Hearing that promotion call, " CKLW, THE MOTOR CITY", has great memories for me. Got my first AM transistor radio in the 60's, and this was the station I listened to walking to school and back, as I was that " COOL JERK". Thanks for the memories, and I had the great pleasure to meet Pat StJohn a few years back.
The best radio station in America in the 1960's. They had the dj's, the sound and the jingles that still remain in my mind. How great it is to hear the voices and the jingles from that special era. Thank you.
I used to listen to CKLW around 67-68 and fondly remember the song lists. Because I lived closer to Toronto, the competing radio stations hogged the airwaves, so I could only tune in late at night. Lots of motown - it was great! Refreshing because the other stations didn't play that much of it. Wow, that was such a different time (from today) music-wise. Thanks for posting this - a blast from the past!!
My parents had CKLW tuned to every radio they had when I was growing up. The CKLW jingle was the very first thing I remembered growing up. It had Detroit all over it, even though it came from across the border in Windsor. There will never be another one like it again. Ever.
With out a doubt greatest radio station I ever heard. I only got to listen to this station when my wife and I use to go visit her mother who lived in Erie, PA.Is there a radio station today that does things like CKLW use to.
I also remember hearing CKLW on a transistor radio, while I was at a now-defunct psychiatric boarding school, located some 100 MILES west of the Detroit/Windsor area, between 1975 and 1980! MEMORIES!!!
This was the radio station in early teens and I followed those top 40 lists religiously. Would love to hear even more of the golden years of CK from 67 to 77
One of my most distinct childhood memories is of my older brother washing his car on a hot summer day, while listening to CKLW on his car radio. Awesome memories! Oh, and we picked it up as clear as day way down here in Lima, Ohio.
Thanks for the great memories! I'm a baby boomer and I fondly recall back in the mid 60's listening to CKLW and WCFL here in East Tennessee! They played music that wouldn't show up on my local station's playlists until weeks later. They were the greatest stations ever! Brings back fond memories. All the best and thanks again!
From high atop the snow belt in Chardon Ohio I was in my bedroom listening to the Top Eight at Eight on the Big Eight CKLW. Whoever put this together - THANK YOU. This was like reliving my childhood from the 70s. You can't see me sitting here with this huge grin on my face and some misty eyes listening to this. What a trip back to a time when radio was FUN!
Loved CKLW in the late '60's & early '70's. Even though I lived in New Jersey, I loved DXing. I got a couple of posters, one for the "CKLW Top 500", from 1966 - 1970.
As a college student at Bowling Green in NW Ohio late 60s/early 70s, CKLW could be heard in nearly every dorm room and every car radio. It was like listening to a party 24/7. It was great music, great DJs and great entertainment. There wasn't another station around that could match it. Miss the sounds and miss the fun
Thank you so much for posting this and bringing back all the good old memories of listening to CKLW - Detroit, MI - USA & Windsor, Ontario - Canada :) These were great times !
I grew up west of Cleveland and CKLW came in clear as a bell on my litle Radio Shack transistor radio. When I was a kid, I thought all of the DJ's were the same guy because they all sounded alike. Thanks for posting!
The Big 8 was the most pwerful radio station in North America; you could pick up the signal from down in Kentucky or up on James Bay. I wasn't that far away, since I lived only a few miles from their transmitter towers near Windsor. Lots of fond memories listening to CKLW back when I was a kid.
I grew up on Staten Island in the 1960s and 70s, and CKLW would weave in and out late at night. I listened for years, now there was some Great radio stations back then, like WABC 77 AM in New York City and WNBC 66 and KRLA in Los Angeles but nothing like CKLW was in a league all by itself nothing close it was the best thing on the radio by far the jingles, commercials and DJs were exciting as hell. You felt left out if you weren’t tuned in
We were spoiled by CKLW in Ontario. We listened to it all day in the fields as we worked all summer 1968 - 1975. At night we could pick up WLS Chicago and WABC NYC, which we all thought were quite exotic.
