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

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is a good one, the most effective type of direct marketing has just taken place. And sales are sure to reflect the airing of the disc." 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. While the big stations complied, using music from large orchestras and live dancehalls, the smaller broadcaster still relied on the gramophone. During the Depression, as belts were tightened, the use of records

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Tweed, and Ray Noble and Russ Morgan, other big stars of the time, became Reginald Norman and Rex Melbourne respectively. 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 be played on the radio.We have modernised it and added later chapters that deal with what’s happening now. We completely rewrote the Jimmy Savile parts, for obvious reasons. We know a lot more about who he was as a person now. The entry of broadcasting into the history of music has changed all forms of musical creation and reception. Radio music is a kind of magic and the radio set becomes a magic box.”—Helmut Reinhold Every label on every record specifically carried the warning that the disk was not to be broadcast," recalled pioneer DJ Al Jarvis in Billboard's seventy-fifth anniversary issue. "And

Last Night a Dj Saved My Life by Brewster Bill - AbeBooks Last Night a Dj Saved My Life by Brewster Bill - AbeBooks

This book is clearly well researched, but the prose bogs it down. It takes a fascinating subject and makes it sometimes painful to read about--painful as in laden with pedantry and cliche. It feels like it was written by one of those fanboys who loves "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and knows why Angel was wearing that bracelet in that one episode and will tell you about it for 15 minutes got turned on to hiphop.These British music-mag writers deliver the goods with humor and a basic sense of good storytelling.”— Vibe while his cozy, friendly style won him plenty of listeners. From the early thirties his Make Believe Ballroom was broadcast six hours a day and became very successful.

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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. Because of the limited success of Indeep's later releases, the group's first single was its only major hit and placed it into the one-hit wonder category of artists. [5] Reception [ edit ]

As Marshall McLuhan declared, "The radio injected a full electric charge into the world of the phonograph." And it was in the context of radio that the DJ gained his first victories. From humble beginnings as an experimental hobbyist, via his While my interest started to wane a bit anyway half-way the book by the time disco rolls around (I listen to an awful lot of music and don't mind dabbling in spinning records publically myself from time to time, but I've never really warmed to techno, house and its later spin-offs), the descriptions of this club and that DJ and this great breakthough in mixing and that legendary night of 'perfect storms' do tend to get repetitive at some point. Perhaps you had to be there, as Brewster seems to demonstrate by his rising enthusiasm by the end. By 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

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