That's all right

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Elvis Presley - That's All Right

That's All Right is a song written by Arthur Crudup in 1946 , which he recorded and published that same year. The piece only became a success in the 1954 version by Elvis Presley . The song was at number 112 of the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time of the music magazine Rolling Stone added.

history

The song was originally recorded on September 6, 1946 in Chicago by Crudup and released as a single on RCA Victor . In the same session he recorded a musically almost identical piece, which was also released as a single with a different text under the title I Don't Know It . In March 1949, the song was re-released under the title That's All Right, Mama (RCA Victor 50-0000). This single is listed on RCA as the first rhythm and blues record in the then new 45-rpm format and was held in bright orange.

Elvis Presley's version was released on July 19, 1954 on Sun Records as number 209 with Blue Moon of Kentucky as the b-side. The record sold about 20,000 times and initially reached neither international nor national charts, but was able to occupy number 4 on the local charts in Memphis (Tennessee) . Arthur Crudup was named as the author of the piece on the Presley single label, but it wasn't until the 1960s that he received $ 60,000 in royalties. It was not until 2004 that the title reached the international charts, namely No. 3 in Great Britain, No. 31 in Australia and No. 47 in Sweden.

In 1955 a country version of Marty Robbins was released , which reached number 7 on the Billboard country singles chart . The "Mexican Elvis" El Vez published a Spanish-language version in 1994 with the title Esta Bien Mamacita .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elvis: His Life from A to Z . Outlet, 1992, ISBN 978-0-517-06634-8 , p. 479.
  2. ↑ Dawson, Jim, and Steve Propes, What Was The First Rock 'n' Roll Record? (Faber and Faber, 1992), ISBN 0-571-12939-0
  3. ^ Sun Records Discography.
  4. ^ Gray, Michael (2006), The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia p. 165.
  5. ↑ https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20040711/7501/
  6. ↑ http://www.hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Elvis+Presley&titel=That%27s+All+Right&cat=s
  7. ↑ That's All Right, By: Marty Robbins on MusicVF.com, accessed January 19, 2020