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Re: July 19 1954
Posted by **Winston OBoogie** on Jul 20, 2013 at 12:22:01 PM:
In Reply to: Re: July 19 1954 posted by **travis** on Jul 20, 2013 at 8:55:52 AM:
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*** A year and a day after Elvis first recorded at Sun Studios, his first single was released.. 'That's Alright, Mama/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky' had already made its mark.. An advance copy had been given to popular Memphis deejay Dewey Phillips on July 7... The feedback was phenomenal...The story goes that he Dewey spun that sucker fifteen times on the 7th...
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***So by the time it actually hit the shelves 60 years ago today, there were some eager hands waiting to take it home and crank that bad boy up...
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***And the rocket known as Elvis Presley took off for a planet called Legend...
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**I have a personal friend who lives here in St Louis, that I have had the privilege to know and worked with before, his name is Lonnell Hudson and he was actually present in Sun Studios the day Elvis came in the first time to cut a record for his mother. (My Happiness). It was also Elvis that later gave Lonnell $1500.00 to start his own Video Production Company which he still runs to this day. Lonnell also had also done video for the documentary on Elvis called "This Is Elvis".
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**It's fascinating to know someone who actually knew Elvis back in the day when he was before he was.
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*Must have been pretty amazing to have known him back in the Sun Studios days and then see him become the icon that he was/is.
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*The first Beatles single and first James Bond movie came out in the same week, little did anyone realise at the time what would happen next.
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The way Lonnell remembers it, from the first time Elvis came into Sun to record that first record for his mother, Lonnell said everyone there agreed that this kid had something unique.
He said he wasn't surprised that Elvis became a recording star
but nobody ever imagined how far he would get.
It just goes to show, you never know..
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