Frankie Crocker
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Oct 15, 2026
speaker_18SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And here he is.
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Frankie Crocker.
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Wow.
speaker_18SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yay!
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Eight minutes past 6:00 in the apple with Fast Frankie Crocker.
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hey baby, happy midweek on you.
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Santana, Evil Ways at 10 minutes past 6:00.
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WMCA, 20 minutes past 6:00.
DeJuan BPANELIST
The Make the Funk the P-Funk, all that stuff was him redoing Jocko Henderson rapping, and Jocko Henderson was one of the biggest name.
DeJuan BPANELIST
Frankie Crocker.
Mickey FactzPANELIST
Right.
DeJuan BPANELIST
And you had, there was an era between 1940 and about 1970, and the payola scandal, 1973.
DeJuan BPANELIST
I mean-
Mickey FactzPANELIST
Mm
DeJuan BPANELIST
... he's the most powerful, him and Frankie Crocker, they're the two most powerful people in music, period.
Mickey FactzPANELIST
Right.
Sandra St. VictorGUEST
I was like, "Oh, snap." But what happened with that song was, uh, why it...
Sandra St. VictorGUEST
I, I will always thank Frankie Crocker 'cause Frankie Crocker was doing a, a DJ res- residency in the UK at the time.
Sandra St. VictorGUEST
And he heard it, and he just started bu- 'cause it was playing over there already.
Sandra St. VictorGUEST
He just started bumping it, and he bumped it the heck out of it and blew it up over there, and then he brought it back to the States.
Tonya PendletonGUEST
And So through radio, we got a chance to listen to a lot of new things, and they truly contributed to that time and people's knowledge of hip-hop music.
Tonya PendletonGUEST
Now, Frankie Crocker was an extremely essential DJ of the period, and he was WBLS.
Tonya PendletonGUEST
And he was a DJ who played a pretty eclectic mix of everything from Bob Marley to early Prince.
Tonya PendletonGUEST
And because of that, he was someone who had a really major impact on the listening ears of the public in New York City in a way that that influence is just not the same now.
KevonHOST
Absolutely.
KevonHOST
I also... 'Cause speaking of, like the radio, um, I noticed that you, you have different radio broadcasters or radio hosts, but one in particular that I want to discuss is Frankie Crocker.
Beaux & BubbaGUEST
Crocker.
Beaux & BubbaGUEST
Yeah.
Beaux & BubbaGUEST
I'm trying to think of the...
Beaux & BubbaGUEST
There is this YouTube channel, and this guy has hundreds and hundreds of archives of, like radio skits and sound bites from the '70s, I think even the '60s, the '80s.
Beaux & BubbaGUEST
And Frankie Crocker-
KevonHOST
Mm
Bev JohnsonHOST
He said people were calling in.
Bev JohnsonHOST
Frankie Crocker, who was a big DJ in, in New York.
Bev JohnsonHOST
Anyway, the documentary is on, it's called Caravan of Hope.
Terry SpicerGUEST
Caravan.
DJ EnvyHOST
[laughs]
speaker_1HOST
Overcharging them for it, then did the Frankie Crocker.
Chris RockGUEST
Right.
Chris RockGUEST
Overcharging them.
Loren LoRosaHOST
[laughs]
DJ EnvyHOST
[laughs]
Chris RockGUEST
For what they did to Frankie Crocker.
Loren LoRosaHOST
[laughs]
Thelma HoustonGUEST
What was the name of that very famous Black DJ in New York, very good-looking guy.
speaker_6HOST
Frankie Crocker.
Thelma HoustonGUEST
Frankie Crocker.
Thelma HoustonGUEST
Going with the, the-
Paul HaeniHOST
Yeah
Thelma HoustonGUEST
...
Thelma HoustonGUEST
Frankie Crocker's, going to that radio station.
Thelma HoustonGUEST
Oh, taking him, uh, case, somebody's, what, what, Heineken beer and Popeye's chicken or something like...
Joe KelleyHOST
Absolutely.
Joe KelleyHOST
My guy was Frankie Crocker out of BLS.
Joe KelleyHOST
Frankie Crocker.
Melvin RileyGUEST
Did you meet
Joe KelleyHOST
Frankie?
Melvin RileyGUEST
I met Frankie Crocker at a couple of industry parties back in the day in New York.
Joe KelleyHOST
Oh, cool, yeah.
Melvin RileyGUEST
Frankie Crocker, oh, yeah.
Don LettsGUEST
others continue to grow you know
speaker_0HOST
and also the same in the same period um magnificent dance the b side of magnificent seven was uh was a really big record at the paradise garage yeah and via that got picked up on wbs because frankie crocker was a friend of larry lavan
Don LettsGUEST
that's right
speaker_0HOST
uh and they dubbed it up
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