AM CKLW rocked back in the day. We listened to it all the time late 60s, early 70s, Toledo OH. It was an awesome station back then and brings back lots of memories. Byron MacGregor had an awesome news cast... "This is Byron MacGregor with 20/20 news. It was another bloody day in the Motorcity today for the meat wagon." He was great, never forget it. For FM, W4 - WWWW in Toledo rocked in the 70s. Good times, great memories.
Listened to CK all the time in Erie, PA while attending college. At home in Pittsburgh in the summer, I listened in the evening. Still love to hear the old jingles.
I was pre teen in the 70's. And I remember this.. Every weekend.. On Auburn road.. Angela? From across the street? Had a dob named d.o g. Deoge? It's Mike .. Lol.
CK was our mainline to the outside world in the 60s. Living in rural northwest Ohio, it was our window to the world. The British Invasion and the magic that was Motown came to us via CK. It was an essential part of our teens and a common thread among all young people of the era.
Imagine a format change in Windsor Ontario, the PD of 50.000 Watt CKLW walks into master control and says, listen up, format change we are returning to glory. This talk format is gone as of now! People are tired of complaining COVID has changed the personality of our tiny audience, they want to ROCK! Stop flapping your gums and play music, long live ROCK & Soul! To make it clear to you all please note "The Big Eight" is back! Just something from my imagination about how things should be.
@AirCargoHeavy That was after I left,,I was gone by Jan 1970 and STOMPIN' THE FLOORS,,,BEATIN' THE WALLS and HANGIN' FROM THE CHANDELIERS at W.O.R.D. radio in Spartanburg,S.C. then 2yrs. later W.I.S.E. In Asheville,N.C. then JACKSONVILLE,,then COCOA BCH,FLA,,then WNAM up in Wisconsin and SO ON and SO ON.
Because this day = the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first album release, it brought back 50yo memories of breathlessly awaiting CKLW's playing of the entire thing .. Strolling the Lake Huron beach, praying my transistor radio's battery would hold out ! Wow. LOVED the Big 8, back then ! Thanks for the memories !!
Big Jim is now on 5085WTWW. This is like taking a trip back in time. This presentation is awesome. Makes me remember my own hometown stations and some others: Not just CKLW, but also KXOK, WLS, WABC, KAAY And lots of others.
CKLW was radio in the late 60's and 70's. There was nothing like it then and there is nothing like it now. It was radio and nobody will be able to duplicate it again. Great dj's who seemed to really love there jobs. Yes, WLS was pretty good too but it wasn't the Big 8. Nothing else was even close.
MY MOM,BROTHER,SISTER AND I LISTENED TO CKLW ALL THE TIME IN CLEVELAND AND SANDUSKY IN THE '60'S. WE GOT THEM NEARLY ALL THE TIME DAY AND NIGHT. WE USED TO GAUGE WHEN THE BIG STORMS WERE COMING ACROSS THE LAKE IN THE SUMMER BECAUSE CKLW WOULD DISAPPEAR INTO THE STATIC....THEN WE WOULD LOOK TO THE NORTHWEST AND SEE THAT HUGE PURPLE LINE COMING TOWARDS US, GREAT MEMORIES.......EXCELLENT STATION......THAT WOULDN'T LAST AN HOUR WITH ALL OF THE GOOFY PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF U.S.A. RADIO TODAY, TOO BAD.....I'M GLAD I AM OLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROB MCRAE
i bet i have listen to this 30 times! lol i lived about an hour from detroit back in the late 60's and all of the 70's. this throws me back so very much...i always had the radio on...huge music lover. ... i even won a tshirt off there...i was a certain number caller with a rotary phone to boot!! hahaha ...ahhh the good ole dayz !
when FM came around i was a WIOT 104.7 fan out of toledo ohio. we lived down by the border. i never knew about swingin time! but a huge fan of american bandstand! oh and sooooul train. i sure miss the good ol days when times were simple.
