Release · 1981 · Memphis [35.15, -90.05]
The Million Dollar Quartet (album)
Although the impromptu session was taped on 4 December 1956, the recordings of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash jamming together were not issued as an album until decades later. The release preserves the loose, gospel-soaked afternoon exactly as Sam Phillips's tape caught it. It offers a rare unguarded document of the four Sun stars in one room. The album turned a private moment into one of rock history's most cherished artifacts.
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collaborates with → The Million Dollar Quartet session (4 December 1956)
The impromptu session of 4 December 1956 brought Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash into a single room, and the tape Sam Phillips let run was eventually issued as an album decades later. The release preserves the unguarded gathering that crystallized how closely the studio's stars orbited one another at the height of the Memphis scene.