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Alison Steele was an American radio personality who was also known by her air name, The Nightbird. She amassed a large audience on her night shifts on WNEW-FM in New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s. Her show featured progressive rock and artists associated with the counterculture of the time, combined with listeners' calls and Steele ...
Jun 11, 2021 · Language. English. Sultry-voiced disk jockey Alison Steele on her WNEW-FM radio show The Nightbird in New York City on 2/11/1969. During WNEW's early days as a free form radio pioneer, the radio hosts were all women. 18 months later, Alison was the only woman left on the air.
Alison Steele (born Ceil Loman; January 26, 1937 – September 27, 1995) was an American radio personality who was also known by her air name, The Nightbird. She amassed a large and loyal following on her night shifts on WNEW-FM in New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Sep 28, 1995 · Published: September 28, 1995. Alison Steele, whose sultry voice and iron will helped her become one of the first women in the country to be hired as a disk jockey, died yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 58.Ms. Steele, who lived in Manhattan, died of cancer, her family said.
Mar 25, 2020 · March 25, 2020 by CRHAdmin. If you were a New Yorker in the late sixties and seventies, liked music and were a night owl…you definitely remember “The Nightbird,” Alison Steele. A NYC native–Brooklyn–she was a member of a 1966 “all-girl” WNEW format. The show didn’t prove popular and all the “girls” except Alison were let go.
Alison Steele. Jump to Edit. Overview. Born. January 26, 1937 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died. September 27, 1995 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA (stomach cancer) Birth name. Ceil Loman. Nickname. The Nightbird. Mini Bio.
Sep 28, 1995 · Born around 1937 in Brooklyn, New York; died in September 1995 in New York City; sister of Joyce Loman (who operated a feline boutique with her sister called Just Cats); married Ted Steele, a bandleader (divorced). Alison Steele, one of America's first female rock 'n' roll disc jockeys, began her broadcasting career as an errand girl at the age ...
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