CKLW Windsor Early -Mid 70s.

[@lildee2626]

I’m 68 now but listening to this I’m 17-18, living in Inkster and reliving all the old memories that was centered around CKLW. No one knew the difference between AM and FM back then. All the childhood fun and music will be forever in our life and to this day, I miss those years and things will never be the same. Rock On!

[@MichaelMarville]

I completely agree with your sediment!!! I'm 57

[@lildee2626]

@@MichaelMarville It was so different back then. I miss the people and the simplicity of the ways we lived. ♥️

[@maryrafuse2297]

The major difference between AM & FM is the AM signal travels much farther. FM is good for a 60 mile radius of the tower. AM can travel over a thousand miles if the signal pattern is not restricted. AM sounds as good as FM with a wide band width receiver. Lots of Chinese radio receivers have a wide bandwidth switch now. 🙂

[@lildee2626]

@@maryrafuse2297 Thank you Mary for explaining it to me. It makes sense. But those days back then the music was great and then we had Cobo Hall for the concerts. Could take a bus down to Cobo Hall in Detroit and a bus back home after the concert, if you didn’t have a ride. Great day great memories. ♥️

[@igocleveland]

From Lorain Ohio in the 1970's Best Radio Station!!!! Thank God We had the Best Life!!! What Happened to Those Wonderful Radio Days? and Great DJ's??? Why Did America have to Change?

[@DetroitLives313]

This was OUR radio station when I was growing up. I knew it was great , but looking back now I see it was world famous!

[@larryhay2075]

The best radio station in North America

[@dougclark7077]

I live in North Central Ohio and listened to CKLW from 1972 to 1976. It was so popular that they often piped the station in over the P.A. system at school. Loved the Big 30 countdown each week and our local music store sometimes had copies of the chart. Great station!!

[@mengesdesign7629]

Same as you, Doug. NC Ohio in the 70s, listening to CKLW's Motown sound on a bakelite radio in a clubhouse in our back yard. Great memories.

[@josepha.sojajr.2725]

Grew up in Lima,Ohio in the 1960's. CKLW was the best American radio station ever ! Thank you

[@Momentswithjohnalexander]

I grew up a tiny berg in Lapeer County Mi called Kings Mills. This was the only decent station we could get. It was pre-fm for our area. WJR was for Tiger games and CKLW was for the latest music. Tiny transistor radio next to my ear under the covers so Dad couldn't hear. Great memories.

[@robmorrison1043]

Used to listen to WABC radio in NewYork as a child in the late 60s and 70s. Late at night i would pick up CKLW on my AM transistor radio!!!! Loved it !!!!!

[@markwilliams5606]

You-tube thanks again! Love it! Hey Dayton, Toronto, Got your ears on!

[@IMunlucky]

Man that takes me back to my tobacco days in Southern Ontario late 60's through the 70's. Other than the higher pay, one of the reasons I switched from priming in the fields to hanging kiln was so I could listen to CKLW all day long. Not many of us left. Loved everything about the station.

[@rjones4426]

I heard the boat driver was the hardest worker on the farm. Kiln hanging was the glamour position. Ha, recognized your photo. C1

[@IMunlucky]

Busted. You have a keen eye C1. Now my handlers in the program will have to put me into deep, deep cover. A doublewide would be too obvious so I guess maybe a Hungarian bunk house is my only option. Thanks! @@rjones4426

[@jimsutter149]

Greatest radio station I ever heard.

[@meijer076]

Gone but certainly not forgotten. THE BIG 8 CKLW.

[@lindathrall5133]

I remember CKLW on the radio great songs I heard and I miss those songs

[@kevinfarr5971]

Listened to this all thru junior high and most of high School lived in Marysville mi lived the station

[@joeydavis9778]

Brings back sweet memories.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@ladylaura8038]

Fun memories from Lincoln Park, Michigan 😙😙😙😙 Thank you

[@ezrabrooks7785]

Harper Woods 1968

[@lauriealvaro5816]

I used to live in sterling heights michgan I used to listen cklw when I was six years old I am now 56 years old I will be 57 years old June 30th I miss the seventies I live in lakewood Washington now I've been living in lakewood Washington August 9 1997 I've been in Washington 26 years now

[@ronmurphy8863]

as a kid growing up in Windsor early seventies I lived 2 blocks away from this monster me and my friends would walk over to the studio to meet the famous people they would have on air, I had no idea this wasn't just a Windsor-Detroit thing..HALF of the states was listening too ?? I remember getting free albums and 45s from them just to leave the building,they were never rude to us..........

[@marcfedak]

This is great, the montage gets most of the key aspects of CKLW in its heyday.....including clips of songs that epitomize Detroit/Windsor in 1967 - 1974.

