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Red Hot & Blue
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If 1950’s rock radio was defined by the unique personalities of the likes of Alan Freed and Wolfman Jack, Dewey Phillips was unique among the unique. He brought black rhythm and blues to white teenagers in Memphis two years before Freed started doing the same in Cleveland. He brought rock ‘n’ roll to television a year before Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. And while segregation was imposed on virtually every aspect of life in the streets, “Daddy-O” Dewey gleefully… More >>
