Hunter Hancock

A San Antonio, Tx disk jockey on place KMAC, Hancock moved to California and worked being a jazz presenter on radio place KFVD (latterly KPOP) in LA in 1943. Switching solely to what afterwards progressed into R&B, Hancock released his Harlem Matinee radio present in June 1948, and became known for his outrageous hollering and screaming. In playing the brand new music in those days, he predated Alan Freed by many years. Hancock was shortly a popular body at the countless black night clubs on Central Avenue. He became friends with Johnny Otis and presided over many displays at Otis’ Barrelhouse membership. In 1951, Hancock provided two concert displays, The Blues & Tempo Midnight Matinee, in the Olympic Auditorium, showcasing regional black artists such as for example Floyd Dixon, Big Jay McNeely, Maxwell Davis and Peppermint Harris. The outcomes have been recently issued for the very first time on Sweden’s Path 66 label. Hancock continued to be an advocate for R&B through the entire 50s, shifting to KGFJ and KFOX and back again to KPOP, and in Feb 1959 he produced his very own Swingin’ label, structured near Sunset Boulevard. His initial discharge was ‘There Is certainly Something ON YOUR OWN Brain’ by Big Jay McNeely which have been recorded 2 yrs earlier, but still reached # 5 5 in the R&B graphs. Swingin’, and its own sister label Magnum, ceased business in past due 1964 after many dozen R&B and vocal group produces by such performers as Marvin And Johnny, Joe Houston and Rochell AS WELL AS THE Candles. At the moment Hancock was still a disk jockey on KGFJ; he retired from your music business in 1968.