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A true Son of the South, Jumpin’ spun rhythm and blues platters — what many called “race records” back in the day — and targeted the local black audience. With his smooth, deep Southern drawl and hip patter, many listeners automatically assumed that G.O. was black.
Nov 22, 2018 · More Cruisin' radio stuff. What more could you expect? Cruisin' 1955 from 1983 is finally here.
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This repeated exposure, coupled with a growing white R&B audience, made "Jumpin' " George Oxford one of the most effective radio personalities of the time. His slogan for the year (you'll hear it here) — a variation on the futile plea in Billboard, "Be alive in '55!")
He was heard on KSAN morning, afternoon and night, 43 hours a week. (Today most rock jocks work only a three-hour shift, six days a week.) This repeated exposure, coupled with a growing white R&B audience, made "Jumpin'" George Oxford one of the most effective radio personalities of the time.
Feb 5, 2019 · Jumpin’ George Oxford, KSAN, KDIA, San Francisco/Oakland: Oxford began at KFRC in 1945 with a poetry program. He wanted to be a newscaster; if he had to play records, he’d prefer classical music.
Aug 8, 2010 · One of the men helping shape the burgeoning rock revolution was "Jumpin'" George Oxford, a mild-mannered white Southern family man who when facing a radio microphone turned into a dapper, jive-talklng rhythm and blues disc jockey, introducing records by black artists for a station beamed to the black market, KSAN In San Francisco.
As detailed in the May 27 article, the suit was resolved when Judge Joseph W. Murphy accepted an agreement between the two stations that allowed Oxford to legally work at KDIA beginning on July 1, 1960, but barred him from using either “Jumpin'” or “Ole” as part of his air name.
