Holmes Daylie (05/15/1920-2/06/2003) was a personality Jock on radio stations in the 1940s and 1950s that rhymed and rapped playing Be-Bop 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. He was inducted in the Black Radio Hall of Fame in Atlanta in 1990.
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15 May 1920
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Died |
6 February 2003 (aged 82)
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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