Early Life
Porter was born Billy Rhodes Porter in St. Louis, Missouri on June 15, 1931. His family moved to Tennessee when he was 10. He grew up loving jazz music and baseball, and for a time considered an athletic career starting with the minor leagues. He graduated from East Nashville High School in 1949, then served in the U.S. Army Reserves for a few years while he made a living as a television repairman, learning electronics at a University of Tennessee extension program in Nashville.
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