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Sun Entertainment also includes SSS International Records, Plantation Records, Amazon Records, Red Bird Records, Blue Cat Records among other labels the company acquired over the years. [16] Its website sells collectible items and compact discs bearing the original 1950s Sun logo. Sun Records is located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954. Elvis Presley recorded at least 24 songs at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, between 1953 and 1955.The recordings reflect the wide variety of music that could be heard in Memphis at the time: blues, rhythm & blues, gospel, country & western, hillbilly, rockabilly and bluegrass.
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, launching the career of Presley. In 1969, he sold Sun to Shelby ...
Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950.It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business.
One of the last surviving figures from the golden age of Memphis’ Sun Records, drummer J.M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, has died.Van Eaton — who came to Sun as a teenager in the mid-1950s and made his ...
Roy Orbison's Sun recordings were made by Orbison at Sun Studio (The Memphis Recording Service) with producer Sam Phillips. Sun Records was established in 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee, and during an eight-year period Phillips recorded such artists as Roy Orbison, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Rufus Thomas, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Harold Jenkins, and ...
The Johnny Cash Sun Records discography details the music recorded by country music legend Johnny Cash and released on Sun Records.From late 1954 to July, 1958, Cash recorded for Sun Records, a label founded by Sam Phillips and located at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Music history heavyweights Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott explore Sun Records' legacy in a new book, which marks the label's 70th anniversary.