Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo's brother Dewey Hughes. Friendship would turn into a courtly romance, but the union Michelle thought they had did not end happily. Dre pushed her into a life tarnished by alcohol, drugs and violence until her savior came in the unlikely form of Suge Knight, co-founder of Death Row Records and Dres business partner. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. A nearly decade-long romance with the infamous Dr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. The true life story of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr.
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