In 1984 L.A.'s KDAY became the USA's first station devoted to this genre of music
495880
Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2006013857  In 1984, a very young Andre Young started hanging out at Eve After Dark, bugging ... KDAY became one of the true major players in the record business, but the station did so .... I prepared to jettison my whole life and devote myself to this music. .... Ice-T's "Six in the Morning" was probably L.A.'s first gangsta rap song, and...
495881
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader - Sites at Penn State  of hip-hop culture and its criticsafter all, those of us who study and write ... astute observers and participants in any other genre of musical or critical endeavor. ..... 1984. Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music, and Graffiti. ..... Until breaking became frozen and legitimated by media hype, it was, like...
495882
Ruthless: A Memoir by Jerry Heller | NOOK Book (eBook) | Barnes ...  Oct 31, 2006 ... As a longtime music industry superagent, Heller had the skill and insight .... In 1984, a very young Andre Young started hanging out at Eve After Dark, ... KDAY became one of the true major players in the record business, but the ..... Ice-T's "Six in the Morning" was probably L.A.'s first gangsta rap song, and...
495883
KDAY - Wikipedia  KDAY in Redondo Beach, California, (93.5 FM, 93.5 KDAY) is one of a pair of synchrocasting ... First air date, 1961 (as KAPP-FM) ... KDAY is a resurrection of the original R&B/dance/pop and Hip-Hop station of the 1970s and 1980s, KDAY AM 1580. ... KDAY the most popular hit music radio station in the Los Angeles market.
495884
Oh my gawd, I think I'm having a rap attack!: Mr. Magic and ...  Apr 13, 2016 ... In the spring of 1979, Lucky the Magician became Mr. Magic, and ... They were the #1 black radio station in New York, and had decided to start working rap music into ... note, it was an L.A.-area station  KDAY in Redondo Beach, Calif.  that became the first radio station in the country to adapt an-all rap...
551775
The Pennsylvania Center for the Book - KDKA  So began the first broadcast by a commercially-licensed radio station. ... Westinghouse vice-president, saw radio as more than a confidential means of ... On March 4, 1921, KDKA aired the first presidential inaugural address over the radio,...
123934
THE ART OF NOISE ONLINE www.theartofnoiseonline.com  Apr 26, 2016 ... A Cult Icon Of The 1980's. Max Headroom was a television personality who presented his own ... presenters of the time, as he was the first to be computer generated. ... When his series first went out in 1985, the show was a pop music ... in a long running ad campaign for Coca-Cola and became Britain's...
378259
Guns N' Roses - Wikipedia  Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles formed in 1985. The classic ... Guns N' Roses' debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), reached .... on Aerosmith, but Guns N' Roses ended up on the cover of the magazine. ... helped earn Guns N' Roses the moniker "The Most Dangerous Band in the...
295395
From Los Angeles with Love: The Los Angeles Raiders Story ...  Apr 25, 2016 ... At 16, Johnny Ace Okeke sat in his living room in Cerritos, California, ... With gang and hip-hop culture rising throughout the Los Angeles County in the ... Despite Raiders owner Al Davis moving the team back to Oakland in 1994, ... Davis, who took over for his father Al Davis after he passed away from an...
94873
VH1 - Wikipedia  VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of ... More recently, much like MTV, VH1 has been in the area of music-related reality...
560741
Radio City Music Hall opens - Dec 27, 1932 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Radio City Music Hall opens on Dec 27, 1932. ... with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and designed by Donald Deskey. ... a precision dance troupe that has been a staple at Radio City since the 1930s. In 1999...
388346
CHART ATTACK! #16: 1/27/90 - Popdose.com  Jan 26, 2007 ... Another Day In Paradise  Phil Collins Well, no better way to start of Chart ... I guess you can't expect much more from a man who titled his album  ... The song, which vividly depicts the life of the homeless, definitely sends a ... it has the honor of being both the last #1 of the '80s and the first #1 of the '90s.
205311
Biography - Tabs-database.com  Apr 26, 2006 ... Before Stone, very few soul and R&B groups delved into political and ... and his family moved from his home state of Texas to San Francisco in the '50s. ... Soon, he had become a disc jockey at the R&B station KSOL, later switching to KDIA. .... Upon officially teaming in 1970, Emerson and Lake auditioned...
318444
My Favorite Year: The Pop Culture Peak That Was 1984 | Huffington ...  Jun 13, 2014 ... My Favorite Year: The Pop Culture Peak That Was 1984 ... little dude until his purple reign, when he earned his name and rose to rock royalty. ... Prince crowed in 1982, on 1999's All the Critics Love U in New York  and ... because the ultimate movie about L.A. (and probably the universe) is Repo Man.
170067
MTV Original Broadcast 8/1/1981 - YouTube  Jul 29, 2011 - 2 min - Uploaded by Michael RackoffOn August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock ...
308272
From the Archives: Mike Douglas, 81; Singer and Popular Talk Show ...  Aug 12, 2006 ... In 1961, the former big-band singer launched his daytime talk show, which ran for ... in 1961 and moved to Philadelphia a few years later, ran until 1982. ... which in 1967 became the first syndicated show to win an Emmy, was...
396350
Don Cornelius - Television Producer, Television Personality ...  Apr 2, 2014 ... Premiering on August 17, 1970, Soul Train quickly became popular. It aired on Saturday mornings, attracting a lot of children and teenagers off...
192982
J! Archive - Show #4854, aired 2005-10-20  Oct 20, 2005 ... This tune hit the Top 40 again in 1974 thanks to its use as the theme to "Happy Days" ... "Here I am..."; The Scorpions blew into the Top 40 in 1984 with this tune...
223065
'Dragnet' set stage for genre  Badge714  Dragnet was heard on radio and seen on TV on different nights until the radio show ... they know Joe Friday, the somber Los Angeles police detective he played on ... Dragnet hit radio in 1949 and TV in 1952, spending 7 seasons on the small ... shot, start to finish, in less than two days  but he delivered a good product.
328744
KROQ: an oral history by Kate Sullivan - Los Angeles Magazine ...  We know this much: KROQ is the most powerful rock station in the world. ... Not long after, they also bought free-form KPPC (106.7 FM), founded by Tom and ... I'd walk him back out of the studio--"Get the fuck out of here, this is professional radio. .... One day I was cleaning my room and I heard Squeeze's "Pulling Mussels...
439953
1983-1986: The Missions and History of Space Shuttle Challenger ...  Jan 28, 2011 ... Nonetheless, it was clear the vehicle must be shown to be acceptable at the ... On June 30, 1982, Challenger rolled out of her Palmdale assembly facility. ... Following the deployment of TDRS-1, the Challenger crew turned their ... STS-7 also marked the first time that a Shuttle orbiter's Ku-Band antenna...