Word: wlib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...songs, the gospel-flavored I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (1954), is used at many civil rights gatherings and black school commencements, and has been published in several church hymnals. Taylor is also a member of a black syndicate that recently bought WLIB, making it New York's first black-owned station. With two other black men Taylor last year also bought WSOK in Savannah...