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<rss xmlns:ps="http://trailfire.com" version="2.0"><channel><title>"Elvis music" by Mystic charm</title><link>http://trailfire.com/Mystic charm/trails/35732</link><category>Mystic charm/trails</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Elvis</title><link>http://trailfire.com/Mystic charm/marks/91830</link><description><![CDATA[On July 18, 1953 Presley paid $3.25 to record the first of two double-sided demo acetates at Sun Studios, &quot;My Happiness&quot; and &quot;That&#39;s When Your Heartaches Begin&quot;, which were popular ballads at the time. According to the official Presley website, Presley gave it to his mother as a much-belated birthday present. Presley returned to Sun Studios (706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee) on January 4, 1954. He again paid $8.25 to record a second demo, &quot;I&#39;ll Never Stand in Your Way&quot; and &quot;It Wouldn&#39;t Be the Same Without You&quot;]]></description><category>Elvis music</category><author>Mystic charm</author><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:14:58 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:91830</guid></item><item><title>Elvis News</title><link>http://trailfire.com/Mystic charm/marks/91831</link><description><![CDATA[Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who had already recorded blues artists such as Howlin&#39; Wolf, James Cotton, B.B. King, Little Milton, and Junior Parker, was looking for &quot;a white man with a Negro sound and the Negro feel,&quot; with whom he &quot;could make a billion dollars,&quot; because he thought black blues and boogie-woogie music might become tremendously popular among white people if presented in the right way. The Sun Records producer felt that a black rhythm and blues act stood little chance at the time of gaining the broad exposure needed to achieve large-scale commercial success.<BR>]]></description><category>Elvis music</category><author>Mystic charm</author><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:17:44 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:91831</guid></item><item><title>Elvis</title><link>http://trailfire.com/Mystic charm/marks/91832</link><description><![CDATA[Phillips and assistant Marion Keisker heard the Presley discs and called him on June 26, 1954, to fill in for a missing ballad singer. Although that session was not productive, Phillips put Presley together with local musicians Scotty Moore and Bill Black to see what might develop. During a rehearsal break on July 5, 1954, Presley began singing a blues song written by Arthur Crudup called &quot;That&#39;s All Right&quot;. Phillips liked the resulting record and on July 19, 1954, he released it as a 78-rpm single backed with Presley&#39;s hopped-up version of Bill Monroe&#39;s bluegrass song &quot;Blue Moon of Kentucky&quot;. Memphis radio station WHBQ began playing it two days later; the record became a local hit and Presley began a regular touring schedule hoping to expand his fame beyond Tennessee.<BR>]]></description><category>Elvis music</category><author>Mystic charm</author><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:23:19 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:91832</guid></item><item><title>Elvis</title><link>http://trailfire.com/Mystic charm/marks/91833</link><description><![CDATA[However, Sam Phillips had difficulty persuading Southern white disc jockeys to play Presley&#39;s first recordings. The only places that played his records at first were in the Negro sections of Chicago and Detroit and in California. However, his music and style began to draw larger and larger audiences as he toured the South in 1955. Soon, demands by white teenagers that their local radio stations play his music overcame much of that resistance.Still, throughout 1955 and even well into 1956 when he had become a national phenomenon, Presley had to deal with an entrenched racism of die-hard segregationists and their continued labeling of his sound and style as vulgar &quot;jungle music&quot;.]]></description><category>Elvis music</category><author>Mystic charm</author><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:23:43 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:91833</guid></item></channel></rss>
