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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 ...
Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names ...
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]
1960s–1988 (disc jockey) Gerald Clements [ 1 ] (17 August 1938 – 11 October 2018) [ 2 ] , known as Duncan Johnson , was a radio DJ, working in his native Canada and in the United Kingdom. [ 3 ]
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
Joseph Noyes " J. J. " Jeffrey Jr. (May 29, 1940 – October 10, 2024) was an American radio executive and disc jockey (DJ) who specialized in rock-and-roll stations during the 1960s and 1970s. Life and career
Johnny Hayes (born March 10, 1939, or 1940) is an American radio personality and former DJ who worked at Los Angeles radio station KRLA.He began working as a disc jockey in 1961 with stints at major radio stations around the country including Atlanta, San Francisco, and San Diego.
Rick Shaw (born James Harold Hummel; October 24, 1938 – September 22, 2017) was an American disc jockey, radio and television personality, who remains best known for hosting his radio shows on WQAM (1963–1975), WAXY (1975–1990), and Majic (1990–2007).