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

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A Sure-Fire Audience Builder For Your Station. A Powerful Selling-Vehicle For Your Sponsors" was how the discs, in this case Tiffany Transcriptions, were promoted. And musicians recall the mammoth This book is an extensive work that very accurately analyzes the DJ "without going into philosophical questions" (or sociological ;-) in the words of the authors; that is, a book written from the dance floor: (the authors have a long experience as music journalists), with historical data, quotes from relevant people, etc. 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 In 1997, King Britt included a version of this song on his album King Britt Presents Sylk 130 – When The Funk Hits The Fan. [30] 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.

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presidential election—had grown out of Dr. Frank Conrad's experimental broadcasts as station 8XK, which, using wartime equipment, transmitted from his garage. WWJ in Detroit also started broadcasts in 1920, 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 But what I really like is when you go into a Waterstones in a little town somewhere and there’s a copy of your book there. I’m hoping it will get really wide distribution more than anything, so that if you go to Taunton, you’ll be able to get a copy, and if you go to Rochdale there’ll be a copy in the local bookstore there. In 1911 in New York City, Dr. Elman B. Meyers started broadcasting a daily 18-hour program which was almost all records. His wife, Sybil True, the world's first recorded female DJ, went on air in 1914By the end of the war, radio DJs had started to enjoy much greater respect. In the fifties and the sixties, radio DJing would become a fully accepted profession, an integral part of the music industry. The DJ was a powerful hitmaker and his patronage could start an artist’s career overnight. In 1949 Cleveland DJ Bill Randle, who went on to discover Johnnie Ray and Tony Bennett, put it in a nutshell: “I don’t care what it is. I want to make hits.” The song "Wrong Club" by The Ting Tings features an homage in the lyric "No DJ never saved my life". Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved April 14, 2021.

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It has always been written about so disparagingly that we felt it was time that we reset the idea and documented what really happened in early disco clubs, and how revolutionary they were. 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] 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 would Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is a book written by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton about the history of DJing published in 1999. A compilation album of the same name was released with the book. The album contains various clips ranging from 1970s reggae to Handel's Largo, the first song to reach radio airwaves, in 1906. The book takes its name from the Indeep single " Last Night a DJ Saved My Life." [1] In 2006, The Observer named Last Night... #45 on their list of the greatest music books. [2]Offiziellecharts.de – Indeep – Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. 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" both of themselves and the music, that made them essential to the growth of rhythm and blues." They talked to their audiences in the slangy "jive" vernacular, they pitched products aimed specifically at the

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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 Those qualms aside, I learned so much reading this book! Its breadth is exceptional--perhaps too much so. In addition to taking the reader through the early days of radio, to the early days of clubs and DJ-ing, to the rise of various genres (and subgenres) of the 1960s through 2000s, to the cultural context surrounding this progression, the authors also spend quite a lot of time describing, e.g., once-popular, long-closed clubs (and their resident DJs) that were integral to that history. I don't know that I needed to read everything in the book, although, in retrospect, I appreciate the attention to detail and the chronicling of places and people that made up the times. In 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

It was in 1922 that radio is said to have begun in earnest. Before that there were just scientists and hobbyists dotted around the world toying with the medium and trying to find uses for the new technology. Radio was broadcast to midwestern farmers with In 2004, UK house/ trance music producer Seamus Haji made several popular remixes of the song through his own label, Big Love Records, and released them on a 12" single titled "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (ATFC Mixes)". This version reached number thirteen on the UK Singles Chart and number one on the UK Dance Chart in 2006. if they could hear it played for free. This fear was borne out by some Depression-era figures which showed that urban areas with popular radio stations were suffering a downturn in record sales (they were actually suffering Tweed, and Ray Noble and Russ Morgan, other big stars of the time, became Reginald Norman and Rex Melbourne respectively.