0_Apprentice
I was thinking about getting into DJing or being a disc jockey, do you know anything about that profession?
1_Wizard
Well I know that DJs are people who play recorded music in front of a live audience.
0_Apprentice
Yes that does sound correct, do you know when DJing first started?
1_Wizard
The first time the term "disc jockey" showed up in print was in 1941 in Variety magazine.
0_Apprentice
Wow that's a lot older than I thought, do you know anything else about the history of DJs?
1_Wizard
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.
0_Apprentice
Oh so that's where the name came from. Can you tell me more about Martin Block?
1_Wizard
He was born in 1903 and died in 1967. He was an American DJ.
0_Apprentice
Right I understand he was a DJ, what else can you tell me about him though?
1_Wizard
I don't know much else about him. But I do know that the "disc" in disc jockey originally referred to gramaphone records.