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John Hood Garabedian (born December 20, 1941) is an American radio personality and disc jockey. He is best known as the creator and former long-time host of Open House Party . He has been involved in Massachusetts radio and television stations for more than 50 years.
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]
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.'
The output from a DJ mixer is typically plugged into a sound reinforcement system or a PA system at a dance, rave, nightclub or similar venue or event. The sound reinforcement system consists of power amplifiers which amplify the signal to the level that can drive speaker enclosures, which since the 1980s typically include both full-range speakers and subwoofers for the deep bass sounds.
Radio DJ Dusty Street, who gained fame in Southern California through her long stint as an on-air talent for KROQ, died Saturday at age 77.
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]
Disc jockey Musical artist Bill Allen (a.k.a. " Hossman " or " Hoss "; born William Trousdale Allen III , December 3, 1922 – February 25, 1997) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame from the 1950s through the 1990s for playing rhythm and blues and black gospel music on Nashville radio station WLAC .
Moore recalled, "During the instrumental parts, he would back off from the mic and be playing and shaking, and the crowd would just go wild." [55] Soon after, Moore and Black left their old band to play with Presley regularly, and disc jockey/promoter Bob Neal became the trio's manager. From August through October, they played frequently at the ...