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When Heimweh first appeared, a Munich disk jockey labeled it the "most horrible Schnulze [sentimental trash] of the year" and broke the record over his microphone. But the song caught on quickly, largely because many other German singers working the Wanderlust beat have never been farther from home than the casino at Travemünde. Freddy managed to sing as if he really knew what it meant to be a lonely traveler...
...beautifully fluid legato with every note fully etched, or rasp out a low, "dirty" tone while keeping the melody under rigid control, or punch out a bright, high note and linger over it with a heavy vibrato. The arrangements are so simple that the customers, as Chicago Disk Jockey Marty Faye notes, "can sit at a table and chat and still enjoy Jonah...
...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...
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...
...streets, won a government student grant of $11 a month and took himself to Paris, where miraculously he found himself accepted as a temporary pupil at the Beaux-Arts. He remained a student for 14 years. To stay alive, he sold coal and wood, painted houses, acted as a "jockey" at the greyhound races (he held the leashes...