#memphis records

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Mush - Down Tools

La devo-luzione dei Mush li allontana dalle velleità politiche del post punk e li avvicina a Ausmuteants e Blur, tre album in tre anni, chi sono questi squinternati da Leeds?

Etichetta: Memphis IndustriesPaese: UKAnno: 2022

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📀 "First time any artist has received five gold records in one year."

March 1, 1970. Elvis during Press Conference in Houston, Texas.

After the final show there was a press conference at which Elvis was presented with gold records for 5 of his 1969 releases. RCA Vice-President Rocco Loginestra was on hand to present Elvis with five gold records. They were 'In The Ghetto', 'Suspicious Minds', 'Don't Cry Daddy' and two albums 'Elvis At The International' and 'From Elvis In Memphis'. It is reported that this is the first time any artist has received five gold records in one year.

At the Sunday afternoon press conference (This Press Conference has always been wrongly dated as being from February 27, 1970, but no Press Conference was held on that date) Elvis said he hadn't seen anything of Houston outside his hotel suite and the Astrodome. Elvis went on to tell reporters "I got a big thrill out of this appearance, I loved it. I know I'm signed to do the International Hotel in Las Vegas again, but nothing has been said about other personal appearances. I'd like to do them." Later in the news conference he said "I knew it would be hard work at the Dome. There is no personal contact. I decided I just had to work as hard as I could, do the show and get off. The sound system bugged me the first night because I kept hearing my own echo. We had our own engineer and we got that all straightened out." Source: elvispresleymusic.com.au

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I Feel Love Growin' - O.V. Wright (Into Something (Can’t Shake Loose), 1977)

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1964 One of my favourite versions of Richard Berry's classic, from Otis' debut album, including a full brass section. What a treat!

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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

𝐉𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐔𝐊 (left click = play) (320kbps)

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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MUSIC MONDAY: "The Legend of Stax Records" Playlist (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Happy Music Monday, y’all. If you haven’t already, please dig Jamila Wignot’s new documentary “Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.”, currently streaming on Max. The four-part film tells the story of Stax Records, the iconic R&B label, from its late-1950s beginnings to its 1975 demise. In its prime the label…

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Memphis Soul Pioneer Willie Mitchell Dies At 81 : NPR

A Black Legend who is Black Indigenous People History that expands around the world is in the spirit of Willie Mitchell, a music legend. I enjoyed working with Pop Mitchell who made everyone around him feel like family.

Hi Records was home for me growing up as a little Black Kid in Memphis Tennessee and seeing some of the greatest talents and the biggest stars in music history is something that I will always remember.

I never sang anything in my life and I didn't play any instrument well enough to be considered as a musician, but still somehow I was part of the greatest musical movement in the history of the world and I understand why I was there because I can tell these legendary people stories and their history because I was there.

As a child you never understand who the people who call you family are in real life outside of your small circle. People idolized these people who you just saw as everyday people and nothing else, because you loved them for them and they loved you for you.

It didn't matter to me who they were because I didn't even know how big they were. I would be with Otis Redding and Ben Cauley and think nothing about who they were supposed to be other than uncles, because my father said so.

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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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1969

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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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ELVIS PRESLEY, RCA RECORDS ARTIST (Nov. 1955)

The story behind one of my favorite 50's Elvis pictures ♥

November 21, 1955: Elvis Presley at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. RCA Victor Records purchased Elvis Presley’s recording contract from Sam Phillips (Sun Records) for a then unheard of sum of $35,000.

Here's the full picture: Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis, Bob Neal (his second manager, after Scotty Moore and prior to Colonel Parker) and country music singer Hank Snow at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN, after signing the RCA contract at the Sun Records studio, previously in the same day.

Let's read a bit about the contract, afterwards.

