Dewey Phillips

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American radio personality

United StatesLived 1926 to 1968 · aged 42

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Dewey Phillips was an American disc jockey based in Memphis, Tennessee, best known as the host of the WHBQ radio show "Red, Hot, and Blue". He was one of rock and roll's pioneering American disc jockeys, helping to popularize the genre in radio airplay along with Cleveland's Alan Freed.

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Control Room C from WHBQ Studios originally in Hotel Chisca now in Sun Studios. From this room Dewey Phillips broadcast his radio show "Red, Hot and Blue" in the years 1953-1959.

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United States

Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1926 to 1968 · aged 42

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