![]() ![]() He conducted the school band and had ambitions to be a criminal defense attorney. Phillips attended the now defunct Coffee High School in Florence. "I just fell totally in love," he later recalled. Traveling through Memphis with his family in 1939 on the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, at the time the heart of the city's music scene. The experience of hearing black laborers singing in the fields left a big impression on the young Phillips. As a child, he picked cotton in the fields with his parents alongside black laborers. ![]() Sam's parents owned their farm, though it was mortgaged. ![]() 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. He was also an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels and an advocate for racial equality, helping to break down racial barriers in the music industry. Phillips was the owner and operator of radio stations in Memphis Florence, Alabama and Lake Worth Beach, Florida. In 1969, he sold Sun to Shelby Singleton. Phillips played a major role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s, launching the career of Presley. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf. ![]() Samuel Cornelius Phillips (Janu– July 30, 2003) was an American record producer. ![]()
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