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Nat D. Williams was the first African American disc jockey on WDIA in Memphis with his popular Tan Town Jamboree show. African American radio DJs found it necessary to organize in order to gain opportunities in the radio industry, and in the 1950s Jack Gibson of WERD formed the National Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Disc Jockey Association. The group ...
Roy D. Mercer was a fictional character created by American disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone on radio station KMOD-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Douglas, who performed Mercer's voice, used the character as a vehicle for comedy sketches in which he performed prank calls.
The last Cavalcade of Jazz concert was a tribute to the city's most prominent r&b disc jockeys - Charles Trammel, Hunter Hancock and Jim Randolph teamed up with Hugg. Lionel Hampton , Big Jay McNeely , Dinah Washington , Betty Carter , Billy Eckstine , Jimmy Witherspoon , Louis Jordan , Nat "King" Cole , Louis Armstrong , Count Basie , Sam ...
C. Jess Cain; Raul Campos; Laura Cantrell; Stephen Capen; George Carlin; Bronwyn Carlton; Jerry Carroll; Roger Carroll; Chris Carter (American musician) Ed Castleberry
Harry Babbitt; Jim Backus; Parley Baer; Bob Bailey; Jack Bailey; Eugenie Baird; Art Baker; Belle Baker; Kenny Baker; Lucille Ball; Edwin Balmer; Sam Balter; Tallulah ...
Alan Leslie Freeman MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006), nicknamed "Fluff", [Note 1] was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting Pick of the Pops from 1961 to 2000.
After participating in a few "Radio Greats" weekends at WCBS-FM, Jack Spector returned to 101.1 as a part-time swing announcer in 1993 while also working five days a week at WHLI. On March 8, 1994, shortly after starting a recording of Louis Prima 's I'm In The Mood For Love , he suffered an apparent heart attack and collapsed.
William Pierre Robert (born August 1, 1955) is a radio disc jockey, a highly popular on-air personality for 93.3 WMMR FM in Philadelphia, one of the nation's most prominent rock music stations. He has been with WMMR since 1981. Robert is WMMR's most identifiable personality, and is sometimes described as a hippie by locals. Robert is known for ...