Elvis, Sun Records, and Rockabilly

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Elvis, Sun Records, and Rockabilly 1954-1958

Elvis Presley Memphis Recording Service Sun Records, 1952- Sam Phillips, 1923-2003 Marion Keisker (radio personality, “Meet Kitty Kelly”, 1946) Elvis Aaron Presley, 1935-1977

“That’s All Right, Mama!” July 1954 Crudup, 1946: link Elvis, 1954: link Scotty Moore Bill Black

Elvis’s high school graduating class, 1953

Close up of Elvis’s grad class

Hound Dog, 1956 Milton Berle show, 1956: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmljYkdr-w Steve Allen Show, 1956: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMN-1nSQv3U

Elvis on Crudup (June 1956) "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and in their juke joints, and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goosed it up. I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel like old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw."

“Heartbreak Hotel”, January 1956 First recording for RCA records [link] Written by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton. Blue Moon Boys: S. Moore and B. Black Chet Atkins: guitar Floyd Cramer: piano Most producers hated the recording. Seven weeks number 1 on Billboard’s Top 100 Six weeks number 1 on Cashbox’s pop singles Seventeen weeks top of C and W chart Reached number 3 on R&B chart. First million dollar record for Elvis

Rock around the Clock Bill Haley and the Comets, 1954 Written by Max Freedman and James Meyer in 1952. Blackboard Jungle, 1955, led to its popularity. Caused Teddy Boy riots in London.

Teddy Boys, Chelmsford, UK, 1950s

Buddy Holly, 7 Sep. 1936 –3 Feb. 1959 Charles Hardin Holley Lubbock, Texas First group: Buddy and Bob June 1955: opened for Elvis Presley. Moved from country to rock. Ordinary guy, glasses, goofy.

Buddy meets Elvis, 3 June 1955

Buddy Holly and the Crickets First signed with Decca Records in Nashville, TN Producer Owen Bradley, disagreed about control. Norman Petty, Clovis, NM (Brunswick Records), “The Crickets” 1957: “That’ll be the day” (John Wayne, The Searchers) July 1957: “Peggy Sue” Pioneered the rock band line up: two guitars, drums, bass.

The day the music died, 3 February 1959 (Don Maclean) Winter Dance Party tour Travelling conditions were terrible Holly hired a plane to fly from Clear Lake Iowa, to Moorhead, Minn. Invited Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr. (“the Big Bopper”) Ritchie Valens (“La Bamba”) Crashed minutes after take off.