Tonight's show features hard rock out of Michigan from the 60's and 70's. The musical career of Michigan's own Dick Wagner(guitarist,singer-songwriter,band leader and producer) will be highlighted.
| Windsor born Jack Scott had some of the earliest hits from the Michigan area,Del Shannon hailed from Grand Rapids,? hailed from Bay City and Terry Knight managed and produced late 60's hard rock phenomena Grand Funk Railroad. |
| The Way I Walk Jack Scott - The Best of Jack Scott(1995) 
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| Keep Searching(We'll Follow The Sun) Del Shannon - The Best of Del Shannon(1967) |
| 96 Tears ? and The Mysterians - The Best of ? and The Mysterians on Cameo/Parkway 1966-67(2005) |
| What's On Your Mind? Terry Knight & The Pack - VA:Michigan Nuggets(1996) |
| Are You Ready? Grand Funk Railroad - On Time(1969) |
| Mitch Ryder rose from the garage scene to become a major star in the 60's before fading in the 70's. Bob Seger worked the Michigan club scene for years before hitting it big in 1976(Night Moves). |
| I Had It Made Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Rev Up:The Best of Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels(1989) |
| Long Long Time Mitch Ryder - The Detroit Memphis Experiment(1969) |
| Rock 'n' Roll Detroit - Detroit(1971) |
| Lookin' Back The Last Heard(Bob Seger) - VA:Michigan Nuggets(1996) |
| Back In '72 Bob Seger - Back In '72(1973) |
| Black Night Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser(1975) |
| Cub Coda formed party band Brownsville Station in Ann Arbor Mich. in the late 60's while Frijid Pink formed in Detroit in '67 and covered the Animals hit to great success before petering out by 1975. |
| Smokin' In The Boys Room Brownsville Station - Yeah!(1973) |
| House Of The Rising Sun Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink(1970) |
| Sing A Song For Freedom Frijid Pink - Defrosted(1971) |
| Let Your Yeah Be Yeah Brownsville Station - Yeah!(1973) |
| Next up-Dick Wagner(guitar,vocals,songwriter,producer and bandleader) experienced early success with regionally popular Saginaw, Michigan based band The Bossmen in the mid 60's. Wagner formed The Frost in 1968,after 3 lp's he moved on to New York forming the hard rocking Ursa Major before being asked to join Lou Reed's '74 touring band.Reed fired the band and Alice Cooper hired them for the rest of the 70's,co-writing many songs with his bandleader Dick Wagner. |
| Mystery Man The Frost - Early Frost(1978) |
| Fifteen Hundred Miles(Through The Eyes of a Beatle) The Frost - Through The Eyes Of Love(1970) |
| Silver Spoon Ursa Major - Ursa Major(1972) |
| Rock 'n' Roll Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal(1974) |
| Only Women Bleed Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare(1975) |
| A grab bag of 70's output by some excellent Michigan hard rock bands to finish the show. |
| Guitar Army The Rationals - The Rationals(1970) |
| Free For All Ted Nugent - Free For All(1976) |
| Gimme Danger Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power(1973) |
| Back In The U.S.A. The MC5 - The Big Bang:Best of The MC5(2000) |
| Tradition Catfish - Get Down!(1970) |
| Thank you for listening. Next show broadcasts Jan. 21. |
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12:11 AM, January 7th, 2016