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Caption: Big Jay McNeely's back-up group and L.A. disc-jockey, Hunter Hancock (left), at the Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, October 1950. © 1978 Bob Willoughby / MPTV Modern silver gelatin, 12x9.5, signed. $750
About Hunter Dunagan Hancock
Born: April 21, 1916
Star sign: Taurus
Source: IMDB
Hunter Hancock was a disc jockey generally regarded as the first DJ in the western U.S. to play R&B to a mostly white audience (in the mid-1940s), and is also generally credited with being the first DJ to play rock 'n' roll in the area in the early 1950s (most L.A. DJs of the time wouldn't touch it). In 1950 the Arbitron radio ratings system ...
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