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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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