Memphis Sound Services studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis and record several
songs including Arthur "Big Boy" Cruddup's "That's All Right (Mama)," which would be
Elvis's first release for Sun Records and the song to launch the Elvis phenomenon.
Elvis Presley - Backstage at the Overton Park Shell, Memphis, Friday, July 30, 1954
It is Elvis' first live, professional appearance.
Elvis Presley, left, with bass player Bill Black, guitarist Scotty Moore and Sun Records and Memphis Recording studio head Sam Phillips at an early recording session in Memphis in 1954. Presley cut his first records in the studio owned by Florence, Ala., native Phillips. With this backup band, Elvis played a trio of thrilling concerts in 1955 on the stage of the Sheffield, Ala., Community Center. When Presley arrived in the Shoals, the Florence Times billed Elvis as the "King of Hillbilly Bop." These photos were released to the Florence, Ala., Times by Sam Phillips.
(AP Photo/Times Daily, Sun Records, File)
July 8, 1954, WHBQ (Memphis) DJ Dewey Phillips played "That's All Right, Mama" on his popular radio show "Red, Hot & Blue" shortly after 9:30 p.m., the first time anywhere.
July 19, 1954--Sam Phillips releases Elvis Presley's That's All Right on his Sun Records label [Sun 209]. A version of bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe's Blue Moon of Kentucky is on the flip side.
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