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Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock ´n´ Roll Deejay
Louis Cantor
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Paperback. 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. This book illustrates Phillips' role in turning a huge white audience on to previously forbidden race music. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 484.
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 the budding new music to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and Muddy Waters on his nightly radio show Red, Hot and Blue. The mid-South's most popular white deejay, "Daddy-O-Dewey" soon became part of rock 'n' roll history for being the first major disc jockey to play Elvis Presley and, subsequently, to conduct the first live, on-air interview with the singer.
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 the budding new music to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and Muddy Waters on his nightly radio show Red, Hot and Blue. The mid-South's most popular white deejay, "Daddy-O-Dewey" soon became part of rock 'n' roll history for being the first major disc jockey to play Elvis Presley and, subsequently, to conduct the first live, on-air interview with the singer.
Louis Cantor illuminates Phillips's role in turning ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
Music in American Life
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077326
SKU
V9780252077326
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About Louis Cantor
Louis Cantor is professor emeritus of history at Indiana University. He is the author of Wheelin' on Beale: How WDIA-Memphis Became the Nation's First All-Black Radio Station and Created the Sound That Changed America, and A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration of 1939, which was made into an award-winning documentary film.
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