
"Daddy-O" Dewey Phillips (May 13, 1926 - September 28, 1968) was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed. Starting his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ-AM in Memphis, he was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his "Red, Hot & Blue" show on radio and television. Phillips' on-air persona was a speed-crazed hillbilly, with a frantic delivery and entertaining sense of humor.
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It Had to Be You
Radio Show Excerpt
Whbq Memphis, 1957
Dewey Phillips On WDIA
Red Hot and Blue Radio Show (bad edit)
Red Hot and Blue
Beg Your Pardon
WHBQ
Radio Show Excerpt/Dewey Phillips
Red, Hot & Blue aircheck
Red Hot & Blue
Radio Broadcast: Dewey Philips Clip
Dewey Phillips - Memphis Radio
Radio Show Excerpt 2
Introduction
Radio Show Excerpt #2
Introduction: Memphis Saturday Night
Dewey Phillips Live From Memphis
Put Something In My Hand by Amos Milburn [WHBQ's Red Hot & Blue broadcast from 1952]
Diggin' the Boogie by Piano Red [WHBQ's Red Hot & Blue broadcast from 1952]
Dewey Phillips Clip
WHBQ Memphis clip
Red Hot and Blue Radio Show
Dewey Phillips Intro
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