Music is the most cannibalistic creative endeavor, with musicians not only drawing inspiration from predecessors and contemporaries, but often imitating specific techniques, stealing catchy riffs or ...

had eventually managed to get Sam Phillips, the man who discovered Elvis, to sell the Presley record contract, a total of $40,000 had been the amount. Today, when Mariah Carey is paid millions not ...

Sam Phillips Wanted Elvis Presley’s Help Marketing Black Music to White Audiences After he graduated high school, Elvis Presley recorded two singles at Memphis’ Sun Records where he networked ...

Sam Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service. His early clients in 1950 included blues legends Howlin’ Wolf and B. B. King. They were among the first to record at what later became Sun Studio, ...

In honor of Elvis Presley's 90th birthday on Jan. 8, 2025, here is a look at one Elvis highlight per decade from the 1930s to ...

It’s a Tuesday night at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, and Elvis is in the building.

It was the moment Gladys and Vernon Presley had been waiting for. She was set to give birth to the couple’s first child in ...

1935: Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo On Jan ... That's when young Elvis first entered the doors of Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union (home of Sun Records) to croon two songs ...

Hard to believe, but Elvis Presley – the King of Rock’n’Roll ... His manager at the time, Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, was told by Opry manager Jim Denny that Elvis was ...

For music historian Preston Lauterbach, Elvis Presley stands out as an artist ... recording impresarios who emerged in the 1950s, like Sam Phillips, whose Sun Records distributed Elvis, B.B ...

Ninety years after Elvis’s birth, his music still resonates with rock ‘n’ roll fans. Currently, at the John W. Engeman ...

The Elvis King Cake has become a must-try tradition ... He was famously “discovered” in Memphis by Sam Phillips who owned the legendary Sun Studios when he recorded a DIY song for his mama ...