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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 ...
Pages in category "American radio DJs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 379 total. ... History of radio disc jockeys; Johnny ...
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 ...
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 ...
Karen Mixon Cook (born 1955) became the first professional female nightclub disco disc jockey (“Disco DJ”) in the United States in 1974. While there had been female professional radio disc jockeys in the U.S. since at least 1966, [1] none had been focused on the disco club music scene.
Pages in category "English radio DJs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 230 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Jim Runyon (January 8, 1931 – April 13, 1973) was an American radio announcer, disc jockey, and sometime actor from the late 1950s to 1973. He was in plays at Cain Park in the early ‘70s Jim Runyon was loved by his radio audience and was known for playing the many love songs of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s in his evening time slot.
Coyote Calhoun (born May 22, 1953), also known as Coyote J, is a radio disc jockey. Calhoun is best known for his midnight show in the 1970s at WERC , a Top 40 station in Birmingham, Alabama . In the 1980s, Calhoun worked at Z-102 ( WZBQ ) and at I-95 (WAPI-FM).