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announcers+song that "96.3 Jams" used to play

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cARLOS Blake

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After their Power 96 days, but before they turned "Planet" WHYT was an excellent format that came in all the way down to Cedar Point. They'd sometimes play local hip hop bands from Detroit. There was a song by a female artist called "Hustlin Hoochie". Anyone know who sang it? It was out around the time of "The Rebirth of Slick" by Digable Planets. Also curious what happened to "Robo Traffic Cop", Beau the Jammer, Fogel in the afternoon(his own favorite d.j) & Michael J. Fox & Nuts in the Morning. Great Station voice back then too. Too bad they switched to try to compete with 89X.
 
The Party Princess Lisa Lisa, Man at large, the hip hop explosion on saturday nights! I miss THAT 96.3 (circa 1992-1994) and not the grunge crap or the elevator music they play now.

but the song "hustlin hoochie" was made by Smiley, which was one of the first rap artists from Detroit to make a name for themselves...she is now programming director for 102.7
 
mista_ecks said:
The Party Princess Lisa Lisa, Man at large, the hip hop explosion on saturday nights! I miss THAT 96.3 (circa 1992-1994) and not the grunge crap or the elevator music they play now.

but the song "hustlin hoochie" was made by Smiley, which was one of the first rap artists from Detroit to make a name for themselves...she is now programming director for 102.7
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Thanx! Gotta find a copy somewhere...& I agree...'92-94 was it's hay day...especially Ghetto Booty at night. I woulda killed for one of those 96.3 Jamz Jerseys back then.
 
nightfly61 said:
mista_ecks said:
The Party Princess Lisa Lisa, Man at large, the hip hop explosion on saturday nights! I miss THAT 96.3 (circa 1992-1994) and not the grunge crap or the elevator music they play now.

but the song "hustlin hoochie" was made by Smiley, which was one of the first rap artists from Detroit to make a name for themselves...she is now programming director for 102.7
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Thanx! Gotta find a copy somewhere...& I agree...'92-94 was it's hay day...especially Ghetto Booty at night. I woulda killed for one of those 96.3 Jamz Jerseys back then.
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yeah, I listened to them faithfully. especially friday nights.
 
Plus I liked how they dayparted music & threw in something completely off the wall like What I Like About You or Sweet Home Alabama around 7:00 on the weekend because they knew people were getting ready to go out & wanted to psych 'em up. Trying to remember some others like that they played.
 
Let's see what my memory can do with your jock questions....Robo Traffic Cop, not sure but I think he was actually one of the production guys at the station, Beau the jammer is the music director and afternoon jock at 95.5 these days, Michael J. Foxx is a jock back in Baltimore, Dave Fogel is still a jock back in Kansas City, MO. and the Nuts in the morning crew...Drex is in Chicago (ironically, working at a station programmed by Gillette, the PD during the 96.3 Jamz days), Steve Courtney is doing sports at WJR, Steve Ryan is working a real job during the week and does weekend DJ-ing at a station in Virginia or West Virginia, forget which and the lovely Vanessa is out of radio but still lives in the Detroit area raising her family.
 
mista_ecks said:
The Party Princess Lisa Lisa, Man at large, the hip hop explosion on saturday nights! I miss THAT 96.3 (circa 1992-1994) and not the grunge crap or the elevator music they play now.

but the song "hustlin hoochie" was made by Smiley, which was one of the first rap artists from Detroit to make a name for themselves...she is now programming director for 102.7
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Back in the late 80's and early 90's WHYT-96.3 went back and forth going from Rhythmic to Pop CHR, I remember in one ratings book when they were 96.3 Jams they were one of the Top 5 stations in Detroit almost closing in on WJLB which they never beat them.
 
I don't know what jogged my memory but I remember them playing that song "Sally Got a One Track Mind. :D
 
Anybody out there got any RAW old "96.3 Jamz liners or drops or jingles??? I still can't seem to get "Hustlin' Hoochie"either. :-[
 
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