This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/27/2024
Offered are eight 1950's and 1960's SUN 45 RPM singles that are all Marion Keisker (Sun Records) FILE COPIES. This is an incredible opportunity to acquire some of the toughest to find early SUN Records singles by some of the seminal names in the history of Rock and Roll. The group, all in period SUN paper sleeves, includes: 1956 SUN 239 Warren Smith "Rock 'n' Roll Ruby" (MINT) paper sleeve torn; 1956 SUN 239 Warren Smith "Rock 'n' Roll Ruby" (Near Mint) label with paper chipping; 1957 SUN 260 Billy Riley and his Little Green Men "Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll" (2 copies, both Near Mint) both labels with paper chipping; 1957 SUN 263 Sonny Burgess "Restless" (Near Mint) label with paper chipping; 1958 SUN 293 The Sunrays "Love is a Stranger" (MINT); 1959 SUN 325 Vernon Taylor "Mystery Train" (VG, only for a small marking on one side of lable-MINT vinyl); 1959 SUN 328 Sherry Crane "Winnie the Parakeet" (MINT) with 4x6 Sun Records promo photo of Crane and Winnie!
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 Marion Keisker 78 and 45 Records File Copy Collection - Sun Records Office Manager
Marion Keisker, of course, is the office manager of The Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records for Sam Phillips in the 1950s. She was the very woman who was present the day in 1953 that a young singer named Elvis Presley walked into the Memphis Recording Service and recorded his first song. Marion was on hand for that and many other seminal moments in the story of Elvis Presley and the history of Rock and Roll. This collection represents her "file copy" examples of many of the most important records Sam Phillips ever recorded at Sun Records. We rarely employ the term "MINT" when describing collectibles of any kind, but we found ourselves utilizing that condition designation repeatedly while describing these records. The vast majority of them appear to have been brought home by Marion and then NEVER played or handled much at all.
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