Elvis Presley - That's All Right -- Sun 45

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Blue Moon of Kentucky

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On July 5th, 1954, two musicians from a Memphis, TN band known as The Starlite Wranglers met at the Memphis Recording Service (later Sun Studio) with an aspiring young singer to see if they could find some common musical ground. They ended up not only making music, but also making history, for the three musicians were guitarist Scotty Moore, bassist Bill Black, and rhythm guitar/vocalist Elvis Presley. The song they recorded that night that would launch a musical revolution was Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right."

Fifty year later, on July 5th, 2004, Moore will return to Sun Studio and press the button that will start a simulcast of "That's All Right" on radio stations around the world, followed by a concert and other events in Memphis that weekend, all in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Presley's career and the 50th anniversary of rock 'n' roll. Of course, debate swirls about which record was truly the first rock 'n' roll record, but if "That's All Right" didn't start the fire, Elvis Presley was undoubtedly the musical force that helped transform rock 'n' roll form a fad to a phenomenon.

Like many defining moments, the song's creation came about by accident. "People have asked me, 'What was it like being there, for that first thing?'" Moore told Goldmine. I said, 'Well it was just an audition.' Sam and I had talked about Elvis, and he came over to my house [on July 4, 1954], and I listened to him, and I thought he had a good voice.

"The next night we went into the studio, and we worked on different songs. We were just about ready to go home, when Elvis started singing 'That's All Right.' The door was open to the control room, and [producer] Sam [Phillips] stuck his head out and said, 'Hey, what are you guys doing?' And Elvis told him, and he said, 'Well, that sounds pretty good. Let me hear it again."

The bright, up-tempo reworking of Crudup's blues was in stark contrast to the ballads the group had spent most of the evening working on, "Harbor Lights" and "I Love You Because," so it was no surprise it caught Phillip's attention.

"We rehearsed it two or three times and recorded it," said Moore. "But it was just a demo, it wasn't a record. It was a demo."

Nonetheless, Phillips took an acetate of the song to local DJ Dewey Phillips (no relation), who promptly played it on his radio show that week. Given the immediate positive response, the band went back in the studio to cut another side for a single.

"Bill came up with the B-Side of that record," said Moore. "The same way. We were back in the studio a couple nights later, and everybody who could think of something to do, we'd try this and we'd try that. And we was sitting there taking a break, and Bill started singing. In fact, I think he was sitting on the back of his bass fiddle when he started singing 'Blue Moon Of Kentucky' up-tempo; it had been a waltz by Bill Monroe, And Elvis joined in and sang it along with him. Bill was singing it in a high voice and that was it. It just fit the groove perfect. That's how the first record came about."

"That's All Right/Blue Moon Of Kentucky" was released in mid-July as Sun 209.

-- From Goldmine, July 9, 2004

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