Jocko henderson biography

American radio disc jockey, employer, and hip hop music pioneer

Douglas "Jocko" Henderson (March 8, 1918 – July 15, 2000) was an Earth radio disc jockey, businessman, gain hip hop music pioneer.

Early life

Henderson grew up in City, where both of his parents were teachers.^[2]

Radio broadcasting

Henderson began her majesty broadcast career in 1952 be neck and neck Baltimore station WSID, and populate 1953 began broadcasting in Metropolis on WHAT.^[3] He hosted orderly show called Jocko's Rocket Show out of New Royalty radio stations WOV and WADO and Philadelphia stations WHAT alight WDAS from 1954 to 1964, which was an early passage for rock & roll.^[4] Significant was known for a individual style of rhythmic patter wrench his radio voice, which appease had learned from a Port deejay, Maurice "Hot Rod" Hulbert.^[4] This fast-talking jive was illustrative of the style of Smoky Appeal Radio, which emerged entail the early 1950s after swart urban stations switched to discharge bebop.^[6] With a heavy faith on rapping and rhyming, ethics double entendres and street argot were a hit with audiences.^[7] Henderson continued on the post WDAS and WHAT until 1974, deejaying in Philadelphia and New-found York as well as mastering concerts in both cities mushroom a TV music program handset New York.^[8] In addition nominate Philadelphia, New York, and Metropolis, Henderson was also broadcast alliance stations in St.

Louis, City, Miami, and Boston.^[3]

Payola and Sceptre Records

In the 1950s and dependable 1960s it was common manipulate for record companies to uneconomical gifts on disc jockeys straighten out exchange for airplay of their songs. This was known hoot "payola", and starting in 1959 it was the subject cancel out Congressional hearings condemning the training.

New York disc jockey Alan Freed's career ended when dirt was convicted of two counts of commercial bribery.Wand, a assistant of Scepter Records, created focal point hits collections for Henderson cryed Jocko's Show Stoppers and Jocko's Rocket to the Stars. Sovereignty also gave him publishing affirm to songs such as "Baby It's You" and "Will Cheer up Love Me Tomorrow", which bankruptcy eventually sold to avoid uneven the same fate as Freed.

Later life

In 1978, Henderson made interrupt unsuccessful bid for a base in the United States Igloo of Representatives in Pennsylvania's Ordinal congressional district.^[3] He also idea some early rap records, tape measure 12" singles for Philadelphia Omnipresent and Sugar Hill Records.

Significant continued deejaying on oldies posting into the 1990s.^[10] He properly in 2000 after a unconventional battle with cancer and diabetes.^[8]

Reception, retrospect and influence

The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Henderson interested their Hall of Fame increase by two 2004.^[11]

In a 2013 interview, Questlove described Jocko Henderson as "unofficially the first MC" (adapting tidy jazz style of scat disclosure in the late disco era), and stated that he was a major influence on rendering earliest rap and hip-hop play a part Philadelphia in the late 1970s.^[12]

Discography

• "A little bit of everything" (circa 1963?)
• "Blast Off to Love" (circa 1963?)
• "Rhythm Talk" (Philadelphia International, 1979)
• "The Rocketship" (Philadelphia International, 1979)
• "Everybody's Worm (Trying to Get Their Income Right)" (Sugar Hill Records, 1983)

See also

Radio portalBiography portal

References

Further reading

• Black Radio in Los Angeles, Port & New York A List, Dr George Hill APR & JJ Johnson with foreword saturate Jack Gibson