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Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical with a book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux.It dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet recording session of December 4, 1956, among early rock and roll/country stars who recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, which are Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, and newcomer Jerry Lee Lewis.
The stage musical Million Dollar Quartet, with a book by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott, dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet session. It premiered at Florida's Seaside Music Theatre and was then staged at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington (a Seattle suburb) in 2007, [16] breaking box office records.
"Million Dollar Quartet" sessions: 4:09: 3. "Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley" Traditional "Million Dollar Quartet" sessions: 3:28: 4. "I Shall Not Be Moved" Traditional; arr. by Elvis Presley "Million Dollar Quartet" sessions: 2:15: 5. "(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me)" Thomas A. Dorsey "Million Dollar Quartet" sessions: 1:33: 6 ...
Review: On Dec. 4, 1956 coincidence put Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in a studio. 'Quartet' gives life to late greats.
Nearly every song Elvis recorded at Sun is present here (although "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" is hidden on CD number 5; the rest is on CD 1). Missing: "Satisfied" (apparently lost forever), all but one track from the Million Dollar Quartet session, as well as "It Wouldn't be the Same Without You" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way".
The 2008 tribute Million Dollar Quartet is based on the famous photograph of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis grouped round Elvis Presley at the piano, the night when the four joined in an impromptu jam at Sun Records' one-room sound studio, the "Million Dollar Quartet" of December 4, 1956.