
Sims was a rare woman working in the mostly male world of the music business, which could be tough and cut-throat.''--Ruth Laney, Country Roads''A great mix of the down home and the sophisticated.''--David Kunian, Offbeat''What Sims saw and what she heard could only happen once. Sims' book vividly captu
- Title : The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- Author : Barbara Barnes Sims
- Rating : 4.56 (972 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-10-12
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 240 Pages
- Asin : 0807157988
- Language : English
Sims was a rare woman working in the mostly male world of the music business, which could be tough and cut-throat.''--Ruth Laney, Country Roads''A great mix of the down home and the sophisticated.''--David Kunian, Offbeat''What Sims saw and what she heard could only happen once. Sims' book vividly captures the electrifying atmosphere and major players at Sun, always an intimate operation even when it was moving millions of platters a year. She was a real lady amongst rock 'n roll lions.'' --Montgomery Advertiser''A new book by someone who was there sheds some new light on its tiny but famous and incalculably important label. Her writer's eye for detail is extraordinary.'' --Bill Bentley, The Morton Report''While not as juicy or self-serving as other first-person remembrances of the era, Sims' sober account provides an important counterbalance in documenting one of the most fruitful periods in American cultural history.'' --Scott Baretta, Jackson Clarion-Ledger. The Next Elvis puts you squarely inside the cramped studio at 706 Union Ave. The Next ElSims's job placed her in the studio with Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Carl Perkins, and other Sun entertainers, as well as the unforgettable Phillips, whose work made the music that defined an era.The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records chronicles Sims's career at the studio, a pivotal time at this recording mecca, as she darted from disc jockeys to distributors. Sims not only entertains with personal stories of big personalities, but also brings humor to the challenges of a young woman working in a fast and tough industry.Her disarming narrative ranges from descriptions of a disgraced Jerry Lee Lewis to the remarkable impact and tragic fall of DJ Daddy-O Dewey to the frenzied Memphis homecoming of Elvis after his military service. In the male-dominated workforce of the 1950s, 24-year-old Sims found herself thriving in the demanding roles of publicist and sales promotion coordinator at Sun Records. Collectively, these vignettes offer a rare and intimate look at the people, the city, and the studio that permanently shifted the trajectory of rocVern's book gives everyone a peek into that club and its exclusive membership. I've redefined the problem as how emotional information comes to be represented in working memory. The way he hints at the remarkable, tangled web of connections; of technologies, people and geography, which operate both above and beneath our basic daily awareness and how much of Portishead's music does the same. After 10 years serving his sentence, Lupo displays his life story on a silver platter as this book. If you can't attend a workshop in person, this is the next best thing!. For example, his dedication to Introduction to African Civilizations mocks Afrophobes such as Huxley, Toynbee, Hitler, and Schockley: "The book is dedicated to everybody with an African ancestry - the whole human race!" ()Also, I would like to commend Jackson for honestly and accurately displaying the civilization of Ethiopia and Egypt before the Mesopotamia cilization. Jordie's a smart, likable heroine who sometimes does stupid, impulsive things that add to her authenticity, as do Alex's hot-and-cold ways. ISBN 97In 1960 she began a 36-year career teaching English at Louisiana State University. She published newsletters, liaised with distributors, and wrote liner notes for the first albums of Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Charlie Rich. Barbara Barnes Sims worked in promotion and publicity during Sun's golden years, from 1957 to 1960. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


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