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    • Jun 8, 1955
    MGM chief Frank Walker telegrams Sun Records' Sam Phillips with an offer to buy Elvis Presley's recording contract. It's the latest among a series of offers from Decca, Capitol, Mercury, Chess, Atlantic and Dot
    Oct 28, 1955
    Colonel Tom Parker receives a telegram from RCA saying the label will pay no more than $25,000 to buy out Elvis Presley's contract from Sun. Sun owner Sam Phillips holds out for $35,000
    Nov 21, 1955
    In a deal engineered by Colonel Tom Parker, RCA Records buys Elvis Presley's contract and master tapes from Sam Phillips' Sun Records for $35,000. The papers are signed at the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis
    Feb 11, 1956
    Houston-based music publisher Curt Peeples sends a letter to Sun Records' Sam Phillips claiming he owns the copyright to "Blue Suede Shoes." Phillips sends back a letter stating that Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash co-wrote it; Peeples never responds
    Apr 10, 1956
    Producer Sam Phillips convinces Carl Perkins to drive him to Southern Motors Cadillac in Memphis, where Perkins receives a new Caddy marking Sun Records' first million-seller, "Blue Suede Shoes." Phillips deducts the cost from Perkins' royalties
    Jun 15, 1956
    Songwriter/producer/recording engineer Jack Clement begins working for Sam Phillips at the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis. In the job, he takes part in sessions with Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis
    Feb 9, 1961
    Jerry Lee Lewis records a version of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" in the first session at the Sam Phillips Recording Studio in Nashville
    Feb 12, 1964
    Fred Foster announces the purchase of the Phillips Recording Studio in downtown Nashville from Sun Records owner Sam Phillips. The facility is renamed the Fred Foster Sound Studio
    Mar 17, 1964
    Sun Records owner Sam Phillips fires Nashville studio manager Scotty Moore--Elvis Presley's former guitarist--after Moore records an instrumental album, "The Guitar That Changed The World"
    Oct 1, 1968
    Elvis Presley attends the funeral for Dewey Phillips, the Memphis disc jockey who first interviewed the singer on the air. Pallbearers include record producer Sam Phillips and Dickey Lee
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