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Product Description
On and off Sun Records, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins played an inestimable role in shaping popular music during the Fifties and beyond. But Sun Records was where they found their voice. All four were only in the same place at the same time on one occasion, and it was at Sun's storefront studio in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, during the afternoon of Tuesday, December 4, 1956.
Elvis Presley was home for Christmas. Thirteen months earlier, Sun president Sam Phillips had peddled Elvis' contract to RCA, and invested the proceeds in Cash and Perkins. 1956 had been a year of redemption for them all. Elvis was the most celebrated, vilified, and polarizing personality in American entertainment. One out of every two records that RCA had pressed that year was an Elvis record. Carl Perkins was trying to recapture the success he'd found in the early months of 1956 with "Blue Suede Shoes."
Johnny Cash had given up his job selling home appliances shortly before Christmas 1955, and his early records, like "I Walk the Line," had become pop and country smashes. Jerry Lee Lewis' first record had been out just three days on December 4, 1956, and he was desperate to join the company in which he now found himself He was certain that he would soon eclipse them all.
Sam Phillips was at the controls for a Carl Perkins session during the early afternoon of December 4. Jerry Lee Lewis was the session pianist, trying to earn a little money. Sun's notoriously sloppy record-keeping means that we don't really know what Carl recorded, although "Matchbox" and a "Blue Suede Shoes" sequel, "Put Your Cat Clothes On," seem a good bet. As the session wound down, Elvis appeared with an entourage that included a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans...
Track Listing
- Instumental
- Love Me Tender
- Jingle Bells
- White Christmas
- Reconsider Baby
- Don't Be Cruel
- Don't Be Cruel
- Paralyzed
- Don't Be Cruel
- There's No Place Like Home
- When The Saints Go Marchin' In
- Softly And Tenderly
- When God Dips His Love In My Heart
- Just A Little Talk With Jesus
- Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- Peace In The Valley
- Down By The Riverside
- I'm With A Crowd But So Alone
- Farther Along
- Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand)
- On The Jericho Road
- Just Can't Make It By Myself
- Little Cabin Home On The Hill
- Summertime Is Past And Gone
- I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
- Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
- Keeper Of The Key (Carl Lead)
- Crazy Arms
- Don't Forbid Be
- Too Much Monkey Business
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Don't Forbid Me
- You Belong To My Heart
- Is It So Strange
- That's When Your Heartaches Begin
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Rip It Up
- I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye
- Crazy Arms
- That's My Desire
- End Of The Road
- Black Bottom Sheep
- You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven
- (Elvis Says Goodbye)
Product Reviews
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Great
Posted by Unknown on Aug 13, 2018
I really enjoyed hearing this jam session of these stars early in their carreers
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Where's Johnny
Posted by Unknown on Feb 15, 2016
A great remastered recording from one microphone.
It is disappointing that Johnny Cash is not heard. If he was there he didn't make it onto the tape. -
Million Dollar Quartet
Posted by Joe Garaffa on Apr 14, 2014
Great C D
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Million Dollar Quartet
Posted by Joe Garaffa on Apr 14, 2014
Great C D
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Great Histric
Posted by Bob on Mar 24, 2014
This is a great CD. A person really not into music may not appreciate it for what it is.
Listen to it, let your imagination go. -
I didn't hear it
Posted by Bruno on Oct 23, 2013
This issue seems to be great, so far I can evaluate it looking to what I see: The historic re-issue, images, and track selection. After listening to sound quality, I'll be able to say more about.
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