On November 21, Steve Sholes, Ben Starr, Coleman Tily, the Colonel, Tom Diskin, Hank Snow, local RCA distributor Jim Crudgington, and regional rep Sam Esgro all converged on the little Sun studio for the signing of the papers. Colonel Parker came accompanied by a document dated the same day stipulating that out of the 40 percent in combined commissions due the Colonel and Bob Neal (25 percent to the Colonel, 15 percent to Neal), there would be an even split for the duration of Neal's agreement, until March 15, 1956. The buyout agreement itself was a simple two-page document in which Sun Records agreed to tum over all tapes and cease all distribution and sales of previously released recordings as of December 31, 1955, while the managers "do hereby sell, assign and transfer unto RCA all of their right, title and interest in and to" the previously exercised option agreement. The purchase price was $35,000; RCA undertook responsibility for the payment of all back royalties and held Sun Records harmless from any subsequent claims. Out of all this Elvis Presley would get a royalty of 5 percent as opposed to the 3 percent that he was currently receiving from Sun - this amounted to almost two cents more per record sold, which over the course of a million sales would come to about $18,000. In addition, as the result of a co-publishing arrangement that the Colonel had entered into with Hill and Range (who probably contributed substantially themselves toward the purchase price), Elvis would now receive half of the two-cent statutory mechanical fee and half of the two-cent broadcast fee on all new Hill and Range compositions that he recorded, which would be registered through his own publishing company. If at this point he were to start writing songs as well, or, perhaps more pertinently, if he were to start claiming songwriting credit for songs he recorded, a practice going back to time immemorial in the recording industry, he could increase his income by up to another two cents per side. Hill and Range, meanwhile, stood to gain an almost incalculable advantage over their competitors in the field by securing not just an inside track, but what amounted to virtually a right of first refusal from the hottest new singing sensation in the country. After the contract was signed, there was a picture-taking ceremony, with different configurations of the various parties involved. In one Elvis is flanked by the Colonel and Hank Snow, proud partners in Jamboree Attractions, while Bob Neal, to Snow's left, jovially approves; in another Gladys plants a kiss upon her son's cheek and clutches her black handbag as the Colonel pats her on the shoulder and Vernon looks stiffly on. In yet another Sam and Elvis shake hands across RCA attorney Coleman Tily. In all the pictures all the men are beaming - everyone has seemingly gotten exactly what he wanted. After the picture taking a number of the participants dropped by for a brief on-air appearance on Marion Keisker's show in the brand-new WHER studios. "They thought it would be great fun," said Marion, "if they all came over and we announced it. So they all crowded into the little control room, and we did a little four-or-five-way interview, well, not really an interview, just a little chat. And in the course of it, I remember, Hank Snow said, 'I'm very proud this boy made his first appearance on the national scene on my section of the Grand Ole Opry.' And he was being such a pompous ass about it, I couldn't help it, but I said, 'Yes, and I remember, you had to ask him what his name was.' That was a rather tactless thing for me to do." — Excerpt: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (1994). Chapter "THE PIED PIPERS: September-November 1955".

OTHER PICTURES FROM THAT DAY - NOV. 21, 1955:

Elvis was 20 years old at the time, which means he was still legally a minor, therefore his father (Vernon Presley) also signed the contract, as his natural guardian, which is why Vernon and Gladys are there that day, in addition to the obvious reason (a big moment for their dear son).

The 1st picture below: the Colonel, Gladys, Elvis and Vernon Presley, H. Coleman Tily III (RCA's attorney) and Bob Neal at Sun Records (and a cropped picture of Elvis and Gladys just because <33); The second picture shows Bob Neal, Sam Phillips and Elvis shaking hands across RCA's attorney H. Coleman Tily III, and Colonel Parker; the third picture shows Elvis and Hank Snow that same day (Note: Elvis wearing a tie pictures were taken after the contract signing at Sun Records. The pictures were taken at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN), and the one after that shows Jim Crudgington (local RCA-Victor representative), Elvis and H. Coleman Tily III at Sun - Nov. 21, 1955.

The first picture in this post (a cropped picture from Nov. 21, 1955, showing just Elvis' angel face) was used as cover for the FTD box "A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953 to 1955 Recordings", released in July 28, 2017 (3 CD & Book Set)

You can listen to the full 3-CDs from this box (85 tracks), below:

If you'd like, below you can have a glimpse on the book from this 2017 Elvis box:

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Blessed Are The Dead - Spirit Of Memphis Quartet (Spirit Of Memphis Quartet, 1965)

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Isaac Hayes

American singer, songwriter, actor, and composer was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records.

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. died August 10, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 65.