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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 in New...
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.
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.
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A native of Buffalo, New York, Crocker began his career in radio at WUFO while studying law at the University of Buffalo. Crocker worked for radio stations in cities like Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Chicago, but it was in his home state of New York that his career took flight.
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.
Oct 23, 2000 · Frankie Crocker, a top disc jockey, radio personality and program director for New York's popular WBLS-FM radio station for three decades, died Saturday of cancer. He began his radio career while...
Jun 9, 2020 · Frankie Crocker-One of the World’s most influential Black Radio Legends! A young Crocker moved from his hometown in Buffalo New York City in 1969 to build his radio career, landing at several stations before joining then newly-launched WBLS the early 1970’s.
A pioneer of black radio who made WBLS a musical leader in New York City.
Remembering the 'Chief Rocker' Frankie Crocker and the importance of pioneering African American disk jockeys to their communities.
