After just one impromptu performance, the benchmark for Presley’s whole career was set - and the ears of a generation were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ELVIS Aaron Presley was born in Mississippi on January ... Six months later, studio owner Sam Phillips was planning to combine white country music and black boogie woogie. Phillips' receptionist ...

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

All the red carpets have rolled out to celebrate Elvis Presley's milestone birthday, and at The Engeman in Northport, a spirited Heartbreak Hotel tops them all.

and Elvis Presley together. The place was Sun Records' storefront studio in Memphis. The man who made it happen was Sam Phillips, the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll," who discovered them all.