Times were simpler; they were also bloodier up in Detroit and down in Toledo. Radio was certainly more creative then. Do you remember when then WMHE 92.5 FM was Toledo's BEST Rock - before 104? I will say this: back then radio was not as secure (at least in Toledo). Many of the stations locally have been formatted the same for several decades...WIOT being one of them! While stability is a plus, the staleness is definitely not! WIOT 104.7 has become a senior citizen in broadcasting - going on 45 years as a rock station! Even the legendary CK lasted about half that time.
WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! Thanks for posting this fantastic video as it generates so many pleasant memories. Proud to say I actually got to interview Byron McGregor when I worked at a college newspaper in Windsor, Ontario -- the home of CKLW. Byron had just recorded The Americans and his release was receiving immense air play around the world. He was down to earth and humble and bent over backwards to make this nervous college cub reporter feel comfortable and at home. Top marks for this video!
Hot summer days at the beach, nights in a small town, trying to sleep ( no a/c!!!) with the transistor dialed to CKLW...nothing better!!! Best memories!!
You know this radio aircheck clip took a lot of patience and talent! This station was one of my favorites in my young years of the 60's and some of the '70's. I'll say this...those DJs of that era had a lot of gusto excitement!
"E.J. The D J"-Nice for Elton John to make a guest appearance at CKLW. I wonder if Bob Seger appeared as a guest DJ on CKLW and someone has a long lost recording of it somewhere. He did write "Rosalie" for the late great Rosalie Trombley, after all. . Walt "Baby" Love was my favorite in the early 70's, "Walt the Baby Man" was the man.
Does anyone recall being able to pick CKLW in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois,Wisconsin or Indiana? I wonder how far west did the signal travel. My sister from West Side Detroit (Joy Rd off of Southfield Frwy) LOVED CKLW THE BIG 8!!!!
My dad grew up enjoying summers along the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. He always said that CKLW ruled and 19 out of evrey 20 transistor radios were tuned into CKLW. He has several homemade oldie cd's and always slips in a few CKLW call songs. Anyone got a copy of the "This is CK country" call sign.
Thanks for posting ... good quality audio on that example of "The Big 8," The picture of the station on Riverside Drive at the 1:00 mark was great. A couple of years ago, on a return to Canada from vacation, I stopped and had my picture taken outside the front door 40 years after I worked there. Trust me ... I was thinner and had darker hair back in 1970! The CKLW sign was quite bright and with the floodlights illuminating the building, you could see it from a long way off. Looked dynamic!
I miss those funny little jingles. They were all a part of listening to all the awesome music, and we had our favorite disk jockys who were fun as well!! Got to tune to woky in Milwaukee on my am radio now.🎼📻📻📻
Excellent quality! One of the BEST stations..ever! Too bad I could only get it DXing lat at night or early morn out in my Mom's Dodge Dart! When I needed a title or artist..I'd call Rosalie Trombley and she not only gave me the info..she sent me a copy! The world's BEST Music Director and most famous! Thanks for posting The Big 8!
My dad is always saying how the 70s were just a great time in terms of entertainment. Music was amazing and so was TV. I am so jealous. If I had a time machine one of the 1st places I would go would be the 70s and I would immediately turn on the radio to listen to some CKLW. I watched a documentary on this amazing station in class and I am so mad at the CRTC laws!
I swear on a stack of bibles 100 stories high CKLW is the greatest radio station ever.
Was there a dispute?
I agree 100 %
i'LL 2ND THAT!
1000 stories dude :)
Had to be. I remember it. Lol. I was a kid. Everyone had it on.
Grew up listening to CKLW, back in the 60s and 70s, what a station! The music was the best!
These radio station promotions/identifications brings back precious memories.
The greatest radio station of its time. I want to thank all the great DJ’s who made it happen. CKLW “The Motor City” rocked.
Hearing that promotion call, " CKLW, THE MOTOR CITY", has great memories for me. Got my first AM transistor radio in the 60's, and this was the station I listened to walking to school and back, as I was that " COOL JERK". Thanks for the memories, and I had the great pleasure to meet Pat StJohn a few years back.
Those were the days ,i wish i could go back.
Will always will be so glad to have grown up in Michigan. Proud to be a Hadley boy!
The best radio station in America in the 1960's. They had the dj's, the sound and the jingles that still remain in my mind. How great it is to hear the voices and the jingles from that special era. Thank you.
No question they were the best radio in the USA in the 1960's ! Thank you
Are you kidding you- tube!!! Cklw Windsor- Detroit 1971! Hey Detroit! Dig this! Wow!
Loved this station, all the way from Cleveland.
I grew up with CKLW. This brings tears to eyes.
What a GREAT STATION !! ....and I'm lucky enough to live in the same town as Big Jim Edwards !!!!
Grew up in Erie, Pa loving CKLW at the beach and cruising
I grew up in Detroit listening to CK. So did my cousins in mid-Ohio, and when conditions were right, my cousins in Florida.
Grew up in Lima,Ohio. CKLW was the powerhouse radio station. Fabulous memories.
@ josepha.sojarjr.2725:
(Former) Ashtabula County resident here.
I agree 200%
Thanks Joey..We know what is was@@joeydavis9778
I used to pull in CKLW in the daytime, from hundreds of miles away.
I miss cklw radio.
Cklw was the best brings back alot of memories best music best dj’s
The station of elementary School!
Listened in Kenton, Ohio
Couldn't get it in Bellefontaine. :(
Grew up with the big 8 CKLW . Thanks to all the DJs and the owners of this great station. I miss you guys. Great freaking music.
I used to listen to CKLW around 67-68 and fondly remember the song lists. Because I lived closer to Toronto, the competing radio stations hogged the airwaves, so I could only tune in late at night. Lots of motown - it was great! Refreshing because the other stations didn't play that much of it. Wow, that was such a different time (from today) music-wise. Thanks for posting this - a blast from the past!!
CKLW THE MOTOR CITY FROM THE 1970,S
My parents had CKLW tuned to every radio they had when I was growing up. The CKLW jingle was the very first thing I remembered growing up. It had Detroit all over it, even though it came from across the border in Windsor. There will never be another one like it again. Ever.
With out a doubt greatest radio station I ever heard. I only got to listen to this station when my wife and I use to go visit her mother who lived in Erie, PA.Is there a radio station today that does things like CKLW use to.
I also remember hearing CKLW on a transistor radio, while I was at a now-defunct psychiatric boarding school, located some 100 MILES west of the Detroit/Windsor area, between 1975 and 1980! MEMORIES!!!
This was the radio station in early teens and I followed those top 40 lists religiously. Would love to hear even more of the golden years of CK from
67 to 77
yes listen on my bike radio 📻 heck yea
CKLW played a mix of rock and Motown music. I’ve been asked why I knew Motown music I simply said I’m from Detroit. Some I had to explain it to.
One of my most distinct childhood memories is of my older brother washing his car on a hot summer day, while listening to CKLW on his car radio. Awesome memories! Oh, and we picked it up as clear as day way down here in Lima, Ohio.
My station forever!!!
listened to cklw often in the good old days
I listened to CKLW growing up in Erie, Pa. What a great radio station it was in the 60s and 70s!
10 years old, 1975, 9 Volt transistor radio, listening to CKLW in Richmond Michigan, thinking I was cool. Memories.
Same here and I was in Baltimore, Maryland
Thanks for the great memories! I'm a baby boomer and I fondly recall back in the mid 60's listening to CKLW and WCFL here in East Tennessee! They played music that wouldn't show up on my local station's playlists until weeks later. They were the greatest stations ever! Brings back fond memories. All the best and thanks again!
Windsor-Detroit-Toledo....this was our station! It was the sound of a REGION!
From high atop the snow belt in Chardon Ohio I was in my bedroom listening to the Top Eight at Eight on the Big Eight CKLW. Whoever put this together - THANK YOU. This was like reliving my childhood from the 70s. You can't see me sitting here with this huge grin on my face and some misty eyes listening to this. What a trip back to a time when radio was FUN!
Loved CKLW in the late '60's & early '70's. Even though I lived in New Jersey, I loved DXing. I got a couple of posters, one for the "CKLW Top 500", from 1966 - 1970.
