Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio ...
The term combined "disc", referring to phonograph disc records, and "jockey", denoting the DJs practice of riding the audio gain, or alternately, riding a song to success and popularity. [ 6 ] Culminating in the "golden age" of Top 40 radio, from approximately 1955 to 1975, radio DJs established a style of fast talking patter to bookend three ...
In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term "disc jockey" (the combination of disc, referring to disc-shaped phonograph records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine) to describe radio announcer Martin Block, the first radio announcer to gain widespread fame for playing popular recorded music over the air. [2]
Radio personalities who introduce and play individual selections of recorded music are known as disc jockeys or "DJs" for short. Broadcast radio personalities may include talk radio hosts, AM/FM radio show hosts, and satellite radio program hosts, and non-host contributors to radio programs, such as reporter
Mary Turner, pioneering KMET disc jockey who ruled L.A. rock radio, dies at 76. Stephen Battaglio. May 12, 2023 at 9:50 PM. Mary Turner in 2005. (R. Diamond / WireImage via Getty images)
First billed as Boss City in 1965, the Saturday 6 p.m. program became The Real Don Steele Show from 1970 to 1975. He appeared in several films, many times playing a disc jockey, in films such as Death Race 2000 , Grand Theft Auto , Rock 'n' Roll High School , Eating Raoul , and Gremlins .
Jim Ladd spun vinyl and interviewed rock stars on L.A. stations KLOS and KMET during the heyday of free-form FM radio, and was immortalized on Tom Petty's 'The Last DJ.'
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor and radio presenter, who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40. He was the first actor to voice Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise (1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009) and Dick Grayson/Robin in Super Friends ...