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(28,063 posts)by his studio, and also invited two local musicians, guitarist Winfield "Scotty" Moore, and upright bass player Bill Black to work something up with Presley for a recording session.
The session, held the evening of July 5, 1954, proved entirely unfruitful until late in the night.
As they were about to abort and go home, Presley took his guitar and launched into a 1946 blues number called "That's All Right."
As Scotty Moore recalled, "All of a sudden, Elvis just started singing this song, jumping around and acting the fool, and them Bill picked up his bass, and he started acting the fool too, and i started playing with them.
Sam (Phillips) stuck his head out of the control room and said "What are you doing?'
And we said, 'We don't know!'
Sam replied,'Well, back up, try to find a place to start, and do it again."
Phillips quickly began taping.
Three days later, popular Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips played "That's All Right" on his radio show.
Listeners began phoning in, asking who the singer was.
The interest was so great, Phillips played the record repeatedly during the remaining two hours of the show.
And the rest is history!