Cool Bobby B
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Radio
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disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
who hosts a doo-wop
Doo-wop
The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and...
oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
radio program called Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop
Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop
Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop is a syndicated radio show hosted by Cool Bobby B. The production company is Cool Bobby B Radio Syndication, LLC.The weekly radio show is dedicated solely to playing the best in doo wop music....
. This show is syndicated on local radio stations throughout the United States and can also be heard on the Sirius XM Satellite Radio channel '50s on 5. Though he is currently based out of Cincinnati, the introduction to his program suggests that when he was a youth in Pennsylvania in the 1950s, he ended up on the wanted list after he broke into a radio station and illegally cranked up the transmitter power to a million watts so he can air his doo-wop records to be heard throughout the eastern portion of the United States. 50 thousand watts is maximum power which must be approved first by the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC). It is also mentioned that his program emanates from an undisclosed location as he is "still wanted to this day".
Cool Bobby B's favorite group has been noted to be Kenny Vance and the Planotones.
His trademark sunglasses and cowbell are used on the air to this day as well.
Past appearances
See also
- Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop StopCool Bobby B's Doo Wop StopCool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop is a syndicated radio show hosted by Cool Bobby B. The production company is Cool Bobby B Radio Syndication, LLC.The weekly radio show is dedicated solely to playing the best in doo wop music....
(complete list of stations which feature Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop)
External links (with streaming audio)
- Cool Bobby B's MySpace page (which Cool Bobby B personally maintains)
- Official Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop site (previously recorded programs)
- Rock It Radio Ventura,CA (Friday evenings..plus archived audio)
- Flaming Oldies website (Saturday nights)
- SiriusXM Satellite Radio on "The 50s" audio channel (Sunday evenings 6 pm Eastern)
- Format Lab audiostream website from Clear Channel Communications (scroll down and click on "Real Oldies" channel 505(Sunday evenings)