Sam Phillips

...Valley hypocrites." The record sold a million copies, and with the profits Singleton bought 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...

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...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 Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and others, but...

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...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 rockabilly, blues and R&B acts.

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...and R&B acts. Phillips had famously sold Presley's contract and master recordings in 1955 to RCA Records for $35,000, but Mr. Singleton ended up owning what is considered one of the seminal catalogs of early rock. In the 1970s, he...

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...in Memphis, Tenn. Sun Records, started by famed producer Sam Phillips, was instrumental in spawning the rockabilly music craze with artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison. Mike Brown/AP...

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...and Howlin' Wolf made their first recordings at his studio. In fact, Phillips deemed Howlin' Wolf his greatest discovery and he deemed Elvis Presley his second greatest discovery. Sun Records produced more Rock and Roll records than any...

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...Phillips played the demo fourteen times. During an interview on the show, Phillips asked Presley what high school he attended-to clarify Presley's color for listeners who assumed he must be black. On July 12 Moore officially became...

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...studio at 639 Madison Avenue in Memphis, thus abandoning the old Union Avenue studio where Phillips had recorded B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Lewis, Johnny Cash, and others. It was at the new Madison...

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