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==Decline== For several years after Presley left Sun, Phillips had success with other acts. Sun Studio became known as a place that nurtured talent and then encouraged it to expand with bigger labels. In 1959, Phillips moved Sun Studio to larger premises at 639 Madison Avenue. By the mid 1960s, Phillips had lost interest in recording and had instead branched out into radio. He opened several radio stations, beginning in the late 1950s, and Sun lost its reputation as an innovative recording studio. In 1968, Sun released its last record. In 1969, [[Mercury Records]] label producer [[Shelby Singleton]] – noted for producing the [[Ray Stevens]]' [[hit single|hit]] "[[Ahab the Arab]]" in 1962, and later Jeannie C. Riley's 1968 hit single "[[Harper Valley PTA]]" on his Nashville-based [[Plantation Records]] label – purchased the Sun label from Phillips. Singleton merged his operations into Sun International Corporation, which re-released and re-packaged compilations of Sun's early artists in the early 1970s. Singleton moved the firm to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], and sold the building to a plumbing company, who eventually sold it to an auto parts store, which used the original recording studio for inventory storage.<ref>Worth/Tamerius, p. 191</ref> Since, Sun Records Studio has been used as a setting for the film biopics ''[[Walk the Line]]'', ''[[Great Balls of Fire! (film)|Great Balls of Fire]]'', ''[[Mystery Train (film)|Mystery Train]]'' and ''[[Elvis (TV miniseries)|Elvis]]''.
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