After serving in the Army during World War II, including seeing combat in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, he moved to Memphis.
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He started his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ/560 in Memphis, and 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.
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