Gallery

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Bob Green, Swingin Sweeney



Rock n Roll The American Way – 1971

From Michael Stevens



Michael Stevens gets Kudos for tying the trotters..


Pat St. John and brother Michael Stevens with Badfinger, 1971
From Michael Stevens



Pat St. John & Scott Regen During prep for the 2003 Dream
Cruise Broadcast



WWKR Playlist 6/19/79 from the Tom Sanders Collection


WNIC Playlist 6/19/79 from the Tom Sanders Collection



Stop Her On Sight
Edwin Starr



The WKNR Eagle from the Pat St. John Collection



Bob Green, Frank Maruca, Andy Williams



WKMH’s News Cruiser Ad
(1954) From the Tom Sanders Collection



The WKNR Official British Dictionary
1965


The WKNR Official British Dictionary
1965



The Bob Green Fan Club 1965
From the David Makowski Collection



The Detroit Free Press Radio Page, circa 1957.
Copyright The Detroit Free Press, All Rights Reserved, Used by Permission



WKMH Schedule



WKMH Rate Card #13



WKMH Bonus Club



WKMH Vice President John Carroll with Program Director Frank
Maruca – 1961



Keener’s Think Summer Promotion, which actually happened
during the winter.


Launch Promotional Plan



Sooktacular launch piece – front


Spooktacular launch piece
interior



After 11 weeks, WKNR is number 1 at night



Royal Order of Regen Burgers – Burger Card
from the collection of Mike Rosenblum





Studios – 1966


Announcer Personality Pieces



Contact News Cruiser

Open House
Invitation
September, 1966



WKNR Jocks 1971




With the Beatles





With Ringo &
The Animals



With Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits



Keener leads the field in ’66



Bob Seger signs Valerie Elliot’s Burger Club Card


Keener’s numbers: March 1964



National Blast Keener Profile 11/14/65
840KB


Detroit News
3/30/67



Keener Money Matchbooks

10/63





WKNR Bumper Stickers
The classic blue &

the Keener Green
from the mid-70s
revival


Paul Cannon’s letter to ALSAC Concert performers,
courtesy of Bob Freedman of
Richard and the
Young Lions

9/66 (PDF)



Beatles Ad
9/12/64
Courtesy
Mark Staycer




Two views of the famous WKNR Rinky Dink Skateboard that Scott
Regen rode from Kansas City to Detroit
From the Steve Schram Collection


WKNR Tape Box Label



Scott Regen 1964
Photo: Bill Button



The original Keener Personalities 1964
Photo: Bill Button



The Keener Wagon
Photo: Bill Button



J Michael Wilson 1964
Photo: Bill Button



Jim Jeffries 1964

Photo: Bill Button



Gary Stevens 1964
Swingin Sweeny

Photo: Bill Button


Bill Phillips 1964
Photo: Bill Button



Keener’s 1st Birthday

Courtesy Bob Green



During a lull in some unremembered TV Special – 1965

15001 Michigan Avenue



J. Michael Wilson Today

Jerry Goodwin 1964
Photo: Bill Button



1968 Jocks
5 comments
  1. Virginia Guindon
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 10:29 | #1

    I am looking for a picture of the “Wooly Burger” for WKNR. My uncle used to dress up in the costume and go to the dances or functions.

  2. Mar 27th, 2010 at 01:14 | #2

    Hello, trying to get some info on Mac Owens…did he also work at KOMA in Okalhoma City in 1966 using the name Johnny Dark? I grew up and still live in Phila., and remember him when he worked at WFIL in 1972…lastly do you know where else he worked?

    Eugene Ferraro

  3. April Dickens
    Aug 10th, 2010 at 00:49 | #3

    Hi, I was wondering are there video clips available for Motown Mondays and also the audio? Thanks

  4. Jim
    Jan 4th, 2011 at 04:06 | #4

    Looks like some entries are no longer here. Was looking for the Iggy Pop interview and some of the other entries I recall reading on the Keener13 site previously. WKNR hits listings used to be occasionally reprinted in Blitz! magazine (a rock fanzine from MI) about 30 years ago…but as a kid, I probably heard CKLW far more often, circa 1968 or 1970 through 1973.

  5. Carol Odonnell
    Feb 5th, 2013 at 13:21 | #5

    I was wondering if anyone has pictures of the time a bunch of kids sang happy birthday to John Lennon.It was around 1964

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