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Roy D. Mercer was a fictional character created by American disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone on radio station KMOD-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Douglas, who performed Mercer's voice, used the character as a vehicle for comedy sketches in which he performed prank calls.
In 1981, Black and Co. recorded a parody version of the Deane Waretini hit "The Bridge", which was released on the RTC label. It was credited to Kevin Blackatini and the Frigids. [3] [4] A collection of his Radio Hauraki prank calls entitled Kevin Black's Gold Solids was released on vinyl in 1982.
The show features the trademark prank calls as well as news, information, and the latest hip hop music. In 2008, he signed a deal with Syndication One (a syndicated radio division of Radio One) to take the show nationwide and The Rickey Smiley Morning Show is now heard on a number of mainstream urban and urban adult contemporary radio stations. [4]
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WERD was the first Black-owned radio station, founded in 1949 by J.B. Blayton. The sound of a vinyl record on a Victrola is a symphony of crackles and pops, a delicate dance between needle and ...
War of the Roses was created in early 1994 by Los Angeles radio personality Rick Dees shortly after receiving word that crosstown KGGI Riverside/San Bernardino morning show host Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton was having tremendous rating success with a similar feature called "Bait Your Mate". Since 2012, Hamilton, who now hosts War of the Roses, has ...
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
His exploits now primarily focus on the candid camera style of pranking, although telemarketing related and other prank calls are still included on occasion. [18] In 2008, Mabe was the Executive Producer, writer, and talent for the CMT ( Country Music Television ) comedy series, Mabe In America .