Legendary Producer Sam Phillips Dies. Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who decided that a then-unknown Elvis Presley deserved a recording contract when he heard him sing songs for his mother, has ...

"Sam loved all of the fans of his artists, but he was particularly partial, I feel, to the Elvis fans," she says, adding that Phillips, who died in 2003, was "a first class man; in everything that ...

Phillips launched the careers of legends including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. The rock and roll pioneer spoke to Morning Edition in 1993, a decade before his death.

Elvis Presley's songs were very popular, but his producer Sam Phillips felt he wasn't as talented as this other classic rock star on the same label. Here's what he said. by Matthew Trzcinski ...

Peter Guralnick, biographer of impresario Sam Phillips, said the man who discovered Elvis, Johnny Cash and Howlin’ Wolf believed American music had the power to give voice to all Americans ...

Elvis Presley’s producer Sam Phillips made a light-hearted joke that Elvis couldn’t make worthwhile music. Elvis responded in a way that may have changed the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to play legendary producer Sam Phillips in a biopic. According to Deadline Hollywood, the film will be based on Peter Guralnick's acclaimed 2015 ...

This month marks the centennial of the birth of Sam Phillips, the record producer who discovered Elvis and produced his first records. We're listening back to our interview with Phillips, who ...

Sun Records founder Sam Phillips speaks at an event in New York City in August 2002, a year before his death. (Getty Images) The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison ...