If ever there was a list of rags to riches stories, Elvis Presley’s story would be close to the top. Born on the wrong side ...

This legendary recording studio is known as the birthplace of rock and roll, and it’s where some of the biggest names in music got their start. From Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash, Sun Studio has ...

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 ...

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 ...

They suggest Elvis was unhappy on RCA Records in 1956 ... But seeing the musical in a Sun Studio set and having Vince Nappo as Phillips tell a version of the Sun Records story is cool even if ...

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 ...