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Murray Kaufman (February 14, 1922 – February 21, 1982), professionally known as Murray the K, was an influential rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. [1]

146 relations: A Hard Day's Night (film), Al Aronowitz, Alan Freed, All You Need Is Cash, Aretha Franklin, Artforum, Bancroft Library, Beatlemania, Beatlemania (musical), Ben E. King, Bill Murray, Boarding school, Bob Dylan, Bob Merrill, Bobby Vinton, Borscht Belt, British Invasion, Bruce Morrow, Bruce Willis, Cancer, Catskill Mountains, Chuck Jackson, CHUM-FM, Clay Cole, Coronet Blue, Cream (band), Cybill Shepherd, Del Shannon, Devo, DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years, Dionne Warwick, Disc jockey, Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?, Don Imus, Ed Sullivan, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Estelle Bennett, Eva Gabor, Federal Communications Commission, Fifth Beatle, Four Tops, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Gary Owens, Gene Pitney, George Harrison, Henry Morgan, History of the New York Giants (baseball), Hollywood, I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film), Impresario, ..., Jacklyn Zeman, James Brown, Jan and Dean, Janis Ian, Joe Namath, Labelle, Language game, Laraine Day, Led Zeppelin, Leo Durocher, Life (magazine), Like a Rolling Stone, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Long Island, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Madison Square Garden, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Mickey Mantle, Mitch Ryder, Monitor (NBC Radio), Moonlighting (TV series), MTV, National Radio Hall of Fame, Nedra Talley, Otis Redding, P. F. Sloan, Patti LaBelle, Paul Levinson, Phil Ochs, Piano, Ramones, Ray Charles, Ringo Starr, Rock and roll, Ronnie Spector, Roosevelt Field (airport), Scott Muni, Society's Child, Song plugger, Sonny & Cher, Spanky and Our Gang, Splish Splash (song), Sybil Christopher, Tex McCrary, That's the Way of the World, The Beatles, The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, The Dave Clark Five, The Delicates, The Dictators, The Doors, The Drifters, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Four Seasons (band), The Hollies, The Isley Brothers, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Miracles, The Rascals, The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Rutles, The Saturday Evening Post, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles, The Supremes, The Tymes, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Zombies, Tom Wolfe, Tony Bennett, Toronto, Tucker Frederickson, United States Army, USCO, Vaudeville, WABC (AM), WABC-TV, Watermark Inc., WEPN (AM), WEPN-FM, WFAN (AM), WFMU, WHFS (historic), William (Rosko) Mercer, Willie Mays, WINS (AM), WLIR, WMCA (AM), WNYL (FM), Wolfman Jack, Yo La Tengo. Expand index (96 more) »

A Hard Day's Night (film)

A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania.

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Al Aronowitz

Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz (May 20, 1928 – August 1, 2005) was an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles in 1964.

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Alan Freed

Albert James "Alan" Freed (December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965) was an American disc jockey.

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All You Need Is Cash

All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called the Rutles.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Beatlemania

Beatlemania is the term given to the intense fan frenzy directed towards the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s.

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Beatlemania (musical)

Beatlemania was a Broadway musical revue focused on the music of The Beatles as it related to the events and changing attitudes of the tumultuous 1960s.

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Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson, September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer.

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Bill Murray

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill (born Henry Robert Merrill Levan, May 17, 1921 – February 17, 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.

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Bobby Vinton

Stanley Robert Vinton, Jr. (born April 16, 1935), known professionally as Bobby Vinton, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Borscht Belt

Borscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, is a nickname for the (now mostly defunct) summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster counties in New York.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Bruce Morrow

Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz on October 13, 1935) is an American radio performer, known for some professional purposes as Cousin Brucie.

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Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor, producer, and singer.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.

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Chuck Jackson

Chuck Jackson (born July 22, 1937) is an American R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully.

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CHUM-FM

CHUM-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 104.5 MHz in Toronto, Ontario.

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Clay Cole

Clay Cole (January 1, 1938 – December 18, 2010) was an American host and disk jockey, best known for his eponymous television dance program, The Clay Cole Show, which aired in New York City on WNTA-TV and WPIX-TV from 1959 to 1968.

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Coronet Blue

Coronet Blue is an American TV series that ran on CBS from May 29, 1967, to September 4, 1967.

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Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock power trio consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and lead singer/bassist Jack Bruce.

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Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former model.

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Del Shannon

Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover; December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll and country musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 Billboard hit "Runaway".

