Arthur Penhallow
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Arthur Penhallow (born 1944) is a radio presenter in Detroit, Michigan . He has hosted on radio station 101.1 (WRIF)in the same time slot since 1970.
Penhallow was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Before beginning his long tenure with WRIF, Art had toured with a band that played with the Mamas and the Papas, among others. Under the name "Cicero Grimes," he worked at WNRZ in Ann Arbor in 1970, and then moved to WRIF's predecessor, WXYZ-FM, which at the time was airing a syndicated progressive-rock format distributed by ABC called "Love." Penhallow was one of the "Love" format's local announcers and stayed on as WXYZ-FM transitioned to an all-local air staff and moved from progressive rock to the then-new "album oriented rock" format as WRIF.
Penhallow's trademark is the saying of his name as "Arthur Penhallow, BABY", and the cry is one of WRIF's most popular bumper sticker slogans. When Howard Stern was a D.J. briefly at Detroit station WWWW, he mocked Penhallow's "BABY!" by announcing, "This is WWWW in Detroit, MAMMY!"
Penhallow regularly refers to himself as "Big Daddy Arthur P" or simply, "Big Daddy" As do others on the station.
Penhallow played himself in the film The Upside of Anger.
