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Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker (December 18, 1937 – October 21, 2000) was an American disc jockey, VH-1 VJ, TV host and actor. Crocker helped grow WBLS, the urban adult contemporary and black music radio station, into the #1 station in New York City in the late 1970s.
Oct 24, 2000 · Frankie Crocker, a veteran radio broadcaster and program director who helped catapult WBLS-FM, the black-music format radio station, to the No. 1 spot among listeners ages 18 to 34...
Frankie Crocker (1937-12-18 | 2000-10-21) - Frankie 'Hollywood' Crocker (December 18, 1937, Buffalo, New York – October 21, 2000, aged 62 North Miami Beach, Florida) was an American, New York radio DJ.
WBLS - 'In A Class By Itself' - The 1970's, Frankie Crocker, Building a Station - YouTube. 140K subscribers. Subscribed. 691. 32K views 4 years ago. We're kicking off our first Black Music...
Frankie Crocker was the flamboyant kingpin of disco radio, though he had never singled out dance music as a specialty. He played rhythm and blues and jazz on the radio in his hometown of Buffalo, New York; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and in Los Angeles before joining WMCA in New York as one of the “Good Guys” in 1968.
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker was an air personality and program director, most closely associated the dominant radio station in New York City, WBLS-FM, the black music radio station in New York. Crocker began his career in Buffalo on WUFO-AM, before moving to Manhattan, where he first worked for Soul station WWRL and later top-40 WMCA in 1969.
Jun 9, 2020 · Learn how Frankie Crocker opened doors for the black voices in radio, music, and TV. He was a program director, host, producer, and administrator who worked at WBLS and other stations, and launched the careers of many stars.
