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    • Jan 5, 1923
    Sun Records founder Sam Phillips is born in Florence, Alabama. He signs and produces such acts as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, entering the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
    Jan 3, 1950
    Sam Phillips opens the Sun Recording Studio, originally known as the Memphis Recording Service, at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis. It becomes a site for sessions by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others
    Aug 30, 1950
    The Memphis label Phillips Records releases bluesman Joe Hill Louis' "Boogie In The Park." It's the first single ever issued by future Country Music Hall of Famer Sam Phillips, best known for founding Sun
    Mar 5, 1951
    Ike Turner's band, featuring vocalist Jackie Brenston, records "Rocket 88" in Memphis. Hailed by some as the first rock & roll record, it's also the first hit produced by Country Music Hall of Famer Sam Phillips
    Feb 25, 1952
    Jackie Boy and Little Walter record "Blues In My Condition" and "Sellin' My Stuff" at the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis with producer Sam Phillips. The tracks make up the very first single released by the Sun label
    Mar 27, 1952
    Sam Phillips' Sun Records releases its first record, "Blues In My Condition" and "Sellin' My Stuff" by Jackie Boy and Little Walter. Three years later, the label will spawn such acts as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis
    Mar 8, 1953
    R&B artist Rufus Thomas records "Bear Cat" at Memphis' Sun Recording Studio. Producer Sam Phillips, who wrote the song, subsequently gets sued for stealing the melody from "Hound Dog"
    Jun 26, 1954
    Elvis Presley has a spur-of-the-moment tryout with Sam Phillips at Sun Recording Studio in Memphis
    Jan 17, 1955
    Rockabilly artist Charlie Feathers holds his first recording session at producer Sam Phillips' Sun Recording Studio in Memphis. The band includes steel player Stan Kesler, with whom Feathers writes Elvis Presley's "I Forgot To Remember To Forget"
    Mar 21, 1955
    Johnny Cash has an unscheduled audition with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records in Memphis. Phillips passes on the bulk of Cash's material, but after hearing "Hey, Porter," has the youngster come back the next day to record
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