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Pages in category "Radio personalities from Chicago" The following 147 pages are in this category, out of 147 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the period of Black Appeal radio and the rise of the personality jock, Black disc jockeys' phrasing on-air was distinctly ear-catching as the music they played. Each had a different style which played off the characteristics of the area of the country they were in. "Daddy-O" Daylie talked in hip rhymes to every record title as he played ...
[13] Kent, who was one of two disc jockeys retained from the WHFC staff, had the 7:30-11 p.m. program. Robert Pruter, in his book, Chicago Soul, noted that Kent had a distinct on-air style: "Unlike many other deejays of the day, black or white, he never shouted or screamed or used an artificial patter. He always talked in a conversational ...
Disc jockeys from Chicago, Illinois. Pages in category "DJs from Chicago" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Willie Perry Jr., a Chicago disc jockey known as “DJ Casper” and creator of the iconic “Cha Cha Slide” dance, has died. Perry was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, and his wife confirmed his ...
In 1962, at a show at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Spann became the first person to refer to Aretha Franklin as "the Queen of Soul". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During the 1960s, Spann managed the careers of leading blues and soul performers, including B.B. King, [ 6 ] and claimed to have a role in discovering the Jackson 5 and Chaka Khan .
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 ...
More than 50,000 fans showed up, many loosely interpreting "disco record" to mean any disc with music by black artists. [15] The records were collected, piled up on the field and blown up. As the second game of the doubleheader was about to begin, the raucous crowd stormed onto the field , refused to leave, and proceeded by setting fires ...