WKNR News - Detroit 1969 album flac

Matrix, Runout (Side A Runout): 1969-21-14 GM Est Det Milano. Matrix, Runout (Side B Runout): 1969-20-25 GM East Det Milano.

Photo: Dale G. Young, The Detroit News). Russ Gibb was a bundle of contradictions that not only made sense, but in fact, were absolutely essential in forming the character of one of the Detroit music scene’s most influential figures. He was the middle-class son of Detroit who lived in the top floor of his parents' modest Dearborn bungalow when he wasn’t running the notorious Grande Ballroom, where Detroiters were introduced to Janis Joplin and other avatars of '60s cool  . One thing Carlisle was complicit in was Gibb's infamous "Paul is Dead" schtick, which played out when both men worked at WKNR-FM in October 1969. Gibb took a caller who made the claim that the Beatles were covering up that McCartney had died.

org so here's a 1960's news file dump. Specifically, I want to inquire about WKNR Detroit – Keener 13 (which is now Fresh 100 and owned by Clear Channel).

Live in Detroit is a double CD live album by the American rock band the Doors. It was recorded at the Cobo Arena in Detroit on May 8, 1970 during the band's 1970 Roadhouse Blues Tour. It was released on October 23, 2000 on Rhino Records. The concert is one of the longest live performances by the Doors. Among the 25 songs played the group played eight blues standards such as "Back Door Man", Junior Parker's "Mystery Train" and "Crossroads" by Robert Johnson.

News director Station WKNR, Dearborn, Michigan, 1970-1971, Station WKIX, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1971-1973, Station KOY, Phoenix, 1973-1985. Director community relations Arizona Department Transportation, since 1986. Instructor broadcast journalism Phoenix College, 1979, Arizona State University, 1980.

12, 1969, during his radio shift at Detroit's WKNR when Gibb took a call from a listener claiming that the Beatles bassist had died in 1966 and been replaced by a cosmetically altered look-alike. The caller encouraged Gibb to play the group's "Revolution 9" backwards, with its purported message of "turn me on dead man," setting off a firestorm of speculation that spread around the world. The Grande was defined by extravagant light shows - including the first strobe light in the . Gibb claimed - and psychedelic poster art as well as often mixed-genre bills. Roger Daltrey of the Who - which gave the rock opera Tommy its . premiere on May 9, 1969 at the Grande - noted that the venue "was one of THOSE places, the ones you had to play when you came to America. If you played there it was a sign that you were important.

WDTW is an AM radio station licensed to Dearborn, Michigan. Originating as WKMH in 1946, in 1963 it became known as WKNR, the Top 40 Keener 13 that served the Metro Detroit area in the 1960s and early 1970s