I have a job as disc jockey at a radio station. Do you listen to the radio?
Yes, I do. I was a disc jockey when I was in my 20's.  I loved the job.
No way! I think that DJs have a cool history. The discs they first mixed with were gramophone records. Did you play for a radio or nightclub?
I played for a radio station. It was really fun.  I had to learn the mix they wanted.  It was precise
stick or laptop. DJs typically perform for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or a TV, radio broadcast audience, or in the 2010s, an online radio audience. DJs also create mixes, remixes and tracks that are recorded for later sale and distribution. In hip hop music, DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks, basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records. In hip hop, rappers and MCs use these beats to rap over.
DJs use equipment that can play at
and Miami, but we didn't have time to listen to the radio, so I didn't know what was going on [until] we were backing Chubby Checker one night. [T]he disc jockey came runnin' up to me, saying, 'You got the No. 1 record on our station!'" By late June, "Memphis" had risen to No. 4 on Billboard's R&B chart and No. 5 on Billboard's pop chart. According to "The Book of Golden Discs",