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Devo

Devo (originally) is an American rock band from Akron, Ohio formed in 1973.

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DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years

DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years is a live album consisting of recordings from three early Devo performances.

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Dionne Warwick

Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress and television show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?

"Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" is the second single and first track from the American punk rock band Ramones' fifth studio album End of the Century.

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Don Imus

John Donald Imus Jr. (born July 23, 1940) is a former American radio host and humorist.

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Ed Sullivan

Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.

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Estelle Bennett

Estelle Bennett (July 22, 1941 – February 11, 2009) was an American singer.

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Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-born American actress, comedian, singer and socialite.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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Fifth Beatle

The fifth Beatle is an informal title that various commentators in the press and entertainment industry have applied to people who were at one point a member of the Beatles, or who had a strong association with the "Fab Four" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) during the group's existence.

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Four Tops

The Four Tops are a vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan, USA, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s.

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Gary Lewis & the Playboys

Gary Lewis & the Playboys were an American 1960s era pop and rock group, fronted by musician Gary Lewis, the son of comedian Jerry Lewis.

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Gary Owens

Gary Owens (born Gary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 – February 12, 2015) was an American disc jockey, voice actor, radio announcer and personality.

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Gene Pitney

Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and sound engineer.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Henry Morgan

Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan, 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, landowner and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.

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History of the New York Giants (baseball)

The San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball originated in New York City as the New York Gothams in 1883 and were known as the New York Giants from 1885 until the team relocated to San Francisco after the season.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a 1978 American comedy film directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis, which takes its name from the 1963 song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles.

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Impresario

An impresario (from the Italian impresa, "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer.

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Jacklyn Zeman

Jacklyn Zeman (born March 6, 1953) is an American actress.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940).

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Janis Ian

Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart.

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Joe Namath

Joseph William Namath (born May 31, 1943), nicknamed "Broadway Joe", is a former American football quarterback and actor.

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Labelle

Labelle is an American all-female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Language game

A language game (also called secret language, ludling, or argot) is a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear.

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Laraine Day

Laraine Day (born La Raine Johnson, October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007) was an American actress, radio and television commentator and a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Leo Durocher

Leo Ernest Durocher (July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), nicknamed Leo the Lip and Lippy, was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Like a Rolling Stone

"Like a Rolling Stone" is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

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Little Anthony and the Imperials

Little Anthony and the Imperials is an American rhythm and blues/soul vocal group from New York City founded by Clarence Collins in the 1950s and named in part for its lead singer, Jerome Anthony "Little Anthony" Gourdine, who was noted for his high-pitched voice.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mary Wells

Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.

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Mickey Mantle

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The Mick, was an American professional baseball player.

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Mitch Ryder

William S. Levise, Jr. (born February 26, 1945), known better by his stage name Mitch Ryder, is an American musician who has recorded more than two dozen albums over more than four decades.

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Monitor (NBC Radio)

Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975.

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Moonlighting (TV series)

Moonlighting is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985, to May 14, 1989.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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National Radio Hall of Fame

The National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) is a United States organization that was created by the Emerson Radio Corporation in 1988.

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Nedra Talley

Nedra Talley, now known as Nedra Talley-Ross (born January 27, 1946), is an American singer best known as a former member of the girl group The Ronettes, in which she performed with her cousins Ronnie and Estelle Bennett.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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P. F. Sloan

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Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards known professionally as Patti LaBelle, (born Patricia Louise Holt on May 24, 1944), is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur.

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Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson (born March 25, 1947) is an American writer and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City.

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Phil Ochs

Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Ramones

The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector (born Veronica Yvette Bennett; August 10, 1943) is an American rock and roll singer.

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Roosevelt Field (airport)

Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located east-southeast of Mineola, Long Island, New York.

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Scott Muni

Scott Muni (May 10, 1930 – September 28, 2004) was an American disc jockey, who worked at the heyday of the AM Top 40 format and then was a pioneer of FM progressive rock radio.

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Society's Child

"Society's Child", or "Baby I've Been Thinking", was a song written, composed, and recorded in 1965 by Janis Ian.

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Song plugger

A song plugger or song demonstrator was a vocalist or piano player employed by department and music stores and song publishers in the early 20th century to promote and help sell new sheet music, which is how hits were advertised before quality recordings were widely available.

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Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Spanky and Our Gang

Spanky and Our Gang was an American 1960s sunshine pop band led by Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane.

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Splish Splash (song)

"Splish Splash" is a 1958 song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin.

