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  • Pervis Spann (August 16, 1932 – March 14, 2022) was an American broadcaster, music promoter, and radio personality. He was a disc jockey on WVON and was...
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  • operations officer Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher Otis Spann, American blues musician Pervis Spann, American radio broadcaster Scott Spann (swimmer), American...
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  • Momma's House. For several years, Wright teamed with Chicago radio legend Pervis Spann, playing a misguided and mischievous reverend on his Chicago television...
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  • Franklin, who was crowned the "Queen of Soul" on stage by disk jockey Pervis Spann in 1968. Michael Jackson and Madonna have been closely associated with...
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    activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) member Pervis Spann, broadcaster and music promoter "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States...
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    in Chicago, WVON radio personality Pervis Spann announced that Franklin should be crowned "the Queen of Soul". Spann ceremonially placed a crown on her...
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  • "Youngblood" Cobb, Ed "Nassau Daddy" Cook, Bill "Butterball" Crane, Pervis Spann, Don Cornelius, Sid McCoy (who would accompany Cornelius when he formed...
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    sargeant, defeated candidate Alfred Walter Balciunas and radio executive Pervis Spann by a large double-digit margin. James R. Hutchison won the Harold Washington...
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  • were in the former Oak Park Arms Hotel, now a retirement community. Pervis Spann began his radio career on WOPA in 1959. In 1984, the station's call sign...
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    Aretha Franklin was crowned, "the Queen of Soul" by music promoter Pervis Spann. B.B. King recorded his famous live album Live at the Regal at the theater...
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    Charters John Wesley Work III 2012 Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau Doc Pomus Pervis Spann 2013 Cosimo Matassa Dave Clark Henry Glover 2014 Mike Kappus Don Robey...
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  • 1939) Michael F. Price, 70, value investor and philanthropist (b. 1951) Pervis Spann, 89, broadcaster, music promoter and radio personality (WVON) (b. 1932)...
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  • Board – tenor saxophone Kenny "Kenneth" Sands – trumpet E. Rodney Jones, Pervis Spann – presenters Technical Ron Steele Sr. – recording engineer Don Bronstein –...
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  • ERP and HAAT were increased to 3,550 watts and 260 feet respectively. Pervis Spann began his radio career on WOPA in 1959. In 1962, the station's ERP was...
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    American-Canadian disc jockey and game show host (d. 2014) August 16 – Pervis Spann, African-American radio broadcaster (d. 2022) August 20 – Bill Hudson...
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  • politician, Mexico City MLA (2000–2003), complications from COVID-19. Pervis Spann, 89, American broadcaster, music promoter and radio personality (WVON)...
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  • the time. Powerful, now legendary, disc jockeys E. Rodney Jones and Pervis Spann of Chicago's fabled black AM radio station WVON, told Keith they had...
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    on the station at this time included Daddy-O Daylie and Dick Buckley. Pervis Spann hosted an overnight blues show. In 1984, the station was sold to Cox...
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    1946 Fletcher Henderson: February, 1946 When DJs E. Rodney Jones and Pervis Spann re-opened the venue under the new name, Cannonball Adderley's quintet...
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  • Gianni Boncompagni, Italian broadcast presenter (died 2017). 16 August – Pervis Spann, American disc jockey (died 2022). 13 September – Dick Biondi, American...
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