That's All Right

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup wrote and first recorded it in Chicago in September 1946, and RCA Victor issued it in 1947. Presley recorded it on 5 July 1954 at Sun Studio in Memphis, with himself on acoustic guitar, Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass, produced by Sam Phillips. Sun 209 came out on 19 July 1954 with Blue Moon of Kentucky on the other side. Moore recalled that Presley started singing and jumping around late in a session that had so far been fruitless, and Black picked up his bass and joined in.

Dewey Phillips played the acetate on WHBQ on 7 July 1954. The single sold about 20,000 copies and reached number four locally in Memphis without charting nationally. A 2004 reissue reached number three in the UK. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 and ranked number 112 on Rolling Stone's 2010 list. Marty Robbins took a country version to number seven on the country chart in 1955. The trio gave their first public show on 17 July 1954. It never charted in the US in 1954 and was never a UK single in his lifetime. For the 50th anniversary on 6 July 2004, Isaac Hayes, Justin Timberlake and Moore appeared at a ceremony beamed live to 1,200 radio stations.