The Sun Sessions

1954年的7月5日，当时还只是个无名小卒的Elvis Presley和他的伙伴在孟菲斯一家名为“Sun Studio”的小小的录音室里玩起了一首流行的黑人歌曲，"That's all right"，制作人Sam Phillips刚好经过，对这几位业余爱好者的表现感到大为吃惊，他立刻让他们停下来，问道：“你们这是在干嘛？”得到的回答是：“我们也不知道。”然后，Sam Phillips做了一个当时他根本不知道将会是多么重要的决定，他说：“你们再来一次。”14天以后，Elvis Presley的第一张个人专辑问世，猫王诞生了。而这张专辑，很有可能也是音乐史上第一张正式发行的摇滚乐专辑。 Sun Studio记录了猫王早期的奋斗历程，或许是他真正最辉煌的历程，这些歌曲在20多年以后终于被搜集完整，于是就有了这张1976年的The Sun Session。 这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第11位。 The Sun Sessions is a compilation of Elvis Presley recordings at Sun Studios in 1954 and 1955. It was issued by RCA Records in 1976. It had been issued (and charted) as "The Sun Collection" in the United Kingdom the previous year. It features liner notes by Roy Carr of the New Musical Express. Making of the album It features most of the tracks recorded by Sam Phillips, the head of Sun Studios. Phillips signed Presley after hearing a song that he had recorded for his mother on his birthday. It includes "That's All Right (Mama)" one of the many recordings regarded by some as "the first rock and roll record." Phillips said that Presley was rehearsing with his band, Scotty Moore and Bill Black, when Presley started singing the song, a blues song written by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. Phillips said that the version of the song was what he was looking for when he signed Presley, and turned the tape recorder on. All in all Elvis recorded more than 20 songs at the Sun studio, plus some private recordings (Before his professional recordings for Sun, they were, "My Happiness", "That's When Your Heartaches Begin", "I'll Never Stand in Your Way", and "It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You".Of these more than 20 songs, 15 ended up on this album.