Editing Wolfman Jack (section)

==Early life==
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Smith was born in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], on January 21, 1938, the younger of two children of Anson Weston Smith, an Episcopal Sunday school teacher, writer, editor, and executive vice president of ''[[Financial World]]'', and his wife, Rosamond Small. He lived on 12th Street and 4th Avenue and went to Manual Training High School in the [[Park Slope, Brooklyn|Park Slope]] section. His parents divorced while he was a child. To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large [[Trans-Oceanic]] radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R&B music and the disc jockeys who played it, including [[Jocko Henderson|Douglas "Jocko" Henderson]] of Philadelphia; New York's "Dr. Jive", [[Tommy Smalls]]; the "Moon Dog" from Cleveland, [[Alan Freed]]; and Nashville's "[[John R.]]" Richbourg, who later became his mentor. After selling [[encyclopedia]]s and [[Fuller Brush Company|Fuller brushes]] door-to-door, Smith attended the National Academy of Broadcasting in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family tree of WOLFMAN JACK |url=https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/smithrobert/robert-weston-smith |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=Geneanet |language=en}}</ref>