WOMC – Motor City Radio Flashbacks (2024)

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In the 50-plus years you’ve been rockin’ radio here in the Motor City, you created a legacy which will be remembered, loved, and will be left unmatched, unsurpassed, and can never be duplicated. When you believe you’ve come to the end of a long journey, another path awaits you for something even much better. Cherish every moment of this time. And may you revel in this new golden chapter of your life. Happy retirement, Jim Johnson!

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Motor City Radio Flashbacks celebrates today the return this year of the Woodward Dream Cruise!

In commemorating this year’s event, we are featuring Jim Hampton’s 2015 Woodward Dream Cruise three hour radio special — “DJ’s, Cars and Cruisin’ ” — which aired on WOMC 104.3, August 15, 2015, the 21st anniversary of the Woodward cruise event. “Do you remember . . . do you remember?”

A special THANK YOU to Jim Hampton for having shared this exclusive RADIO RECALL audio gift with Motor City Radio Flashbacks.

It’s time to celebrate those amazing days of yesterday, with host Jimmy Hampton . . . DJ’s, cars, and cruisin’ . . . enjoy the WOMC 2015 Dream Cruise memory! 🙂

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CKLW RECALLED ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

CKLW-AM 800 * 1977 * TOM SHANNON

RADIO RECALL * WOMC-FM * AUGUST 16, 2014 (Hour 1)

RADIO RECALL * WOMC-FM * AUGUST 16, 2014 (Hour 2)

RADIO RECALL * WOMC-FM * AUGUST 16, 2014 (Hour 3)

Jim Hampton’s RADIO RECALL “DJ’s, Cars and Cruisin’ ” aired on WOMC 104.3, Saturday (5-8 AM) August 16, 2014.

Special THANKS to Jim Hampton for donating this WOMC WDC 2014 aircheck gift to Motor City Radio Flashbacks!

THE MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Bob Green Productions * WOMC-FM April, 1998

MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 01

MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 02

MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 03

MOTOR CITY RADIO REUNION * Dick Purtan & Tom Ryan * WOMC-FM: Part 04

New! Recalled today! Just added to the MCRFB.COM Aircheck Library!

(From the Jim Feliciano Collection)

Four-hours of The Motor City Radio Reunion broadcast as was aired on the Dick Purtan Show, WOMC 104.3, Saturday, April 25, 1998.

21ST. ANNIVERSARY 2015 WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE BROADCAST 104.3 WOMC!
LISTEN LIVE TONIGHT, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 6-9 PM – JIM HAMPTON’S ‘RADIO RECALL’ ON FM 104.3 LISTENTO TONIGHT’S ‘RADIO RECALL’ CRUISIN’ SHOW HERE!

Jim Hampton ‘RADIO RECALL’ Promo (2015) * ‘DJ’s, Cars And Cruising’ * WOMC-FM

Hello Detroit.Jim Hampton here. Once again as part of the Woodward Dream Cruise celebration, I get to play 15 of the best car hits back-to-back with 15 of your favorite cruisin’ songs on 104.3 WOMC.

Plus, you will hear actual air checks of the Detroit DJ’s who originally played those hits on your car radio when you cruised around Detroit, when I was on the radio here, in the 1960s.

For the second year-in-row, THANK YOUBig Boy Restaurants, for sponsoring this year’sRadio Recall Woodward Dream Cruise show, exclusively on 104.3 WOMC. Again, the show will be on tonight, Sunday, 6-9and, back on 5-8 a.m., early-Saturday, August 15.

So ‘rev it up, 2015 Woodward dream cruisers! As we’d say back in the 1960s, “it’s gonna be a gas.”

From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1967

8-Track Sales at Royal Radio Rises Through Detroit Radio Ads

DETROIT —“The Stereo 8 is still just a baby,” said Mrs. Lowell Bennett of Royal Radio in Royal Oak, a Detroit suburb. Mrs. Bennett, who with her husband and another partner, Harry Showers,has been selling 4- and 8-track stereo cartridges for the past year-and-a-half.

Sale of the stereo 8 cartridge has completely overwhelmed the sale of 4-track tapes at the store. But the total cartridge business at Royal Radio is still a small percentage of the total business. They also sell stereo tape players for car and home, radios, televisions, intercoms, car radios and record players, and other electronic equipment.

The store sells an average of 400 8-track cartridges a week and at present has over 1,000 tapes in stock. Mrs. Bennett says they are constantly building up their inventory. Their bookkeeping indicates their inventory that they haven’t been hurt at all by carrying a large inventory.

The biggest selling tapes are Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra and semi-classical music, Mrs. Bennett said. This reflects the buyers.“It’s not the real young people who buys tapes,”said Mrs. Bennett.The people who buy the most of our tapes are past 21.”

In her opinion, teenagers are still buying 45 rpm records since they can get the one song they want for less money than a tape cartridge costs.

The store has found radio advertising to be quite effective. They buy about 25 to 30 one-minute spots per week although all are not for the tapes exclusively. Currently they are advertising on WOMC, an FM station; WXYZ, easy listening; WEXL, the only country station covering the Detroit market. They have also used CKLW, a top 40 station.

Mrs. Bennett has discovered that WEXL is one of the best stations for the store’s advertising. The station has a “country club”and members entitles them to a 10% discount at Royal Radio. These listeners buys a lot of tapes, mostly country music, at the store.

Royal also advertises in the Royal Oak Daily Tribunewith lists of tapes available and special 10% off sales.

In their ads Royal does not list their 4-track stereo tape cartridges since they are not interested in building up that business. Mrs. Bennett feels that eventually that 8-track will completely replace 4-track.

To promote the sales of stereo-8 cartridges the store works closely with automobile dealers in the area. They contact the dealers to let them know what the store carries. In some cases, local dealers did not know about the cartridges. The store also sells stereo-8 cartridges wholesale to the automobile dealers who stock them in their showrooms.

Mrs. Bennett believes that the tape cartridge market language is something that needs developing. At present the store can special order them, but she thinks more work needs to go into building up a market for them.

As far as the total stereo-8 cartridge scene goes, Mrs. Bennett said,“We’re working very hard todevelopthis part of our business because there is good potential there.”END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; July 1, 1967)

A MCRFB NOTE: Check out our WXYZ-AM BACK ON THE RADIO WITH: JIM HAMPTON (July 27, 1966) featured today — as an audio attachment added with this ‘Royal Radio’ post on Motor City Radio Flashbacks. You’ll note the show wassponsoredby none other than ROYAL RADIO “The House of Modern Sound” on WXYZ 1270 — it’s summertime with Jimmy Hampton on the radio with “The Detroit Sound,” 1966!

WOMC HEARDHERE 24/7 ON MOTOR CITY RADIO FLASHBACKS

From the MCRFB aircheck archives featuring: WOMC-FM (’95) w/ JOHN FREIST