#Sun records

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Johnny Cash meets Elvis Presley (1956)

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If you could watch Elvis performing only one song many times in different concerts, which song would that be?

Let's try to choose songs that he played over a long period of time, which would be songs from the 50s that Elvis kept in his setlist in the late 60s and throughout the 70s.

Mine is "Trying to Get You" (at least if that wish were given to me at the present moment).

Elvis recorded this song at Sun Records on July 11, 1955 and over the years he soulfully sang the tune. After the 7-year break from live performances during the Hollywood era, Elvis would revive the song onstage, starting from the '68 Comeback Special. "Trying to Get You" was also a part of his 70s concerts setlists, being one of the songs featured in Elvis's last TV Special "Elvis In Concert" as part of the live shows recorded for it on June 1977.

From the live album "Elvis In Concert" recorded during concerts in Omaha, Nebraska (June 19, 1977) and Rapid City, South Dakota (June 21), as part of Elvis' last TV special with the same title as the album, both posthumously released in October 3, 1977.

Elvis performing this song always leaves me, like... breathless. I would love to be in the audience each time he performed it live. ✨

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Jimmy Wages - Mad Man (1956)

Fantastic rockabilly recorded for Sun Records but not released until 1979.

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ELVIS PRESLEY ORIGINAL VINTAGE KODAK PHOTO PHILA AIRPORT JUNE 1974 D RUSSELL

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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬 - 𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧' 𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐧 (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕) Dave "Curlee" Williams / James Faye "Roy" Hall from: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" / "It'll Be Me"

Rock 'n' Roll | Rockabilly | 1st Wave Rock and Roll

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Personnel: Jerry Lee Lewis: Vocals / Piano Roland Janes: Guitar J.M. Van Eaton: Drums

Engineered by Jack "Cowboy" Clement Produced by Jack "Cowboy" Clement

Recorded: @ Sun Records Studios Memphis, Tennessee USA February, 1955

Released: on April 15, 1957

Sun Records

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Ranked the 61st greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2005, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

"Perhaps the quintessential rockabilly anthem" - Charles L. Ponce de Leon

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AD: "Cash Box" Magazine July 20, 1957

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Hi everyone! I'm officially back from Graeland (it was absolutely live changing and I'm so happy I didn't get too anxious and back out!!) It was so freaking fun and I hope every one of you who wants to get there some day actually gets to go! It's a lot to do and plan but you can do it!

ANYWAY I AM BACK!!!

I've missed writing so much and I'm finally back with my laptop and slowly getting back into my routine :)

How have you guys been?

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Dustin Ingram as Carl Perkins, Christian Lees as Jerry Lee Lewis, Kevin Fonteyne as Johnny Cash, Drake Milligan as Elvis Presley and Kerry Holliday as Ike Turner in "Sun Records"

Margaret Anne Florence as Marion Keisker, Chad Michael Murray as Sam Phillips and Jennifer Holland as Becky Phillips in "Sun Records"

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we’ve dedicated this past week to finding all elvis-related places & things in memphis so here’s some highlights of our quest, ranging from the obvious to the crazy to the obscure. 

in order: elvis’ comics at sun records, coletta’s italian restaurant, rock n soul museum, red west and sam phillips’ graves in memorial park cemetery, elvis’ booth at the arcade restaurant, marty lacker tribute on beale street, elvis’ coat & watch at lansky’s, rca contract signing at the peabody hotel, elvis’ briefcase phone at the memphis hall of fame.

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Miss Froggie - Original

I was listening to Rock House, a show devoted to rockabilly, on WEVL while grilling hamburgers tonight & I heard this fun tune by Warren Smith & thought I’d track it down on YouTube Music & share it. For those not familiar with WEVL, they are a listener funded, volunteer radio station in Memphis but you don’t have to be here to listen because they stream live on the Internet. They are seriously one of The City’s overlooked gems. They have definitely introduced me to music genres & artists that I wasn’t familiar with. For instance, Hawaiian slack string guitar. I didn’t know that was a thing that existed, let alone that I enjoyed listening to it and this station has a whole Thursday evening show devoted to it. As for Warren Smith, Fallout fans will know him from his song, Uranium Rock.

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Sam Phillips  † July 30, 2003

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HE SURE IS A PRINCE!

"I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine"

[1] Elvis photographed at the Blue Light studio in Memphis, 1954. [2] Cinderella, a Disney movie released in 1950. [3] Elvis' first Sun Records publicity portrait, 1954.

Studio Sessions for Sun September 10–?, 1954: Sun Studio, Memphis The songs that came to Elvis’s mind were as motley a crew as can be imagined, yet each one was drawn from his own experiences. His prodigious memory helped him dredge up songs from the oddest places, and the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie "Scared Stiff" was one. He recalled Martin’s rendition of a number called “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine,” which had actually been written for Cinderella but was never used in the Disney film. The movie version differed from Martin’s 1950 recorded version, and it was the screen performance he remembered; he took Martin’s approach one step further, speeding the song up, solidifying the beat, and adding an energetic vocal delivery on top.

Excerpt: "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music" by Ernst Jorgensen. Foreword by Peter Guralnick (1998)

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“I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine” was written by Mack David in 1949 for the Disney film “Cinderella”, but the song ended up being misused for the film released in the early 1950. The song was recorded by different artists during the following years. For instance, in addition to Dean Martin, Patti Page is another artist for whom Elvis had the greatest admiration. Her version of “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine” was released in 1950. It’s not strange to assume that Elvis also heard her version before recording the song in 1954.

Here's Dean Martin performing the song in scene from movie "Scared Stiff " (1953):

Elvis recorded the song on September, 1954 and it was first released as a single on October 4 the same year, with B-side "Good Rockin' Tonight".

Listen to “I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine” by Elvis Presley — Guitar: Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley. Bass: Bill Black

When Elvis signed with RCA Records in late 1955, RCA reissued all five of his Sun singles, inclusing "I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine" / "Good Rockin’ Tonight".

RCA's reissue of Sun Records' original Elvis Presley singles.

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FURTHER INFO

Are you curious with the movie the King watched and which inspired him in some level to pick a song for his early records? Watch the 1953 movie 'Scared Stiff, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis: dailymotion.com

FUN FACT: Our dear Lizabeth Scott (Loving You, 1957) is also in this movie, playing Mary Carroll.

Dean Martin, Lizabeth Scott and Jerry Lewis in "Scared Stiff" (1953)

Elvis photographed in 1954.

CREDITS FOR THIS POST: Ernst Jorgensen and his amazing book, "Elvis Presley: A Life in Music", one of my favorites which I keep at reach all times; for the Sun Records and RCA's 1954 single sleeves and respective release dates: elvis100percent.com and Discogs; for pictures: IMDb.com and Pinterest, for movie and song info, Wikipedia and elvisthemusic.com, and for the recordings, Youtube.

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Slim Rhodes - Bad Girl (1956)

How many songs titled Bad Girl, I wonder? Born as Ethmer Cletus Rhodes in Arkanasas, and signed to Sun Records, Slim Rhodes stood somewhere between rockabilly and country.  This fantastically moody song features a forlorn vocal and eerie steel guitar.

No wonder they hate her

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Million dollar quartet....the Sun kings

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From L to R: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash aka the Million Dollar Quartet at Sun Records, December 4th 1956.