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Sun Records at 60, Bear Family at 38 Between 1950 and 1960, Sun Records founder Sam Phillips discovered andproduced B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and Roy Orbison -artists who changed the way popular music was made. With a staff ofno more than one or two people, he did this from a small storefrontstudio in Memphis, Tennessee. Others who made their firstrecordings at Sun include Rufus Thomas, Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Little Milton, Conway Twitty, Charley Pride, and many more!In1952, after producing one of the biggest pre-rock 'n' roll hits,Jackie Brenston's 'Rocket 88', Sam Phillips launched Sun Records withone local release, and then folded the label for a year. In 1953, here-launched Sun, scored major hits with R&B, country, and rock 'n'roll artists, and created an identifiable Sun Sound along the way. Hecontinued to release singles on Sun until 1968. Bear Family hasled the way in documenting Sam Phillips' incredible achievement withcareer-defining box sets on Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, CarlPerkins, Roy Orbison, and definitive single or double CDs on everysignificant Sun artist. Plus, Bear Family has documented the originalSun singles in a series of six 4-CD sets, every single, A and Bside, in original stunning mono!

The 'Sun Rock Box'. The inevitablebox. Again, new audio, new photos, new information, and newinterviews make this into a very special companion to the other twoSun genre boxes. And once again the story is not just the bigartists, like Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, or Roy Orbison, it's inwild men like Billy Riley, Sonny Burgess, Mack Vickery, Jesse LeeTurner, and many more. Even Charley Pride, who became the first andonly African American country superstar, made his first recordings asa rock 'n' roll singer at Sun!

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