#523 Sam Phillips & Sun Studios and Opinions on Adele
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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From his studio in Memphis, Sun Records founder Sam Phillips was the first to record Elvis Presley, Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and more. Music writer Peter Guralnick joins host Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot for a discussion about the pioneering rock ‘n’ roll producer. Then Jim and Greg review the new record-setting album from British singer Adele.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something here. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together. |
| 0:06.0 | Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Producer Sam Phillips believed everybody had a song to sing and lucky for us some of those singers were named Howlin Wolf, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Greg Kot and I'm Jim Deregadas. Howlin Wolf, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Greg Kott. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm Jim Deregadas. |
| 0:45.1 | We talk to Peter Garralnick about Sam Phillips, |
| 0:47.7 | son studios, and the birth of rock and roll. |
| 0:50.5 | Plus, Adele's Shark Busting New Album, 25. |
| 0:54.0 | That's all coming up on Sound Opinions. |
| 0:57.0 | This is Sound Opinions, and later on in the show, Jim Jim you and I are going to deal with the |
| 1:04.5 | Godzilla of the pop charts. |
| 1:06.5 | Adele is dominating the pop charts 3.3 million sold in her first week. |
| 1:10.6 | That is a record. |
| 1:11.8 | She's not on any of the streaming services if by |
| 1:13.9 | chance you have not heard this record yet we're gonna let you know whether or not |
| 1:17.5 | it's a sound purchase later on in the show but first Greg we have some music news. Yeah! |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah! The entire message that's in |
| 1:34.0 | only squares! |
| 1:35.0 | That is dance to the |
| 1:40.0 | that is dance to the music from Sly and the Family Stone and that famous |
| 1:45.7 | ebbulant voice of Cynthia Robinson, the trumpet player in Sly and the Family |
| 1:51.1 | Stone, the reason we're playing that excerpt from that great song |
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