Nathaniel "Magnificent" Montague (born in New Jersey, January 11, 1928[1]), is an American R&B disc jockey notable not only for the soul music records he helped promote on KGFJ Los Angeles and WWRL New York City, but also his trademark catch-phrase, "Burn, baby!
Semi-retired by the mid-1970s, Montague relocated to Palm Springs, California, where he was instrumental in the launch of easy listening KPLM, today a successful country music station.
In 2009, on the 40th anniversary of the first moonwalk, Don Eyles attributed this code reference to Montague.
For 50 years, Montague and his wife Rose Thaddeus Casalan (known as Rose Catalon as songwriter) acquired a collection of African-American visual culture, historical artifacts and documents, known as the Montague Collection, on display at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives Research Center and Museum of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, in Tallahassee, since February 14, 2017.
Montague retired with his wife Rose to Las Vegas, Nevada.