Sam Phillips
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Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) was an American record producer who played a major role in the growth of rock and roll during the 1950s.
He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf were among Elvis Presley's releases.
In 1954, Presley began his career.
In 1969, Phillips sold Sun to Shelby Singleton. He was a pioneer in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels.
He owned and operated radio stations in Memphis, Alabama; and Lake Worth, Florida.
He advocated for racial justice in the music industry and helped to crack down racial stereotypes.
Early life
Phillips was the youngest of eight children born on a 200-acre farm near Florence, Alabama, to Madge Ella (née Lovelace) and Charles Tucker Phillips. Sam's parents owned their farm, but it was mortgaged. He gathered cotton in the fields with his parents as a child and alongside black laborers. The experience of black laborers performing in the fields left a lasting impression on the young Phillips. On the way to see a preacher in Dallas in 1939, he wandered off to Beale Street, the city's music scene's heart. He later recalled, "I just fell completely in love."
Phillips attended the now defunct Coffee High School in Florence. He served in the school band and had aspirations to be a criminal defense prosecutor. However, his father was bankrupt by the Great Depression and died in 1941, causing Phillips to drop high school to look after his mother and aunt. He worked in a supermarket store and then a funeral parlor to help the families.
When Sam, 19, met Rebecca "Becky" Burns, 17, his future wife, while both working at a WLAY radio station in Sheffield, Alabama, in 1942. He was an announcer and she was still in high school and appeared on 'The Kitchen Sisters,' where they performed music and sang. "I fell in love with Becky's voice even before I met her," Sam wrote in the Alabama Chanin Journal on January 18, 2013. Becky recalled her first encounter with Sam to journalist Peter Guralnick, who said, "He had just come in out of the rain." His hair was blown and full of raindrops. He wore sandals and a smile that was unlike anything else I had ever seen. He sat down on the piano bench and began to talk to me. That night, I told my family that I had spotted the man I wanted to marry." They married in 1943 and went on to have two children in a marriage that lasted 60 years before Sam's death in 2003. Becky Phillips died in 2012 at the age of 87.