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Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay Book

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  • Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay
  • Written by author Louis Cantor
  • Published by University of Illinois Press, April 2010
  • Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf,
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Acknowledgmentsix
Introduction1
1Programmed Chaos: Dewey Phillips on the Air7
2Before the Storm: Dewey Arrives at the Five-and-Dime30
3The White Brother on Beale Street45
4The New Memphis Sound: The Birth of Black Programming64
5"What in the World Is That?" Is This Guy Black or White?74
6Racial Cross-Pollination: Black and White Together87
7The Great Convergence: Pop Tunes' One-Stop96
8The Phillips Boys: Soul (Better than Blood) Brothers106
9Red, Hot and Blue: The Hottest Cotton-Pickin' Thang in the Country122
10Dewey and Elvis: The Synthesized Sound135
11Dewey Introduces Elvis to the World144
12The King and His Court Jester: Men-Children in the Promised Land159
13"Red Hot at First... Blue at the Very End"175
14The Final Descent: "If Dewey Couldn't Be Number One, He Didn't Wanna Be"193
15"Goodbye, Good People"207
16The Legacy: The Next Generation and Beyond222
Epilogue231
Notes235
Bibliography265
Index277


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