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Gary Richardson, Oral History
Gary Richardson (b. Feb 18, 1957) Born to a coal mining family in Praco, Alabama, Gary spent some early years with childhood friends rummaging through junk yards, experimenting with discarded electrical components and such, and evolved into owning…
Manuel Fitch and Roy Wood
Box 8 Folder 40: "Folder 40 contains two envelopes donated by Manuel Fitch, one containing his W-2 from 1986 from WYDE 850AM and the other containing W-2s from 1985 thru 1988 from WAGG 1320AM. Also in this folder, a color picture of Manuel Fitch…
Clippings, Roy Wood
Box 6 Folder 27: "Ok we’re on to folder 27, which is a statement from Brother Eugene Jackson, who is a president of the National Black Radio Network which is the beginning of stations from around the country that are black owned or who want to…
Roy Wood in Chicago
Box 3 Folder 30: "This is folder 30 and it is, we presume, from ‘56. This is a picture of Roy Wood in Chicago, as I recall. Someone is putting his picture up in a walk of fame, something like that. There’s Roy beaming over there. On the background…
Zack "Rack 'm Back Zack" Allen
Box 2 Folder 51: "We are now at folder 51. It is a picture donated by Zack Allan who had a brief history with WJLD back in the ‘50s, would have been around ‘53. He was at the station when Roy Wood Sr. was at the station for a brief period of time.…
Roy Wood
Box 2 Folder 45: "Here we have a picture of Roy Wood. We know he first visited us briefly in 1953, taking the helm of the Atomic Boogie Hour from Bob Umbach when Umbach left WJLD. This was in in the batch of memorabilia received from Candy West,…
Rhythm and Blues Jazz Handbook, edited by Thurston Moore
Box 2 Folder 33: "Now this one, which is number 33, is a gem. It is the actual 1952 Rhythm and Blues Jazz Scrapbook edited by Thurston Moore. Published in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952. Copywrited and patented, but we still copied every page - all 43 -…
Roy Wood Sr.
Box 2 Folder 13: "Moving to folder 13 is a picture from 1950 of Roy Wood Sr. who, this was from July 1950 we approximate, which may have been from his confirmation. Donated by Roy to me. That would have placed him down here. No that would have placed…
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore, Oral History
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore - (b. Nov 8, 1913, d. May 19, 2004) one of the most daring of the radio announcers of the 1950’s, Moore was a blues singer in the 1930’s and 40’s and a gospel singer, minister and radio announcer in the 50’s, in…
Lewis White, Oral History
Lewis White (b. Nov 5, 1932, d. Mar 16, 2017), a broadcaster with WJLD from 1958 to 1972, His show was a weekender characterized as a jazz show later on in his career; however, the BBRM has one of his shows from the early 1960’s that is a total mix.…