Dewey Phillips
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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 jocke
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.
Wink Martindale
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Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale was an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host and television producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was known for his outgoing and jovial demean
Dewey Phillips
…Freed), he was fired in late 1958 when the station adopted a Top 40 format, phasing out his freeform style. He had Sam Phillips and three other friends, Wink Martindale, T.L. Meade, and Sonny Gilmore to bail him out and keep him steady as work and recognition faded. He spent the last decade of his life working at smaller…
Martindale in a 1964 publicity photo
Martindale in 1964, as the host of What's This Song?
Martindale attending the "Night of 100 Stars" for the 82nd Academy Awards viewing party in March 2010
Martindale (right) with his wife Sandy at an Oscars viewing event at the Beverly Hlls Hilton in Beverly Hills, February 2015