Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (Deep Cuts)

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In 1911 in New York City, Dr. Elman B. Meyers started broadcasting a daily 18-hour program which was almost all records. His wife, Sybil True, the world’s first recorded female DJ, went on air in 1914 with a show she called “The Little Ham Program.” She borrowed records from a local music store and concentrated on young people’s music in an attempt to encourage youthful interest in the possibilities of radio. Even at this early stage, it was clear that it was a powerful force. Mrs. True noted with satisfaction that her program had a noticeable effect on the store’s record sales. “These young operators would run down the next day to be sure to buy the one they heard on the radio the night before.” we supplied nearly 300 stations with transcriptions that frequently—but not always—featured the most popular bands and vocalists." was going to be a very different place, and records on the radio would play a huge part in making it so. shellac like the usual 78s but on "luxurious lightweight vinylite," i.e. vinyl. It spun at the novel speed of 33 rpm, had a playing time of thirty minutes, and contained a whole program, complete with announcements

Despite the moralistic outrage, payola was nothing new. It had existed even before records. In Victorian England, songwriter Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan) succeeded in having a song, "Thou

if they could hear it played for free. This fear was borne out by some Depression-era figures which showed that urban areas with popular radio stations were suffering a downturn in record sales (they were actually suffering while his cozy, friendly style won him plenty of listeners. From the early thirties his Make Believe Ballroom was broadcast six hours a day and became very successful. The entry of broadcasting into the history of music has changed all forms of musical creation and reception. Radio music is a kind of magic and the radio set becomes a magic box." If you want to hip to the tip and bop to the top, you get some threads that just won't stop," rhymed Lavada Durst on Austin's KVET. "Not the flower, not the root, but the seed, sometimes urn:oclc:845991272 Scandate 20110526051426 Scanner scribe9.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Source

Selvin recalled that some of the top artists made transcriptions under a phony name. The money was good, but they had to get around their existing record company contracts. Thus Tommy Dorsey became Harvey Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved April 14, 2021.The Cleveland Arena held 10,000 people and Freed had initially worried that he might not recoup his money. However, by 11:30 P.M., as the Cleveland program on the air should breathe a prayer, or (if it is in more accord with temperament) raise a glass to salute the man who was the founder of his trade." radio proliferated wildly. In March of that year there were sixty registered stations; by November there were 564.

impact. In Jamaica, the sound system DJs emulated this jive rhyming almost immediately and became superstar deejays as "toasters" or "MCs." In New York twenty years later, there emerged the rapper, theon his ignominious departure from the public eye rather than his considerable influence on popular music.