[@adrianpena677]

This takes me back to when i was in junior high in Fremont Ohio ,miss those days!!!😎

[@kamac8761]

Wow! just awesome! It takes me back!

[@tleparskas]

Ha! I was in the room when Paul Anka was singing this live over the record. Hearing the actual recording for the first time. Thanks.

[@wabbitttune]

oh the memories.... never again like this.....this was the time to be alive...

[@bobbrien1723]

Listened to The Big 8 all my teen life in Ridgetown, Ontario. Went to school at the University of Windsor for three fun years and CKLW was a big part of my life then. Worked at the university student radio station for a year and tried to fashion my show after the big guys at CKLW....never quite accomplished that. What a GREAT STATION!!!!!

[@markwilliams5606]

Thanks Canada! America is ready to get back in shape. No one wants biden. We appreciate you! Detroit talking! 🤠🐎🇺🇸🏈🥞

[@danielpena2726]

We moved from Hamilton, Ont. to Detroit when I was 5 and this brings back a lot of memories.

[@larryhay2075]

I have many c k l w on cassette and I have one on 6 hours that my friend got somewhere sorry to hear Tom Shannon passed away recently going to miss the time you was big at the both radio stations WKBW Buffalo and cklw Windsor Ontario Canada

[@riverraisin1]

I have a cassette recording of CKLW's top songs of 1971. I was holding a microphone up to my portable radio as the top 3 were played.

[@MichaelMarville]

And.... at WOMC in detroit!!!!

[@johnwagner4776]

I was still a big Top 40 fan back in the mid-70's. During afternoon roadtrips between White Plains, NY and Danbury, CT, I could pick up CKLW (with decent signal strength) on a short stretch of I-684 near Goldens Bridge, NY: roughly 500 nautical miles from Windsor. To the best of my recollection, I could hear the station year-round on that same stretch of Interstate, but for no more than half a minute at a time. It's said that folks in California occasionally hear the Big 8 skip over the Rockies. A broadcast engineer told me that the propagation characteristics of five-tower directional arrays (like CKLW's) are not entirely understood

[@July.4.1776]

They rocked the Thumb of Michigan😊

[@MisterRubenJr]

In all fairness, Thumbs up for Windsor.

[@Kellykleinman1]

The absolute BEST Top 40 and news on radio in the history of the medium...period. Only K-earth radio still uses this formula but only does 80's.

[@DANNYBOY7797]

I miss this to hot radio.the radio today id dead an sick we need this back ..

[@tommytruth7595]

Radio today is total garbage.

[@areubaked]

I heard the Big 8 when I was a kid on a Hallicrafters tube radio with an outside wire antenna. It was larger than life, as were its personalities. Then, in 1980, I moved to Detroit for a while. But sadly, by then CK was reduced to a little Windsor station despite its 50K torch. The magic that RKO radiated at 800khz left when that giant of a company departed the market. But I drove over to the Xmitter and stick in Windsor just to stare at such a piece of radio history. Awesome! Thanks for posting this.

[@SusanBame]

Oh WOW, this is good to hear again! I grew up on this.

[@Kellykleinman1]

From Pittsburgh?

[@SusanBame]

Northwest Ohio. About 2 hours south of Toledo.

[@jmlincolorado]

@@SusanBame grew up Crestline Mansfield area then moved to Bay Village west side of Cleveland this station was huge in our lives in the early 70s

[@seanandtracey1]

this just totally just took me back to my childhood in Painesville, Ohio...

[@Virgovixen10]

Sean Spring I grew up to CKLW as well...Mentor Ohio. 1973 grad. Nothing even slightly compares to this station. At the lake or in the backyard!!!

[@kaydee4296]

Being from Rochester, Mi this was our station! Love it.

[@eaglewings53]

I used to listen to this station at night on our front porch, in martinsburg west Virginia, wow great memories

[@davidgreer8957]

One of the best Top 40 stations of all time. Period, I never worked there but began working in 1979 at WWJ Newsradio 95 in Detroit where Joe Donovan and Don Patrick, both formerly of CKLW, were the AM drive co-anchors. Byron McGregor was a PM drive co-anchor. Initially, I was the overnight news anchor but later did 6-11 p.m. anchoring and then spent a couple years as the AM drive street reporter. Did a fresh live shot from the WWJ Camaro every 30 minutes. Often wrote my stories on a legal pad propped up on the steering wheel driving down the Lodge or Chrysler freeways on my way to the next story and live shot. Somewhere along the way Grant Hudson, formerly of CKLW, joined WWJ too. Also, former CKLW street reporter Jim Brooker, was the operations manager at WWJ. All those guys were very talented with great pipes. A real pleasure with work with them.

[@armandoflores5297]

was there ever any talent as good as these cultivated by the powerful big 8, loved brother bill and big jim .

