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

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In 1941 ASCAP demanded a royalty increase of nearly seventy percent. Broadcasters resisted the increase and ASCAP called a strike. This lasted from January to October. During this time, no ASCAP songs could be played on the radio. obvious beneficiary, as the DJ's influence allowed the various splinters of race music to coalesce into rhythm and blues. By the end of the war, radio DJs had started to enjoy much greater respect. In the fifties and the sixties, radio DJing would become a fully accepted profession, an integral part of the music industry. The DJ was a powerful hitmaker and his patronage could start an artist’s career overnight. In 1949 Cleveland DJ Bill Randle, who went on to discover Johnnie Ray and Tony Bennett, put it in a nutshell: “I don’t care what it is. I want to make hits.”

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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 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, 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 song appears in the first episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. we supplied nearly 300 stations with transcriptions that frequently—but not always—featured the most popular bands and vocalists."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. 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. 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.”

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

shellac shortage (a ship carrying huge amounts of the stuff had just been sunk), Capitol's chairman Glenn E. Wallichs looked to the DJ to keep the company's music in people's minds. A list was drawn up of At the end of 1906, on Christmas Eve, American engineer Reginald A. Fessenden, who had worked with Edison, and who intended to transmit radio waves between the U.S. and Scotland, had sent uncoded radio signals—music and younger whites. Dewey Phillips of Memphis' WHBG was so successful at integrating his audience that the wily Sam Phillips of Sun Records chose him to broadcast Elvis Presley's first single. 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 radioannouncer, Jarvis was an eager student of the music business, and by reading Billboard and Variety—something none of his colleagues did—he was able to tell his audience a little about each record, Not really, we’re really proud of the original book. It feels like you’ve had a child and they’ve gone out in the world, graduated from university, got a really good job and done really well. We had no idea it would get the reception that it did. I remember saying before it came out that it would be amazing if we sold 50,000 copies in our lifetime, that would be amazing. Now it’s already sold a lot more than that and has been translated into about nine different languages. Not just night fever… He’s a pretty great name to have on board as well in terms of crossover appeal, with LCD’s prominence in less rave-centric scenes.

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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, Founded by Ellen Allien in 1999, Bpitch control is the sound of techno. With releases from Apparat, Paul Kalkbrenner, Telefon Tel Aviv, Métaraph and more, Allien’s label encompasses all manner of techno, & so many of these releases have changed the trajectory of electronic music. 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. Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Indeep". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.110 . Retrieved June 27, 2022.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). royalties to their artists to compensate for income lost through radio's use of records. They also threw in a few demands aimed at curbing the use of jukeboxes in nightclubs. After more than a year during which virtually and a live-sounding orchestra playing the latest hits, all captured using state-of-the-art electronic recording techniques. The transcription disc was aimed at the smaller stations and sold as a monthly subscription service. While my interest started to wane a bit anyway half-way the book by the time disco rolls around (I listen to an awful lot of music and don't mind dabbling in spinning records publically myself from time to time, but I've never really warmed to techno, house and its later spin-offs), the descriptions of this club and that DJ and this great breakthough in mixing and that legendary night of 'perfect storms' do tend to get repetitive at some point. Perhaps you had to be there, as Brewster seems to demonstrate by his rising enthusiasm by the end. 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