Sam Phillips on TikTok

Remembering Sam Phillips, born Samuel Cornelius Phillips on January 5, 1923, on a farm near Florence, Alabama – he died on July 30, 2003. Phillips was a record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He was a producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s. He was the founder of both Sun Studio and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Through Sun, Phillips discovered suc