Blast from Your Past! Rock Radio DJs!

Though diverse in cultural growth, attitudes and economics, the 1950s, '60s and '70s were bound together by a fantastic music phenomena. Rock & Roll music explored its babyhood, discovered its power, and exploded into its own Universe in these three amazing decades.

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15 of your favorite DJs from around the country dish on what it was really like behind the microphones in the radio studios, while our rebel music played 'round the clock. You'll relive "the good ol' days" cruisin' the drag, radio blaring. Enjoy the moment ... again!

The Fifties, Rock & What?!

Sh-boom, sh-boom … or is that shazzam!? 1954 in America was a sneaky year. Our Stepford-style lives followed a formula set forth in the six-pack or so previous years since the end of World War II.

For the most part, women unquestionably obeyed their husbands, and children dutifully behaved at the supper table and clothed their bodies appropriately. Only bad boys and crew cut military men sported tattoos. And on women?! Never! At least not in this decade.

But the war changed us in oh so many subtle (at first) ways. Many women liked the freedom to work outside the home, brought on by the absence of our men in uniform. The country’s personal involvement in this war heightened our awareness of each other as people, genders, races, and cultures.

Even our music was affected. Some think Martin Block’s defection on January 1 from his popular Make Believe Ballroom radio show for a TV gig, kicked off a year of musical metamorphosis. Big Bands and big-voiced singers still ruled the airwaves, but an indefinable itch tickled to be scratched.

The Stepford life clung to us as Ray Anthony, baton-master of the Ray Anthony Orchestra, introduced his new line dance, the everyone-follow-me bouncing “Bunny Hop.” ...

... Which radio station, where, and who, first turned us on to Rock & Roll? Ever hear of spontaneous combustion? My guess is it was something like that – the cause will never be definitely decided, but its effects were instant and hot. Once started, we were a nation on fire! ...

'54 rolled out in vibrant, rebellious colors of change.

... Rock & Roll was catching on. A collective consciousness awakened by primal forces from this year forward, would propel the most powerful nation on Earth into a new, energetic warfront, staged on its own turf.

Leading the new revolution, Alan Freed belted out his now-famous line meant to excite and incite—mission accomplished, Alan—even fifty-plus years later! 1954 heralded a transformation in music and the beginning of world change, as Alan Freed shouted, “Let’s Rock & Roll!” ...

Dedicated to Wolfman Jack.