Swingin' Time was a music variety show, similar to American Bandstand

American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer...

, hosted by WKNR-AM (Keener 13) personality Robin Seymour

Robin Seymour (DJ)

Robin Seymour was a former WKMH/CKLW Radio Personality and Television Music Show and Host of 'Teen Town" and "Swingin' Time" in Detroit...

 (and also, for a time, CKLW-AM

CKLW

CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting on 800 kHz and located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and serving Windsor and Detroit. Additionally, its signal can be heard as far west as Belding, Michigan; as far east as Batavia, New York; as far south as Edgewood, Kentucky; and as far...

's Tom Shannon). It ran in syndication in the late-1960s. The show featured recording acts, both nationally and locally popular, lip-synching to their latest releases while teenagers showcased the latest dances on the show's dance floor. In its brief run, the show featured well-known acts like Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....

, Bob Seger

Bob Seger

Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s...

 and The Four Tops. Rights to surviving footage of the show are now owned by Research Video

Research Video

Research Video is a music footage library operating from North Hollywood. It is owned by ex-Shilos member Paul Surratt and owns the rights to an extensive collection of television and film footage dating back to the 1950s...

.

This show was broadcast on CKLW

CBET

CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan area across the international border in the United States, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of...

-TV on Channel 9 (now CBET) out of Windsor, Ontario

Windsor, Ontario

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Canada from 1965 to 1968.