Frankie Crocker built the legacy that WBLS will be celebrating with DJ Cassidy and Chuck Chillout in honor of the station's 50th anniversary. When legendary WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker broke McFadden & ...

Frankie Crocker, a veteran radio broadcaster and program director who helped catapult WBLS-FM, a black-music format radio station, to the No. 1 spot among listeners ages 18 to 34 in New York City ...

Wendy Williams paused on her afternoon show over WBLS (107. 5 FM) Wednesday to remember Frankie Crocker, the stylish jock who took WBLS to the top back in the 1970s. Crocker, who died in 2000, would ...

NEW YORK - CIRCA 1977: WBLS Program Director Frankie Crocker (left) and guest are pictured with singer Billy Eckstine at an event in circa 1977 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs ...

Pierre Sutton and Al Sharpton remembered how Frankie Crocker changed radio in America. Ricky Ricardo remembered that Frankie taught him how to comb his hair and talk to girls. Everyone chipped in with ...

"If Frankie Crocker isn't on your radio, your radio isn't really on." Not many radio personalities could get away with a line like that, but for the Buffalo native who died Saturday of pancreatic ...

During the most of the 1970s and early 1980s, when the late radio personality Frankie Crocker would conclude his late afternoon/early evening shift on New York City powerhouse FM outlet WBLS, he would ...

Frankie Crocker, a top disc jockey, radio personality and program director for New York's popular WBLS-FM radio station for three decades, died Saturday of cancer. He began his radio career while ...

When legendary WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker broke McFadden & Whitehead’s “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now” — the 1979 Philly soul classic ...

In 1983, Frankie Crocker (left) met with Michael Jackson at the Black Radio Exclusive Convention in Los Angeles. Jeffrey Mayer When legendary WBLS DJ Frankie Crocker broke McFadden & Whitehead’s ...