I was thinking about getting into DJing or being a disc jockey, do you know anything about that profession?
Well I know that DJs are people who play recorded music in front of a live audience.
Yes that does sound correct, do you know when DJing first started?
The first time the term "disc jockey" showed up in print was in 1941 in Variety magazine.
Wow that's a lot older than I thought, do you know anything else about the history of DJs?
In 1935, Walter Winchell, an american radio commentator coined the phrase "disc jockey" as a description of the first radio announcer to become famous, Martin Block.
Oh so that's where the name came from. Can you tell me more about Martin Block?
He was born in 1903 and died in 1967. He was an American DJ.
Right I understand he was a DJ, what else can you tell me about him though?
I don't know much else about him. But I do know that the "disc" in disc jockey originally referred to gramaphone records.