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Sun Records And The Birth Of Rock 'n' Roll
St. Martin's Griffin
July 1992
On Sale: July 15, 1992
Featuring: Hank Williams
288 pages
ISBN: 0312081995
EAN: 9780312081997
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Non-Fiction
Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls
by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street
there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're
pickin' hillbilly boogie. At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's
something different going on. "Shake it, baby, shake it!"
"Go, cat, go!" "We're gonna rock..." This is where rock 'n' roll was born-the record company that
launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy
Orbison, and Carl Perkins. The label that brought the world,
"Blue Suede Shoes," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On,"
"Breathless," "I Walk the Line," "Mystery Train," "Baby,
Let's Play House,' "Good Rockin' Tonight." Good Rockin
Tonight is the history, in words and over 240 photographs,
of Sam Phillips' legendary storefront studio, from the early
days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B.
King to the long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry
Lee. As colorful and energetic as the music itself, it's a
one-of-a-kind book for anyone who wants to know where it all
started.
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