Dewey Phillips

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.

Dewey Phillips (May 13, 1926 – September 28, 1968) was an American disk 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.[1]

  1. ^ "American RadioWorks - Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio". Americanradioworks.publicradio.org. Retrieved 26 January 2019.

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