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Daddy-O-Daylie

  • Place of Publication: Chicago, IL
  • Language: English
  • Date of Publication: 1956
  • Type: Full Text

The Daddy-O-Daylie was a single issue published on July 4, 1956. Daddy-O-Daylie was the radio name of the disc jockey Holmes Daylie (1920-2003) who broadcast at the time on WMAQ, on the NBC network, in Chicago. Daylie broadcast during evening hours, playing jazz and emphasizing bebop in a jive-inflected vernacular. Only one issue of the Daddy-O-Daylie can be found, which was intended as a publication for Daylie’s Gopher Club, a group formed to popularize jazz amongst the young generation. 

The single issue opens with a bold headline, “Independence from Rock & Roll.” Daylie continues: “Now is the time for all thinking humans to take a stand … be a mouse or a man … the time is today … we must unite and fight … we must take the pen in hand and write, Jazz, a modern art form, we must defend …” (ellipses original). After this polemic, he writes of the Gopher Club and its purpose. The two inside pages contain a range of jazz news, salutes, and Daylie’s editorial musings on all things jazz. A list of jazz clubs can be found on the back page.