Miami Herald – 1964 Disc Jockey’s Charges Lifted Charges against Milton Butterball Smith, a former football star now a disc jockey on radio station WMBM, were dropped Tuesday in Miami Beach Municipal Court. A station engineer, Jack Caldwell, had charged…
The year was 1963. The location was Miami; Overtown to be specific, at the Birdland Fiesta, a club in the historic Mary Elizabeth Hotel. Little Willie John and Dizzy Jones were headlining another epic battle of hit songs in a…
Milton “Butterball” Smith was one of America’s 13 Original R&B DJ’s as noted by Jack The Rapper (Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.) and worked on various radio stations in South Florida. His pioneering work in broadcast coincided with the careers of…
“I started in Miami like this. A friend of mine took me to a talent show. Benny owned a barber shop and took me under his wing. I didn’t know nobody. My girlfriend took me by the barbershop to get…
From Miami to the world! Miami radio in 1963 was a major force in national playlists for R&B, pop, and dance music not only in the U.S., but the Caribbean as well. Even a little AM station like WMBM could be picked…
Who Was Milton “Butterball” Smith? Article ©Jacob Katel DJ Milton “Butterball” Smith was a pioneering broadcaster of epic proportions who got his start on Florida radio in 1952 on Miami’s WFEC . He was one of America’s first R&B DJ’s,…
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