“everyone knew that I was just a struggling cat down here trying to develop new and different artists, and get some freedom in music, and tap some resources and people that weren”
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Sam Phillips
Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an American disc jockey, songwriter, and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf. Phillips played a major role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s, including launching Presley's caree…
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business · American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer (1923–2003) · entrepreneur · record producer · songwriter · also Sam Phillips, Sam Phillips (record producer), Samuel Cornelius Phillips, Samuel C. Phillips, Sam Burns, Phillips
Born 5 January 1923 · Died 30 July 2003 · Q321354
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2026· 3 entries
“Elvis cut a ballad, which was just excellent. I could tell you, both Elvis and Roy Orbison could tear a ballad to pieces. But I said to myself,”
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Released album “Gilmore Girls - Soundtrack from the Original Series”.
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Are Bessie Carter & Sam Phillips Dating? Rumors Explained
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Cosmopolitan: Bridgerton: Who is Sam Phillips, who plays Lord Debling?
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Queerty: Sam Phillips is about to make the most gay-friendly team in men’s gymnastics even gayer
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Cold Dark Nights”.
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “World on Sticks”.
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Released album “Live @ Largo At The Coronet”.
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2016· 2 entries
Released ep “Human Contact Is Never Easy”.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to portray Sam Phillips in the forthcoming film based on Peter Guralnick's book, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Push Any Button”.
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Cameras in the Sky”.
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Released album “Solid State”.
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2010· 5 entries
Released ep “Magic for Everybody”.
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Released ep “Old Tin Pan”.
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Released ep “Cold Dark Night”.
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Released ep “Hypnotists In Paris”.
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Released ep “Days Of The One-Night Stands”.
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Don't Do Anything”.
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Released album “The Disappearing Act 1987-1998”.
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Released ep “Don't Do Anything (B-Sides)”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “A Boot and a Shoe”.
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KCRW: Sam Phillips
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2003· 3 entries
Died 2003-07-30.
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Only one day before the original Sun Studio was designated a National Historic Landmark
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Awarded Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for Executive (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Fan Dance”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Zero Zero Zero”.
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Was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, in October 2001 he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2012, he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Omnipop (It’s Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)”.
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “1994-07-25, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA”.
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Released album “Martinis & Bikinis”.
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Released ep “Love and Kisses”.
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1991).
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Released album “Cruel Inventions”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “The Indescribable Wow”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “The Turning”.
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Released album “Recollection”.
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Was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986).
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Phillips was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Black and White in a Grey World”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Dancing With Danger”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Beyond Saturday Night”.
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1977· 1 entry
Sam's sons, Knox and Jerry, were working with John Prine at the Phillips Recording Studio when Sam Phillips joined them to oversee recordings that were eventually included on the album Pink Cadillac
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1956· 1 entry
With what became known as the Million Dollar Quartet
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1954· 1 entry
But Phillips was not impressed until Elvis sang "That's All Right (Mama)"
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1953· 1 entry
18-year-old Presley dropped into the studio to record an acetate; Keisker thought she heard some talent in the young truckdriver's voice, so she turned on the tape recorder
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1950· 1 entry
Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis
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1945· 1 entry
Worked for four years as an announcer and sound engineer for radio station WREC in Memphis
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1943· 1 entry
And went on to have two children in a marriage that, although full of extramarital affairs on Sam's part, never ended
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1942· 1 entry
Sam, 19, met Rebecca "Becky" Burns, 17, his future wife, while they were both working at WLAY radio station in Sheffield, Alabama
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1941· 1 entry
Though, forcing Phillips to leave high school to look after his mother and aunt
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1939· 1 entry
On the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, at the time the heart of the city's music scene
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-01-05.
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