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The most famous Sun Records (fourth label to bear the name) was based in Memphis, Tennessee starting operations on March 27, 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers. The music of many Sun Records musicians helped lay part of the foundation of late 20th century popular music and rock and roll and influenced many younger musicians, particularly the Beatles.

For a more detailed discussion, see the article on the label's owner, Sam Phillips.

The first Sun Records were single-sided disc records put out by the Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd of Kent, England, from about 1905 to 1910. (The same company would later produce records under the name ImperialImperial Records has been the name of at least three different record labels of the 20th century. The earliest Imperial Records was a short-lived United States based company of the first decade of the 1900s, producing single-sided lateral cut gramophone r).

A nearly contemporanous label was produced in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in by the Leeds & Catlin company, about 1905-1907.

The third Sun Records was produced by the Sun Record Company of Toronto, CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe in the early 1920sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Events and trends Technology John Logie Baird invents the first working t. Many or all of the masters pressed were leased from the USA based Okeh RecordsOkeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in the 1910s; from the late 1920s on was a subsidiary of Columbia Records. Okeh was founded by Otto Heinemann (1877-1965), a German-American manager for the U. branch.

Quotation

Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a

Musical proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes

And they blasted me sky-high

And the record man said every one is a Yellow Sun

Record from Nashville

And up North there ain't nobody buys them

And I said, but I will

"Nashville Cats" by John SebastianJohn Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of the Lovin' Spoonful, a band named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sebastian was born in Greenwich Village in New York City. His father of the Lovin' Spoonful errs in the location of the label