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"Sweet" Dick Whittington (born 1934) is a long-time Los Angeles disc jockey who has also appeared as an actor in movies and on television. Career [ edit ] Prior to his arrival in Southern California, Whittington was a popular radio personality in the San Francisco Bay area at Oakland 's KROW (960 AM), where he hosted the Night Watchman ...
Canton, Ohio. Died. August 30, 2006 (aged 78) Long Beach, California. Occupation. disc jockey. Years active. 1950s–2006. Richard James "Dick" Hugg (also known as "Huggy Boy") (June 9, 1928 – August 30, 2006) was a radio disc jockey in Los Angeles, California.
Rodney Bingenheimer (born December 15, 1946) is an American radio disc jockey who is best known as the host of Rodney on the ROQ, a radio program that ran on the Los Angeles rock station KROQ-FM from 1976 to 2017. [2] In the early 1970s, he also managed a Los Angeles nightclub called Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco.
Johnny Hayes (radio DJ) Johnny Hayes (born March 10, 1939 or 1940) is an American radio personality and former DJ who worked at Los Angeles radio station KRLA. He began working as a disc jockey in 1961 with stints at major radio stations around the country including Atlanta, San Francisco, and San Diego.
Disc jockeys at WMCA (AM) New York in 1964. The history of radio disc jockeys covers the time when gramophone records were first transmitted by experimental radio broadcasters to present day radio personalities who host shows featuring a variety of recorded music. For a number of decades beginning in the 1930s, the term "disc jockey ", "DJ ...
Mary Turner, considered the first lady of rock radio in Los Angeles on station KMET-FM, has died. She was 76. Turner died Tuesday at her Beverly Hills home after a long battle with cancer ...
Earl McDaniel (August 24, 1928 – March 26, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, promoter, talent manager, and radio executive. McDaniel's career as a disc jockey in Los Angeles in the early days of rock 'n' roll led to his involvement with many aspects of the entertainment industry. He hosted the first dance/hop show on Los Angeles ...
Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes (Ιωάννης Αλέξανδρος Βελιώτης); December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was a first generation Greek-American singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer, and talent scout. [1] He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll.