Event · 1954-07 · Memphis [35.15, -90.05]

Recording of "That's All Right" (July 1954)

Name: Recording of "That's All Right" (July 1954)
Start: 1954-07
Location: Memphis

During a July 1954 session at Sun, Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black fell into a fast, joyful version of Arthur Crudup's blues 'That's All Right' between formal takes. Sam Phillips, hearing something new, had them do it again and captured it on tape. A local disc jockey played the result repeatedly within days, igniting demand. The accidental performance is widely treated as the spark of Presley's career and a landmark in rockabilly.

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Wikidata: That's All Right / Blue Moon of Kentucky (1954 single)Wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66694336
accessed 2026-06-04

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influenced by → "Rocket 88"
The R&B energy that Sam Phillips first captured on 'Rocket 88' in 1951 is the same charge he spent three years trying to channel through a new kind of singer. When Elvis Presley reworked a blues into 'That's All Right' in 1954, he completed the line that ran from the studio's earliest R&B sides into rockabilly.

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