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Jocko Henderson
For seven years beginning in the mid-1950s, Douglas (“Jocko”) Henderson commuted daily between Philadelphia, where he broadcast on WDAS, and New York City, where his two-hour late-evening Rocket Ship Show on WLIB was a particularly wild ride. “Hey, mommio, hey, daddio,” he announced, “this is your spaceman Jocko . . . three, two, one: blast-off time!” At a time when many black rhythm-and-blues disc jockeys were urged by their station owners to rant and rave, Henderson delivered smooth, finger-snapping rhymes following the model of deejay Maurice (“Hot Rod”) Hulbert, who had done a stint in Henderson’s hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. ...(100 of 174 words)