13 Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

Published: Jan. 13, 2015, 3:52 p.m.

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Before Elvis walked through the door, before Sun Studios put Memphis on the map\\u2014Sam Phillips, a young man with a tape recorder, lived by the motto, \\u201cWe Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime.\\u201d\\xa0Weddings, funerals, marching bands, the Miss Memphis Pageant\\u2014Sam recorded them all\\u2014anything to keep his fledgling Memphis Recording Service open to record Howlin\\u2019 Wolf, B.B. King, Little Junior, Ike Turner, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley. The raw and rocking, unrecorded music of the 1950s South.

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