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The term "disc jockey" first appeared in print in a 1941 issue of Variety magazine, [4] [5] although the origin of the term is generally attributed to American radio news commentator Walter Winchell who used it to describe radio presenter Martin Block's practice of introducing phonograph recordings to create a Make Believe Ballroom experience ...
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]
After participating in a few "Radio Greats" weekends at WCBS-FM, Jack Spector returned to 101.1 as a part-time swing announcer in 1993 while also working five days a week at WHLI. On March 8, 1994, shortly after starting a recording of Louis Prima 's I'm In The Mood For Love , he suffered an apparent heart attack and collapsed.
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.'
Turner, known as "The Burner," was one of the most listened-to DJs in the country in the '70s and '80s, through L.A.'s KMET-FM and syndicated programming.
History of radio disc jockeys; Johnny Holliday; Sie Holliday; Bob Horn (broadcaster) Debbie Horton; Rita Houston; Curly Howard (DJ) Dave Hull; I. Don Imus; Dan Ingram ...
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 ...
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