For now, at least, the made-in-Memphis CMT television series "Sun Records" is dead — expiring before it even had a chance to convene Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins ...

Sam Phillips first opened the doors of his Memphis, Tenn., record studio on Jan. 3, 1950. Known first as the Memphis Record Studio, then later re-opened as Sun Studio, the venue has come to hold a ...

CMT’s “Sun Records” is not perfect history, but with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and other early rock ’n’ rollers in the mix, it’s a good time. News Home Page ...

"Sun Records" was filmed in Memphis and was inspired by the Tony Award-winning musical "Million Dollar Quartet," which celebrated a famous recording session that featured Presley, Cash, Lewis and ...

When CMT premieres its new musical drama Sun Records on February 23rd – a look at producer Sam Phillips’ role in the birth of rock & roll – it’ll be the latest footnote in the long history ...

Despite Sun Records' prominence in the region, it started experiencing financial difficulties in the mid-1950s. Phillips sold Presley's contract to RCA Records at the end of 1955.

The first Sun records were released in 1952, and two years later Phillips recorded Presley’s debut single, “That’s All Right”; in late 1955, RCA bought out Presley’s contract for $40,000.

Sun Records sure takes its time introducing each familiar face. It begins in Memphis, Tenn., in 1950, when Phillips (One Tree Hill's Chad Michael Murray) opens his recording studio and begins ...

Sun Records will be the subject of an imaginative new podcast focusing on the history and artists of the iconic Memphis label. "Midnight at the Sun Diner" is a production of Primary Wave Music ...