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| Parent company | Sun Entertainment Corp. |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Founder | Sam Phillips |
| Genre | Various, general trends are Rockabilly, Country music, R&B, Blues |
| Country of origin | US |
| Location | (historic) 706 Union Ave. Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) better known as Sam Phillips, was an American Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Memphis, Tennessee 38103 (current) 3106 Belmont Blvd. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. Nashville, Tennessee 37212 |
| Official website | http://www.sunrecords.com/ |
Sun Records was a record label based in Memphis, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27 1952. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Events Pierre Schaeffer publishes his A la recherche d'une musique concrète (The Search for a Concrete Music, an explanation of his experimental Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley (whose recording contract was sold to RCA Victor Records for $35,000 in 1956 to relieve financial difficulties they were going through), Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers. Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) better known as Sam Phillips, was an American A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a Record label and a Recording artist (or group where the artist RCA Records (originally The Victor Talking Machine Company, then RCA Victor is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Carl Lee Perkins ( April 9, 1932 &ndash January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of Rockabilly music a mix of Rhythm Roy Kelton Orbison ( April 23 1936 &ndash December 6 1988) nicknamed "The Big O" was an influential Grammy Award -winning Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a Record label and a Recording artist (or group where the artist Before those days Sun Records had mainly been noted for recording African-American artists, as Phillips loved Rhythm and Blues and wanted to get black music recorded for a white audience. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa It was Sun record producer and engineer, Jack Clement, who discovered and recorded Jerry Lee Lewis, while owner Sam Phillips was away on a trip to Florida. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of Sound through mechanical and electronic means Jack Henderson Clement (born April 5, 1931 in Memphis Tennessee) is an American Singer, Songwriter, and a record Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American Rock and roll and Country music Singer, Songwriter Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The original Sun Records logo was designed by John Gale Parker, Jr. A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign) , a resident of Memphis and high school classmate of Phillips. High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular Scotland, North America and Australia) to describe an institution
The music of many Sun Records musicians helped lay part of the foundation of late 20th century popular music and rock and roll, plus it influenced many younger musicians, particularly the Beatles. Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 In 2001, Paul McCartney appeared on a tribute compilation album titled Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy Of Sun Records. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of
In 1969, Mercury Records label producer Shelby Singleton— noted for producing the Ray Stevens' hit "Ahab The Arab" in 1962, and later Jeannie C. Mercury Records is a Record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US and are both subsidiaries of Shelby Singleton (born Shelby Sumpter Singleton Jr 16 December 1931, Waskom, Texas) is an American Record producer and A hit single is a recorded track or single that has become very popular " Ahab the Arab " (pronounced the American colloquial way " A -rab" or /'eiræb/ to rhyme with " A -hab" is a Novelty song recorded Riley's 1968 hit single "Harper Valley PTA" on his Nashville based Plantation Records label — purchased the Sun label from Phillips. " Harper Valley PTA " is a Country music song written by Tom T Plantation Records was a Record label started by Shelby Singleton. Singleton merged his operations into Sun International Corporation, which re-released and re-packaged compilations of Sun's early artists in the early 1970s. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. It would later introduce rockabilly tribute singer Jimmy Ellis in 1980 as Orion taking on the persona of Elvis Presley. Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s James Albert "Jimmy" Ellis (born February 24, 1940 was a boxer from Louisville Kentucky. Orion ( February 26, 1945 &ndash December 12, 1998) was the stage name of Rockabilly singer Jimmy Ellis. The company remains in business today as Sun Entertainment Corporation, which currently licenses its brand and classic hit recordings (many of which have appeared in CD boxed sets and other compilations) to independent reissue labels. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is a compilation of various musical recordings Films Television programs or other collection Sun Entertainment also includes SSS International Records, Plantation Records, Amazon Records, Red Bird Records, Blue Cat Records among other labels the company acquired over the years. Plantation Records was a Record label started by Shelby Singleton. Red Bird Records was a Record label started Blue Cat Records was the name of two unconnected record labels [1] Its website sells collectible items as well as compact discs bearing the original 1950s Sun logo.
Other "Sun Records"
There were as many as eight other record companies that preceded and/or were contemporary with the Memphis label.
The other Sun Records that preceded the Memphis company by nearly forty years in one case, and six years in the other, or even those that were contemporary with it were never as significant to the history of twentieth century music as Sam Phillips' little record company that operated out of his Memphis Recording Service.
