Elvis was only 42 years old when he passed away on August 16, 1977. Elvis’s influence on country music was recognized in 1998 when he entered the Country Music Hall of Fame. We found a YouTube of Elvis’ 1st recording digitally transferred at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In June of 1953, Elvis Presley made his first-ever recording directly to acetate at Sun Studios in Memphis, TN. This one-of-a-kind piece of music history was recently purchased by Jack White at auction. On February 26th, 2015, Jack White met with legendary music archivist Alan Stoker at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN to have this “holy grail of rock n roll” digitally transferred, so Third Man Records could repress it for the masses. A facsimile of this record, using this transfer without alteration, was available on Record Store Day, April 18th, 2015. A cleaned-up and remastered version of this recording is available as a 7″ on Third Man Records.