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Sybil Christopher

Sybil Christopher (27 March 1929 – 7 March 2013) was a Welsh actress, theatre director, and founder of popular celebrity New York nightclub "Arthur".

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Tex McCrary

John Reagan McCrary (October 13, 1910–July 29, 2003), better known as Tex McCrary, was an American journalist and public relations specialist who popularized the talk show genre for television and radio along with his wife, Jinx Falkenburg, with whom he hosted the first radio talk show, "Meet Tex and Jinx" as well as the radio show "Hi Jinx" and the television talk shows "At Home" and "The Swift Home Service Club".

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That's the Way of the World

That's the Way of the World is the sixth studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released on March 15, 1975 by Columbia Records.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit

The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit is a 1990 re-edited version of renowned documentary filmmaking team Albert and David Maysles' 1964 16mm documentary What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A., about the Beatles' first visit to America in February 1964.

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The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock band formed in Tottenham in 1957.

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The Delicates

The Delicates, were a three-girl singing group, made up of members Denise Ferri, Arleen Lanzotti, and Peggy Santiglia.

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The Dictators

The Dictators are an American punk rock band formed in New York City in 1973.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and John Densmore on drums.

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The Drifters

The Drifters are a long-lasting American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The Four Seasons (band)

The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Hollies

The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style.

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The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that started as a vocal trio consisting of brothers O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley.

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965.

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The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful is a U.S. rock band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and well known for a number of hit songs in the 1960s including "Summer in the City", "Do You Believe In Magic", "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?", and "Daydream".

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Rascals

The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965.

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The Righteous Brothers

The Righteous Brothers are an American musical duo of Bill Medley and (formerly) Bobby Hatfield.

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The Ronettes

The Ronettes were an American girl group from New York City.

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The Rutles

The Rutles are a rock band known for their visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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The Shangri-Las

The Shangri-Las were an American pop girl group of the 1960s.

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The Shirelles

The Shirelles were an American girl group notable for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop and soul music and gaining popularity in the early 1960s.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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The Tymes

The Tymes are an American soul vocal group, who enjoyed equal success in the United Kingdom and in their homeland.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963.

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The Zombies

The Zombies are an English rock band, formed in 1961 in St Albans and led by keyboardist and vocalist Rod Argent and vocalist Colin Blunstone.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Tucker Frederickson

Ivan Charles "Tucker" Frederickson (born January 12, 1943) is a former American football running back for the New York Giants of the NFL.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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USCO

USCO was an American media art collective in the 1960s, founded by Gerd Stern, Michael Callahan, and Steve Durkee in New York.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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WABC (AM)

WABC (770 AM), known as "77 WABC" is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media.

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WABC-TV

WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, licensed to New York City.

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Watermark Inc.

Watermark Inc. was a radio syndication company that was founded in 1969 by Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs.

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WEPN (AM)

WEPN (1050 AM) is a 24-hour Hispanic sports talk formatted radio station licensed to New York City and featuring national and local sports talk programs and live broadcasts of sports matches.

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WEPN-FM

WEPN-FM (98.7 MHz) branded as "ESPN New York 98.7 FM", is an all-sports radio station licensed to New York City.

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WFAN (AM)

WFAN, (660 AM, also known as Sports Radio 66 and 101.9 FM or The FAN) is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned and operated by Entercom.

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WFMU

WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 (at 90.1 as WMFU, which has a translator at 91.9 as W220EG) MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format.

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WHFS (historic)

WHFS was the call sign for three different FM stations in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore, Maryland markets on various frequencies for nearly 50 years.

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William (Rosko) Mercer

William Roscoe Mercer (1927-2000), better known to millions of radio listeners simply as Rosko, was an American news announcer and disc jockey.

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Willie Mays

Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who spent almost all of his 22-season career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets.

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WINS (AM)

WINS (1010 kHz) is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned by Entercom.

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WLIR

WLIR (WLIR.FM) is an internet and over the air radio station (105.3 WPTY-HD3 Calverton-Roanoke, NY) that plays the new music/modern rock that was originally heard on WLIR/WDRE (92.7 FM, 98.5 FM, and 107.1 FM) in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s along with the alternative rock of the 2000s to the present.

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WMCA (AM)

WMCA (570 AM, "The Mission") is an AM radio station in New York City, owned by Salem Media Group and broadcasting with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs.

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WNYL (FM)

WNYL is an FM radio station licensed to New York City and owned by Entercom.

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Wolfman Jack

Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995), was an American disc jockey.

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Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo (often abbreviated as YLT) is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_the_K

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