50th birthday for Elvis’ debut single
p2pnet.net News:- If you thought you heard Elvis every time you tuned in, yesterday, you were probably right.
July 5 marked the 50th anniversay of Presley’s debut single That’s All Right, and more than 1,250 radio played it in a simultaneous broadcast.
Believed by many to represent the birth of rock’n'roll, it was written by Arthur Crudup and recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Scotty Moore, who played on the track with bassist Bill Black, “flipped a switch on a reel-to-reel tape at the legendary Sun Studio in Presley’s adopted home town,” says a Reuters story here. “The live feed was also broadcast globally by the Sirius satellite radio network.”
Moore said he had no idea what That’s All Right would come to signify when recording it, says the NME here.
“You gotta be kiddin’. I already had a band and my only ambition was to play music. Elvis was just fooling around. He was just a white teenager rocking through an old black blues song he heard on the radio.”
That’s All Right was one of three tunes Presley, Moore and Black recorded that day.
