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Sun Records is an American drama television miniseries based on the musical Million Dollar Quartet written by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux.The series takes place at the Sun Studio in Memphis and stars Drake Milligan, Trevor Donovan, Kevin Fonteyne, Christian Lees, Dustin Ingram, Billy Gardell, Jonah Lees, Chad Michael Murray, Leo Goff, and Jennifer Holland.
Jack Henderson Clement (April 5, 1931 [2] – August 8, 2013) was an American musician, songwriter, record producer, film producer and music executive. [3]He was producer and engineer for Sam Phillips at Sun Records in its early days, discovering Jerry Lee Lewis and recording the "Million Dollar Quartet" session with Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash.
Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) [1] 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.
In 1969, Shelby Singleton bought Sun Records. He began a long search of the Sun catalogue, browsing through more than 10,000 hours of tape. At the same time, Singleton licensed much, if not all, of the Sun catalogue to the British Charly label for reissue in Europe. As a result of Singleton's and Charly's searches, a portion of the session came ...
Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1952. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley , Charlie Rich , Roy Orbison , Jerry Lee Lewis , Carl Perkins , and Johnny Cash .
Music history heavyweights Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott explore Sun Records' legacy in a new book, which marks the label's 70th anniversary.
The record was a tribute to their early years at Sun and, specifically, the Million Dollar Quartet jam session involving Perkins, Presley, Cash, and Lewis in 1956. In 1989, Perkins co-wrote and played guitar on the Judds ' number-one country hit, "Let Me Tell You About Love".
Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born on March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, [1] to fiddle player and Pentecostal preacher Willie Leon (known as "Sun" or "Son") Swaggart and Minnie Bell Herron, daughter of sharecropper William Herron. Swaggart's parents were related by marriage, as Son Swaggart's maternal uncle, Elmo Lewis, was married to Minnie ...