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

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A Sure-Fire Audience Builder For Your Station. A Powerful Selling-Vehicle For Your Sponsors” was how the discs, in this case Tiffany Transcriptions, were promoted. And musicians recall the mammoth recording sessions which produced them. In Duncan McLean’s book Lone Star Swing, Johnny “Drummer Boy” Cuviello, who played with western swing megastars Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, remembers recording nonstop all day long, about a hundred songs in a day. his profession was very old, a radio DJ would be targeted, investigated and eventually hounded to death by the U.S. government, largely because he was perceived as enjoying too much power.

Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey

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." sleepy nature of the medium in the years before 1935. Explaining that the evening was taken up by broadcasts from ballrooms and symphony halls, the magazine described the rest of the day's schedule. The “invention” of Top 40 is much disputed (sales charts had existed since the days of sheet music’s supremacy). The most popular account relates that in 1950 Todd Storz, station owner of Omaha’s KOWH, was one day watching customers choose records from a diner jukebox. He noted that people wanted to hear just a few very popular songs over and over again. With the capacity of the jukebox in mind, Storz named the concept “Top 40” and applied it to radio programming with great success. WABC in New York adopted it in late 1960 and by 1962 was the city’s number one station. By the fifties, broadcasters had finally settled most of their disputes with the wider music industry and there were no more legal obstacles to filling airtime with records. In 1948 the transistor was invented,The lyrics tell the story of a woman who is bored alone at home. She wants to speak to her man, but cannot reach him and considers leaving him, until a DJ plays a hot song and thereby saves her from a broken heart. In the second verse, she leaves home, but does not reach her destination. There’s more to it than groups like Boney M. There’s all this culture behind disco and it’s actually an incredibly inspiring style of music if you listen to it properly. So I’d say that one of the book’s aims was to put forward a case for disco being incredibly influential. As early as 1922, ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the organization which collected royalties for the music publishing industry (and still does), threatened to prosecute radio

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Thomas Edison, who invented the cylinder phonograph in 1877, hardly conceived of putting music on it, and in any case his equipment could only just be heard by a single person, let alone a group. Emil Berliner, PDF / EPUB File Name: Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_-_Bill_Brewster.pdf, Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_-_Bill_Brewster.epub to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will" and played a few solos on his violin, together with some singing, which he admits "was not very good." In between all this, he became the world'sBill Brewster and Frank Broughton: Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (First Edition) review". Spannered.org. Overload Media. 2000-07-01 . Retrieved 2007-10-30. The song " If Ya Gettin' Down" by Five features a sample of the song, alongside a take on the in the mix lyrics during the bridge. Radio is a unique broadcast medium. It has the power to reach millions, and yet it has the intimacy to make them each feel they are the most important person listening. Unlike television, which invades the home with images of the outside world, radio is somehow part of the place in which it is heard, and the voices and music it carries manage to create a strong feeling of community. Sociologist Marshall McLuhan called it the “tribal drum.” Arnold Passman, in his 1971 book The Deejays, wrote, “The electron tube changed everything, for it returned mankind to spoken communication.” In 1942 Billboard introduced a music chart called the "Harlem Hit Parade." Three years later it became "race records." This wasn't meant to refer to any specific musical style, it just meant

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And the radio DJ was undoubtedly powerful, almost from his inception. His promotional muscle was the major factor in the creation of the modern music industry (and the broadcast advertising industry, too). Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (in Spanish) (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. eagerly. As a result, since the sixties such "scientific" notions as Top 40 have been taken to extremes. Playlists were trimmed to just twenty-five hit tunes, the most popular of which were "rapidly rotated" in this by the Federal Radio Commission, who as Arnold Passman wrote, "attempted everything this side of public hangings to curb the practice."

questioned. It was seen as a great threat to employment by musicians and viewed with suspicion by those responsible for society's cohesion. It was even perceived as an economic threat by the record companies, who thought plain old racism stop him, however. He bought time on the station through a white advertising agency, hovered outside the studio until just before his allotted slot, and then used his paid-for airtime to interview two prominent This book is clearly well researched, but the prose bogs it down. It takes a fascinating subject and makes it sometimes painful to read about--painful as in laden with pedantry and cliche. It feels like it was written by one of those fanboys who loves "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and knows why Angel was wearing that bracelet in that one episode and will tell you about it for 15 minutes got turned on to hiphop.

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life : The History of the Disc Jockey

inferior style of broadcasting—mainly because live music gave far superior sound reproduction. In 1927 the industry's new governing body, the Federal Radio Commission, reemphasized that phonograph performances What was the very first record played by a DJ? It was a woman (probably Clara Butt) singing Handel's Largo. Musicians called the broadcast of recorded music "DeForest's prime evil." Stations paid no performance fee to the artists whose records they used, and every time one was played on the radio Most stations could not afford the orchestras and productions that went into the network radio shows,” explained Ben Selvin, who worked for the leading transcription disc company. “And so we supplied nearly 300 stations with transcriptions that frequently—but not always—featured the most popular bands and vocalists.” KOWH, was one day watching customers choose records from a diner jukebox. He noted that people wanted to hear just a few very popular songs over and over again. With the capacity of the jukebox in mind, Storz named theDonovan, Paul (1991). The Radio Companion. London: HarperCollins. p.198. ISBN 978-0-246-13648-0 . Retrieved 3 July 2011. Absolutely. He’s someone that loads of people that are not really into dance music would immediately recognise. Which is obviously great for us as when you’ve written a book, you want it to cross as many genre boundaries as possible.