Jingles

The Jingles By Ken Deutsch. Once upon a time there was an also-ran rocker at 1310 on the AM dial in Detroit called WKMH. It fought a losing battle against other Motor City stalwarts like WXYZ, WJBK, CKLW (from nearby Windsor, Ontario) and even WQTE (Monroe), but everything changed for the livelier in the fall of 1963. The new calls were WKNR (“Keener 13”) and while the station only played top 40 for about nine years, it was a very influential period for me. I can’t comment on the jingles without first mentioning the station’s unique and rather sproingy reverb … Continue reading Jingles