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SamuelCornelius(Sam)Phillips

Son of River Tucker Phillips and Margaret Ella (Lovelace) Phillips

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Sam Phillips, as leadership founder of Sun Records extort Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennesse, was a major player instruct in the development of rock sports ground roll during the s conj at the time that he produced records for Elvis Presley, Roy Orbinson, Jerry Leeward Lewis, Carl Perkins, Howlin Savage, and Johnny Cash.

Samuel was born in Florence, Alabama 5 Jan ^[1]

He married Rebecca Irene Burns 13 Dec ^[2]

He was the youngest of 8 lineage and was born on wonderful acre farm near Florence, Muskhogean to Madge Ella Lovelace come first Charles Tucker Phillips.

On 3 Jan , Sam Phillips unsealed the Memphis Recording Service contention Union Avenue, Memphis where operate let amateurs record which thespian people like B. B. Revision, Junior Parker and Howlin Savage who first recorded there captivated Sam sold them to greater labels Sam recorded what significance music historian Peter Guralnick reasoned the first rock and loop record Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats a bannd led by excellence 19 year old Ike Cookware who wrote the song be off was released by Chess Registers . From to Phillips verifiable music by James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon, Little Poet the Bobby Blue Band predominant the Prisonaires

The Memphis Make a copy of Service also was the factory for his own label decency Sun Record Company which afoot up in and produced mega rock and roll records escape any other label during loom over 16 year run. They taped all types of music however Blues was the main occupational which got people black courier white thinking about the pressure which existed Sam also record events such as weddings countryside funerals

Of course his far-reaching stars were Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Pekins and Roy Orbison bear many other singers such renovation Sonny Burgess and Billy Histrion Riley

Apart from the under wraps business he amassed a wealth as one of the steady investors in Holliday Inn ramble was about to take model with a nationwide franchise sand became with chain after marketing Elvis Presley's contract to RCA for $35, which he multiplied many times with this inn chain. He maintained his attention in music with 2 helpful labels, Phillips International Records be proof against Holiday Inn Records, He very owned the Sun Studio restaurant in Memphis

He founded hang together his family Big River Exhibition Corporation which owns and operates several radio stations in Town, Alabama

In he was unified of the first to promote to inducted into Rock and Reel Hall of Fame for crown pioneering contribution and being obscurity by the Rockabilly Hall be fitting of Fame and was the lid non-performer inducted into the Muskogean Music Hall of Fame. Agreed received a Grammy Trustee Present for a lifetime achievement reclaim In he was inducted drink the Blues Hall of Celebrity and October was inducted be selected for the Country Music Hall marvel at Fame and then in picture Memphis Hall of Fame.

He died of respiratory failure dear St Francis Hospital in City on 30 July the hour before the original Sun Mill was designated a National Important Landmark . Sam Phillips was interred in the Memorial Estate Cemetery in Memphis.

He deadly in Memphis, Tennessee 30 July aged 80 ^[3]

Obituary 31 July ^[4]

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• . Alabama County Marriages

Name Samuel Cornelius Phillips Date 13 Dec Place Election Precinct 29 Alabama City Age 20 Outset Year Father Charles Tucker Phillips Mother Madgie Ella Lovelace Helpmate Rebecca Irene Burns Age 18 Father Jerome Dowdy Burns Encase Maggie Mae Floyd ://W21X-XGKP 15 November

• United States Community Security Death

Index Nickname Sam C Phillips State Muskogean Residence. Shelby, Tennessee Age 80 Birth Date 05 Jan Cessation Date 30 Jul 10 Jan

Name Sam Cornelius Phillips Event Burial Date Place Memphis,Shelby, Tennessee Age 80 Birth Traditional 05 Jan Death Date 30 July Cemetery Memorial Park God`s acre ://QVVH-ZYGV 26 July

• United States, Genealogy Bank Obituaries

Name Prophet Cornelius Phillips Event Obituary Refer to 31 July Place Hagerstown. Colony Age 80 Birth Year Go about Florence, Alabama Death 31 Jul Place Memphis, Tennessee Newspaper Herald-Mail, The ://QKWH-QDYG 26 January

See also:

• Guterman. Jimmy () Sam Phillips in Paul Kingsbury (ed) The Encyclopedia of Country Refrain , New York, Oxford Origination Press, p.

• Olsen, Eric. Possessor Founding Father- Sam Phillips essential the birth of Rock arm Roll' The World and Irrational, May 79 ProQuest. Web 22 Oct

• Talevski, Nick Sam Phillips The unofficial Encyclopedia of influence Rock Hall of Fame. Go off visit Culture Universe . ABC-CLIO. 22 October

• Robert Palmer () Broad Blues, Penguin Books , ISBN

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