DJ spin that shit

My colleague has just revealed that he was once a DJ – not a dinner jacket…a Disc Jockey! Power to the vinyl then cause my colleague is sixty plus…
It made me wonder when exactly it was that the first man/woman declared him/herself king of selecting music for a mass audience…
I remember all the times at house parties when there was always one person who took charge of the music…sometimes to great success, but most times to loud boos and and spectacular failure…Come on we have all been there…ramming our personal musical tastes down others throats…
Having no idea when this demy god like job first came into being I decided to wikki wikki Wikipedia it!
The world's first radio disc jockey was Ray Newby, of Stockton, California. In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small spark transmitter while a student at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, located in San Jose, California, under the authority of radio pioneer Charles "Doc" Herrold.
In 1935, American commentator Walter Winchell coined the term "disc jockey" (the combination of "disc" (referring to the disc records) and "jockey" (which is an operator of a machine) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star. While his audience was awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block played records and created the illusion that he was broadcasting from a ballroom, with the nation’s top dance bands performing live. The show, which he called Make Believe Ballroom, was an instant hit. The term "disc jockey" appeared in print in Variety in 1941.
In 1943, Jimmy Savile launched the world's first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in Otley, England. In 1947, he became the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play. Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first discothèque, or disco (deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band).
So there you have it…and so it continued and so it is possible that my colleague was a DJ…just perhaps not as I imagine a DJ to look, hawaian shirt buttoned half way up, or white muscle top and dark sun glasses nodding his head continuously, looking for some reaction from the crowd and pointing to the roof, with lips pursed every so often with a disco smile flashing across his self ritious face…Nice one brother!