Edition #1404 |
Talent: YVONNE DANIELS
Station: WLS Chicago
Date: July 3, 1981
Time: 43:30 (unscoped)
8:16
(scoped)
She was the First Lady of Chicago Radio, with
a sultry voice that boomed throughout much of the U.S. and Canada
via the clear channel signal of Chicago's WLS.
She was also a pioneer, a woman on the air at a major top 40
radio station when women weren't nearly as commonplace as on the
air as they are now. And there was another barrier to break - she
was African-American. Yvonne Daniels rose
above it all to become of the legendary deejays of the Top 40
era, making her fame at the Big 89. She was there in the
overnight slot from 1973 to 1982 as the first female jock on WLS and
the first to work full-time on Chicago AM radio.
After Daniels left WLS, she jocked at Chicago stations WVON, WGCI and smooth jazz-formatted WNUA. Prior to WLS - from 1964 to 1973 - she hosted Daniels Den on WSDM Chicago, the nation's first all-female station (she was the only jock there who used her own name on the air.) Before WSDM, Daniels was at Chicago stations WNYR and WCFL after starting her career in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, and working for a time as jazz singer (her father was jazz singer/dancer Billy Daniels.)
Daniels died of breast cancer in 1991 at the age of 53. She was posthumously inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995. Yvonne Daniels Way in Chicago is named after her.
Hear Yvonne Daniels (UNSCOPED) here. 
Hear Yvonne Daniels (SCOPED) here.
(The Don Shuttleworth Collection)
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