He chose his radio name from the 1954 Tony Curtis movie “Johnny Dark,” about an engineer turned race car driver. He arrived in Baltimore in 1961 on WCAO-AM and began a long tenure. Before his ...

Jacques Kelly recently remembered the ’50s and ’60s when local radio disc jockeys such as Johnny Dark and Maurice “Hot Rod” Hulbert were celebrities, but at first playing pr… ...

Conductors Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Fiedler, who have already tried being radio disc jockeys, were joined this week by Britain’s loquacious Sir Thomas Beecham. New York City’s WQXR began a ...

The Disc Jockey School of Modern Radio Technique set up shop in the old KTKT building at 500 West Elm. St. The pair spent about $8,000 to set up the school to closely resemble an operating station.

He was a groundbreaker for playing that music,” when other radio stations disc jockeys played “middle of the road music,” said Reccelle, 82, an Irwin resident.

Other wildly popular Black disc jockeys included Paul “Fat Daddy” Johnson, Fred “Rockin’ Robin” Robinson, Maurice “Hot Rod” Hulbert Jr. and “Sir Johnny O,” John Wendell Compton Sr.