GWAR - The Song Of Words

Phillips did not hide his disappointment, seeing how the artist fostered by him slipped away from him just a year before the official conclusion of their agreement, but he realized that he had made an excellent deal financially. In those days when the record was not at all a thriving sector of the spectacle industry, he received a tidy sum to promote new artists. He didn’t take it too long, and Karl Perkins and Johnny Cash quickly announced their talent by releasing “Blue Suede Shoes,” second place in pop charts in the spring of next year, at Sun. ) and “I try to be impeccable” (“I Walk the Line”), as well as many others. Phillips was counting on the money and to finance WHER, the new, all-female radio station he had just created;he invested the rest in a new venture in Memphis - the Holiday Inn network, which would quickly turn him into a multi-millionaire.