“I want to go to the Oscars,” said graduate student gymnast Sam Phillips with a laugh. “Be nominated for an Oscar and then host the Oscars after party.” For a gymnast in their seventh year of ...
Before Phillips started his own record label, he produced the first records of bluesmen B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf. As Peter Guralnick, the author of a biography of Sam Phillips and a two-volume ...
Phillips spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about launching Elvis Presley's career at Sun Records. He also produced early recordings of B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. He died in 2003.