When there was nothing happening on Cleveland radio; THIS was the alternative!!!!!!
As a college student at Bowling Green in NW Ohio late 60s/early 70s, CKLW could be heard in nearly every dorm room and every car radio. It was like listening to a party 24/7. It was great music, great DJs and great entertainment. There wasn't another station around that could match it. Miss the sounds and miss the fun
+Thomas Downs Awesome ! My grandparents lived in Clyde , Oh and I listen to this station !!!
Thank you so much for posting this and bringing back all the good old memories of listening to CKLW - Detroit, MI - USA & Windsor, Ontario - Canada :)
These were great times !
They most certainly were!!! I really miss those days!!!
This was the Best Radio! CKLW! 🇺🇸🇨🇦✌️
@@anjeanetteharris6097 The very Best in Great Radio! CKLW 🇺🇸🇨🇦✌️
Grew up to CKLW. Proud that it was in Windsor and Rosalee sure had a good ear!!
I grew up west of Cleveland and CKLW came in clear as a bell on my litle Radio Shack transistor radio. When I was a kid, I thought all of the DJ's were the same guy because they all sounded alike. Thanks for posting!
this is AWESOME!!!!
The Big 8 was the most pwerful radio station in North America; you could pick up the signal from down in Kentucky or up on James Bay. I wasn't that far away, since I lived only a few miles from their transmitter towers near Windsor. Lots of fond memories listening to CKLW back when I was a kid.
I grew up on Staten Island in the 1960s and 70s, and CKLW would weave in and out late at night. I listened for years, now there was some Great radio stations back then, like WABC 77 AM in New York City and WNBC 66 and KRLA in Los Angeles but nothing like CKLW was in a league all by itself nothing close it was the best thing on the radio by far the jingles, commercials and DJs were exciting as hell. You felt left out if you weren’t tuned in
Agreed!
We were spoiled by CKLW in Ontario. We listened to it all day in the fields as we worked all summer 1968 - 1975. At night we could pick up WLS Chicago and WABC NYC, which we all thought were quite exotic.
Listened in Erie, PA in my 66 Chevelle convertible. Just got a chill down my spine.
Wow, super Wow. This gave me goose bumps. It was like being 15 and 16 again!!! And the beat goes on....This is CKLW, the Motor City!!
CK was not only a cultural icon of the Midwest and Canada but the entire world.
We were crazy back then😊
Rochester, Michigan 1960s...ALL the time!!👍👍👍
AM CKLW rocked back in the day. We listened to it all the time late 60s, early 70s, Toledo OH. It was an awesome station back then and brings back lots of memories. Byron MacGregor had an awesome news cast... "This is Byron MacGregor with 20/20 news. It was another bloody day in the Motorcity today for the meat wagon." He was great, never forget it.
For FM, W4 - WWWW in Toledo rocked in the 70s. Good times, great memories.
My dad brought me here I think he is a thousand years old. I dont know how this counts as a legitimate song request? But here I am man, It happened.
Good memories!
Best radio station in the country,Great Memories
Grew up listening to the Big 8....
Those were such different times
The best ever
Sad,never again
Listened to CK all the time in Erie, PA while attending college. At home in Pittsburgh in the summer, I listened in the evening. Still love to hear the old jingles.
When the DJ's were as entertaining as the music.
I was pre teen in the 70's. And I remember this.. Every weekend.. On Auburn road.. Angela? From across the street? Had a dob named d.o g. Deoge? It's Mike .. Lol.
Dog..
CK was our mainline to the outside world in the 60s. Living in rural northwest Ohio, it was our window to the world. The British Invasion and the magic that was Motown came to us via CK. It was an essential part of our teens and a common thread among all young people of the era.
Imagine a format change in Windsor Ontario, the PD of 50.000 Watt CKLW walks into master control and says, listen up, format change we are returning to glory. This talk format is gone as of now! People are tired of complaining COVID has changed the personality of our tiny audience, they want to ROCK! Stop flapping your gums and play music, long live ROCK & Soul! To make it clear to you all please note "The Big Eight" is back! Just something from my imagination about how things should be.
