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Guideboat
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 12:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Back in the '70s and '80s WJR Tiger broadcasts started with an intro that went "Detroit Tiger baseball is on the air.." and then went into some march music. Does anyone know what that piece was? I have searched online but keep coming across "Go get 'em Tigers" or "Bless you boys." Does anyone remember this? I seem to recall it was something like "The Tigers March" or something like that, but I may be way off base.
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Kenp
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 1:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The song is on this site from another thread. Since your new, go to search and try to find it.
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Guideboat
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 2:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yikes, the search engine is very cumbersome. I did find it eventually, but the link was severed to the music. This poster originally got the music from WJR and their audio history section. It is in sports memories about halfway through a ten minute file.

http://www.wjr.net/article.asp ?id=402213&spid=16424
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Harpernottingham
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 2:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Detroit Tiger baseball is ON THE AIR!"

The voice of God: Paul Carey.
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Guideboat
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 3:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This may be heresy, but I always thought Paul Carey was as much the voice of the Tigers as Ernie Harwell. I was sorry when WJR let him go. Voice of God, indeed.
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Chitaku
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 3:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

does anyone know where to find the tv music from the 80's. that's good stuff
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Burnsie
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 3:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Guideboat-- WJR didn't fire Paul Carey. Carey retired after Harwell's final season.
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Harpernottingham
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Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 8:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Carey was planning on retiring after the 1991 season anyhow. The geniuses who conspired to fire Harwell (Jim Long and Jeff Odenwald) should've been fired.

Schembechler took a lotta heat for it, but he was really the fall guy. (And no, I'm no fan of Bo.)

Mike Ilitch, who I'm also no fan of, considering his decision to abandon a classic American ballpark for a goddam arcade in his Foxtown fiefdom ... hey, I'll give the guy this: He had the good sense to bring Ernie back after he bought the team from Monaghan.

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