by Thomas F Daniels | Nov 27, 2016 | Detroit History
UPDATE: The Detroit Pistons are moving back to downtown Detroit in 2017 but read all about my memories of them in the 60’s and 70’s. — The crowd at the Palace of Auburn Hills really gets into it when the announcer starts chanting “Dee-troit...
by Thomas F Daniels | Sep 15, 2016 | Detroit History
“Where were you, oo, oo, oo,oo; I really want to know . . .” Oops and apologies to the musical group The Who whose song was “Who Are You.” Now that I have that classic reverberating in your mind, all of us remember where we were when certain tragic events took place...
by Thomas F Daniels | Sep 15, 2016 | Memory Lane
WCSX has a long standing radio program on Sunday morning called Sunday Morning Over Easy. I like it as it features easy listening tunes from James Taylor to Carol King and also picks out rare, pleasant songs. I always had, however, a love/hate relationship for Sunday...
by Thomas F Daniels | Sep 15, 2016 | Memory Lane
Derek Palm, a contributor to Black and White Like You and Me, took a trip down memory lane last week with his younger brother. They drove by many of their former homes and schools and actually were invited into one of them. Derek reports that the home that they were...
by Thomas F Daniels | Sep 14, 2016 | Memory Lane
According to the WKNR Music Chart, fourteen out of the top thirty-one songs for that week were by black artists, led by the #1 song for the week by Dionne Warwick’s “Anyone Who Had a Heart.” That popular radio station featured all white disc jockeys with the famous...
