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Photo: WDAS The
Soul Surfers Soul
Sound Survey (mid
1960's) clockwise:
Carl Helm, Joe
"Butterball"
Tamburro, Larry
Dailey, Kae Williams,
Jimmy Bishop, Jocko
in the center
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Listen to an audio clip from 1986 Kae Williams at WDAS AM
"Daddy" Kae Williams on air reflections about Jocko Henderson. Photo taken at the
Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Music Association Awards. The Kae Williams' audio is
from his radio show later that day on 1310 WSSJ in Camden, New Jersey.
Follow the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page
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Jocko Henderson at
the Broadcasters
Pioneers Dinner and
Ceremony
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"JOCKO" & The Rocket Ship Show
"The original rapper" - Jocko was the inspiration behind early Hip Hop
and rap music that started in New York City in the mid 1970's.
"Not the duplicator...not the imitator ...not the impersonator ...but the ORIGINATOR!"
"Eee-tiddlee-dock, this is the Jock! Back on the scene with the record machine" "Oo-papa-doo, how do
you do?"
"Great Googamooga," "Mommy-Os and Daddy-Os"
Rap recording (1979) 'Rhythm talk' .... 'I'm the midleweight champ at 163, you've gotta be bad to hang
with me".
Rhymin', jivin' and jockin' - that was Jocko Henderson - the fast-paced deejay often called the original
rapper.
"Jocko" Audio Clips 1 2 3 WOV (1957) 4 5 6 WADO (1964)
7 8 9 WCBS FM 101 reunion shows (1991)
WDAS Alumni Day (1982)
Douglas Wendell Henderson Sr., started in radio in his native Baltimore in the early 50's. The world can
thank WBAL Baltimore dee-jay Chuck Richards for getting Jocko into radio in the first place. In 1950,
Richards, a family friend, invited Jocko to the studio one night and the young man was hooked. To him, it
seemed more exciting and more financially promising than the future his father had in mind for him, that
of an educator. It may have been more exciting for him, but the pay for his first radio job was less than
grandioise: $1.00 an hour. Nevertheless, Jocko went into radio at that wage at 1,000-watt daytimer WSID
in Baltimore.
Within seven months, Jocko was off to WHAT Philadelphia for $120 a week and just a few months after
that, moved into the big time at Philly's legendary WDAS. Starting in the late fifties, he began his
commuting act - doing 6-9 a.m. at WLIB New York and 4-7 p.m. at WDAS. Later, he switched to doing 4-6
p.m. on WDAS and 10 p.m.-12 midnight on WOV (later called WADO) and later WWRL (the nighttime
show lasted 20 years).
Finally, tired of the commute, he decided to tape shows at home in his den. At one time, he had daily
two-hour taped shows for stations in Boston, New York, St. Louis and Detroit, a three-hour program for a
Miami station, in addition to his Philadelphia show. After two years of that exhaustive routine, he took a
break to concentrate on a TV show, "Jocko's Rocket Ship Show", on Channel 13 WNTA New York. That
lasted for about a year. Eventually, the travel got to be too much for him so he taped the New York show
while adding several other cities to his network. He still did the WDAS gig live and continued there until
1974.
In the '80s and '90s, Henderson entertained a whole new generation of fans at New York oldies station
WCBS-FM. He made several on-air appearances at the 'CBS deejay reunions.
Jocko's son, Doug Henderson, Jr., has been on the air in Philadelphia since the late 1970's, mainly with
WDAS FM, and presently holds down the weekend afternoon shift there.
This popular and personable announcer died July 15, 2000 in Philadelphia after a long illness. He was 82.
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