ELVIS - "The Original Sun Recording' - Blue Moon Of Kentucky / That's Alright
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THE 7" SINGLE THAT BEGAN THE 'ELVIS IS ALIVE' CONSPIRACY
Never before seen on ebay
TITLE : Blue Moon Of Kentucky / That's All Right ARTIST - Jimmy Ellis
Cat # : SSS 0803
Year : 1972
Country : Unknown
Label : SSS International Records
Here we have the story of a truly amazing piece of musical history!!!
* SUN RECORDS was founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis Tennessee in February 1952 and was famously the first label to record Elvis Presley. * In 1969, Mercury Records label producer Shelby Singleton purchased the SUN label from Sam Phillips. * Singleton merged his own operations (SSS International Records) into Sun International Corporation, which re-released and re-packaged compilations of Suns early artists in the 1970's. * In 1978, Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, a rockabilly tribute singer, was introduced to the stable taking on the persona of Elvis Presley. * Shelby Singleton did not have the rights to redistribute the early SUN recordings of Elvis Presley as these had been purchased by RCA. * In 1972, Jimmy Ellis had recorded a cover of Elvis Presley's first 7" single and this was offered to Shelby Singleton by Finlay Duncan who had produced it. * That 1972 single (the one on offer in this auction) was re-released on the SUN label in 1978 (a year after Elvis' death) by Shelby Singleton with a question mark appearing on the record instead of the artists name. * This marketing tactic effectively and inadvertently began the whole 'Elvis Is Alive' conspiracy as Jimmy Ellis sounded uncannily like Elvis Presley.
* Singleton had a plan. "I put the record out on Sun Records without a name on it," the record company owner recalls, a devilish twinkle in his eye. "Everybody came back and swore that I had some long lost Elvis tracks, that I found them in the Sun vaults and re-released them." After Singleton had bought Sun Records several years before, he made several moves that drew the ire of RCA Records, the company that bought the rights to Elvis Presley's music from Sam Phillips in 1955 for $35,000. RCA pressed several lawsuits against Singleton, most of them involving the Sun label's reissuing of early Presley songs and the release of the "Million Dollar Quartet" album, which featured old, previously unreleased studio tapes of Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.
(Above notes taken from www.elvisinfonet.com (Search for Jimmy Ellis & read the article should you be interested as it has some amazingly interesting info).
This, although not a recording by Elvis Presley, has an amazing story attached to it and is part of Rock 'n Roll history - particularly in light of the fact that this was where the 'Elvis Is Alive' conspiracy began.
This pressing is on the SSS International Records label (SSS standing for Shelby Sumpter Singleton) and is dated 1972. There is no artist name on the label but instead it simply states "The Original Sun Recording" on either side under the title.
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