Disc Jockeys
Tony Russell, History of Rock, The, 1981
The men who turned the USA on to rock
DISK JOCKEYING IS AN OLD TRADE but not perhaps, an old name: music-biz archaeologists have found the term disc jockey no earlier than 1941, record jockey briefly around 1940.
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