Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Programmed Chaos: Dewey Phillips on the Air
2. Before the Storm: Dewey Arrives at the Five-and-Dime
3. The White Brother on Beale Street
4. The New Memphis Sound: The Birth of Black Programming
5. "What in the World Is That?" Is This Guy Black or White?
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6. Racial Cross-Pollination: Black and White Together
7. The Great Convergence: Pop Tuner' One-Stop
8. The Phillips Boys: Soul (Better than Blood) Brothers
9. Red, Hot and Blue: The Hottest Cotton-Pickin' Thang in the Country
10. Dewey and Elvis: The Synthesized Sound
11. Dewey Introduces Elvis to the World
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12. The King and His Court Jester: Men-Children in the Promised Land
13. "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 Beyond
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index