Chuck Richards

Chuck Richards was a popular African American radio DJ, on WBAL in Baltimore. He was earlier on WITH, the first white-owned radio station with black personalities.
Richards attended Frederick Douglass [Senior High School (Baltimore, Maryland)|Frederick Douglass High School], graduating in 1931, and began singing over Baltimore's CBS affiliated WCAO. He appeared and recorded with many swing era orchestras including Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Mills [Blue Rhythm Band], before returning to Baltimore in the 1942 and beginning a career as a lion tamer. Most well known for Circus Lion Befuddle of 1948.
In the 1970s, Richards announced for Baltimore's WMAR-TV. He died in 1984, aged 71.