I just found out that Dick Hugg, “Huggy Boy” passed on Wed August 30. 2006. I can’t tell you how truly sad I am. Dick Hugg was the genius of Rock & Roll on the west coast. He is the one man that every teenager, black or white listened to. Broadcasting from Dolphins of Hollywood to the strains of Joe Hustons “All Night Long” he passed that excitement to all his audience.
Unfortunately, Dick Hugg never got the recognition he truly deserved for what he had accomplished on the west coast. This summer while visiting the Rock & Roll Hall of fame in Cleveland Ohio, I was shocked that not one mention was made of him anyplace in the museum. Alan Freed, an equally important disk jockey from the east coast even had a studio named in his honor. In a small corner of the museum, different jocks were remembered such as the west coasts Hunter Hancock but Hugg was ignored. I tell you, those of us that grew up on the west coast will never forget Hugg and we all still love him. Could someone PLEASE have if in their heart to do a tribute to him? I think that only fair considering that the West Coast was by far the most loyal fand of Rythem and Blues and Rock & Roll and it was Hugg that made it happen.
I just found out that Dick Hugg, “Huggy Boy” passed on Wed August 30. 2006. I can’t tell you how truly sad I am. Dick Hugg was the genius of Rock & Roll on the west coast. He is the one man that every teenager, black or white listened to. Broadcasting from Dolphins of Hollywood to the strains of Joe Hustons “All Night Long” he passed that excitement to all his audience.
Unfortunately, Dick Hugg never got the recognition he truly deserved for what he had accomplished on the west coast. This summer while visiting the Rock & Roll Hall of fame in Cleveland Ohio, I was shocked that not one mention was made of him anyplace in the museum. Alan Freed, an equally important disk jockey from the east coast even had a studio named in his honor. In a small corner of the museum, different jocks were remembered such as the west coasts Hunter Hancock but Hugg was ignored. I tell you, those of us that grew up on the west coast will never forget Hugg and we all still love him. Could someone PLEASE have if in their heart to do a tribute to him? I think that only fair considering that the West Coast was by far the most loyal fand of Rythem and Blues and Rock & Roll and it was Hugg that made it happen.
Frederick J Roth
Thousand Oaks, CA