Daddy-O Daylie

Holmes Daylie (May 15, 1920 – February 6, 2003) was a radio jock on radio stations in the 1940s and 1950s that rhymed and rapped playing bebop and was one of the early pioneers of black-appeal radio. His upbeat patter and rhyming delivery from the 1940s to 1970s on stations WAAF, WMAQ, WAIT, WGN and other broadcast outlets and television stations brought Daddy-O-Daylie, as he was known, fame and following amongst both black and white audiences.[1] He was inducted into the Black Radio Hall of Fame in Atlanta in 1990.[2]

  1. ^ "Holmes 'Daddy-o' Daylie, 82". 14 February 2003. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. ^ Where would R&B be without early heroes. David hinckley New York Daily News October 11, 1990 pg.43