Sam Phillips

...Service of Sun Records as a gift for his mother in 1953 ("My Happiness"), to a sampling of Sun Records sides produced by Sam Phillips in 1954-55 ("That's All Right," "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," "Good Rockin' Tonight," and more), through 21...

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...rights to the famed Sun Records name and thousands of master recordings made by the label's visionary founder, Sam Phillips. In the 1950s Phillips had discovered Presley, Lewis, Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and dozens of other rockabilly,...

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Click here for a review! Leonard Cohen / Photo by Ian Witlen There's a pivotal scene in Walk the Line when Sun records founder Sam Phillips dares Johnny Cash to sing one song that people would always remember, one that "would let God...

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...about small-town prejudice. Singleton's biggest coup was the purchase of Sun Records from its founder, Sam Phillips, in 1969. Phillips had pioneered rock'n'roll and rockabilly music with his recordings of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry...

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...interviewed soul singer Al Green and stayed up until almost dawn one night interviewing one of my heroes, Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. I was exhausted on a flight home and happy to find a row with three vacant seats, which allowed...

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...bought rights to the Sun Records name and thousands of master recordings made by the label's visionary Advertisement founder, Sam Phillips, who had discovered Cash, Lewis, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and dozens of other...

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...Singleton bought rights to the Sun Records name and thousands of master recordings made by the label's visionary founder, Sam Phillips, who had discovered Elvis Presley, Lewis, Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and dozens of other...

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...them dinner jackets and secured bookings at college fraternities, where they acquired a reputation for showmanship. An audition with Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records in Memphis, resulted in the Frank Frost album Hey Boss Man! (1962).

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"Quartet" centers on one night, Dec. 4, 1956, when the four singers came together in the storefront studio of Sun Records in Memphis. Sam Phillips, the music producer and Sun Records founder, is credited with discovering Cash and Presley as...

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It has long been assumed that Sun Records founder Sam Phillips didn't like gospel music because he discouraged his greatest discoveries, including Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, from recording spiritual music for his Memphis label in the...

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