Cecil Scaife

Cecil Scaife was an American American actor and record executive He attended the University of Arkansas and did his graduate study at Texas Christian University Soon after graduation he was off to Broadway He started his career in the music business working at KFFA Radio in Arkansas His work at Hi Records in Memphis won him the attention of Sam Phillips After meeting Sam Phillips in the fall of 1958 he was hired as the first National Sales and Promotion Manager for Sun Records in Memphis Phillips asked Scaife to manage WLIZ his allgirls radio station for which all the DJs were women in Palm Beach but the job did not last long In 1961 Scaife moved to Nashville to help Sam Phillips create a studio in Nashville In 1962 he founded the gospel label Songs of Faith Within a few years he had sold the label so that he could work at Columbia Records as an account executive In April 1972 Scaife left Columbia to seek his own fortune In 1974 he founded the independent record label Music Incorporated and bought back Songs of Faith from Bill Beasley He worked in the Nashville music industry until his retirement in 1998