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The story of Elvis’ earliest musical inklings is pretty quaint – just a small town boy, living in a Southern world, recording an LP as a present for his mammy one hot summer day in 1953. What if he had decided to pick up a Hallmark card instead and hadn’t strolled on into Sun Records?
Who would we be impersonating? Johnny Cash? God rest your soul, Mr. Cash, but dressing up in a simple black suit isn’t nearly as fun as a shiny turquoise onesie.
"Hello, I'm not Johnny Cash."
It’s humbling to think that the King of Rock of Roll’s legend was born in a little rink-a-dink R&B studio in Memphis. Most pop stars today were run through child slavery rings that are Disney and Nickelodeon. Big money and big production creating overprocessed pap.
But Elvis was just a poor hillbilly from Tupelo, Mississippi who was too dumb to know he wasn’t supposed to become the most influential American musician of all time. Then again, Jesus was birthed in a manger full of goats, pigs, and bed bugs so I guess the greats all have to start somewhere. Yes, I’m comparing Elvis to Jesus. After all, Elvis had much better hair.
Check out this excerpt on the King’s beginnings from the LP sleeve:
Though Sam C. Phillips had been producing local R&B hit records since 1950,he used to boast to his competitors that, if he could find a young white singer who could sound and feel like a negro, he would make a billion dollars.
In 1954 Phillips discovered such a singer but, the most that he ever made was $35,000 when he sold both Elvis Presley’s recording contract and the tapes that constitute this album to RCA-Victor.
In Terms of commerciality, these 16 sides may not have been the most successful rock ‘n’ roll records ever releases but, beyond any doubt, they proved to be the most innovative. Other artists may lay claim to having cut the first bona fide rock single (Jackie Brenston’s Rocket 88 Chess 1458), but truly, this is where it all began.
Phillips’ ultimate ambition may have been to become a millionaire, but when Elvis Presley parked his Ford Pick-up truck outside the memphis Recording Service at 706, Union Avenue one hot summer’s afternoon in 1953, his only desire was to own the snazziest car in town. Within two short years, Presley was to take delivery of the first, of what was to quickly become, a fleet of Cadillacs. The events that let up to Prsley being signed to the Sun label may have all the basic cornball ingredients of a low-budget rock ‘n’ roll B-movie, but these are the facts as we know them.
Sun Records wa a local label which used to either sell or lease independently produced R & B masters to major companies at a very small profit. To boost its economy, the Memphis Recording Service was a lucrative subsidiary which specialised in recording weddings, club meetings, and anyone who wanted to preserve their amateur talent on wax.
Running the Memphis recording Service was Marion Keisker who, had quite recently abdicated her position as Miss Radio of Memphis, in order to collect the four dollar Service charged to cut a double-sided 10-inch acetate. Business was always brisk, and so when Elvis Presley – who was still employed as a $42 a week truck driver for the Crown Electric Company – stopped by one Saturday afternoon he was obliged to join the queue of local starstruck hilljacks and precocious pubescents waiting their moment of glory in the studio.
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A1 That’s All Right 1:54 A2 Blue Moon Of Kentucky 1:59 A3 I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine 2:23 A4 Good Rockin’ Tonight 2:10 A5 Milkcow Blues Boogie 2:32 A6 You’re A Heartbreaker 2:08 A7 I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone 2:34 A8 Baby Let’s Play House 2:13 B1 Mystery Train 2:24 B2 I Forgot To Remember To Forget 2:24 B3 I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’) 2:18 B4 I Love You Because (1st Version) 2:38 B5 Trying To Get To You 2:28 B6 Blue Moon 2:39 B7 Just Because 2:29 B8 I Love You Because (2nd Version) 3:21
