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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.
"Million Dollar Quartet" is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title "Million Dollar Quartet".
On December 4, 1956 an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash took place at Sun Studio. The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance. The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance.
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 ... related how during a talent show Lewis played some "worldly" music. ... Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, ...
The holiday album has members of the long-touring, Tony-nominated musical “Million Dollar Quartet” — based on the short-lived ensemble of Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins ...
Jerry Lee Lewis was on piano and vocals, and the song sold more than a million copies in the first 10 days. The song is about the earth-shattering effect of being in love. Michael Ochs Archives ...
The show had initially been meant to feature only Cash, but Lewis and Perkins joined him onstage on a night when they did not have a concert scheduled themselves. Without rehearsal, the three performed a number of songs they were known for – including Cash's " Get Rhythm " and Perkins' " Blue Suede Shoes " – as well as slightly more obscure ...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has paid tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis and his “rock and roll swagger” after losing its last inaugural inductee. ... with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Little ...