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==Memphis studio== In July 1958, feeling that his Memphis Recording Service/Sun Studio was becoming outdated and too small to accommodate the needs of the record labels and publishing companies of the growing Sam Phillips Recording Organization, Sam Phillips bought a property at 639 Madison Avenue in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], just a few blocks from Sun Studio. The building, which had previously housed a [[Midas Muffler]] shop and a bakery, was gutted to build two recording studios on the ground floor, A&R and promotion offices on the second floor, and offices for accounting, publishing, and Phillips himself on the third floor. The new studio, Sam Phillips Recording Service, opened in 1960, with [[Scotty Moore]] being named studio manager. In 1965, [[Sam the Sham]] and the Pharaohs recorded their hit song "[[Wooly Bully]]" at the studio.<ref name="scotty">{{cite web|title=Sam Phillips Recording Service|url=http://www.scottymoore.net/studio_phillips.html|website=scottymoore.net|access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="Temples">{{cite book |last1=Cogan |first1=Jim |last2=Clark |first2=William |title=Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios |publisher=Chronicle Books |location=San Francisco, United States |date=2003 |page=94 |isbn=0-8118-3394-1 }}</ref> By the end of the 1960s, Sam Phillips mostly retired from the recording business,<ref name="SOSOct2003">{{cite web|last=Buskin|first=Richard|title=Sam Phillips: Sun Records|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/sam-phillips-sun-records|website=Sound On Sound|date=October 2003|access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref> and his sons Knox and Jerry worked in the studio, which hosted sessions by [[The Yardbirds]], [[Willie Nelson]], [[Amazing Rhythm Aces]], [[Alex Chilton]], [[Bobby Doyle (jazz vocalist)|Bobby Doyle]], [[John Prine]], and [[The Cramps]].<ref name=scotty/> Knox Phillips managed the studio until his death on April 13, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|last=Young|first=Clive|title=Producer/Engineer Knox Phillips, Dead at 74|url=https://www.mixonline.com/recording/producer-engineer-knox-phillips-dead-at-74|website=Mix|date=17 April 2020|access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref> The studio, still an analog-based facility utilizing much of its original equipment from the 1960s, is still owned and operated by the Sam Phillips family.<ref>{{cite web|title=Recording Studio: History|url=https://samphillipsrecording.com/history/|website=Sam Phillips Recording|access-date=16 May 2024}}</ref>
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