One of the most important people in Rock 'n' Roll passed away yesterday.
Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash (among others), and producer of B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, and Junior Parker (among others), and along with Phil Spector and Richard Branson, one of my inspirations to start a record label.
He also produced Rocket 88, considered by many to be the first "rock" record.
Mystery Train
Train arrive sixteen coaches long
Train arrive sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train
Drop my baby and gone
Train train coming right round the bend
Train train coming right round the bend
Train train coming right round this bend
Well it took my baby
But it never will again
Train train coming on down the line
Train train rolling on down the line
Well it’s bringing my baby
’cause she’s mine oh mine
Mine oh mine, mine oh mine
Never again no, no, no never again
-Parker/Phillips
Posted by orion at July 31, 2003 04:27 PM | TrackBack