Phillips, Sam
(*1923)
Phillips, Sam (5 Jan 1923–) American record producer, record company owner, born in Florence, Alabama. Phillips originally worked as a disc jockey out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1942, moving in 1946 to a local station in Memphis. In 1950, he opened the Memphis Recording Service, mostly to record weddings and other local events for a fee. He began recording local blues musicians, initially licensing his recordings to Chess, RPM, and other labels; in 1952, he founded Sun Records to release his…