Didnt realize how huge this station was until now- Detroit mi 1970's....
@AirCargoHeavy That was after I left,,I was gone by Jan 1970 and STOMPIN' THE FLOORS,,,BEATIN' THE WALLS and HANGIN' FROM THE CHANDELIERS at W.O.R.D. radio in Spartanburg,S.C. then 2yrs. later W.I.S.E. In Asheville,N.C. then JACKSONVILLE,,then COCOA BCH,FLA,,then WNAM up in Wisconsin and SO ON and SO ON.
Because this day = the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first album release, it brought back 50yo memories of breathlessly awaiting CKLW's playing of the entire thing .. Strolling the Lake Huron beach, praying my transistor radio's battery would hold out ! Wow. LOVED the Big 8, back then ! Thanks for the memories !!
Visited the studios in Windsor in January 1973, I listened to the station with my lime green transistor radio glued to me head from 1968-73.
Big Jim is now on 5085WTWW. This is like taking a trip back in time. This presentation is awesome. Makes me remember my own hometown stations and some others: Not just CKLW, but also KXOK, WLS, WABC, KAAY And lots of others.
THAT WAS ON THE AM RADIO !
I used to listen to CKLW all the time in the 70's and 80's from way across Lake Erie in Pennsylvania. Great signal and good music.
CKLW was radio in the late 60's and 70's.
There was nothing like it then and there is nothing like it now. It was radio and nobody will be able to duplicate it again. Great dj's who seemed to really love there jobs. Yes, WLS was pretty good too but it wasn't the Big 8. Nothing else was even close.
I'm from Toledo -- proudly so -- and remember CKLW. Man, life was good.
My summer station. Listened to the Big 8 from 1965 to 1974. Hooray for CKLW and Motown.
Shannon is back!!!!!!!!!!!
MY MOM,BROTHER,SISTER AND I LISTENED TO CKLW ALL THE TIME IN CLEVELAND AND SANDUSKY IN THE '60'S. WE GOT THEM NEARLY ALL THE TIME DAY AND NIGHT. WE USED TO GAUGE WHEN THE BIG STORMS WERE COMING ACROSS THE LAKE IN THE SUMMER BECAUSE CKLW WOULD DISAPPEAR INTO THE STATIC....THEN WE WOULD LOOK TO THE NORTHWEST AND SEE THAT HUGE PURPLE LINE COMING TOWARDS US, GREAT MEMORIES.......EXCELLENT STATION......THAT WOULDN'T LAST AN HOUR WITH ALL OF THE GOOFY PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF U.S.A. RADIO TODAY, TOO BAD.....I'M GLAD I AM OLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROB MCRAE
Love you Dad. You've always had great taste!
CKLW !.... IMITATED BUT NEVER DUPLICATED
i bet i have listen to this 30 times! lol i lived about an hour from detroit back in the late 60's and all of the 70's. this throws me back so very much...i always had the radio on...huge music lover. ... i even won a tshirt off there...i was a certain number caller with a rotary phone to boot!! hahaha ...ahhh the good ole dayz !
when FM came around i was a WIOT 104.7 fan out of toledo ohio. we lived down by the border. i never knew about swingin time! but a huge fan of american bandstand! oh and sooooul train. i sure miss the good ol days when times were simple.
yeah we got channel 9. was the one that came in the best! lol thank God for cable now huh? lol
Channel 9 also had on Swingin' Time hosted by Robin Seymour, as well as Hockey Night in Canada.
jayne stone same here
Times were simpler; they were also bloodier up in Detroit and down in Toledo. Radio was certainly more creative then. Do you remember when then WMHE 92.5 FM was Toledo's BEST Rock - before 104?
I will say this: back then radio was not as secure (at least in Toledo).
Many of the stations locally have been formatted the same for several decades...WIOT being one of them! While stability is a plus, the staleness is definitely not! WIOT 104.7 has become a senior citizen in broadcasting - going on 45 years as a rock station! Even the legendary CK lasted about half that time.
WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! Thanks for posting this fantastic video as it generates so many pleasant memories. Proud to say I actually got to interview Byron McGregor when I worked at a college newspaper in Windsor, Ontario -- the home of CKLW. Byron had just recorded The Americans and his release was receiving immense air play around the world. He was down to earth and humble and bent over backwards to make this nervous college cub reporter feel comfortable and at home. Top marks for this video!
Leffler Turnpike
Hot summer days at the beach, nights in a small town, trying to sleep ( no a/c!!!) with the transistor dialed to CKLW...nothing better!!! Best memories!!
LIstened every day from 1967 - 1975 From Seneca County, Ohio !!! It was the best.. loved every second of it!
SUPER MAX HAL MARTIN CVD BEAT WKNR WXYZ WNIC😎😎😎
You know this radio aircheck clip took a lot of patience and talent! This station was one of my favorites in my young years of the 60's and some of the '70's.
I'll say this...those DJs of that era had a lot of gusto excitement!
The only station us teens listened to in the 60'a (Ohio).
Wabx radio station in Detroit.
"E.J. The D J"-Nice for Elton John to make a guest appearance at CKLW. I wonder if Bob Seger appeared as a guest DJ on CKLW and someone has a long lost recording of it somewhere. He did write "Rosalie" for the late great Rosalie Trombley, after all. . Walt "Baby" Love was my favorite in the early 70's, "Walt the Baby Man" was the man.
Does anyone recall being able to pick CKLW in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois,Wisconsin or Indiana? I wonder how far west did the signal travel. My sister from West Side Detroit (Joy Rd off of Southfield Frwy) LOVED CKLW THE BIG 8!!!!
Definitely listened to this every day too!!! GREAT station.
FANTASTIC recordings! What wonderful memories. Thanks so much for your efforts in uploading. 2 thumbs way up!
Thanks for posting this. Brought back a lot of memories of my childhood, when CKLW was my constant companion.
My dad grew up enjoying summers along the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Erie. He always said that CKLW ruled and 19 out of evrey 20 transistor radios were tuned into CKLW. He has several homemade oldie cd's and always slips in a few CKLW call songs. Anyone got a copy of the "This is CK country" call sign.
That was Fantastic!! In Vancouver B.C. we had the same sound in the 1970's on "CKLG 73"!! Man i wish we still had Radio like this!! Thanks!
Thanks for posting ... good quality audio on that example of "The Big 8," The picture of the station on Riverside Drive at the 1:00 mark was great. A couple of years ago, on a return to Canada from vacation, I stopped and had my picture taken outside the front door 40 years after I worked there. Trust me ... I was thinner and had darker hair back in 1970! The CKLW sign was quite bright and with the floodlights illuminating the building, you could see it from a long way off. Looked dynamic!
I miss those funny little jingles. They were all a part of listening to all the awesome music, and we had our favorite disk jockys who were fun as well!! Got to tune to woky in Milwaukee on my am radio now.🎼📻📻📻
This reminds me of riding in the car with my parents back in the 70s. I sure miss the good ole days.
Excellent quality! One of the BEST stations..ever! Too bad I could only get it DXing lat at night or early morn out in my Mom's Dodge Dart! When I needed a title or artist..I'd call Rosalie Trombley and she not only gave me the info..she sent me a copy! The world's BEST Music Director and most famous!
Thanks for posting The Big 8!
Detroit, Windsor and Toledo this was our station! Remember?
that's the ticket, CKLW. big time station 1960s and 70s in Detroit/Windsor , and for many miles around!!
wow I remember this station from 1970-75 listen to on way to grandparets home in Clyde, Ohio!
My dad is always saying how the 70s were just a great time in terms of entertainment. Music was amazing and so was TV. I am so jealous. If I had a time machine one of the 1st places I would go would be the 70s and I would immediately turn on the radio to listen to some CKLW. I watched a documentary on this amazing station in class and I am so mad at the CRTC laws!
I used to listen to CKLW on the radio in my 1966 GTO (bought it new) it was a 50,000 watt station and I listened in Cleveland, Ohio. Great memories!