<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=41yobM_1Gwp3fva00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=41yobM_1Gwp3fva00" width="240" height="375" ><figcaption>Teal Salloum</figcaption></figure>GULFPORT, MS. – Sun Records founder and Florence native, Sam Phillips, let a young group release a record in 1959 in Memphis on his International label with two songs on it: “To Tell the Truth,” and “These Silly Blues.” The group, Bobbie and the Boys, consisted of Cliff and Ed Thomas and their sister, Barbara Ann Thomas Salloum.As Barbara would later recall, they pulled up to the curb by his studio, saw him outside, and asked him if they could record. His initial skepticism was replaced by intrigue when he heard one of the brothers on the piano.That recording experience is the basis for a chapter on Sam Phillips in the recently published book by Barbara’s grandson, Teal Salloum, entitled, Patterns: Stories &amp; Notes on Remarkable People.Salloum grew up around the entertainment industry, with his grandmother, the local news station WLOX in Southern Mississippi, and other media outlets. However, he said his grandmother’s work framed his childhood.“This book was inspired by my grandmother’s career in entertainment,” said Salloum, who is completing his final year at the University of Mississippi School of Law. “I’ve just grown up sitting on her couch and hearing story after story about her career.”Through her work, his grandmother had opportunities to record at Sun Records in the same era as musicians Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. She traveled to California to interview celebrities for ABC, including Dolly Parton. Those experiences introduced Salloum to the stories of people from different backgrounds, eventually inspiring him to document some of those lives himself. “I’m someone that really likes to learn from the lives of others,” Salloum said.That interest became the foundation for his book, a collection of 17 short chapters, each one documenting a real person’s life.The collection draws from three main sources: people his grandmother encountered throughout her career, other people whom Salloum has met throughout his own life, and still other people whose experiences or personal qualities he found worth documenting. Salloum said each chapter is about five pages long, “Where you can pick up a chapter, spend five minutes reading it and then put the book down for the day.”Patterns is available to purchase on Amazon and in select stores.</div></body>

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GULFPORT, MS. – Sun Records founder and Florence native, Sam Phillips, let a young group release a record in 1959 in Memphis on his International label with two songs on it: “To Tell the Truth,” and “These Silly Blues.” The group, Bobbie and the Boys, consisted of Cliff and Ed Thomas and their sister, Barbara Ann Thomas Salloum.

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GULFPORT, MS. – Sun Records founder and Florence native, Sam Phillips, let a young group release a record in 1959 in Memphis on his International label wit

Phillips is Part of New Book

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