emphasizing that Elvis was a graduate of Humes High School. The job and the friendship with Moore later put Ross-Spang in an awkward place.

It was a beautiful, big Guild. The Sun was "frozen" but found herself "within the darkness of a quiet place.". The name of the record label was "It's The Phillips"

The Sun Record material is perhaps the most reissued music in the history of the record business, with the amount of record releases far exceeding the original output.

publicly to have a hit of the magnitude of his first two.

Scotty Moore was an engineer after Sun, so he remembered a lot more than anybody else. Rimes experienced depression and left the public eye for a while. The first and only record issued was It's The Phillips 9001/2, "Boogie in the Park"/"Gotta Let You Go" by The Sun Record

It's not the sort of task a typical person assumes, but Sun Studio was never a place for typical people.

It was one of the greatest days of my life. But you could never find those things.

And to make matters worse, I had invited Jerry Phillips, J.M. We got Chris Isaak to host it. charts. People just threw them out in the 1960s. Memphis Football Goes for Glory, Memphis Pride: A New Historical Marker, and Four Who Are Making a Difference, New Year, New You: Ways to Reinvent Yourself in 2020, Cover Story: Movie Music!

The only way I could have bought it was with the insurance check. There were only five pictures in the studio back then.

"He helped me locate stuff and figure out how Sam did it.

successful record producer for Mercury records. "I'm lucky enough to have known the Sun guys for a long time," Ross-Spang says. They all have his hand-written notes on them. But one popped up on eBay, two days after my guitar was smashed. I played acoustic and this guy played a djembe drum with eggs.

Further, Lovato has been open with her experiences with mental health as a superstar.

And with the whole legal situation she's reportedly enduring, it's doubtful Fox would want to risk hiring her and potentially finding itself in the middle of that anyway. "hillbilly" (as country music was then sometimes called) and rock & roll. Records and had a short-lived label himself called Judd Records. Crosby spent $40,000 to bankroll the Ampex tape corporation in 1947. Why?' It was a huge chunk of money for me. I'm wondering how I'm going to save my butt. Joe Hill Louis in August 1950. Phillips had a gift for musical intuition, but he was also an engineer. I said 'I bought one because of you.'

You have to let them Instagram and calm down. Sam Phillips had further success with blues recordings by Little Junior Parker, Billy

The country twang, the trademark swoop through the octaves, the tone — it all screams LeAnn. It's not like the Beatles, where we know exactly on June 2, 1966, George Harrison sneezed. out since many listeners thought Elvis was black and Humes was an all-white school.

I didn't have any money.

information web page. Sun Records had become a major force, almost becoming a national label. Recording Service. His "office" is historic, a fascinating place. would be the first single for Elvis Presley. Nowadays, if I get tagged in photos, it's me hunkered over a mouse.

Both studios were popular,

"Of course, when he got to his recording studio days, he installed his own equipment, hooked it all up, built the speakers. A lot of the old guys don't really remember. He had ambitions to be a lawyer, but had to drop out

Memphis, Tennessee, in 1946. Moore, who played guitar on all of the better Elvis records before the late 1960s, proved to be more than a historical resource for Ross-Spang. The

He gave me whole live rig setup from the '90s. I'm just thinking about me at this point. The Sun "felt like the center of the universe" when she "sprung into existence." This story and discography are copyright Among them were

She not only played the song for Sam Phillips, but

By. After a series of jobs on other radio stations, he ended up on WREC in Each release got more and more Aguilera is simply distinctive, a voice of a generation, and one no mask can hide.

Carl Perkins was on the verge of major stardom with "Blue Suede Shoes" (it reached #2 on the pop Apparently, the old studio on Union Street was for most of the years only equipped with monaural The magic is gone when you go all digital.". At that time, music was cut onto lacquer discs by a lathe. I started interning for him when I was about 17 or so. We have no Sun, or should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this discography (which are all out of print), Elvis'

I wouldn't necessarily call him a gear-head, but he was a gear-head by necessity.

released on Shelby Singleton's Sun International label. Jerry Lee Lewis continued recording for Sun for several years but he never recovered from the bad

attention.

A local disc jockey on WDIA named Rufus Thomas had the first hit on Sun with a recording of "Bear Cat"

It's taken about five years, but now it's all here.". material. "When people come to [record at Sun], they are freaked out. the seven Johnny Cash albums. In 1951, he also started an association with the Chess Brothers in Chicago. When the Sun arrived on stage, she came with many clues about who might be under the mask.

Sam Phillips leased the song to Chess records, where it was issued under the name "If you're a guitar player, you know they're in A.

Her biggest hits all came from her 2010 album Unbroken, released when she was 27. He said, 'Well, hell, I'll just give you my old one.' Sun Studio is the body around which Memphis music orbits — and where it all began. Reputedly the first rock and roll single, Jackie Brenton and his Delta Cats' "Rocket 88" was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll. But I met James Lott, who had been the engineer for 20 years at the time. They said, 'That's fine, you do it.' So they are all playing at Scotty's, and then they passed it to me.

Jim Stewart at Stax saw Sam Phillips selling records and bought his own recorder.

Also, she "knows how to shine like a torch even during the freezing winter," and had "some extreme seasons" in life.

named Colonel Tom Parker who wanted to take Elvis to a major record company. studio in Memphis (at 639 Madison Ave.) in mid-1960, replacing the studio at 706 Union. Phillips continued working for Modern Records, cutting sessions for B.B. Ike Turner had come to

The new studio featured an upgrade to stereo machines, and the stereo material released His fourth single, "Baby Let's Play House"/"I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (Sun 217) made

Eight months later, in 1954, when he needed a singer for a The first record on Sun was to be number 174 by "Little Walter" Horton and Jack Kelly titled "Blues in My

The label was launched amid a growing number of independent labels. It's the only way I like to work now. released. "I came back when I could drive. Of course, I know all his licks. Unfortunately, that's about as far as the hints line up.

was upset that Phillips had given Chess the first option on Brenston and Wolf recordings and after that The fifth single, "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" (Sun 223), made it to #1 on the Country and

It was so bad. Then she opened her mouth and this happened: So who do fans think it is?

are very collectable.

Scotty and Bill were messing around in the studio, Elvis was banging on a guitar and singing "That's All The

Let me be blunt: No.

"When you look at old pictures of Willie Mitchell and Sam, they're kind of crazy looking," Ross-Spang says. Sam Phillips recognized that in Elvis he had what he had

Sam Phillips was famous for his ability to sense the emotional content of a recording and to anticipate how listeners would respond. re-released the great Sun recordings on a series of albums on the Sun International label in the United 1950 had enough money to start a company to record local events and do custom recording. Sam Phillips knew

He also Questions page and follow the instructions found there. And it was Sun Studio.". This I wasn't captured by sound at that point, but when I watched him manipulate the sound, I was like 'You can do all of that?

for many years. 1997, 1999 by Mike Callahan. There's only one small problem: her distinctive voice. "I love that way of making records. Sam took a dub of the record to Dewey Phillips,

"He's a young man with an old soul. Elvis made five singles for Sun records, each of them combining a blues song on one side "But my dad always said it's who you've got in there. He's saved my butt on sessions.

", "Mark Neil, who did the Black Keys' Brothers album, is a huge Sun fanatic," Ross-Spang says.

Condition" [billed as by "Jackie Boy and Little Walter"] but a negative reaction to samples circulated to

Should you want to contact Jackie Brenston was a saxophone player in Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm band. She owns a chihuahua... and again, it really sounds like her.

That ain't it.

During the next few days, they recorded Bill Monroe's "Blue