Sun/Phillips International/Flip

Sun/Phillips International/Flip Founded 1950 Memphis, Tennessee; sold to Shelby Singleton 1969. Sun Records and Sam Phillips ’s Memphis Recording Service will always be known as the place where Elvis Presley first recorded and became a star. But before Sam Phillips began using his Memphis studio to record country and rockabilly singers such as Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, he had already built a successful blues studio and label. Howlin’ Wolf, Rufus Thomas…