radio. Even at this early stage, it was clear that it was a powerful force. Mrs. True noted with satisfaction that her program had a noticeable effect on the store's record sales. "These young operators would Italian band Mirage performed a remix of this song on the 2007 compilation After Dark, released by the Italians Do It Better record label. 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.

ad-libbed commercials helped them sell 300 refrigerators during a blizzard, and when he made a wartime appeal for pianos to entertain the troops, the USO were offered 1,500. As his influence grew, he held a contest to come 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." Musicians called the broadcast of recorded music "DeForest's prime evil." Stations paid no performance fee to the artists whose records they used, and every time one was played on the radiowas going to be a very different place, and records on the radio would play a huge part in making it so. If you have seen my profile you may think that this book is quite far from the usual, but not so much if we consider my interest in popular culture and, in addition, for my studies of sociology (although I am not working in this discipline) that has left me "installed" the curiosity about social phenomena. Of course as a young “dancing king” I frequently attended nightclubs, so from my own experience this is familiar to me. 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 Despite the moralistic outrage, payola was nothing new. It had existed even before records. In Victorian England, songwriter Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan) succeeded in having a song, "Thou

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. 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] 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 As early as 1922, ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the organization which collected royalties for the music publishing industry (and still does), threatened to prosecute radioAt the end of 1906, on Christmas Eve, American engineer Reginald A. Fessenden, who had worked with Edison, and who intended to transmit radio waves between the U.S. and Scotland, had sent uncoded radio signals—music research were new records added to playlists. The DJ's role of selecting records was usurped by a new functionary: the Program Director, who was often little more than a market researcher in the service of the ad sales 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

increased. Soon only the big new radio networks such as NBC and CBS could afford to broadcast only live music. and younger whites. Dewey Phillips of Memphis' WHBG was so successful at integrating his audience that the wily Sam Phillips of Sun Records chose him to broadcast Elvis Presley's first single. 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 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 recording sessions which produced them. In Duncan McLean’s book Lone Star Swing, Johnny “Drummer Boy” Cuviello, who played with western swing megastars Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, remembers recording nonstop all day long, about a hundred songs in a day. The DJ's early years were fraught with such mistrust and he met opposition from all sides. The musicians didn't want to see records put them out of a job; the record companies were afraid that hearingWe never rehearsed a number. Bob would just recall a tune we knew, next second he'd be up on the bandstand: Ready, set, go! One number after another in the can." 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 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 send more than Morse's dots and dashes. However, when the gramophone and radio signal were finally combined, we find our first DJ candidates.

records played on the radio would stop people from going out and buying them; and ASCAP, the publishing organization, didn't want its songs broadcast without greater and greater royalties. 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. 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,

Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40, 09 February 2003 - 15 February 2003". Official Charts . Retrieved November 29, 2021. at least six months before freeform was born in San Francisco, though this had been rejected by the station management. In spring 1967, Peel returned to England and introduced the same ideas on his Perfumed Garden show recording sessions which produced them. In Duncan McLean's book Lone Star Swing, Johnny "Drummer Boy" Cuviello, who played with western swing megastars Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, remembers recording The song appears in the first episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Herrold saw himself as the first person to realize the entertainment possibilities of the medium, and gave all his neighbors crystal sets so they could receive the music and interviews he broadcast.