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Jan 5, 2023 · Sam Phillips had grown up in Florence, Ala., and moved to Memphis by way of Nashville in 1945. He worked as an announcer for a local radio station and eventually saved enough money to get into the ...
Aug 1, 2003 · Sam Phillips was born on Jan. 5, 1923, in Florence, Ala., and learned how to pick cotton young. ''A day didn't go by when I didn't hear black folks singing in the cotton fields,'' he said in an ...
Jul 30, 2003 · A blues fan, originally from the Florence-Muscle Shoals region of Alabama, Phillips got involved in radio when he was young and wound up at WREC in Memphis in 1945. In October 1949, he decided to supplement his income as a disc jockey for WREC and so signed a lease on a building at 706 Union Avenue, where he was to open his Memphis Recording ...
Sam Phillips Official Website: New Album, Human Contact is Never Easy, out November 21
Nov 4, 2015 · An excerpt from Peter Guralnick's new book, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll. Photo courtesy of the Sam Phillips Family. A tall, lanky boy named J. R. Cash (that was his given name ...
Jun 8, 2018 · Sam Phillips [1] Record company executive For the Record… [2] Sources [3] There will always be debates as to who was the first rock and roller; Chuck Berry [4] or Elvis Presley [5], Bill Haley or Bo Diddley [6], etc., etc.
Watch videos of Sam's adventures, from survival challenges to garage concerts, on this YouTube channel.
