In this year, the essential early country hit for Arizona “The Fool” was released. This song was written by the rising Lee Hazelwood, and performed and released under Sanford Clark’s name with studio guitar from Al Casey. It would break the top 10 of the nationwide charts and total over 750,000 copies sold. Jim West, cites this as the birth of the local Phoenix music scene. (Azmusichall) Johnny Dixon, Arizona’s unofficial music historian states: “That's the beginning of the Phoenix sound, if you want to call it that, establishing Lee as a songwriter and producer, Al as a player, Sanford as a singer and Audio Recorders as a studio.”