That's All Right

" That's All Right" is the name of the first commercial single released by  Elvis Presley, written and originally performed by  blues singer  Arthur Crudup. Presley's version was recorded on 5 July 1954, [1]  and released on 19 July 1954 with " Blue Moon of Kentucky" as the B-side. It is #112 on the 2004  Rolling Stone magazine list of the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

==History[ edit] == The song was written by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, and originally recorded by him in Chicago on 6 September 1946, as "That's All Right". It was released as a single on RCA Victor 20-2205, but was less successful than some of Crudup's previous recordings. At the same session, he recorded a virtually identical tune with different lyrics, "I Don't Know It", which was also released as a single (RCA Victor 20-2307). In early March 1949, the song was rereleased under the title, "That's All Right, Mama" (RCA Victor 50-0000), which was issued as RCA's first rhythm and blues record on their new 45 rpm single format,[3] [4]  on bright orange vinyl.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Elvis Presley's version was recorded in July 1954, and released with "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as the B-side.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  Its catalogue number was Sun 209.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  The label reads "That's All Right" (omitting "Mama" from the original title), and names the performers as Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Arthur Crudup was credited as the composer on the label of Presley's single, but Crudup had to wait until the 1960s when he received an estimated $60,000 in back royalties.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gray_9-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  Crudup used lines in his song that had been present in earlier blues recordings, including Blind Lemon Jefferson's 1926 song That Black Snake Moan".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Gray_9-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9] 

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">A country music version by Marty Robbins peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1955.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ==Presley's recording<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;visibility:visible;">] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">During an uneventful recording session at Sun Studios on the evening of July 5, 1954, Presley, Moore, and Black were taking a break between recordings when Presley started fooling around with an up-tempo version of Arthur Crudup's song "That's All Right, Mama".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Black began joining in on his upright bass, and soon they were joined by Moore on guitar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Producer Sam Phillips, taken aback by this sudden upbeat atmosphere, asked the three of them to start again so he could record it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Black's bass and guitars from Presley and Moore provided the instrumentation. The recording contains no drums or additional instruments. The song was produced in the style of a "live" recording (all parts performed at once and recorded on a single track).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  The following evening the trio recorded "Blue Moon of Kentucky" in a similar style, and it was selected as the B-side to "That's All Right".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">The recording session was Presley's fifth visit to the Sun Studio.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Elvis_Presley_Recordings_12-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  His first two visits, the summer of 1953 and January 1954, had been private recordings, followed by two more visits in the summer of 1954.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Elvis_Presley_Recordings_12-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Upon finishing the recording session, according to Scotty Moore, Bill Black remarked, "Damn. Get that on the radio and they'll run us out of town." ===Release<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;">] === 1954 Sun 45 release, Sun 209, by Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill.<p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Sam Phillips gave copies of the record to local disc jockeys Dewey Phillips (no relation) of WHBQ, Uncle Richard of WMPS, and Sleepy Eyed John Lepley of WHHM.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  On July 7, 1954, Dewey Phillips played "That's All Right" on his popular radio show "Red, Hot & Blue".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  On hearing the news that Dewey was going to play his record, Presley went to the local movie theater to calm his nerves.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Interest in the record was so intense that Dewey reportedly played the record 14 times and received over 40 telephone calls.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Presley was persuaded to go to the station for an on-air interview that night.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Unaware that the microphone was live at the time, Presley answered Dewey's questions, including one about which high school he attended: a roundabout way of informing the audience of Presley's race without actually asking the question.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">"That's All Right" was officially released on July 19, 1954,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  and sold around 20,000 copies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  This number was not enough to chart nationally, but the single reached number four on the local Memphis charts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AZ_4-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] ==Importance in music history<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;-webkit-transition:color100msease-out,margin100msease-out;visibility:visible;">] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Rolling Stone magazine argued in a 2004 article that Presley's recording of "That's All Right" was the first rock-and-roll record.