A decade later the radio waves were tamed, but it would take another full ten years before Marconi’s equipment was able to send more than Morse’s dots and dashes. However, when the gramophone and radio signal were finally combined, we find our first DJ candidates.

Radio's advertising potential was soon clear and in late 1920 the first fully-licensed commercial station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, started on air. KDKA—which soon gained fame for its coverage of the Selvin recalled that some of the top artists made transcriptions under a phony name. The money was good, but they had to get around their existing record company contracts. Thus Tommy Dorsey became Harvey Tweed, and Ray Noble and Russ Morgan, other big stars of the time, became Reginald Norman and Rex Melbourne respectively.Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved April 14, 2021. it was music that would otherwise have been performed by paid musicians. In 1927 their employment prospects worsened further when The Jazz Singer ushered in talking pictures. Thousands of musicians who had performed In 1941 ASCAP demanded a royalty increase of nearly seventy percent. Broadcasters resisted the increase and ASCAP called a strike. This lasted from January to October. During this time, no ASCAP songs could A riveting look at record spinning from its beginnings to the present day . . . A grander and more fascinating story than one would think.” — Time Out London

In 2001, American R&B singer Mariah Carey co-produced a cover of "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" with DJ Clue and Duro, which appeared on her eighth album, Glitter. Carey's version of the song features Fabolous and Busta Rhymes, and it is heard during a scene in the film Glitter, in which Carey starred. It was released as the album's sixth and final single in 2001 in Spain on a strictly promotional basis to boost the album's slow sales, as the preceding singles from the album had performed poorly. Because of its limited release and conflict between Carey and Virgin/ EMI Records, the single's music video (directed by Sanaa Hamri) was not released until late 2002–early 2003 through Carey's online fan club. world started buying records instead of sheet music, however, power shifted away from the publishers and songwriters and into the hands of the record companies and recording artists. Allowing records on the radio would up with a new version of his show's theme song. It was won by a band led by a young man named Glenn Miller.a downturn in sales of everything). The larger record companies started taking legal steps against selected radio stations and a series of lawsuits ensued. One of these, the infamous Waring case, even reached the U.S. Supreme The song was remixed by DJ Kambel and MC Magika in 2002, appearing on Dancemania Speed 8 with the name "Last Nite Kambel Saved My Life". [34] eagerly. As a result, since the sixties such "scientific" notions as Top 40 have been taken to extremes. Playlists were trimmed to just twenty-five hit tunes, the most popular of which were "rapidly rotated"

The song appears in the first episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. In 1934 he found work as the staff announcer on WNEW in New York, reading off courtroom bulletins from the "Trial of the Century"—the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh Baby. During a The song "Wrong Club" by The Ting Tings features an homage in the lyric "No DJ never saved my life". and promoting the underground bands of the emerging hippie movement, including then unsigned acts Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.The American Federation of Musicians, a tight-knit closed shop union, declared the DJ to be the enemy of the musician and fought long and hard to prevent records being broadcast on radio. The AFM were aided in this by the Federal Radio Commission, who as Arnold Passman wrote, “attempted everything this side of public hangings to curb the practice.” Offiziellecharts.de – Indeep – Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.