Making of The Album
The album features most of the tracks recorded at Sun studio by Sam Phillips, the head of Sun Studios. Phillips signed Presley after hearing a song that he had recorded for his mother on his birthday. It includes "That's All Right (Mama)" one of the few recordings regarded as "the first rock and roll record."
Phillips said that Presley was rehearsing with his band, Scotty Moore and Bill Black, when Presley started singing the song, a blues song written by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. Phillips said that the version of the song was what he was looking for when he signed Presley, and turned the tape recorder on.
Elvis recorded more than 20 songs at the Sun studio, including some private recordings. Of these, 15 appear on this album.
Missing songs:
- "Harbor Lights"
- "Tomorrow Night"
- "When It Rains It Really Pours"
- "I Got a Woman" (tape lost)
- "Satisfied" (tape lost)
- The earlier private recordings
Read more about this topic: The Sun Sessions
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