This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we continue our archive series - R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll. We start today's show with Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records. That's the ...

Phillips launched the careers of legends including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. The rock and roll pioneer spoke to Morning... Sam Phillips, who introduced the world to Elvis and ...

On Tuesday, December 4, 1956, a chance meeting in a recording studio in Memphis resulted in a landmark event in rock ’n’ roll history. The incident was instigated by Sun Records owner/producer Sam ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Sun Records — the storied Memphis label that helped birth rock 'n' roll — has been sold to New York-based music company Primary Wave. The sale, first reported by The New York Times, ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we continue our archive series - R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll. We start today's show with Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records. That's the ...

Record producer Sam Phillips is best known as the founder of legendary Memphis label Sun Records and a key architect of rock and roll. He discovered Elvis, made the earliest recordings of several 20th ...

Updated January 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM ET The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and B.B. King — among others — would be turning 100 today. Record producer Sam Phillips is ...

Sun Records founder Sam Phillips speaks at an event in New York City in August 2002, a year before his death. (Getty Images) The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and B ...