His zeal for rhythm and blues legitimized the sound and set the stage for both Elvis's subsequent success and the rock 'n' roll revolution of the 1950s.
He is the disc jockey who introduced Elvis Presley to Memphis and the Mid-South by playing his first record and then conducting his first live on-the-air interview.¹ More important, however, if less well known is the contribution Dewey made to the rock ‘n’ roll revolution of the 1950s by both turning on a huge southern white audience to the previously forbidden “race” music and by providing indispensable assistance to Elvis’s early career at a time when Elvis and his local record label, Sun,...On the air, the real Dewey Phillips was always a bit stranger than any fictional radio character ever invented. This book illustrates Phillips's role in turning a huge white audience on to previously forbidden race music. Qui plus est ce livre est une véritable photographie de l'Amérique d'après guerre, de ces transformations musicales avec le passage progressif du rythm and blues musique joué par les noir pour les noirs et comment les jeunes blancs ont fini par s'y intéresser pour donner naissance au rock & roll.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Once Sam Phillips walked into a room, Jim Dickinson says, “the...If there was a center of the universe for the “what’s-happening-now” rock ‘n’ roll record scene in the 1950s it had to be the WHBQ studio on the mezzanine floor of the Chisca Hotel at 272 South Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee, every week night between nine o’clock and midnight.
.This book is a MUST READ for all fans of blues and Rock-n-Roll history. This book tells of Dewey's rise to fame ,the uneasy mistrust he invoked in radio station bosses due to his unpredictability,his friendship with Presley which in the end became an embarrassment due to Dewey's drinking and drug abuse and creates for the reader a good feel about Memphis ,Beale Street and racialism around the dawn of the Rock n Roll era .Author Louis Cantor who was at Humes High School at the same time as Elvis has written a well crafted book perhaps I feel a little repetitive and flushed out in places to fill it's 287 pages but all in all a worthy addition to the library of any Rock n Roll scholar.
That was whereAbove all, Dewey’s tiny, specially constructed control room was the unofficial headquarters for the record industry’s...“If Elvis had consciously sought to synthesize and alchemize blues, gospel, R & B and white country music,”As unauthenticated stories surrounding the life and career of Elvis Presley continue to grow, so does the degree of difficulty in trying to sort truth from fiction. Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and oral history collections, Cantor presents a personal view of the disc jockey while restoring Phillips's place as an essential figure in rock 'n' roll history.Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.
Broadcasting on WHBQ in Memphis six nights a week from 9:00 pm until midnight, Dewey Phillips was tremendously popular with both black and white listeners in the 1950s. Il faut maîtriser l'anglais mais après quel bonheur. A fascinating insight into the mechanics that gave birth to the Elvis legend. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations On this day in 1954, Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips played a new song on the radio for the first time -- it was the music of Elvis Presley. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong.
Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. That is precisely what happened only months beforeWhen Gordon Lawhead finally got around to hiring Dewey Phillips to work for WHBQ he got one of the planet’s greatest bargains.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1x74gz B. Woven throughout the book is thoughtful, original, and illuminating research on the social history of race and how notions about racial identity and geographical space informed the ways in which the segregated white and black residents of Memphis interacted and were involved in one another's musical cultures and social spheres."
After her own...Despite the enormous amount of media attention devoted to Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and the origins of rock ‘n’ roll, the significant contribution Dewey Phillips made in helping launch Presley’s career and turning on the southern white audience to previously forbidden race music is hardly mentioned. He frequently had more listeners than all other Memphis stations put together.¹ Whether or not a new record got Dewey’s approval and subsequent promotion on his show would often determine the success or failure of that record. Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017 "That's All Right Mama" is a song written and originally performed by blues singer Arthur Crudup and recorded in 1946. “I was shaking all over. King, and Muddy Waters. Under Dewey’s reign, Memphis had the reputation of being the predictor of whether a tune would hit nationally or not.
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