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where did the word disc jockey come from?

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1. Disc = vinyl records Jockey = loads records on the record player.
2. The racehorse rider is only one of several meanings of the word jockey. Another, which I think fitting, is - to change the position of something by a series of movements. In other words, jockeying a disc onto a turntable. Edit- According to Wiki, Edison surrendered his cylinder to the disc in 1929. Walter Winchell is credited with inventing the term "disc jockey" in 1937.
3. Just for the attention of the youngsters: when the term "disc jockey" started, they were not spinning vinyl! I'm not even sure vinyl had been invented then, but at any rate records were made out of shellac and that's what they spun.