Milton “Butterball” Smith’s Soul Explosion
August 21, 2020
WFEC Gospel DJ Vivian Smith R.I.P. – Miami Herald (1985)
VIVIAN SMITH, FORMER TEACHER Vivian Miller Smith, 48, a former teacher at West Dunbar Elementary School, died Thursday at Christian Hospital. Mrs. Smith, who came to Miami in 1952, also was a gospel music disc jockey for WFEC. Her latest…
Milton Butterball Smith Cools Down Neighborhood Disturbance
Miami Herald – August 9, 1968 Guard Called In After Two Die In Shootouts “Then Milton (Butterball) Smith, a WAME radio announcer, took the microphone. He presented three demands. The crowds would go home, he said, only if the police…
Milton Butterball Smith Charges Dropped – Miami Herald (1964)
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…
Butterball from WMBM Hosts Little Willie John and Dizzy Jones at The Birdland Fiesta
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 “Keep Miami Cool” Campaign for Underprivileged Kids
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…
Willie “Little Beaver” Hale’s First Miami Talent Show: “I Sang “Please, Please, Please,” by James Brown”
“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…
Classic 1963 Ad for WMBM 1490 AM – The Community Station
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 up as far away as…
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