BIRMINGHAM RECORD COLLECTORS DEDICATED TO THE COLLECTING OF MUSIC, ITS PRESERVATION AND LASTING FRIENDSHIP MONTHLY MEETING THIS SUNDAY, JANUARY 12th, 2020 – 2:00 PM HOMEWOOD LIBRARY – 1721 OXMOOR ROAD 35209 NEXT MEETING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, 2020 THE SECOND SUNDAY THIS MONTH’S MEETING This month Elvis would have been 85 on January 8th. Hard to […]
Carl Perkins was actually playing what we now know as Rock & Roll in live performances in the rural honky-tonks of west Tennessee as early as 1953. One of the persons who came to hear him in 1953, at a roadhouse called the El Rancho, was a guy named Elvis Presley. Recording date of “Blue […]
This was done by friend of mine: As you know Charlemagne is closing its doors next week. So I went down Saturday and visited with Marian, took a few iphone clips, and came home and made this. I thought you old-school record collectors might enjoy it https://youtu.be/3iX4S3MVAg0
Recording Date: July 30, 1955, Sun Recording Studio, Memphis, TN Johnny Cash, Vocal and Rhythm Guitar; Luther Perkins, Electric Guitar; Marshall Grant, Acoustic Bass; Sam Phillips, Producer Cash had no drummer in the studio. In an effort to replicate a snare drum beat on 2 and 4, Cash threaded a dollar bill between the strings […]
Recording Date: July 11, 1955, Sun Recording Studio, Memphis, TN This is the final and best recording made by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and producer Sam Phillips at Sun. Financial pressures compelled Phillips to sell Presley’s contract to RCA Victor on November 21, 1955. Rock on! Mike