Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drivers on the road all over the country cock an ear. For the next 7½ hours, over WWL, a clear-channel New Orleans radio station at 870 on the dial, they can hear not only country music but business information that could be vital. Two years ago, Disc Jockey Douglas-who has never driven a truck, but was fascinated by the big rigs that rolled through his boyhood home of Ludowici, Ga. -sold WWL on an all-night program beamed specifically at truckers. His show, Charlie Douglas and the Road Gang, has won the loyalty of both listeners...
Millions of radio addicts have been "feeling" Wolfman Jack's palpable patter for many years and have made him perhaps the nation's most listened-to disk jockey. He puts together an attractive package of rock, rhythm and blues, gag tunes and whatever else grabs his fancy. His specialty is zany mike antics and having telephone conversations with listeners. He grunts, growls, thumps, sings along with a record. By modulating his voice to low, suggestive intimacy, he squeezes juice from anemic wisecracks. As he plays the Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, he confides...
...pace, he flies back to L.A. to appear on NBC-TV'S weekly rock series Midnight Special. In the new movie American Graffiti he plays himself -rather well, in fact. WNBC imported him to compete with WABC's Bruce ("Everybody is my cousin") Morrow, the reigning rock jockey of New York nighttime radio. WNBC's ad series puts the challenge bluntly: "Cousin Brucie's days are numbered! Wolfman Jack is on the prowl." Replies Morrow: "Wolfman...
Humor has not monopolized Freud's life. Now 49, he is or has been a gentleman jockey, a race-car driver, an apprentice chef at the Dorchester Hotel, a cabaret owner, a trustee of London's Playboy Club and the author of a singularly uncharming children's book about a boy named Grimble whose parents forget things like birthdays and breakfasts. As a journalist, he has written for the lofty Financial Times and the lusty News of the World, as well as others in between...
That was one of the few times anybody ever fired Billy Taylor, but only one of many occasions on which he could be accused of giving jazz a good name. As a disk jockey for Harlem's WLIB, Taylor in the early 1960s developed such a following of listeners (and advertisers) that he could schedule five straight hours of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane or "anybody who in those days was considered far out." In 1969 he became the first black music director of a major TV program, the David Frost Show. "O.K., Billy!" was the cue with which Frost...