5 Hank Spann
Hank Spann was always one of my favorite industry people. He once told me during a panel we were on (I always despised urban radio conference panels) “Kevin, you are a genius. The way you marketed your magazine (Radio Facts ) was brilliant.” I was honored by that and will never forget it.
I am ashamed to say that I had no idea Hank was a Buffalo radio Radio DJ back in the day. He made a masterful transition from radio to records and that was something MANY Radio DJs wanted to do but were never able to. His son, Master DJ Tony Soul, is a dj extraordinaire and currently living in Taiwan as he continues Hank’s phenomenal dj legacy. This memorial tribute video is a brilliant bio of Hank Spann’s legacy in the urban industry”
Growing up in Detroit, I went to school with Donnie Simpson, who was also known as “The Love Bug” but I think you missed including a woman perhaps more influential than Donnie who was on WJLB at the same time. Martha Jean “The Queen!” I will NEVER forget the Queen on the air during the Detroit Riots in ’67 urging citizens “Go back to your homes! There is nothing for you in the Streets!” I get chills remembering her, and wonder if there are any airchecks of those chilling days. Martha Jean will always be the epitome of what urban Community Radio is all about. The soul and the Mother of the Community.
FOR BEST FEMALE SINGER: FANTASIA
AND I THINK WE LEFT OFF ” XSCAPE ” FOR BEST BLACK FEMALE GROUP
Herb Kent #10
I’m having a hard time with that. Herb has been on the air in EVERY DECADE since the 40’s that’s 70 years of broadcasting. http://www.radiohof.org/herb_kent.htm. He should be higher. And the list should be longer to include more females especially Yvonne Daniels and Hattie Leeper
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