Flip singles 1955-56

Flip 501   Carl Perkins
Movie Magg / Turn around (February 1955)

Recorded late 1954 or early 1955, SUN Studio, Memphis Tennessee
Carl Perkins (vcl/gtr); Jay Perkins (gtr); Clayton Perkins (bs); W S Holland (dms)

Flip 502   Bill Taylor & Clyde Leoppard's Snearly Ranch Boys
Lonely sweetheart / Split personality (probably February 1955)

Recorded February 1955, SUN studio, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Bill Taylor (vcl); Smokey Jo Baugh (pno/vcl b-side); Buddy Holobaugh (gtr);
Stan Kesler (steel gtr); Clyde Leoppard (dms)

Trumpeter Bill Taylor later recorded on numerous labels, including Pen Records.

Flip / SUN 503   Charlie Feathers
I've been deceived / Peepin' eyes (March 1955)

Re-released as SUN 503 after a legal battle with Flip Records, Los Angeles CA.

Recorded February 17 / March 2, 1955, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Charlie Feathers (vcl/gtr); Quinton Claunch (gtr); Stan Kesler (steel gtr);
Marcus Van Story / William Diehl (bs); Bill Cantrell (fiddle)

Flip / SUN 504   Miller Sisters
Someday you will pay / You didn't think I would (April 1955)

Re-released as SUN 504 after a legal battle with Flip Records, Los Angeles CA.

Recorded March 14, 1955, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Elsie Jo Miller (vcl); Mildred Wages (vcl); Quinton Claunch (gtr); Roy Miller (gtr);
Stan Kesler (steel gtr); Marcus Van Story (bs); Bill Cantrell (fiddle); Charlie Feathers (spoons)

Flip / SUN 227   Rosco Gordon
Just love me baby / Weeping blues (September 1955)

Flip / SUN 228   Smokey Joe [Baugh] & the Clyde Leoppard Band
The signifying monkey / Listen to me baby (September 1955)

Note that only the (non union) Flip label version credits the Clyde Leoppard Band

Flip / SUN 237   Rosco Gordon
"The chicken" (dance with you) / Love for you baby (December 1955)

This was the last record issued simultaneously on the SUN and Flip labels

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