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Last month Scott Shannon, a deejay at New York City's top-rated WHTZ-FM, who obtained a copy of Dear Mr. Jesus from WRBQ-FM in Tampa, played it in honor of Lisa Steinberg, the six-year-old girl allegedly beaten to death while in the care of a Manhattan couple. Within 24 hours, Dear Mr. Jesus became WHTZ's most requested song; it still prompts 3,000 calls a day. Since then, stations across the country have discovered the same phenomenon. Last week New York- based Island Records was one of several companies seeking the rights to Dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dear Mr. Jesus | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...mills as people moved into the cities from the sharecropper cabins glimpsed even at that moment, empty and ruined, through the leafy barriers of I-95 -- a landscape explained. In Maryland, the density and grace of America's true culture slides into the car as a huskily intense jazz deejay celebrates Charlie Parker's birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Separate Reality on I-95 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Before their five weeks are up, those who enroll will study hundreds of words and phrases that are as easy as pie to the American on the street but off the wall to someone trained only in textbook English. Grass roots, for instance. And deejay. Far-out stuff like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking Turkey: Foreigners learn the lingo | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like a firecracker and blew up in a "sales explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a Gag From Our Sponsor | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...battleground will be the Freshman Union. The three opposing powers are MIT's "The Other Hand," Brandeis' "The Anti-Zeroes," and Boston University's "The Eskimos." And between each performance, the Wellesley College deejay Alice Lei will play dance mixes, said Jeffrey A. Nachmanoff '89, one of the organizers of the Student Production Agencies-sponsored event...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Intercollege Band Battle Fought Tonight At Union | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

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