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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 ...
C. Jess Cain; Raul Campos; Laura Cantrell; Stephen Capen; George Carlin; Bronwyn Carlton; Jerry Carroll; Roger Carroll; Chris Carter (American musician) Ed Castleberry
A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host (North American English), radio presenter (British English) or radio jockey. 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 ...
B. Richard Bacon (broadcaster) Danny Baker; Richard Baker (broadcaster) Zoe Ball; James Barr (presenter) Paul Baskerville; Simon Bates; Frank Benbini; Tony Blackburn
Dick Curtis (left) and Lan Roberts (right) staffing a Seattle radio station remote in 1988. Roberts was visiting the area from Taiwan. Lan Roberts (born Lanny Lipford [1] in Bonham, Texas, on December 18, 1936; died December 30, 2005), was an American radio disc jockey (DJ).
Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. (May 13, 1920 – January 30, 2000) was an American radio disc jockey and actor. He is regarded as the father of the Black appeal radio format.. To his peers in radio his nickname was "Jockey Jack," and he achieved renown for his annual Black radio convention, where he was known as Jack the Rapper, [2] for an all-inclusive Black/urban music showcase and convention. [3]
In 1948, Williams became the first African-American disc jockey in Memphis when he went on air for WDIA-AM. He is in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame; [3] and in 2017 was inducted into the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. There is a historical marker outside the former site of the Palace theatre on ...
Herman Grizzard (1900-1971) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame from the 1940s through the 1970s for playing rhythm and blues and other music on Nashville radio station WLAC. Grizzard was one host of a nightly series of four programs on the station.