What’s the Difference between a DJ and A Radio Announcer?

Posted by on 28 Dec 2017 | Tagged as: blog

I love to sing and have recorded songs on several online Karaoke sites for a number of years now.

I try to intro all my songs and sometimes even outtro them much like I did when I worked at a radio station.

Many people comment that I sound like a radio DJ.Art a recording studio singing backup vocals for a folk singer.

Bella said of my recording of  “Our Day Will Come”  :

“You know you have a wonderful “Radio” speaking voice! I could just imagine you being a DJ on a classic song station.
You sang this beautifully!” Well I was an announcer on an old time station in the late 1960s. I recorded it November 3, 2013.
I answered her on 12/27/2017  thusly:
A few years ago you said this when you commented on a recording of mine:
“You know you have a wonderful “Radio” speaking voice! I could just imagine you being a DJ on a classic song station.”

Well I was an announcer on an old time station in the late 1960s.
The songs from then and the older ones we played are classic now I suppose.
I’ve attempted to make my SingSnap studio just that, a classic song station.”

Once in Austria as a missionary, an lady asked my companion, Reiner Essyer, who’d been a DJ in SLC, the difference
between a “DJ” and a “Radio Speecher” (announcer).    I glossed over the question as he didn’t know that I had been an announcer.
The difference?

A DJ just announces and spins records much like Mary Collins in the movie “Something in The Wind”, a movie about
a DJ, played by Deanna Durbin.
An announcer, like I was, does everything at a station: plays records, is a partial engineer, speaks commercial ads,
writes copy, reports the news, Station Ids, etc. He does everything at a station. A radio DJ doesn’t. Nor does a dance DJ.
That’s the difference.

 

Remembering my days at KDXU radio during the late 1960s

Posted by on 25 Feb 2013 | Tagged as: blog

I worked at KDXU radio 1450 am during the late 1960s.  At a concert where I sang recently,  I told about the radio station between songs relating the kinds of equipment we used to play music, turntables for 45s and LPs, reel to reel tape players, 8 track tape players etc.

Afterwards, a man came up and said, “You must have seen a lot of changes here over the years.”  Yes I have. 

And so I wrote about some of those experiences at the radio station and added a few slides to my reading and published it on You Tube.

Some of what happened was humorous and so I think you’ll like listening to the 7 min 36 sec. presentation.   It’s at:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKcOjrUNb8

Let me know how you like it.

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