Gold Star Oldies Radio Studios in OKC
February 19 2026
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Black History Month
A Brief History of Black Heritage Month
Black Heritage Month traces its origins to the early 20th century, when historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson recognized that the achievements of Black Americans were largely ignored in mainstream history. In 1915, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (later ASALH) to promote the study of Black history and culture.
In 1926, Woodson and ASALH launched Negro History Week, choosing the second week of February to align with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two figures deeply connected to Black freedom and civil rights.
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DOT Records
DOT RECORDS — THE TRUE ORIGINS (1950–1953)
Dot Records didn’t start as a national pop label. It began as a tiny Gallatin, Tennessee operation founded by:
🎙️ Randy Wood
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A radio engineer and record-store owner
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Ran the “Record Shop” in Gallatin
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Took listener requests from WLAC’s 50,000‑watt nighttime R&B broadcasts
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Noticed that many of the songs listeners wanted were not available on records
So he did what any great early‑50s entrepreneur did: He started a label to fill the gaps.
THE EARLY DOT SOUND (1950–1953)
Dot’s first years were not Pat Boone, Gale Storm, or the big pop hits. The early catalog is a mix of:
1. Southern gospel
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The LeFevres
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The Statesmen Quartet
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The Oak Ridge Quartet (pre–Oak Ridge Boys)
2. Hillbilly & country boogie
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Billy Vaughn (before he became Dot’s arranger)
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Jimmie & Johnny
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The Willis Brothers
3. Regional R&B and teen novelties
This is the part you’ll appreciate most — Dot issued local Tennessee and Kentucky R&B that bigger labels ignored.
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Birthdays Singers and Song Writers
1943 - Lou Christie
American pop and soft rock singer-songwriter Lou Christie, who had the 1966 US No.1 single 'Lightnin Strikes', and the 1969 UK No.2 single 'I'm Gonna Make You Mine'. Christie died from cancer on 18 June 2025, at the age of 82.
1940 - Bobby Rogers
American musician and tenor singer Bobby Rogers, singer with The Miracles who had the 1970 UK & US No.1 single with Smokey Robinson 'Tears of a Clown'. Rogers died on March 3, 2013, at the age of 73.
1940 - Smokey Robinson
American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive Smokey Robinson. With The Miracles he had the 1970 UK & US No.1 single 'The Tears Of A Clown'. As a solo artist Robinson scored the 1981 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'Being With You'. He became the vice President of Motown Records in 1972. During the course of his 50-year career in music, Robinson has accumulated more than 4,000 songs to his credit.
Early Beatles News
1965 - The Beatles
Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded a new John Lennon song 'You're Going To Lose That Girl' in two takes. The track was released on the Help! album.
1964 - The Beatles
A British company shipped ½ ton of Beatle wigs to the US. An American reporter later asked John Lennon, "How do you feel about teenagers imitating you with Beatle wigs?" John replied "They're not imitating us because we don't wear Beatle wigs."
Music News For The Week
February 19, 1878 — Inventor Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1952 — Seventeen-year-old Gene Vincent of Norfolk, Virginia enters the U.S. Navy under his real name, Vincent Eugene Craddock.
1956 — The Five Satins record the doo wop classic "In The Still Of The Nite" in the basement of Saint Bernadette Church in New Haven, Connecticut.
1958 — Carl Perkins leaves the small Sun Records in Memphis to join the major New York label Columbia as its first rockabilly artist. He has no hits there. In fact, he has had none since his second Sun release, "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1955, became the first record to appear simultaneously on the pop, R&B, and country music charts (reaching #1 or #2 on all three), but he is a major influence on the Beatles and other rockers and is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1958 — The Miracles' first single, "Got A Job," is issued by End Records on Smokey Robinson's 18th birthday. It's an answer to the Silhouettes' #1 hit, "Get A Job," but it does not chart.
1981 — ABKCO Music, owner of the publishing rights to the 1963 Chiffons hit "He's So Fine," is awarded $587,000 from George Harrison, who had been found guilty five years earlier of subconsciously plagiarizing the song in his 1969 composition "My Sweet Lord," which he said he had written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna.
Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
calendar.songfacts.com
onthisday.com/music
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