January 12: THREE MONSTERS ARE ADDED TO THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK ‘n ROLL!!!

January 12, 1957:

 Sun releases "Flyin' Saucer Rock n' Roll" by Billy Riley and His Little Green men… The cut features Roland Janes on guitar and Jerry Lee Lewis on piano and is a rockabilly classic…

January 12, 1961: Shep and the Limelights reach #2 with  the Doo-Wop Classic "Daddy's Home"… 

January 12, 1963: Les Cooper & the Soul Rockers hit #22

with the classic instrumental

 "Wiggle Wobble”…

It's Only Rock 'n Roll!!!

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November 14, 1956: Jerry Lee Lewis cuts his first record - "End of the Road" b/w "Crazy Arms" for Sun. It is credited to Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano...

November 14, 1956:  

Sam Phillips is at the mixing board for Jerry Lee Lewis' first Sun Records recording session...

The session produces the single 

"End Of The Road" / "Crazy Arms"...

Although the single failed to gain much attention, both songs showed a drive and energy that forecasted things to come….

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Sun Records, Little Junior Parker, James Brown and the Famous Flames, The Killer and Patti Smith ROCK IN the first of November...

November 1, 1953:

Sun Releases 

"Mystery Train"

 by Little Junior Parker…

 

November 1, 1955: 

The Famous Flames record

 "Please Please Please"

 at the studio of WIBB in Macon, Georgia…

November 1, 1957:  Jerry Lee Lewis'

"Great Balls of Fire"

hits Number One for Sun Records. ..

November 1, 1975:

Patti Smith's landmark debut album, Horses, is released. Beat poetry and garage rock …

The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…

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July 30, 2003: R.I.P. Sam Phillips...Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer...

July 30, 2003:  Sam Phillips started Sun Records in 1950 to compete with the Chicago labels (Chess, Brunswick, etc.)...

Sam's most well known as being the person who discovered Elvis Presley, but...

 

 Phillips also helped launch the careers of Roy Orbison...Check out Roy's Sun Studio Demo...

     

 

                       

Johnny Cash

Carl Perkins

 

 

"The Killer" himself-- Jerry Lee Lewis...



 

And a WHOLE LOT more...

 

Sam actually sold Elvis' contract to RCA in November, 1955, for $40,000...

 Sam Phillips was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986….

R.I.P. Sam Phillips

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