hey everybody hi anyone it's Bruce here with my daily daily number 9 number 9
Wow December the 4th 2017 welcome to my
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that back in history today a 1956 oh how long ago is that that's what 70 years
ago 60 61 years ago oh my god I was 1 because I'm 62 on December the 4th 1956
4 guys happen to meet at the same place at the same time and had some fun
together playing a bit of music the location is Memphis Tennessee Sun
Records where Elvis Presley got his start Sam Phillips found at Sun Records
in 1952 he signed Elvis a number of other artists and Elvis Presley Johnny
Cash Jerry Lee Lewis the killer and Carl Perkins met each other
at Sun Records quite by accident at the same time they happened to be popping by
in case of Elvis Presley he was popping by to say hi and pass on the season's
greetings to Sam Phillips in the case of Carl Perkins he was recording he was
looking to record another tune because blue suede shoes had been a big hit for
him and he wanted to follow up with some more music so he and his band were there
Johnny Cash came by Jerry Lee Lewis was there to kind of get an eye on what was
going on invited by a Philips and the four of them ended up jamming together
in the studio for the one and only time in their lives they were all together at
the same time in the same place it was impromptu unrehearsed and they just
jammed and played some music for a while and there are recordings of it available
I'm not allowed to plan because if I play am I breaking copyright rules god
forbid I do that and so there are multiple places where you can find these
or recordings they were detective Annis an Philips was smart
enough to contact the local newspaper man and he brought him over with a with
a fluid camera took a photo of the boys sitting around the piano jamming away
and a newspaper article was written about the fact that these four gentlemen
were in this studio at the same time Elvis Presley had already been signed
off by Sam Phillips Sam Phillips had sold his recording contract that he had
with Sun Records and he sold Elvis over to RCA Victor for $35,000 in cash in
1955 I believe it was which today is equivalent of a quarter million dollars
and that was early days for Elvis Sam Phillips knew he could never promote
Elvis the way Elvis needed to be promoted he had taken us to a certain
level and almost had to move on from there and RCA Victor and Elvis sold
hundreds of millions of albums after that other artists to come by who had
been in the studio one day comes - Roy Orbison was another artist that came by
the studio but anyway the four that got together Johnny Cash Elvis Presley Jerry
Lewis Carl Perkins the newspaperman coined the term the Million Dollar
Quartet called the Million Dollar Quartet and maybe at the time in 1956
early days for all four guys that might have been inappropriate comments because
really to most people in 1956 if you said oh it's a Million Dollar Quartet
you would look at that and go oh man today that's a billion dollars and you
know what that even that might be slow in today's terms these four artists with
the hundreds of millions of records that they had the top ten hits the country
songs the legacy that they've had you got a figure they could be a hundred
billion dollar quartet today I mean my goodness can you just imagine they were
all young guys and they're all up-and-coming and life was exciting
going forward and man they these guys made the most of it in
certain ways in all the ways I suppose and of course music has never been the
same you know we have Elvis with his movies and during's doing stadium tours
of course the Beatles invented the stadium concert tour they were the first
to do it but Elvis with his with his manager the colonel Colonel Tom Parker I
believe man they they made things happen that had never been done before Johnny
Cash of course a legend what a long distinguished career and then is his his
wife and his children oh my gosh the offspring it just goes on and on Jerry
Lee Lewis killer oh my gosh a legend performing right into the 80s
unbelievable into his 80s really and Carl Perkins beloved
by country and rock and roll stars The Beatles adored Carl Perkins blue suede
shoes they had the record in Liverpool they followed him very very closely of
course Elvis obviously they fall in closely and Roy Orbison to mention him
the Beatles and Roy Orbison toured together in England when Roy Orbison
came over in 63 64 and the Beatles were in heaven to meet one of their absolute
idols and of course down the line George Harrison and Roy Orbison teamed up along
with a little guy named Tom Petty and I love a folk guy named Bob Dylan and a
few other guys and the Traveling Wilburys were created and they performed
for a couple of albums together by the way a sad news to pass on I didn't
mention it the other day I just heard about it the other day and I forgotten
George Harrison passed away sixteen years ago I believe was November 29th
those about four or five days ago at age 58 cancer as what claimed his life and
too young for those of us who are Beatle fans we love George the silent quiet
Beatle but boy did he get a lot done in his lifetime I heard the other day that
he was involved in the production of 23 motion pictures and the life of Brian
the Monty my movie would not have been made
without George Harrison backing it he mortgaged his own house to come up with
enough cash for the Monty Python crew to make their own movie this is after they
were the top-notch television show on BBC they were a smash in the United
States on television they couldn't get backing to make their own movie can you
believe that George Harrison had to step in and finance the making of life
O'Brien and thereafter movies by Monty Python were easy to find hence it didn't
take any more mortgages by George Harrison to keep them fight hissed in
future movies what an incredible story when George believed in yet he believed
in you all the way so what a neat story anyway that's my story today about
history 1956 the Million Dollar Quartet at Sun Records I I'm just I love the
story of Sun Records the people that have come through there the birthplace
of rock and roll on a recording level it was the birthplace of rock and roll in
Memphis Tennessee which is known for country music and oddly enough Elvis
Presley lived in Memphis Tennessee and he was the king of rock and roll so go
figure you think it's Cleveland or Detroit or or Philadelphia oh and was
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