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Sam Phillips
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Sam Phillips

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-12
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the Lovelace Community. His father had a gift for farming, which was brought to an end by the Depression. His mother picked guitar and showed the kind of forbearance that allowed her to name her son after the doctor who delivered him drunk and then had to be put to bed himself. And yet from these unprepossessing origins, in 1951 Phillips made what is widely considered to be the first rock 'n' roll record, Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston's 'Rocket 88'. Just two years later a shy eighteen-year-old kid with sideburns, fresh out of high school, wandered i...

Sun King
  • Language: en

Sun King

Music producer Sam Phillips and his landmark studio, Sun Records, hold a unique place in the history of rock 'n' roll - by many accounts, before Phillips recorded 'Rocket 88' by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats in 1951, rock 'n' roll as we know it didn't even exist. Phillips is simultaneously hailed as the man who discovered Elvis Presley and derided as the man who sold the same artist to RCA for a paltry $35,000. The list of musical legends that passed through the doors of Sun Records is simply astounding, including BB King, Ike Turner, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. SUN KING strips away the glossy veneer of legend around the Phillips story - which, like his signature sound, was much the result of his own careful crafting - to reveal a man who, from a very young age, heard a musical sound that no one else heard. Complete with a full Sun Records discography, 'Sun King' is an indispensable document in the history of rock music.

The Bushido Way/a Sam Phillips Mystery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

The Bushido Way/a Sam Phillips Mystery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-29
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  • Publisher: BookRix

M. Anthony Phillips presents the debut of his hot new Private Detective series. Vietnam veteran Sam Phillips follows in the footsteps of his father into the world of private investigations. It’s the end of the Vietnam War in 1976 during the Fall of Siagon and a battle-worn Sam has just taken over his father’s company after his death. With his office above a seedy bar off Hollywood and Vine, Sam and his new assistant Constance Turner go weeks before they land their first case. With the help of his troubled friend Armstrong Jones—fresh out of prison for nearly killing two men, they are paid by an old friend Michelle Yamada of protecting her little brother Ken, a Yakuza gang member being ...

Love Remembered
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Love Remembered

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: CreateSpace

How Long Is Forty-Seven Years? A moment in existence but long enough to live a lifetime: marriage, career, children, divorce, failure, despair, hope, longing. What if you felt the sudden emergence of a mental image so vivid and real the passage of years is erased at light speed? What if that memory, appearing occasionally in dreams, awakened at the mention of a once familiar name, a long forgotten touch, could become real? Would you go back to the haunting, intoxicating, sometimes painful memory of a first true love?

Payback/the Bushido Way 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

Payback/the Bushido Way 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-30
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  • Publisher: BookRix

It’s 1976 and Sam Phillips, fresh off his old case a year ago, is now the most hunted man in Los Angeles. Ken Yamada, the new crime boss of the Japanese Yakuza is in town to exact some payback on Sam for the death of his sister Michelle Yamada. Being a P.I. in L.A. is tough enough for Sam and his small investigations team with the addition of his best friend Armstrong Jones, who finally gets his P.I.’s license and Maria Ozawa, a Little Tokyo beat cop, but Yamada has increased the intensity by putting out a hit on Sam with a price tag on his head, literally. Yamada wanted the head of Sam Phillips on a platter. The newly crowned king of the Japanese mafia makes his “bones” by intruding...

Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll

(Book). One of the most innovative and inspiring figures in the history of American music, Sun Records founder Sam Phillips introduced the world to Johnny Cash, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Rufus Thomas, Ike Turner and many other brilliant and original artists. This book complements the Country Music Hall of fame and Museum exhibition Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll: The Cosmic Genius of Sam Phillips, co-curated by award-winning Phillips and Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick. This book contains rare photos not included in the exhibit and contributions from Guralnick and Phillips's son Knox Phillips.

Best of Sam Phillips
  • Language: en

Best of Sam Phillips

For voice and piano. Includes chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.

...isms: Understanding Modern Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

...isms: Understanding Modern Art

  • Categories: Art

An engaging and informative guide to all the significant "isms"—schools and movements—that have shaped modern and contemporary art from Impressionism to the present. Following on the heels of the bestselling Isms: Understanding Modern Art comes this handy small-format guide to the history and development of modern art since the Impressionist era. Loaded with reproductions of key artworks and rounded out with a glossary and index of names, this guide is the best single-volume concise introduction to modern art for beginners, as well as an engaging new way of conceptualizing modern art for aficionados and collectors. ...isms: Understanding Modern Art sorts art into a chronological sequence...

Dewey and Elvis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Dewey and Elvis

Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought the budding new music to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and Muddy Waters on his nightly radio show Red, Hot and Blue. The mid-South's most popular white deejay, "Daddy-O-Dewey" soon became part of rock 'n' roll history for being the first major disc jockey to play Elvis Presley and, subsequently, to conduct the first live, on-air interview with the singer. Louis Cantor illuminates Phillips's role in turning a huge white audience on to previously forbidden race music. Phillips's zeal for rhythm and blues legitimized the sound and set the stage for both Elvis's subsequent success and the rock 'n' roll revolution of the 1950s. Using personal interviews, documentary sources, and oral history collections, Cantor presents a personal view of the disc jockey while restoring Phillips's place as an essential figure in rock 'n' roll history.

Deadly Voyage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Deadly Voyage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-07-01
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  • Publisher: CreateSpace

Rick Cunningham has no reason to doubt the vicious killing of Ocean State Bank's executive vice president was due to a robbery gone wrong. However, when the swollen body of the EVP's brother washes ashore on a quiet stretch of Boca Raton beachfront, he begins to wonder. He keeps his suspicions to himself until Katherine Ainsley, the distraught and troubled sister of the deceased brothers, accuses Rick's boss, Ocean State's president Big Earl Hartwig, of the double murder. She alleges his motive is to thwart a trust that transfers controlling interest in the bank to her and her two dead brothers. As the last beneficiary, she ominously predicts she is next to die. Because he cares for Katherine, Rick risks his life embarking on a dangerous search for the truth, which is far more complex and deadly, then he could have ever imagined.