Elvis Presley

That's All Right b/w Blue Moon Of Kentucky

scum stats: there's a handful of variants...I recently read correspondence from Sam Phillips where he says that it took 8 days to sell the first 4000 copies. I'd bet that was the initial pressing quantity. Speaking with experts, I'm led to believe that the Sun 209 sold more than 100,000 copies before Elvis' contract transferred to RCA

I mean, what more can be said about this atomic bomb? Getting to tackle the write up for the Vault package had me excitedly delving back into all the history and lore that I immersed myself in when we released the "My Happiness" / "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" single however many years ago that was.

I personally own copies of the first three Presley singles on Sun. I managed to track down an affordable tranche of all five of the singles which are now slated for giveaway to one random Vault 59 subscriber. In the process, an extra copy of "That's All Right" ended up on my desk.

So nevermind that all these 7-inches (save for "Mystery Train") have the inescapable "Sun hiss" as they were mastered to the 78rpm specifications. Nevermind that I've heard these songs a billion times. The pure joy of just SEEING an original Sun 45 of any artist is enough to make my day. 

So do yourself a favor and listen to this bastard for one minute and fifty-five seconds. It will put a smile on MY face knowing folks take direction and it'll put one on YOURS if you have any sort of discernible heartbeat or humanity left inside your slowly dying bag of flesh.