youtu.be/k_QwMspPt5g For Laurann Karnes The session, held the evening of July 5, 1954, proved entirely unfruitful until late in the night. As they were about to give up and go home, Presley took his guitar and launched into a 1946 blues number, Arthur Crudups Thats All Right. Moore recalled, All of a sudden, Elvis just started singing this song, jumping around and acting the fool, and then Bill picked up his bass, and he started acting the fool, too, and I started playing with them. Sam, I think, had the door to the control booth open ... he stuck his head out and said, What are you doing? And we said, We dont know. Well, back up, he said, try to find a place to start, and do it again. Phillips quickly began taping; this was the sound he had been looking for.[59] Three days later, popular Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips played Thats All Right on his Red, Hot, and Blue show.[60] Listeners began phoning in, eager to find out who the singer was. The interest was such that Phillips played the record repeatedly during the last two hours of his show. Interviewing Presley on-air, Phillips asked him what high school he attended in order to clarify his color for the many callers who had assumed he was black.[49][61] During the next few days, the trio recorded a bluegrass number, Bill Monroes Blue Moon of Kentucky, again in a distinctive style and employing a jury-rigged echo effect that Sam Phillips dubbed slapback. A single was pressed with Thats All Right on the A side and Blue Moon of Kentucky on the reverse
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