Boss jocks: How corrupt radio practices helped make Jacksonville one of the great music cities

Name/Title

Boss jocks: How corrupt radio practices helped make Jacksonville one of the great music cities

Entry/Object ID

Library.1081

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Library JAMM as of June 4, 2023

Description

p.6-23: illustrations, portraits Boss jocks: How corrupt radio practices helped make Jacksonville one of the great music cities by Michael Ray Fitzgerald. Also includes CD. JAMM Southern cultures, 2011, Vol.17 (4), p.6-23. Summary: What happened when greedy promoters ran radio stations and the local concert scene? They brought the Beatles to Jacksonville, but they also brought payola, greed, and corruption. Selected names: Tom Register -- Pat Armstrong -- DJ Marshall Rowland -- DJ Glenn Reeves -- Mae Axton -- WAPE-AM -- Bill Brennan -- Big Ape -- Nervous Norvus -- Sheldon Dino Summerlin -- Big Ape Shower of Stars -- Beatles -- Corvette (band) -- WZRO -- Bill Greenwood -- Joe Giles -- J-Notes (R&B band) -- Lemon Twisters -- "Little Robert" Moore -- Classics -- Jack Mock -- Cliff Hall, Jr. -- Bill Durden -- Federal Communications Act amended sections 317 & 507 -- Alan Freed -- Dick Clark -- Bill Durden -- Kimberly-Ann record label -- Alan Facemire -- Steady record label -- Second Coming band (later formed the Allman Brothers Band) -- Jim Atkins -- Dalton Gang -- Arlingwood Records -- Jimmy Strickland -- WPDQ-AM -- Henderson Belk -- Bill Greenwood -- WFGA (Channel 12) -- Shakin' Up Summer show -- Virginia Atter Keys -- Beachcomber Lounge (later Comic Book Club) -- Ike Lee -- Stan Kaplan -- Sue Kaplan -- Honest John Ferree -- Allman Brothers band -- Pat Armstrong -- Sidney Drashin -- WWPF-AM -- John A. Leynes -- Limp Bizkit.

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Library

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Nomenclature 4.0

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Article

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Jacksonville Area Music Museum (JAMM)., Radio and music -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Disc jockeys -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Music and teenagers -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Allman Brothers Band., Limp Bizkit (Musical group)., Clark, Dick, 1929-2012., Freed, Alan, WPDQ (Radio Station : Jacksonville, Fla.)., WAPE (Radio station : Jacksonville, Fla.).

Publication Details

Author

FitzGerald , Michael Ray, 1953-

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Call No.

ML 68 F58 2011

ISSN

10688218