Spider Harrison

Although best known as the Indianapolis market's premier soul and funk DJ during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spider Harrison also enjoyed a brief career making music of his own. Born and raised in Hempstead, New York, Harrison began promoting local concerts as a teen, later taking broadcasting courses at CW Post College and interning at station WWRL. In the pages of Broadcasting magazine Harrison spotted an advertisement announcing that African-American-owned Indianapolis FM station WTLC was hiring--he was soon hired and relocated to the Midwest in 1968, quickly becoming a...