Two Sun Records were offered on eBay. com in August and September 2006 and were pressed in Germany, probably around 1905-1912, for the Sun Record Company of Bombay, India, and referred to on the label as the Sun Disc Record to differentiate the discs from cylinder records also produced by the company. This Sun Record Company might have been the first to use that name. By 1919 another Sun Record Company came to life in Canada, but it, too, soon disappeared. The Canadian Sun Records were produced by the Sun Record Company of Toronto, Canada (a unit of Compo Company Ltd. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Compo Company Ltd was Canada's first independent record company ) in the 1920s. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada Many or all of the masters pressed were leased from the U.S. based Okeh Records. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Okeh Records began as an Independent record label based in the United States of America in [2]
The first American phonograph record to bear the famous “Sun Record” name came into being in the 1910s.
Another Sun Record, founded in New York City in 1946, was intended as an outlet for Jewish musicians and singers, including the famous Yiddish singer, Herman Yablokoff, whose immensely popular Papirossen [Sun 1050] was the top selling record for the label. Billing itself as “The Brightest Thing on Records,” it was already fading into oblivion when the Memphis Recording Service issued its first Sun record in February 1952. But it did contribute one thing, albeit unintentionally, to the Sun Record Company of Memphis, that being the design of the label itself that was copied directly from the New York City-based Sun Record Company.
Another label, an Arabic language Sun Record Company came into being at about the same time, but little is known about its history. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language
A legal battle was fought over the name “Sun” between the Memphis Recording Service of Memphis, which was issuing records on the Sun label, and the Sun Recording Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico, also issuing records on the Sun label. Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Louise Massey, the “Sweetheart of the West” who co-wrote My Adobe Hacienda and whose brother wrote the theme song for television’s Petticoat Junction, among others, was its top artist. The lawsuit was settled in favor of the Memphis-based label, but no one noticed that the name and similar label had been in existence in New York for more than six years. The New York-based Sun Recording Corporation was virtually extinct by then, so even if anyone had noticed, no legal action was taken. The Memphis-based Sun Record Company went on to become the label that brought rock and roll music to the world, enjoying early success with Sun 181, Bear Cat (The Answer to Hound Dog) by Rufus Thomas – which also led to Sam Phillips’ second major lawsuit and the record was re-issued with the phrase (The Answer to Hound Dog) deleted. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African "The world " is a proper noun for the planet Earth envisioned from an Anthropocentric or Human Worldview, as a place Rufus Thomas Jr ( March 26 1917 – December 15 2001) was a Rhythm and blues, Funk and soul singer and Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) better known as Sam Phillips, was an American Sun Records in Memphis was sold in 1969 and the name was changed to Sun International Corporation, later changed again to Sun Entertainment. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A name ( Etymology: from OE nama akin to OHG namo, Latin Nomen, and Greek όνομα ( But the use of the name Sun Record Company did not end there. One other Sun existed during a slightly later era: the Sun Record Company based in Manila. An era is a commonly used word for long period of time When used in science for example geology eras denote clearly defined periods of time of arbitrary but well defined The City of Manila This company did not attempt to disguise its copying of the Memphis Sun labels and re-issued records released by other American labels, such as Imperial 5528, Poor Little Fool written by Eddie Cochran’s fiancée, Sharon Sheeley, which became a massive hit for Ricky Nelson in 1958. Generally a company is a form of Business organization. The precise definition varies Deception (also called beguilement or subterfuge) is the act of convincing another to believe Information that is not true or not the whole truth as in Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the " Poor Little Fool " is a pop / rock song written by Sharon Sheeley. Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran ( October 3, 1938 He took music lessons in school but quit the band to play drums NOTICE TO WOULD-BE-ROMEOS*************** Sharon Sheeley ( April 4, 1940 &ndash May 17, 2002) was an American songwriter born in California in 1940 whose work brought success Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson ( May 8, 1940 &ndash December 31, 1985) was an Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Even though Sam Phillips has passed away, the sun has not yet set on Sun Records. Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) better known as Sam Phillips, was an American Numerous licenses have been issued to Germany’s Bear Family Records, England’s Charly Records, and other companies to issue and re-issue the Memphis Sun Records, some with the familiar brown on yellow label. Bear Family Records is a Germany -based Independent record label that specializes in reissues of archival material ranging from Country music to 1950s Other companies are re-issuing Louise Massey’s recordings from the Albuquerque-based Sun Record Company.
The first 'Sun Records' in Europe were single-sided disc records put out by The Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd. A gramophone of Tonbridge, Kent, England, from about 1905 to 1910. Tonbridge (historic spelling Tunbridge) is a Market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30340 in 2007 KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland (The same company would later produce records under the name Imperial Records). This article is about the Imperial Records label currently owned by EMI. A nearly contemporaneous label was produced in the United States by The Leeds & Catlin Company, about 1905-1907. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
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This is a list of notable Record labels Due to the large number of entries the list has been divided by the first character of the label's name See also Samuel Cornelius Phillips ( January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) better known as Sam Phillips, was an American Sun Studio was opened by rock pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. Elvis Presley 's Sun recordings are a number of recordings he made at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee UDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic