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  1. 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.

  2. 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 York...

  3. Oct 21, 2000 · 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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  4. 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 “Good Guys” in 1968.

  5. WBLS - 'In A Class By Itself' - The 1970's, Frankie Crocker, Building a Station - YouTube. 140K subscribers. Subscribed. 691. 32K views 4 years ago. We're kicking off our first Black Music...

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  6. 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.

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  8. Jun 9, 2020 · Learn how Frankie Crocker opened doors for the black voices in radio, music, and TV. He was a program director, host, producer, and administrator who worked at WBLS and other stations, and launched the careers of many stars.