[@1aquinas]

To name our best on air folks: Gary Burbank, Pat St. John, Scotty Regen, Pat Holliday, Tom Shannon (both times) Frank Brodie, Bob Moody, Tom Ryan, Bill Winters, Ted Richards, Charlie Van Dyke, Dusty Rhodes, Dick Purtan, Super max K, and the baddest news crew in Both Americas!!! Great memories, great voices. The best... PERIOD! THE BIG 8 ! Thanks fellas! Gregg, formerly of Detroit

[@Smarty1171]

I bet you don't remember the engineers that made them sound great. Thanks to them. The station ran smoothly n

[@watchout361]

THATS WHEN RADIO WAS RADIO!

[@billr.1230]

I listened to this station from its inception in 1967 until shortly after the AOR stations went on the air on the FM dial in Detroit.

[@ezrabrooks7785]

Me too 7 and Gratiot 313

[@riverraisin1]

Same

[@alandhopewell]

"EJ the DJ"....that was so flippin' cool, as was this whole station!!"And the hits....just keep on COMIN'!"

[@djdon60]

..can't believe I heard Jim Jackson, in the montage. When I moved to Calgary, in '82, Jim was afternoon drive guy, on CKXL. Great announcer...great guy, from my experience. Wow, EJ, on the air? That was supah!

[@qmac10]

So, back in the day we use to go to the Drive-in located in Bad Axe, which is about 100 north of Detroit. We would party and listed to the big 8. Unfortunatley as it got later in the night the Big 8 would fade out and we would pick up 890 WLS Chicago (differnt time zone). Of course we thought we were still listening to Detroit and would use the radio station to check the time. A lot of azz chewings werer recieved for coming home an hour later then was allowed.

[@missjoshemmett]

i listened to thise station all the sixties in my teens. then, 'underground' radio came in and i didn't listen to the big CK anymore. the djs i remember most are tom clay and terry knight. but this was fun...

[@69voxbeetle]

Thank you for this.

[@walisha2012eb]

The Big 8 50'000 watts goin strong

[@kevinheckathorn4083]

I do your first comment with great honor. This was great! You brought back so many memories. I love it !

[@tonymarzocco8962]

Of all the CKLW Johnny Mann jingles, I *never* heard the CKLW "Motor City Rock" jingle!

[@garythompson5537]

1972ish with Grant Hudson plus by 1973 voiced All Hits All the Time!

[@dontrushme2112]

I believe its called grazing in the grass by Hugh maskela

[@kirkmoore4515]

The exact same 12 midnight at new year greeting with the same recording playing in the background as KGB San Diego.

[@BradFalck-mn3pc]

Funny how it was CKLW in Windsor and CKLG IN Vancouver

[@alandhopewell]

Alice Cooper did a DJ turn on Halloween, too.

[@walisha2012eb]

tell the kids this is how it began

[@edreynolds8063]

I hate to say this: but most music radio stations today should carry the call sign: SUCK! They don't realize what REAL radio was. I remember hearing "EJ the DJ" on CK. And many of those other guys and gal.

[@BradFalck-mn3pc]

Today it's nothing but rock free commercials

[@ozell1992]

Merollis Chevrolet, Rothman Cigarettes, General Tires, Town Club Pop, Farmer Jack, Mickey Shorr, Detroit Dragway (Sibley at Dix), Hudson's, and many, many more.

[@luannyontz5626]

How about Pants Galore and Meijer Thrifty Acres! Great Station, Great Personalities!!!

[@ozell1992]

6:00 at CKLW, 5:00 in Detroit.

[@meijer076]

It all ended January 1,1985

[@jimsutter149]

Why did they change the format?

[@jimsutter149]

@Brian Allen FM or satellite.

[@jimsutter149]

@Brian Allen Thank you for all that information.

[@wecontrolthevideo]

This includes the air check of Chuck McKay, who wanted to get fired to leave and work for another station he had an offer from.

[@paulwalker1443]

Yes! This is a classic aircheck of McKay trying to be so ridiculous. Some say he was "under the influence", but when you listen you can tell he was far from that. Your rendition is much more plausible.

[@alandhopewell]

This is what radio was about....sadly, Queer Flannel and I Heart Radio have turned it into a thin, tasteless gruel.

[@paulwalker1443]

I had this aircheck on cassette, so it probably was widely circulated. Unless I sent a copy to the OP? Who knows...

[@Curly34584]

GREAT MEMORIES! WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED TO SOCIETY???

[@paulkardas1741]

Nope they dont make radio like that anymore...... Todays top 40 programming is downright dull unexciting though teens dont listen the radio anymore,,, dont know how Z100 Kiss 1027 AMP exists still.....

[@sirloinofbeef3862]

Always thought it was in the usa. Lol