Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lest the picture of egocentric, overblown disk jockeys sketched in TIME [June 8] be thought typical by sponsors, neighbors and the Internal Revenue bureau, it should be categorically stated that most of us are (relatively) sober, mildly hard-working types, quite outside the pale of the play-for-payola crown...
...dwelling on the "conventioneering" of some disk jockeys, your story dealt a disservice to many who were motivated by a genuine interest in further developing the stature of the disk jockey in his role as the most powerful single influence in music, in broadcasting and in his community...
...Orleans Street Singer (Snooks Eaglin; Folkways). A blind Negro singer in selections from his standard repertory -Let Me Go Home Whiskey, St. James Infirmary. The merit of this unusual disk lies less in the polished, pop-flavored numbers (Rock Island Line) than in Eaglin's moving, soft-burred address to the blues, notably Trouble in Mind...
Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass (Metrojazz). On one side of this disk, Tenor Saxophonist Rollins silhouettes his dry, spare sax sound against a textured curtain of trumpets and trombones, with striking effect in such numbers as Who Cares? and Far Out East. On the other side, backed only by bass and drums, he noodles his way through a series of willowy inventions (on Manhattan, Body and Soul) as continuously surprising as a meandering country road...
This Is Your Life (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). This time there is no point in sticking to secrecy-better to spread the word and warm up a teen-age audience that the show has never known before. The object of M.C. Ralph Edwards' exasperating attentions: Disk Jockey Dick Clark...