Prior to the moment that Dewey Phillips — a local radio DJ in Memphis, Tenn. — played Presley's first ever song, "That's All Right," most people in America had never heard the name Elvis Presley.

Dewey C. Phillips Loving father, grandfather, and great-grandfather BILLERICA — Dewey C. Phillips, age 87, husband of the late Pauline M. (Grace) Phillips, died Monday, at his home surrounded… ...