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Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, 1933)[1] is an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host, and television producer. In his six-decade career, he is best known for hosting Gambit from 1972 to 1976 (and again from 1980 to 1981), Tic-Tac-Dough from 1978 to 1985, High Rollers from 1987 to 1988, and Debt from 1996 to 1998.
Career
Radio
Martindale was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and started his career as a disc jockey at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $1.02 a week.[2][unreliable source?]
After moving to WTJS, he was hired away for double the salary by Jackson's only ...
Matt The Cat spent the better part of the last decade howlin’ nightly to a national audience over XM Satellite Radio’s 50s channel. On weeknight The Night Prowl Show with Matt The Cat took radio listeners prowling around the back alleys of early rock n’ roll and rhythm and blues. Matt interviewed and profiled such rock n’ roll legends as Lloyd Price, Aaron Neville, Big Jay McNeely, Dale Hawkins, Earl “Speedo” Carroll of The Cadillacs. Also Earl Lewis of the Channels, Pookie Hudson of The Spaniels, Sonny Burgess, Johnny Maestro and rockabilly guitar king James Burton just to name a few. Matt’s focus on doo wop, R&B, r...
Kooper himself is a man who lives the Cocktail Nation life full-time, wearing vintage attire, living in a penthouse bachelor pad, and driving the 1964 Austin Healey sports car. He hosts Cocktail Nation, an internationally Syndicated radio show across twenty radio stations along with the very popular podcast.This Man's Man, Ladies Man and Man about Town provides the globe with the best in new and vintage Exotica and Lounge music each week plus he talks to the movers and shakers of the lounge and tiki scene.He is a DJ, writer and voiceover artist, known around Sydney town as a hepster always on the lookout for some crazy music. He mostly listens to lounge and exotica and loves the n...
Beth has extensive on-air radio DJ and production experience, as well as conducted exclusive interviews with artists such as Keb’ Mo’, The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thornton), Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records), Mitch Mann (Fiddleworms), David Hood (The Swampers), Jimmy Hughes (“Steal Away”), James Counts (The Midnighters), Paul Thorn, Kenny Neal, Southern Halo, Phil Vassar and so many more. Her “Beth’s Blues Break” segment can be heard worldwide and be on the lookout for a new radio show called “Boppin’ With Beth” coming soon. Beth digs deep to find unique airplay opportunities for each artist.
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as a young boy, Jack Ellsworth began collecting records -with a dream to one day share his favorite music and have his own radio show. After his work as a Marine combat correspondent during WWII, being sought after by MGM for movies and developing friendships with the likes of Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and even Frank Sinatra, Jack decided to pursue his dream of radio.
In 1948, Jack walked into WHIM in Providence, his record collection under one arm, hoping for a job. Fortunately, a smart program director heard Jack's golden voice, noted his amazing knowledge of current music, hired him on the spot and...
The Radium Hot Club, previously Swing Time with Sizzlin' Jim is your weekly radio treat playing the best mix of Swing, Jazz, R&B & Blues from the 20's to the early 50's, all combined with snippets of trivia & the back story to the artists of the time. Featuring the best in contemporary music on the vintage scene and live sets.
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Bryan S. Wright, Ph.D., is a pianist and musicologist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is presently an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the founder and owner of Rivermont Records, a label specializing in ragtime and jazz.
A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, Bryan first showed musical interest as a toddler and began classical piano lessons with Sandra Horwege at age 5. Violin lessons were added two years later. In his early teens, Bryan became keenly interested in ragtime, jazz, and related styles, adding pieces by Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and others to his repertoire. By 15 he was host of a popular weekly radio program, Sunday Night Nostalgia, heard in C...
