Dewey Phillips ‎Red Hot And Blue UK 1989 Zu-Zazz Z 2012 Vinyl LP Record Elvis

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THE FIRST DJ TO PLAY ELVIS!!!

"Dewey Phillips - Just about every Elvis fan knows the name as that of the disc-jockey who first played Elvis' That's All Right on his 'Red, Hot and Blue' radio programme. 'Daddy-O' Dewey Phillips was born on May 13, 1926 - Dewey was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed. Starting his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ-AM in Memphis, he was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his 'Red, Hot & Blue' show on radio and television.

Phillips' on-air persona was a speed-crazed hillbilly, with a frantic delivery and entertaining sense of humour. However, he also had a keen ear for music the listening public would enjoy, and he embraced both black and white music, which was abundant in post-World War II Memphis, a booming river city which attracted large numbers of rural blacks and whites (along with their musical traditions). He played a great deal of rhythm and blues, country music, boogie-woogie, and jazz, as well as Sun Records artists. In July 1954, he was the first DJ to broadcast the young Elvis Presley's debut record, That's All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Sun 209), and got Presley to reveal his race in an interview by asking which high school the 19-year-old singer attended (knowing that, because of segregation, his audience would readily know what race attended which schools).

Though Phillips was not involved in the payola scandals of the time (as was Freed), he was fired in late 1958 when the station adopted a Top 40 format, phasing out his freeform style. He spent the last decade of his life working at smaller radio stations, seldom lasting long at any. A heavy drinker and longtime drug user (mainly painkillers and amphetamines, which contributed to his manic on-air behaviour), Phillips died of heart failure at age 42 onSeptember 28, 1968.

Jerry Schilling: I had been listening to Dewey Phillips on the radio since I was 10 years old. Before Dewey came onto the scene, I was hearing what my parents listened to, the hit parade. It was good, but it didn't connect with me. But, around that time, there was a group of white kids who were starting to listen to the rhythm and blues that Dewey Phillips was playing. He'd play everything - R&B, Dean Martin, Little Richard, The Platters. All that stuff was a big influence on Elvis, too.

When you think of how diverse Elvis was, I mean, look at the first album. You've got country, rhythm and blues, rockabilly ... everything. But, rock and roll was the music that was dangerous.

We can never forget that rock and roll was born out of segregation. It was dangerous for us to go down to Beale Street to buy our records. Our parents would have grounded us forever if they found out. It was a totally segregated society. Beale Street was black. Main Street was white. In the middle of all of that, Dewey Phillips played a record called 'That's All Right Mama' by a boy from Humes High School. He had to say Humes High School because the audience would then know that he was white. Dewey played predominately black music. When 'That's All Right Mama' came on the radio, it was so exciting. It rolled it into something to be a part of."

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This is a vinyl LP record by Dewey Phillips titled "Red Hot And Blue" released in 1989 by Zu-Zazz Records. The record is 12 inches in size with a speed of 33 RPM. It features blues and radio transcriptions genre with rock and non-music style. The vinyl matrix number is Z 2012 and the colour is black.

The era of this record is 1950s, and it was manufactured in the United Kingdom. Get your hands on this rare piece of music history and add it to your vinyl collection.

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Vinyl has a very few surface marks.

Labels are clean

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