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Elvis Presley records "That's All Right (Mama)"


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Jul 5, 1954:

 

Elvis Presley records "That's All Right (Mama)"

 

History credits Sam Phillips, the owner and operator of Sun Records in Memphis,Tennessee, with the discovery of Elvis Presley, which is perfectly fair, though it fails to account for the roles of four others in making that discovery possible: The business partner who first spotted something special in Elvis, the two session men who vouched for his musical talent and the blues figure who wrote the song he was playing when Sam Phillips realized what he had on his hands. The song in question was "That's All Right" by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and Elvis' unrehearsed performance of it—recorded by Sam Phillips on this day in 1954—is a moment some regard as the true beginning of the rock-and-roll revolution.

 

The sequence of events that led to this moment began when a young truck driver walked into the offices of Sun Records and the Memphis Recording Service on a Saturday night in the summer of 1953 and paid $3.98 plus tax to make an acetate record as a birthday present to his mother. Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/elvis-presley-records-quotthats-all-right-mamaquot

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