Little Walter DeVenne is an American

United States

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 radio personality who was for many years based in Boston, Massachusetts

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

. He now lives in New Hampshire

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

 and is the host of the syndicated retro oldies program Little Walter's Time Machine focusing on the pop, doo-wop

Doo-wop

The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and...

, blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, R&B and early rock n' roll hits of the 1950s and early to mid 1960s presented in the high energy style of the Top 40 AM radio stations of that era. He is a member of the Deejay Hall of Fame.

Little Walter's Time Machine

His program is heard on oldies stations throughout the United States beginning in Boston in 1968 and into the early 1970s during the 50s "rock n' roll revival" period of that decade gaining a following in syndication and later into "both sides of the millennium."

Remastering first generation rock n' roll

DeVenne, being a connoisseur of original and authentic old school rock n' roll sound is also in the business of remastering

Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...

classic recordings of 45 RPM singles when originally released on the independent record labels of that era. His digital re-mastering work and compilation production work can be found on such compact disk releases as:

• The Doo-Wop Box-various artists (Rhino)
• La Salle Chicago Blues Recordings-Little Brother Montgomery (Wolf)
• The Best of-Little Eva (Collectibles)
• Cherry Pie-Marvin and Johnny (Ace)
• The Very Best Of-Gary U.S.Bonds (Varese Sarabande)

Retirement from the airwaves

In 2005 DeVenne was diagnosed with cancer after cat scans and pet scans discovered lumps in his neck...afterwards he underwent a successful surgery. Although now cancer free since 2006,the long time radio personality chose to cease production of the weekly oldies program which still runs in syndication across the country and online on Clear Channel's "Real Oldies Channel." (which is linked on his website.) DeVenne remains passionate about first generation rock and roll,his DJ appearances at nightclubs and his remastering business.

Sources

• Joe Viglione's article of Walter DeVenne's radio program and his battle with cancer.
• Both Sides Now Stereo Chat Board article

External links

• Official Little Walter's Time Machine site
• Medialine story of Little Walter DeVenne's remastering work.
• Skyline Mastering Official site