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- About Sun Records. The Sun Sound began when Sam Phillips launched his record company in February of 1952. He named it Sun Records as a sign of his perpetual optimism: a new day and a new beginning. Sam rented a small space at 706 Union Avenue for his own all-purpose studio. The label was launched amid a growing number of independent labels.
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- 1 The Story of Sun Records Sun Records is a small recording studio on the corner of Union and Sam Phillips Avenues in Memphis, Tenn.
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Irving Mills Irving Mills. Irving Mills. American Jazz music publisher, Agent, Orchestra leader, and Lyricist (January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985). Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919.
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Million Dollar Quartet â Dec. 4 1956 Million Dollar Quartet – Dec. 4 1956. The Million Dollar Quartet is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance.
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Rick Ross Rick Ross. William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper and entrepreneur. In 2009, Ross founded the record label Maybach Music Group, on which he released his studio albums Deeper Than Rap (2009), Teflon Don (2010), God Forgives, I Don't (2012), Mastermind, Hood Billionaire (2014), Black Market (2015), and Rather You Than Me (2017).
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Alan Freed Alan Freed. One of the most important popularizes of rock and roll during the '50s, Alan Freed was the first disc jockey and concert producer of rock and roll. Often credited with coining the term rock and roll in 1951, ostensibly to avoid the stigma attached to R&B and so called race music, Freed opened the door to white acceptance of black music, eschewing white cover versions in favor of the R&B originals.
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- John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
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Suge Knight Suge Knight. Marion Hugh Suge Knight Jr. (/ˈʃʊɡ/; born April 19, 1965) is an American record producer, music executive, and a former American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.
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Death Row Records founder Suge Knight is pulled over by police with guns drawn in a case of 'mistaken identity' Death Row Records founder Suge Knight is pulled over by police with guns drawn in a case of 'mistaken identity'. He is no stranger to legal troubles, but Marion 'Suge' Knight's latest brush with the law was a case of mistaken identity. Tupac Shakur's former hip hop comrade was at the heart of an armed standoff with police officers in Los Angeles on Friday, but they reportedly had the wrong man.
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Record labels that rocked our world The son of a Turkish ambassador to the United States, Ertegü* and his buddy Herb Abramson set up Atlantic in New York in 1947, and turned it into one of America's most important independent labels. Initially, Atlantic focused on jazz and R&B, signing Ray Charles, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane.
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Sun Studio: Elvis' Original Recording Studio History of Sun Studio: Sun Studio opened in Memphis on January 3, 1950 by record producer, Sam Phillips. The studio was originally called Memphis Recording Service and shared a building with the Sun Records label.
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Bill Joy Bill Joy's wiki: William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andreas von Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He played an
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was created on April 20, 1983, by Atlantic Records founder and chairman Ahmet Ertegun.
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Motown Motown is an American record company. It was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has also become a nickname for Detroit.
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July 5, 2014 Sun Studio was born to capture the pure raw energy of Beale Street. The owner Sam Phillips was a self-taught producer who helped transform music for generations to come. Originally called Memphis Recording Service, Sun Studio opened at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950.
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Yellow Rose Records was founded in 2002 by Bobby Flores and Al Michalczak. Our objectives at Yellow Rose are to record, preserve and forward excellent music and also to introduce amazing artists and their talents to the world. Yellow Rose Records began as a showcase pool for Bobby's album production projects and has since gained a respectable reputation in the industry worldwide for quality albums and gifted artists. Although our primary focus is Traditional Country and Western Swing, we're also pleased to offer other genres as well. Yellow Rose Records is proud to record our artists at B.A.M. Recording Studio, which is located in the far north area of San Antonio. www.bamrecordingstudio.com 1 Yellow Rose Records. 2  Yellow Rose Records was founded in 2002 by Bobby Flores and Al Michalczak. Our objectives at Yellow Rose are to record, preserve and forward excellent music and also to introduce amazing artists and their talents to the world.
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- 1 Introduction to the Fenn Collection. 2  The Forrest and Peggy Fenn collection of Native American artifacts is a mixed bag for sure. Most of the objects are those that are indigenous to the areas where they grew up.
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Suge Knight Suge Knight. 'Marion Suge Knight, Jr. ( /ˈʃʊɡ/; born April 19, 1965) (a.k.a. Bozi Thga or Big Simon) is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Death Row Records rose to dominate the rap charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough album The Chronic in 1992.
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1955 Sun RCA Deal 1955 Sun RCA Deal. HISTORIC LETTER/CORRESPONDENCE FOR ELVIS' HISTORIC SUN RCA DEAL. THE DEAL THAT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE. This historic Radio Corporation of America RCA Victor Record Division letter from Stephen Sholes of the A&R Department of RCA Victor, who wrote this letter to Colonel Tom Parker on October 27, 1955. Hand signed by Steve (Sholes).
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- Lennon redirects here. For other uses, see Lennon (disambiguation). John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful and musically influential band in the history of popular music.
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Death Row Records Death Row Records was an American record company founded in 1991 by Suge Knight and other associates, record label almost instantly became a sensation by releasing a succession of multi-platinum hip-hop albums from West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, Tupac Shakur, and others during the early-to-mid-1990s. At its peak, Death Row Records was making over $100,000,000 a year, but by the late 90s the label began to decline in the wake of the shooting death of its sta
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At Billboard, coined the term 'rhythm & blues' Jerry Wexler, who invented the term rhythm & blues as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin as a partner at Atlantic Records, died Friday at his home in Siesta Key, Fla. He was 91.
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Berry Gordy's Motown Records Berry Gordy's Motown Records. Founder and owner of the Tamla-Motown family record labels, Berry Gordy, Jr., established Motown Records as one of the most important independent labels in the early '60s.
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- Berry Gordy Jr. (born November 28, 1929) is an American record producer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business for decades.
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- Death Row Records. Written by Westside ID7. Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:04 -. Marion 'suge'' Knight. Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight is receiving a bad deal from all the haterz. He was there for Tupac when Tupac got locked down in New York. He put the bucks up to get. Tupac out on bail pending appeal.
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- Elvi…s and Johnny were friends and mutually respected each other throughout their lives. Their time at Sun Records, located in Memphis Tennessee, is/was/forever will be...legendary. There are some great audio/video clips of Elvis imitating Johnny Cash and also of Johnny Cash imitating Elvis Presley.