Sun Studio Sun Studio Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business. Reputedly the first rock and roll single, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats' "Rocket 88" was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll. Blues and R&B artists like Howlin' Wolf, Junior Parker, Little Milton, B.B. King, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, and
Sam Phillips (model) Sam Phillips (model) Samantha "Sam" Phillips (born February 25, 1966) is an American actress, talk-show host, reality TV host, radio DJ, producer, and model. She had an early role in the 1988 action-horror film "Phantasm II". Currently she is the host of a radio show called "The Single Life". Phillips has appeared on numerous television shows, including CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn", FX Network, "The Howard Stern Show", "The Joan Rivers Show", "Jenny Jones", "The Maury Povich Show", "Hard Copy", "Inside Edition", "Extra", "Entertainment Tonight", "Undateable" (VH1), "The Doctors" (CBS), "Red Eye" (Fox News Channel), "Strictly Sex