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| [Sie müssen registriert oder eingeloggt sein, um diesen Link sehen zu können]Der Memphis Press Scimitar veröffentlicht das Interview das Edwin Howard gestern mit Elvis fürhrte. ELVIS PRESLEY
It all started when Elvis dropped into Sun's studios one day to cut a personal record at his own expense. Sam Phillips, president of the company, monitored the session and was so impressed with the unusual quality in the young man's voice that he jotted down his name and address. some time later, Phillips came across a ballad which he thought might be right for Presley's voice. They recorded it; it didn't click. But they tried again, this time with "Blue Moon of Kentucky," a folk standard, backed by "That's All Right, Mama."
Just now reaching dealers' shelves, the record is getting an amazing number of plays on all Memphis radio stations. "The odd thing about it," says Marion Keisker of the Sun office, "is that both sides seem to be equally popular on popular, folk and race record programs. This boy has something that seems to appeal to everybody."
"We've just gotten the sample records out to the disk jockeys and distributors in other cities," she said, "but we got big orders yesterday from Dallas and Atlanta." Sun, started by Sam Phillips, former WREC engineer, several years ago, has 40 distributors from coast to coast, so there's a good chance of a big national sale.
Elvis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Presley, 462 Alabama, is a truck driver for Crown Electric Co. He has been singing and playing the guitar since he was about 13--just picked it up himself. The home folks who have been hearing him on records so often during the past few weeks can see Elvis in person when he's presented by Disk Jockey Bob Neal in a hillbilly show at Overton Park Shell Friday night along with veteran entertainers from the Louisiana Hayride. | |
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