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WKNR was the main station in Detroit in the 60's. I used to get my 45's at K-Mart, where they would also have the Keener 13 Hits list.

I was 6 years old at the time LOL! Oh, and I didn't even have a mullet yet!

5 of the 31 groups on the list were from Detroit! This is also about the time I bought my first LP, "More of the Monkees". I used to go to bed with a little red transistor radio under my pillow and listen to Keener all night!

'More of the Monkees' was released in January 67.

I didn't know Bob Seger had stuff on the radio back then. I don't think I bought any singles or albums until 68.
'Mammoth Mart' was the local department store for me.

LOL, that's why I qualified it with 'about' because I don't remember the exact date, that was 45 years ago!!!

My transistor was black . . .

Great memories. The main rock station in Boston (WRKO?) In thosee days had something similar, a top 30 chart perhaps. I couldn't wait for the weekly change in the Top 30. When one of my favorite songs reached No. 1 I was in heaven. When a song I didn't like was no.1 was I pissed! At my favorite musc store they arranged the 45's on the wall in the same order, 1-30. I believe they were a few, maybe three for a buck, and after buying so many we'd get to spin a roullette wheel of some kind to win a free one.
Yeah I had the radio too and an old record player that played 45's, albums and 78's. I spent countless hours in my youth listening to music.

I listened to WKBW in Buffulo - the Joey Reynolds Show. At midnight he played the top ten in Britain. I remember he saying of "You really got me" by the kinks - "I don't like it - but a lot of people do."

Also had WBZ in Boston - Juicy Brucie? I think. And when the static wasn't too bad - WLS in Chicago.

My brother and I used to take turns standing sentry with toy guns - our job? Keep the records playing and keep the other brother awake!

We were idiots, true. But we loved music - it was all breaking loose, and we hated school! Seemed like the minute you went to sleep it was time to wake up and go to school!

So we stayed awake as long as we could. Even adfter I started getting up early to deliver papers. Music time mattered more than the rest of that sh*t. We ended up on the road together and now that we are fancy IT guys we still play and crank it out.

I got in deep sh*t a couple years ago when I had an employee evaluation - this women told me what a miscreant I was but I replied, "Yeah...but this is just my day job!" Whew...she was, shall we say, not amused...

Now I'm a freelance consultant and don't do employee evaluations any more!

Talbot

fisherman bob wrote:Great memories. The main rock station in Boston (WRKO?) In thosee days had something similar, a top 30 chart perhaps. I couldn't wait for the weekly change in the Top 30. When one of my favorite songs reached No. 1 I was in heaven. When a song I didn't like was no.1 was I pissed! At my favorite musc store they arranged the 45's on the wall in the same order, 1-30. I believe they were a few, maybe three for a buck, and after buying so many we'd get to spin a roullette wheel of some kind to win a free one.
Yeah I had the radio too and an old record player that played 45's, albums and 78's. I spent countless hours in my youth listening to music.

Bob - didn't know you were from around here originally! Yeah, WRKO was the main station and WMEX was the top-40 competition.