Knight's career began as a Detroit DJ in 1963 when he replaced Dave Shafer as " Jack the Bellboy " on WJBK, coming to Detroit from Flint, Michigan's legendary Top 40 rocker WTAC.

CKUE-FM's Windsor, Ontario repeater is the only rocker in Detroit not part of a twinstick operation along with Clear Channel Communications ' own WDTW-FM, which returned to classic rock after a five-year hiatus in 2011.

Among other changes a new rocker was installed at 98. 7, WLLZ " Detroits Wheels " and it proved so popular that it took out two other Detroit rock stations.

He brought Bob Seger back from semi-retirement during his pre-Super Bowl concerts on February 2 and 3, 2006 in Detroit.

* Bob Smith, pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Detroit Tigers

* Bob Maier ( 1915-1993 ), third baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers team that won the 1945 World Series in his only season in the Major Leagues.

** The Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks, both for Hall of Fame player Bob Lanier.

Bob Seger arrived on the Detroit music scene in 1961 fronting a three-piece band called the Decibels.

As Bob Seger and the Last Heard, Seger released his version of the song with Hideout Records in January 1966, and it became his first big Detroit hit.

After his trade ( which also included Ralph Terry, Woody Held, and Bob Martyn ) to the Kansas City Athletics ( see Altercations below ), Martin's career declined, with several short stints with six different teams over the final 4½ seasons of his playing career: the Athletics, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Indians, the Cincinnati Reds, the Milwaukee Braves and the Minnesota Twins.

The original cast featured Bob Hoskins as Nathan Detroit, Julia McKenzie as Adelaide, Ian Charleson as Sky and Julie Covington as Sarah.

Detroit was a center of the 1960s garage rock scene, with such legendary bands as The Amboy Dukes ( featuring guitarist Ted Nugent ), The Bob Seger System,?

In 1926, Detroit ’ s outfielders took three of the top four spots in the batting race, with center fielder Heinie Manush winning the batting crown at. 378, and Heilmann and left fielder Bob Fothergill both hitting. 367.

* November 17-Joe Frazier retains his world Heavyweight crown with a two round knockout of reigning world Light Heavyweight champion Bob Foster in Detroit.

Margaret Whiting was a regular guest on variety shows and talk shows throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, when the musical series focused on Whiting's hometown of Detroit ; The Big Record, The Bob Hope Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Tony Martin Show, The David Frost Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The George Jessel Show, The Guy Mitchell Show, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Nat King Cole Show, Over Easy, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, The Patti Page Show, The Red Skelton Hour, The Steve Allen Show, The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Texaco Star Theater, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Virginia Graham Show, and The Voice of Firestone.

In turn, Detroit sent guards Chucky Atkins, Lindsey Hunter, and a first-round draft pick to Boston and guard Bob Sura, center Zeljko Rebraca, and a first-round draft pick to Atlanta.

Bob Babbitt, Joe Hunter, Uriel Jones, and Eddie Willis performed alongside other notable Detroit session musicians like Ray Monette, Robert Jones, Spider Webb, and Treaty Womack.

In 2008 Uriel Jones, Ray Monette, Dennis Coffey, Robert Jones and Bob Babbitt accompanied other notable Detroit session musicians including Larry Fratangelo, Dennis Sheridan, Edward Gooch, John Trudell, George Benson, Mark Burger, David Jennings, Spider Webb, and Rob Pipho where they appeared on the Carl Dixon Bandtraxs project which featured a Dennis Coffey / Carl Dixon production of 4 brand new songs.

Professional baseball declined in London after the war, with mostly amateur teams playing at Labatt Park in the following decades, until 1989 when an AA Eastern League affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, the Glens Falls Tigers relocated from Glens Falls, New York to London by investors / Board of Directors, President Dan Ross, Vice President Mike Tucker, Vice President and General Manager Bob Gilson, Vice President and Assistant General Manager General Manager Bill Wilkinson and Vice President Brian Costello.

The primary reason for Vitale's downfall with the Pistons was the maneuver that brought Bob McAdoo to Detroit.

As of May 2011, Shaun had released two albums, returned to take her place with the Silver Bullet Band in the 2011 tour of Bob Seger, in addition to many scheduled live appearances with The Shaun Murphy Band, one of which to release a third album, and DVD, live in Detroit.

Bloemaert is represented in the following collections: Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan ; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg ; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana ; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles ; Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City ; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota ; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen ; Musée du Louvre, Paris ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy ; Museum of Grenoble ; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ; Royal Academy of Arts, London ; University of Rochester, New York ; Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina ; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands ; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Courtauld Institute of Art, London ; Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts ; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany ; amongst others.

At the Neon's release, then president of Chrysler Corporation Bob Lutz said, " There's an old saying in Detroit: ' Good, fast, or cheap.

