1986 WLLZ Commercial
For those who grew up in the metro-Detroit area, you may recall this commercial from 30 years ago. Enjoy!!
1986 WLLZ Commercial
88 HS Graduate. We did have some good radio . Seems like so long ago. Now we have shit to choose from .
Too much repetition.
I just burn my own cds or listen to my mp3 player . 20,000+ mp3s to choose from .
Local radio has been hurt by bad quality and syndication.
Does anyone else remember the 'Mr. Manly' bit? If so, turn to page 4282 in your Manly Manual....
there's a $100,000 spot on the wheel!! Why is he hoping for $5,000?
I was in Detroit about a year ago to visit my Mom: she listens to WOMC. That's where JJ is now! Which does make sense, but it did make me feel old, considering I remember both the WLLZ and WCSX days.
The ownership group for The Detroit Wheels football team included Marvin Gaye and Mike Ilitch.
My favorite classic commercial
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that commercial!!! That the Boblo commercial, and one that had the refrain 'putt putt for the funn of it!'
HAWT!!!
Careful what you say about old '98's daughter.
Ok, point noted. She was definitely one of the Leaders and Best in the HAWT category.
I have one of their tables in my living room - a hand-me-down, but serviceable. The showroom was later the Gibraltar Trade Center in Taylor, which was recently demolished to make room for a Menard's.
The story behind Harvey Leach's murder is pretty wild
http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD/20130930/NEWS/130939998
And another oldie, but a goodie....
I was in middle school when this commercial came out in the mid 70s. That kid is probably around my age and Harbaugh's age (52)! I was just glad my parents did not make me take piano lessons!
I liked this one:
Babycakes....
call my wife babycakes because of that commercial.
per channel was the king of all Detroit commericals. I also like that car dealership ad "nobody? ..nooo body.
Unfortunately he is only gonna be able to play about 2 minutes of football before that tape runs out.
The mom was kinda hot.
CKLW 800 AM was the big rock station in town with Dick Purtain and Byron McGregor and his halarious 20/20 news updates. Then I switched over the WRIF with Aurthur P!
I would listen to WRJ when I was a kid in the 70s since they were very pro Michigan Wolverines. Every Friday before football Saturday, JP McCarthy would be talking to Bo about how the season was going and the next game. Fun times.
I always liked the Faygo pop commercials from the late 60s and 70s. https://youtu.be/O572Mmraa_Alost the Wolverines.
with deep roots in Detroit. I liked him alot.
Anyone remember a Saturday night music video program on Ch. 56 hosted by Doug Podell?
Things were simpler then.... and much more fun.
Dick The Bruiser was a HS football coach. He came to one of my games once to scout us. I remember looking up to see his bald head in the stands. Everyone was talking about it.
I was always a WLLZ fan slightly more than WRIF. They had Rock Wars everynight where they would have two bands face off against each other. You would call in to vote and they would then play 3 songs from the winner. At least I think that's how it went. I vividly remember when Ozzy beat the Stones 82-18. We ragged on my brother all summer as he was a huge Stones fan.
I'm pretty sure that was Sheri Donovan, who was a WLLZ DJ and appeared in Playboy around that time. She was seriously hot. I saw her at a promotional appearance in Auburn Hills in the early 90s and can honestly say she was even better looking in person.
she has a service that does voice overs. Hire her and have her be the default message on your phone. :-)
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to listen to back in the day. Really hilarious stuff a lot of the time. I remember how they used to love to harpoon Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. Some of the stuff they did was extremely non-PC and wouldn't fly today. JJ is still on the air as someone above has pointed out on WOMC. But he's pretty straight arrow now, but extremely knowledgeable about the music he plays.
Illich owned the Red Wings and Monahan the Tigers at the time.
The Sid Disabel, George Swell, and the Bruiser characters decided to go into the pizza business together because they wanted to be owners of a local sports team. They were making the pizzas themselves on the air. Sid said the pepperonis looked like hockey pucks. ...........I wish I could remember more of the details.
Always loved the "documentaries" by Richard T. Bruiser. Bruiser always ended them with a wild uncontrollable emotional rant with items being broken in the background as he was being cut off the air.
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that you made me remember it was 30 years ago.
I could have seen that while waiting for the Count Scary movie to come back on.
I inherited my brothers cassette box with a WLLZ bumper sticker on it. I used to regularly listen to Rock Wars.
He had a friend that worked at Harmony House, and he worked at the Little Professor. I loved both. I could ride my bike up to the mall and get old 45's and cheap sci fi books.
Good times. Amazing to think I could get through a whole summer back then listening to music on tapes and not having the internet. (Though, we did have an Apple II with a Z80 and 64K!!! Choplifter was one of the best games ever!)