A display of Elvis Presley's jumpsuits at Graceland in Memphis, 2024 (Jim Harrington, Bay Area News Group). Sticking on the Presley trail, the next major stop on my tour was Sun Studio ...

That anecdote remains disputed, but the gig clearly wasn’t the catalyst Elvis hoped for at the outset of his career. Elvis ...

An 18-year-old Elvis Presley first showed up at Sun Studio on July 18, 1953, to record two demos; legend has it that he wanted to give his mother a record of him singing as a birthday present.

He discovered Elvis, made the earliest recordings of ... which would also serve as the studios for Sun Records when it was founded two years later. It began as a rhythm and blues label, giving ...

Aside from the iconic Sun recordings ... offering a unique "fly-on-the-wall" glimpse of how the studio material sounded as Elvis was first laying down his vocals. For Ross-Spang — who has ...

Phillips recalled Presley for an audition at his - soon to be iconic - Sun Studios. “Elvis Presley probably innately was the most introverted person that came into that studio,” Phillips told Rolling ...

Thus, any Elvis addict is steeped in the lore of July, 1954—the late session at Sun Studio, in Memphis, when Elvis, together with Scotty Moore, on lead guitar, and Bill Black, on bass ...

at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. It features singer-guitarist Presley, rhythm guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, under producer and studio co-owner Sam Phillips and studio manager ...

To capitalize on Presley's growing popularity, RCA released an album called Elvis Presley, which was made up of songs he had previously recorded with Sun Studios and new tracks. The album quickly ...