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Big Weekend for Georgia Radio

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Ben Sandifer

Saturday night, Hamp "King Bee" Swain will be inducted in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame at the Georgia World Congress Center. The ceremony will be broadcast live, statewide, on GPTV beginning at 8:30 PM. This is a well-deserved honor for Hamp, and everyone who's ever been behind a microphone in the state of Georgia can take pride in this honor. In 1954, Swain became Macon's first African-American deejay, and may have also been the first in the entire state. His contributions to the music industry are unequalled, because of the major roles he played in launching the careers of Little Richard, James Brown and Otis Redding. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame has always recognized the role radio has played in Georgia's music industry, and Swain's induction further illustrates this. Previous people with radio ties who are already inducted include Hugh "Baby" Jarrett (WPLO, WFOM, WSB, WWLV); Elmo Ellis (WSB); Piano Red Perryman (WAOK); Zenas "Daddy" Sears (WGST, WAOK); Bill Lowery (WGST, WQXI); Bill Anderson (WJJC, XM Satellite Radio). Other inductees like Joe South and Ray Stevens may have also been radio personalities early in their careers. Also, on Friday, a square on the Douglass Theatre's "Walk Of Fame" will be unveiled honoring Hamp Swain. This theater is legendary as the place where Otis Redding was discovered, performing at Swain's "Teenage Party Talent Contest," broadcast live on WIBB. And both the city of Macon and the county of Bibb have proclaimed Saturday, September 20, as "Hamp Swain Day." And thanks to the overflow crowd who turned out last Friday night for "Hamp's Hop" at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Hamp, Satellite Papa, Mighty Rock, Disco Pig, Laughing Lafayette, Big George, Honey Bee, Frank Dean Martin and Harris Walker each took a turn on-stage at entertaining the huge crowd and showed why they're all radio legends in Macon.
 
http://steve.asmallorange.com/~belder/hamp/hamps_hop_pictures/

try this link instead, Bill.

Reading over the site, it's nice to remember the good ole days of radio, back before consultants and suits and Wall Street got their hands on it and ruined it. There is not a chance in hell today that a jock would be allowed to choose his own music. And under the current rules of radio programming, James Brown, Otis Redding and Elvis Presley would have never been heard from. If radio is to regain it's prominence, it needs to return to those days.
 
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