Sam Phillips 19-year-old Ike Turner, who also wrote the song. The recording was released in 1951 by Chess Records, of Chicago. From 1950 to 1954 Phillips recorded music by James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton, Bobby Blue Bland, the Prisonaires and others. Sun Records produced more rock-and-roll records than any other record label of its time during its 16-year run, producing 226 singles. Phillips and Elvis Presley opened a new form of music. Phillips said of Presley: "Elvis cut a ballad, which was just excellent. I could tell you, both Elvis and Roy Orbison could tear a ballad to pieces.
Catamount Recording Studio broke up and the studio was opened to the public. In 1994, Kansas City's "New Times" publication named Tom Tatman and Catamount Recording Studio the "best area producer and studio." Catamount Recording Studio relocated to a larger facility designed by Carl Yanchar in Cedar Falls, Iowa in February 2002. Yanchar has designed recording studios including The Plant, Mad Hatter, Lion Share, CBS Studios and Capitol Recording Studios. Stone Sour was one of Catamount Recording Studio's first clients to record an album at the new studio. That album yielded three hit singles, two Grammy nominations and a Gold Record. Thirty-six nationally