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Sonny "The Mighty Burner" Hopson (4 July,1930 born Harold Thompson in Abington Hospital, Montgomery

County, Pennsylvania, was one of the pioneers of Black American Soul radio.Sonny’s cool sounding rapid rhythmic style set a

new standard for Philadelphia DJs. Later Sonny, along with the Concerned Communicators, were instrumental in challenging

Radio station programming as it relates to the African American community.

Sonny was raised in Ambler Pennsylvania on the just north of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He lived with his father Harold Thompson, his mother Christine Thompson and four sisters, Florence, Anna, June and Joyce at 10 North Street in a house that belonged to the members of his extended family, the Williams family.

In Ambler he attended Madison Avenue Elementary School, Forrest Avenue Junior High School and then on to Ambler High School.

After a year in Ambler High Sonny’s family moved to the Germantown section of Philadelphia where he began to attend the high school of the same name.

Prior to working on the Radio Sonny used to work for body shops, as an accident finder. Accident finders, better known as wreck chasers, listen on the police radios for broadcast of an accident. The object is to be the first person to the location of the accident. Sonny would get to the location so fast he could burn out set of brakes in less than a week, hence the nick name "Mighty Burner."

• Maka No Mistaka Jaka!

• The Mighty Burner
• Soul Sound Sonny

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