History Of Sam Phillips

Rock and Roll has come a long way since 1952 when music business icon Sam Phillips created it. Sam Phillips is considered the father of Rock and Roll. He went against the social normality of segregated music, and produced music that he felt should be made. Even when faced with career ending criticism, Phillips continued on making history. Not only is Sam Phillips responsible for the being the origin of the seemingly everlasting Rock and Roll movement, he segregated music amidst all kinds of cultural disruption with civil rights. Sam Phillips is considered a musical revolutionary who, despite adversity, changed the world forever.

Early 1960s was the time when A&R man (who was responsible for arranging and coordinating all the professionals such as singers, musicians, audio technicians and instrumentation) started getting replaced by record producer. Due to the increase in control of record companies and decrease in the authority of musicians as record producer became more important than the singer in the recording process. One of the example of record producers of that time is Phil Spector, who was considered as one of the most significant record producer because he wrote and recorded many hit songs. It was through these songs, Spector developed his famous “Wall of sound,” which included recording a large number of instruments, blending the sounds together, adding reverb,

Finally, Columbia Records’ Frank Walter signed Smith to a recording contract and set her up in a studio on February 15, 1923. Although there is nothing that survives from her very first recording date, the following date she recorded “Gulf Coast Blues” and “Down Hearted Blues”. The record sold more than 750,000 copies that year, making her a blues star. She then married Jack McGee in June 1923.

The Blues also became a hit in the 1920s after Mamie Smith recorded “Crazy Blues” and it grew into a huge part of the Jazz Industry. African Americans were given credit for the creation of the Blues industry of music as well. Bessie Smith was known as the “most famous of the 1920s Blues singers.”

Robert W. Smith was born on October 24th, 1958 in Daleville, Alabama. He went to secondary school in Daleville, after which he cleared out for Troy State University, where he played lead trumpet in the Sound of the South Marching Band. Besides playing trumpet, he also studied composition during his time at TSU with Dr. Paul Yoder.

Elvis’s next important feat occurred in September of 1955, when Presley released his first Number One country record. This record was his personnel take on Junior Parker’s “Mystery Train” and “I Forgot to Remember to Forget.” At this point in time, Colonel Parker became very involved in Presley’s career, even though Neal was his original manager. The recording company RCA purchased Presley’s contract from Sun for $35,000, a price that was unfathomable for the time period. Colonel Parker had many connections that helped Elvis and really jumpstarted his professional career. One of his connections was Hill and Range, a music publisher that purchased Sam Phillips’ Hi-Lo Music for fifteen thousand dollars, which was still a crazy amount of money during that time. In the midst of this, Presley was given a $5,000 advance. With the advance, he bought his mother a new pink Cadillac to repay her for always ensuring that he was loved and taken care

translates in English as being a story that traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from childhood to maturity. This is a prototype of John Updike's short story, "A & P," the protagonist, Sammy, is faced with a difficult dilemma, and comes to realize a universal truth about human behavior. Sammy comes to understand that the world is an unusual place and that irrational choices based on impulse are not the best way to solve personal issues.

Berry Gordy Jr. started Motown Records in January of 1959 with only an $800 loan from his family and a passion for music. Within a few years of opening Motown Records, what started as a small Detroit record studio, they were selling more singles and releasing more hits than any other recording company. Motown became a cultural icon changing the way music was. Berry Gordy Jr. was known as the most successful African-American owned and operated record company which gave African-American artists a chance to record and sell their music. The embrace of Motown’s artists and recordings by the entire listening audience helped control racial barriers that had plagued the country since its establishment. In its classic era, the eventful music scene of the 1960s, Motown’s artists were among the most popular, establishing a standard of excellence and sophistication that has never been exceeded.

Sam Cooke was one of the most important soul singers in history -- he was the inventor of soul music. Cooke was one of the most popular performers in both the black and white communities. He was also among the first modern black performers and composers to venture into the business side of the music business, when he founded both a record label and a publishing company as an extension of his careers as an addition to being a singer and composer. Like many artist before him Cooke tackled issues including the struggle over civil rights. Some may even say the intensity of which followed an arc that paralleled Cooke's emergence as a star -- his own career bridged gaps between black and white audiences that few had tried to surmount, much less

A young 16 year old boy marches away from his loved ones, not knowing that he might not see them again. That young boy is Sam Meeker. He leaves his family in, My Brother Sam is Dead, to pursue his dreams of freedom in the colonies. Little does he know, he would only see them three more times. He does not get that war tears his family apart and clashes himself and his father. Although he is mature, but doesn’t get the principles vs. realities in war. In My Brother Sam is Dead, although both sides of war are shown, authors James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, ultimately argue that war is futile.

