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Sonny ‘The Mighty Burner’ Hopson, radio DJ, club owner, and one of Philly’s most distinctive voices, has died at 85

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Harold “Sonny” Hopson, 85, of Philadelphia, a radio disc jockey, nightclub owner, concert promoter, and record producer whose professional savvy and wealth of connections made him a fixture of the city’s Black music scene in the 1960s and beyond, died Saturday, Jan. 21, of complications from dementia at his Center City home.

Known on the air as “The Mighty Burner” and “Soul Sound Sonny,” Mr. Hopson understood the city and its music but knew broadcasting only as a listener when he got hired to spin records at WHAT-AM beginning in 1965.

Black-formatted AM radio was a musical, commercial, and political force in Philly at the time and was dominated by WDAS, the home of already legendary disc jockeys such as Georgie Woods. But Mr. Hopson quickly made a name for himself.
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Former WHAT-AM host Harold Sonny Hopson deceased at 85.
 
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