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Sam Phillips
Nov. 6th, 2015 04:08 pm “If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars!”
-- Sam Phillips
Phillips is the man behind Sun Records, the launching pad for Elvis Presley and rock 'n' roll. Peter Guralnick has a new biography on Phillips. I want to grab an excerpt from the Times's book review that focuses on the serendipity of Elvis going to a producer who was actively looking for a new music phenomenon.
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It’s worth pausing, for a moment, to consider how lucky it was that Presley walked into Phillips’s studio and not someone else’s. Another producer (that term had not yet come into use in the record industry) might have put him to work singing country-pop ditties with string sections. He might have been another Eddy Arnold.
-- Dwight Garner at The New York Times
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-- Sam Phillips
Phillips is the man behind Sun Records, the launching pad for Elvis Presley and rock 'n' roll. Peter Guralnick has a new biography on Phillips. I want to grab an excerpt from the Times's book review that focuses on the serendipity of Elvis going to a producer who was actively looking for a new music phenomenon.
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It’s worth pausing, for a moment, to consider how lucky it was that Presley walked into Phillips’s studio and not someone else’s. Another producer (that term had not yet come into use in the record industry) might have put him to work singing country-pop ditties with string sections. He might have been another Eddy Arnold.
-- Dwight Garner at The New York Times
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