B.B. King or ‘The King of Blues’ was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi. His young parents unfortunately divorced, and his mother passed away when he was 9 years old which left him to be raised by his grandmother. King attended school until the 10th grade when he dropped out of school and started to work at a cotton gin near his hometown. Despite dropping out of school he continued to teach himself math and different languages well into his later life. He worked at the cotton gin earning a penny a pound and singing gospel music on street corners. His musical career started when he was studying under his cousin Bukka White. King met a woman and was married at 17 years old. “I guess I was looking for love, because I never had anybody I believed truly loved me” (B.B. King). The marriage quickly came to end when they got a divorce months later. “Since my early childhood, I had a problem trying to open up. Please open me up. Look inside!

The Sam Davis Home is significant to American History because it was home to a Civil War soldier by the name of Sam Davis. Sam Davis joined the Confederate Army at the young age of eighteen, early in the war between the states. Due to his loyalty, integrity, and knowledge of Middle Tennessee, his commanding officer chose him to serve with E.C. Coleman’s scouts. Coleman relied on youthful men who were familiar with the Middle Tennessee area to move across enemy borders and into the hands of Confederate leaders. This was dangerous for the men, for the Union troops were capturing as many scouts as possible.

In America there are millions African american males who are accused of serious crimes. In the book Monster there are some young men accused of these actions. Steve Harmon is one of these young men on trial for robbery and murder. Steve was not in the robbery and did not participate in Mr. Nesbitt death because Bobo stated he never talked to steve harmon about robbing the drug store , steve claimed he wasn’t there , and James King was the one who pulled the trigger. First of all Steve was not the lookout in the robbery because bobo said he never talked to steve.

Wendell Phillips, a man believed to be completely overlooked and underappreciated in his influence during this period of American history. Phillips played an immense role in the abolition movement before and even after the Civil War; Hofstadter goes on to state that Phillips is seen by many historians as only a dull-witted extremist. Titled “Wendell Phillips: The Patrician as Agitator,” chapter 6 of The American Political Tradition, Hofstadter encompasses brilliantly Phillips’s influence and importance that was portrayed by his radicalism and his views of the democratic system. Phillips was indeed a “patrician,” which is someone who is classified as an elitist part of society. Born into a wealthy family, Phillips was in no circumstance unprivileged; however, he greatly valued the constitution and its basic principles for all. Furthermore Phillips was an agitator. Hofstadter didn’t give chapter 6 this title just because it sounded nice, but to examine both adjectives and to convey how he believes they coincide. Thusly he wants to show how revolutionary the idea of a patrician being an agitator was in Phillips’s time.

Sly Stone was born in Dallas, Texas on March 15th, 1944. Sly Stone’s original birth name was Sylvester Stewart which later he selected to change his name for the stage as Sly Stone after becoming a producer for Autumn Records. Known for creating some of the best funk music of his time, Stone also collaborated with other styles of music such as soul, rock, gospel, and psychedelia. He influenced Motown and Stax as well which were the two most popular record companies producing blues, jazz, and soul music. Stone’s voice was raspy, yet when he sang, he sang with upbeat and good vibe lyrics. Stone had a new style of music being created with his band, a style in which held attitude and a point of view on what they believed in. Sly and the Family Stone was an integrated band of blacks, whites, women, and men. The freedom that everyone heard within the lyrics of Stone and the band, painted a picture of how the band wanted the world to be. The band, especially Stone, held a vision of a utopia for the world they lived in. Stone mastered many instruments at a young age, but Stone was heard on the records mainly through this vocals being the head singer and songwriter. However, often you could catch Stone playing the keyboards or the guitar as well. Throughout Stone and his band’s career, through the years depending on what was going on in the world and personally in the band, the music and lyrics did change. You could find yourself listening to an upbeat, message sending songs