We continue our tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Carl Perkins was one of the performers Phillips discovered and recorded in the 1950s.

"Million Dollar Quartet,'' the musical retelling of a 1956 meeting by four of the biggest stars in rock 'n' roll history and the man who discovered them - Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins ...

Sun Records founder Sam Phillips is celebrated on what would've been his 100th birthday ... Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley — a foursome referred to as the "Million Dollar Quartet" after the ...

Phillips launched the careers of legends including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. The rock and roll pioneer spoke to Morning Edition in 1993, a decade before his death.

Sun Records founder Sam Phillips is celebrated on what would've been his 100th birthday ... Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley — a foursome referred to as the "Million Dollar Quartet" after the ...

We're listening back to our interview with Phillips, who founded Sun Records in Memphis and also launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.

Apter recounts the story of Perkins hearing Presley on the radio in 1954 and, with a little push by his wife, traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, to seek an audition with Sam Phillips.

Carl Mann was the “Last Son of Sun,” one of the final artists that Sam Phillips introduced to the world. A child prodigy from West Tennessee, Mann arrived in Phillips’ orbit at the end of ...

Phillips, who died in 2003, discovered Elvis and produced his first records, and was one of the leading catalysts in post-WWII American music. Originally broadcast in 1997.

Johnny Cash was right to have mixed feelings about Sam Phillips: The producer gave him his big break but also stifled his artistic ambitions. ... Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins included.

Sam Phillips would have been 100 years old on Thursday. The rock and roll pioneer -- famed as the founder of Sun Studio, an influential producer and the first to record Elvis Presley -- was born ...

Apter recounts the story of Perkins hearing Presley on the radio in 1954 and, with a little push by his wife, traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, to seek an audition with Sam Phillips.