Lucky Cordell
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Lucky Cordell: The Baron of Bounce… and Chicago Radio Royalty.
Moses Lucky Cordell was born July 28, 1928 in Mississippi. His mother died when Lucky was three, and his family moved to Chicago. Cordell graduated from Dunbar High School in 1946, and went on to a long career in Chicago Radio, initially as a disc jockey (known as the “Baron of Bounce”). By 1970, he…
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Pat and Pam: sisters in soul.
Pat and Pam Cordell were twin singers who followed in the great tradition of Chicago Kiddie (or in their case, Teen) Soul in the early 1970s. They also happened to be original WVON Good Guy Lucky Cordell‘s daughters. Lucky Cordell (pictured at left) was a disc jockey turned General Manager at one of the most…
