Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (updated): The History of the Disc Jockey

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For having such influence, Freed paid dearly. He was a clear example of how much power a DJ can wield, and an even clearer example of the lengths to which the establishment will sometimes go to curb that and a live-sounding orchestra playing the latest hits, all captured using state-of-the-art electronic recording techniques. The transcription disc was aimed at the smaller stations and sold as a monthly subscription service. inferior style of broadcasting—mainly because live music gave far superior sound reproduction. In 1927 the industry's new governing body, the Federal Radio Commission, reemphasized that phonograph performances questioned. It was seen as a great threat to employment by musicians and viewed with suspicion by those responsible for society's cohesion. It was even perceived as an economic threat by the record companies, who thought to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will" and played a few solos on his violin, together with some singing, which he admits "was not very good." In between all this, he became the world's

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Most established artists were ASCAP members, so BMI's recruits were almost all younger songwriters and musicians, as well as all the folk and "race" musicians which ASCAP had not allowed to join. This wouldIn 1907 an American, Lee DeForest, known as the "father of radio" for his invention of the triode, which made broadcasting possible, played a record of the "William Tell Overture" from

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with a show she called "The Little Ham Program." She borrowed records from a local music store and concentrated on young people's music in an attempt to encourage youthful interest in the possibilities of Radio is a unique broadcast medium. It has the power to reach millions, and yet it has the intimacy to make them each feel they are the most important person listening. Unlike television, which invades the home with images of the outside world, radio is somehow part of the place in which it is heard, and the voices and music it carries manage to create a strong feeling of community. Sociologist Marshall McLuhan called it the “tribal drum.” Arnold Passman, in his 1971 book The Deejays, wrote, “The electron tube changed everything, for it returned mankind to spoken communication.” 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 Allied to the musicians were the music publishers, then the most powerful part of the music industry. At the time of radio’s birth, sheet music was still the dominant popular musical commodity, and songwriters were the stars of the day. When the 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 accelerate this shift, so the publishers fought it every way they could. That’s right. We added that chapter and another one on jazz-funk, which had originally been part of the acid house chapter. We took it out, did a couple of new interviews and created a whole new chapter with it. Over the years, I’ve never stopped interviewing people. There are probably another 50 interviews that we’ve incorporated into the new book in different places.PDF / EPUB File Name: Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_-_Bill_Brewster.pdf, Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_-_Bill_Brewster.epub sleepy nature of the medium in the years before 1935. Explaining that the evening was taken up by broadcasts from ballrooms and symphony halls, the magazine described the rest of the day's schedule.