3 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW..

·        The first disc jockey was actually an experiment! In 1909, asixteen-year-old boy named Ray Newby played the first records over the airwaveslong before the words disc jockey even existed.

·        Disc Jockeys used to hide the labels of their records so listeners wouldhave to guess which records the tracks they played were from.

·        In the ’70s, party goers would come to hear and see 2 DJs at the sameparty blasting each other with their sounds – this became known as a DJ soundclash.

·        Being a DJ requires being a person in a highly skilled technical artform.  It has a deep history and takes hours of practice which needs ahigh level of musical knowledge.

·        Walter Winchell coined the term disc jockey in the 1930s.

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