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Informationen zum Autor Louis Cantor Klappentext Beginning in 1949, Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll 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" was the first major disc jockey to play Elvis Presley (and subsequently to conduct the first live, on-air interview with Elvis). Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and the oral history collections at the Center for Southern Folklore and the University of Memphis, Louis Cantor presents a very personal view of the disc jockey while arguing for his place as an essential part of rock 'n' roll history. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Programmed Chaos: Dewey Phillips on the Air2. Before the Storm: Dewey Arrives at the Five-and-Dime3. The White Brother on Beale Street4. The New Memphis Sound: The Birth of Black Programming5. "What in the World Is That?" Is This Guy Black or White?Illustrations follow page 866. Racial Cross-Pollination: Black and White Together7. The Great Convergence: Pop Tuner' One-Stop8. The Phillips Boys: Soul (Better than Blood) Brothers9. Red, Hot and Blue: The Hottest Cotton-Pickin' Thang in the Country10. Dewey and Elvis: The Synthesized Sound11. Dewey Introduces Elvis to the WorldIllustrations follow page 15812. The King and His Court Jester: Men-Children in the Promised Land13. "Red Hot at First . . . Blue at the Very End"14. The Final Descent: "If Dewey Couldn't be Number One, He Didn''t Wanna Be"15. "Goodbye, Good People"16. The Legacy: The Next Generation and BeyondEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex...
