Editing Phillips Recording

{{short description|Music recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee}}
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'''Phillips Recording Service''' is the short name widely used to refer to the '''Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio''' established in 1960 by [[Sun Records]] and [[Memphis Recording Service]] founder [[Sam Phillips]] at 639 Madison Avenue in [[Memphis, Tennessee]] to replace the older, smaller Memphis Recording Service studio.

==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In July 1958, feeling that his Memphis Recording Service/Sun Studio was becoming outdated and too small to accommodate the needs of the record labels and publishing companies of the growing Sam Phillips Recording Organization, Sam Phillips bought a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>

==Other locations==
In the early 1960s, Phillips Recording also had a short-lived demo studio in [[Tupelo, Mississippi]], as well as a studio in Nashville. The Sam Phillips Recording Service of Nashville was opened in 1961 in the top floor of the Cumberland Building, a former [[Masonic Lodge]] at 315 Seventh Avenue North, next to the [[WSM (AM)|WSM]] radio studio. Notable songs produced at this studio include [[Jerry Lee Lewis]]' 1961 version of "[[What'd I Say]]", [[The Dixiebelles]] 1963 song "(Down at) Papa Joe's", the 1963 version of "[[Yakety Sax]]" that would become [[Boots Randolph]]'s signature song, and [[Ronny & the Daytonas]] hit 1964 song "[[GTO (Ronny & the Daytonas song)|G.T.O]]".<ref name="McNutt1">{{cite web|last=McNutt|first=Randy|title=Ghosts of Nashville's Recording Studios, Part 1|url=http://homeofthehits.blogspot.com/2011/08/ghosts-of-nashvilles-recording-studios.html|website=Home of the Hits|date=7 August 2011|access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref> In 1962, producer [[Billy Sherrill]] was hired to manage the studio at the start of his career. Sherrill moved to [[Epic Records]] the following year, and Phillips sold the studio to [[Monument Records]] and renamed the [[Fred Foster Sound Studio]] in 1964.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Morris|first=Chris|title=Sun Records Founder Sam Phillips, 80, Dies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axEEAAAAMBAJ&dq=phillips+studio&pg=PA8|magazine=Billboard|date=9 August 2002|access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Monument Buys Phillips Studio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M0UEAAAAMBAJ&dq=phillips+studio&pg=PA1|magazine=Billboard|date=22 February 1964|access-date=15 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Guralnick|first=Peter|title=Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFvkBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22fred%20foster%22%20monument&pg=PT502|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|location=New York City|date=2015|isbn=978-0-316-04274-1}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official|https://samphillipsrecording.com/}}
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[[Category:Recording studios in Tennessee]]
[[Category:1960 establishments in Tennessee]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Memphis, Tennessee]]