Best regards,

Jeff

Name: Jay B
Date: Sept. 1, 2007
Comments:

Scott---

I'd like to express my appreciation for what you've done with this site. Its got some outstanding samples. The audio quality of many of your specimens is impressive.

Age 60, I grew up in Detroit. One of the shrines of my youth was WXYZ at Broadcast House. At age 16 I decided that radio was what I was destined to do. Broadcast House was going to be my house. I'd been abducted to the Planet Radio.

At 17 I thought I was Lee Alan. Then came my epiphany. This was in the fall of 1964, shortly after Lee had returned to the air from his automobile accident.

On one of your WXYZ samples is the United Shirt Distributors jingle. This was the sponsor for a feature promoted as "Teen Cast". Write a 60 second presentation about your senior class. The deal was, if your presentation was selected, you were invited to Broadcast House to tape your spiel for replay on Lee Alan's show. I was one of a dozen or so students from various schools selected. It would not have been any bigger deal to me or my parents had I been invited to go to Cape Canaveral and watch a space launch. It merited an school-excused afternoon off from classes.

The student tapes were combined with appropriate tracks from Pams Series 25, the High School Fight Songs. In my case, the Wayne Memorial High jingle was used. Edited in combination with the shirt commercial, that was "Teen Cast". Lee made a big deal over my tape, joking on-air that if he wasn't careful, I'd get his job! A deep drink of heady wine for a 17 year old who wanted very much to have Lee Alan's job. My first time on the air. Such a place to start!
So you see Scott, there's a special place reserved in my memory vault for WXYZ. And I guess, my heart.
And I say again, you've done a superb job.