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@chrisherrington highlighted this "Sam Phillips very drunk on David Letterman | 1986" video https://youtu.be/NkknN4vCIGM in his Commercial Appeal review of "Robert Gordon digs deep with 'Memphis Rent Party ..." https://t.co/5AujnHiOqZ - Robert Gordon also used it in his first chapter.

"Sam Phillips could fuck-up a two-car funeral" - Jerry Lee Lewis

"Letterman's show was a late-night hipster paradise; showcasing the eccentrics and mocking their oddities, he augured reality TV. Irony was as comforting and old-fashioned as the couch from which the viewer lounged and laughed. My guess is that Sam was unfamiliar with Letterman and had been warned about David's potential to ridicule. Sam was wary, and he was accustomed to being in charge. What we get is a battle of producers – who is going to get what from whom. Because same was giving nothing, and certainly not going to prepare a bland TV dinner version of his achievements – dismissive, simplistic, generic." - Robert Gordon "Memphis Rent Party"

The most famous Memphis moment on "Late Night with David Letterman" came in 1982, when Jerry Lawler and Andy Kaufman took their little Memphis wrestling feud national.
But the runner up, and perhaps just as compelling a piece of theater, came a few years later, when Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, fresh off induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, walked onto the set.
Was this what many viewers saw: A drunk old coot making a scene? Or was it more complicated than that?
Phillips on Letterman is the first chapter in author Robert Gordon's new book "Memphis Rent Party." Gordon wrote about the moment in the Oxford American in 1997, more than a decade after it happened, and adds new thoughts here, a pattern repeated throughout the book, a compilation of previous pieces (a few unpublished) with extensive new notes.
I would say there's a tell here. Note Phillips' alert, mischievous smile just before the show cuts to a shot over his shoulder and Phillips drawls: "You gotta work for this a little while tonight, son."

Decide for yourself: https://youtu.be/NkknN4vCIGM
via USA TODAY NETWORK | TN | Published March 9, 2018 |

Q From Bill Decker: What is the story behind the expression two-car funeral?
A In US English, it usually turns up the fuller form, couldn’t organize a two-car funeral. It’s a measure of utter incompetence.


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