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The title of the first DJ is often credited to Ray Latimer, better known as Jimmy Savile, who hosted a music program in the late 1940s called “The Flashes and Crashes Record Show” on BBC Radio. The first American DJ is generally recognized as Al Bannister, who in the mid-1950s played records on the radio at W Bell towers in Baltimore, Maryland. Both Savile and Bannister played records on the radio, but the term “DJ” was not coined until the late 1950s, and it initially referred to “Disc Jockeys” who played vinyl records at dance parties rather than on the radio.