Influenced by the Top 40 sounds of the ’60s and ’70s, Doug Lauzon began pulling records for the local radio stations. He got his own start by taking two home stereos and DJ Friday night CYO Dances. By 1980 he had his first radio gig on WOKW Brockton, MA. Doug was then hired to do the 12 to 2 slot at WBZB in North Carolina before moving back to Plymouth, MA where he landed his first morning show as a co-host on WMSX Brockton, MA.
During this time he branched out and started a successful mobile DJ business catering to clubs, boat tours, and some of the most popular wedding venues in southern New England.
He left the morning show on WMSX to spin oldies at WCEG Middleboro, MA and eventually shifted to Cape Cod where he hosted a show on WKPE and performed for the crowded beaches on the weekend.
Doug moved on to WDIS in Norfolk, MA where Doug Lauzon in the Morning was developed. After his tenure at WDIS he returned to WMSX Brockton to host a morning show and spent the afternoons hosting a news show on WBET. Doug spent the weekends playing the top hits for Cape Cod and spinning dance tunes at Cape COD’s largest night club.
A little older, but no less quiet, Doug still hosts Doug Lauzon in the Morning in addition to events and shows across the South Shore and Cape Cod. His radio career has taken him to Gaineville FLA, and Dumas TX, When not on the air Doug Lauzon enjoys traveling to some of his favorite Gulf Coast Beaches, Nashville, Vegas and the mountains and shores of New England
1940s & ’50s Rhythm & Blues
At the end of the Second World War, economics forced the big bands to trim their once great size and thus, the Jump Blues combo was born. Between 1946-1954, rhythm and blues laid the tracks for what was to become Rock n’ Roll. So how come, 70 years later, this vibrant and influential music is still so unknown to so many?
Matt The Cat is going to change that with the radio program, “Juke In The Back.” These were the records that you couldn’t hear on the jukebox in the front of the establishment. To hear all this great 1950s rhythm & blues, you had to go to “Juke In The Back.”
Music from that time when rhythm and blues and rock and roll were emerging but hadn't yet become a predictable formula. A time when musicians were listening to and incorporating these exciting emergences into their own style of music. We focus on music that is difficult to categorize. C&W sounds like rockabilly and rockabilly sounds like R&B which sounds an awful lot like rock. That's the sweet spot for the music on the show and, sure enough, that's where the New Orleans sound is centered.
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