He was a glowingly reviewed Sky Masterson in Richard Eyre's enormously successful revival of the musical Guys and Dolls ( 1982 ), opposite Julie Covington as Sister Sarah, with Bob Hoskins as Nathan Detroit and Julia McKenzie as Adelaide.

* Former Detroit Lions announcer Bob Reynolds

Detroit began playing with the Bob Seger band in the early 1970s, then toured and recorded with Leon Russell and the Gap Band in early 1974, before joining Eric Clapton ’ s band in September 1974.

Robert Jerry " Bob " Lanier, Jr. ( born September 10, 1948 ) is a retired American professional basketball player who played for the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA.

In June 1976, for example, Seger played the Pontiac Silverdome in metropolitan Detroit at a historic concert that also included Point Blank, Elvin Bishop, and Todd Rundgren.

It organized its listeners to gather on a Saturday and clean up Detroit parks, WDRQ gave free concerts at Belle Isle, including Detroiter Bob Seger.

Murphy then relocated back to Detroit, to work with Bob Seger, in 1973, with The Borneo Band.

The Frost were one of the top Detroit area bands of the era, however very poor album cover artwork, distribution and promotion by Vanguard hampered the band and caused them to miss the national success that other bands like Ann Arbor's Bob Seger, Ted Nugent from Detroit and Grand Funk Railroad from Flint were to achieve.

Notable Detroit area bands performing included Bob Seger, the MC5, The Stooges, Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder, Brownsville Station, Savage Grace, Third Power and SRC.

Kid Rock recorded " In Detroit " has part of the NFL's promotion with pepsi called " Pepsi Anthems " in August 2012.

It was recorded as the theme song for the Detroit Lions.

In 1974, as well, the Detroit band Death — made up of three African-American brothers — recorded " scorching blasts of feral ur-punk ," but couldn't arrange a release deal.

After crushing the Detroit Lions on opening day 45 – 0, they recorded 11 consecutive wins before suffering their first loss to the Dallas Cowboys 24 – 21.

In the second one, on July 15 against the Detroit Tigers, he struck out 17 batters – most in a recorded no-hitter.

The Avalanche recorded their 500th home sellout in their 515th game in Denver on January 20, 2007, against the Detroit Red Wings.

The streak included wins against NBA powerhouses Detroit, San Antonio, Dallas and Miami, as well as a game against the Philadelphia 76ers in which Howard recorded 28 points and a career-high 26 rebounds.

It bears similarities to a series of installations performed by New Zealand and Detroit based artists Alastair Galbraith and Matt De Genaro, recorded on their 1998 record Wire Music and 2006 follow-up Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol.

The song was actually recorded by George Clinton and a group called The Holidays, as the other Parliaments didn't make it to Detroit that week.

100 % Live is Prong's first live album, It was recorded at Double Door in Chicago and the Royal Oak Theater in Detroit.

Vaughan's final complete album was Brazilian Romance, produced and composed by Sérgio Mendes and recorded primarily in the early part of 1987 in New York and Detroit.

They figured it was in the air, that if they came to Detroit and recorded on the freeway, they'd get the Motown sound.

A 1989 performance of The Ultimate Event in Detroit was recorded and shown on Showtime the following year as a tribute to the recently deceased Davis.

It was recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan, during the heyday of that arena's time as an important rock concert venue.

The album was recorded around the same time as Parliament's Mothership Connection and Funkadelic's Let's Take It To The Stage at United Sound Systems in Detroit, Michigan.

Starr lived in Detroit, Michigan, in the 1960s and recorded at first for the small record label Ric-Tic, and later for Motown Records after the latter absorbed Ric-Tic in 1968.

He also went to Detroit for an audition with Motown Records and recorded a few tracks in the mid 1960s.

In the 1990s, Chrome moved to Nashville, Tennessee and recorded a live album Alive in Detroit ( DUI ) at Lili's in Hamtramck, Michigan.

He co-wrote the song " It's the Blues ( No. 14 Blues )" which was recorded in Detroit, Michigan and released on Victor.

He recorded for Force Inc. under several pseudonyms, including the Detroit techno-inspired Jaguar.

Donie Bush holds the American League record, with 689, with all but the seven he recorded with the Washington Senators being made with the Detroit Tigers.

Having to win only once to clinch the pennant, Killebrew hit a home run in the first game and recorded two hits in each game, but Boston won twice and Minnesota finished in a second place tie with the Detroit Tigers.

In 1965, the Vancouvers signed with Gordy Records ( a subsidiary of Detroit, Michigan's Motown Records ) and recorded its debut album, an eponymous release, and their debut single, the Tommy Chong co-composition " Does Your Mama Know About Me ," peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100.

He posted 3 shutouts against Anaheim and had a playoff total of 7 overall, breaking Dominik Hašek's NHL record of 6 ( Hašek had recorded his 6 shutouts for Detroit the previous year ).

When Riley joined the band in 1985 he brought with him a funk background, having worked at a Detroit studio where George Clinton and Sly Stone had recorded.