great story about Sam Phillips, he  knew all about sound, he gave  alot of people their start in  music.

love that street sax recording, I'd love to know where it's from

@spigelsound: Tony Schwartz composed the Lost & Found Sound series theme music, "Music in Marble Halls." He recorded it in the lobby of 14 East 36th Street in New York City in the late 1950s. Clarinet by Jimmy Giuffre with Mrs. Giuffre on High Heels.

I've listened to this at least 4 times....   love this piece.  I am a Sun Records/Elvis fan, and listening to these voices talk about Sun before Elvis is such a treasure.  thanks so much for putting this together.   I would love to hear more from your interview with Sam.

Before Elvis walked through the door, before Sun Studios put Memphis on the map—Sam Phillips, a young man with a tape recorder, lived by the motto, "We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime." Weddings, funerals, marching bands, the Miss Memphis Pageant—Sam recorded them all—anything to keep his fledgling Memphis Recording Service open to record Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Little Junior, Ike Turner, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley. The raw and rocking, unrecorded music of the 1950s South.

13 - Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service

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