Freed was one of the first radio disc jockeys to program black music, or race music, as it was termed, for white audiences. In the 1950s, Freed, at WJW Radio in Cleveland, coined the phrase, “rock ‘n’ roll,” before moving to WABC in New York. He was fired by WABC for ...
Up to this point, most of the words heard over the work of disk jockeys such as Herc, Bambaataa, and Flash had been improvised phrases and expressions. In 1978 DJ Grand Wizard Theodore introduced the technique of scratching to produce rhythmic patterns. -- unkown author, 19??
Black disc jockeys are insecure because we have so few places to work (1970a)." Strikers asked for support from the AFL-CIO (Wittenberg, 1970) in addition to existing representation by the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers (NATRA) (Brown, 1970). At one point the ...
This brings us from the bottoms-up… to the tops: The Doms, Dommes, Masters,Mistresses, Goddesses, Lords, Ladies, roleplayingMommies, Daddies, Aunties, Nannies, Governesses, Schoolteachers, Jockeys, Personal Trainers, CIA interrogators and Drill Instructors. ...
Ronstadtappeared on anotherRolling Stonecover October 19th in a photo by Francesco Scavullo, and was also featured in the magazine’s interview. She also appeared in the 1978 filmFM, about competing radio disc jockeys and the rock music business. In the film, Ronstadt performed the songs “Poor...
Disc Jockeys for radio stations already had their names truncated down to just DJ and as DJ Kool Herc Did his fair share of Both Selecting and DJaying or as we know it DJing and MCing So, In America the Term For our Turntable warriors became forever embeded as DJ.The...
And...WWVA continued to make news later in the year when in a Billboard Magazine poll, Lee Moore placed 13th and Lee Sutton placed 10th among the nation's favorite Country & Western Disc Jockeys. A continuing favorite with 1170 fans through the years was Vivian Miller, the talented organist...
With an aging audience and meager ad revenues outside of the station’s New York Giants broadcasts, Westwood management became little more than a caretaker. It fired supervisors, disc jockeys and, finally, Mike Eisgrau, the last newsman, in what seemed an obvious effort to stem losses and ...
it. The Capitol Records company was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer, movie producer Buddy DeSylva and businessman Wallichs; it was Wallichs’ ingenious idea to give free promotional copies of records to local disc jockeys, an unprecedented move that made Capitol very popul...
Herzog and pitcher Joaquin Andujar were both ejected for arguing with him the next day, and Herzog's quotes above not only don't give him the benefit of the doubt but also imply actual bias. St. Louis disc jockeys revealed his phone number and home address, and he got hate mail and ...