What is your most favorite sun recording's

[curtis simpkins]

What is your Favorite sun recoring's by Elvis.

mine are.

Mystery Train
I'm Left ' Your Right' She's gone-(original sun single)
Baby, Let's Play house
That's All Right
Good Rockin' Tonight.
Trying To Get To You.

[dennyelvis]

Without a doubt Mystery Train for me .... (y) its just got a certain magic !
also like When your heartaches begin .... Baby lets play house .... and Blue Moon .... its very haunting ;)

[JerryNodak]

It's Mystery Train for me.

[nabelt24]

Great idea, Curtis!!! I love the music from Sun! My favorites are...

That's All Right
Baby, Let's Play House
Good Rockin' Tonight
Mystery Train
Tryin' To Get To You
Blue Moon
I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')
Blue Moon of Kentucky

[curtis simpkins]

The old sun recordings are great.
i asked my dad if he remember Elvis frist record at sun.
he told me i didn't like it.

but now i think he even like it better then what kind of music we have today. :D

[Keith F]

I would have loved to hear the song Satisfied (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keith.flynn1/audio/13Satisfied.MP3) if it hadn't been destroyed by RCA all those years ago!


Keith

[curtis simpkins]

Let's hope not i hope it would be on that new book about sun days and with
that sun cd so let's hope they have it, or a small part of it would be find with me. :D :king: :cool: :clap:

[elvis1970nl]

I am sorry, but I never was and never will be a SUN fan. But if I have to pick one, I think I like Mystery Train the best of all.

[P.S. Annie]

Good question, one of my favo periods. Favourite song can change but certainly there are always:

Blue Moon of Kentucky
That's all right
Blue moon
I dont care if the sund dont shine
Mystery train
Trying to get to you

[Sonny]

It changes from time to time, because I like most of them, but these are among my all time Sun favorites:

Blue Moon
Baby Let's Play House
Good Rockin' Tonight
Mystery Train

Sonny

[T_J]

I would have loved to hear the song Satisfied (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keith.flynn1/audio/13Satisfied.MP3) if it hadn't been destroyed by RCA all those years ago!


Keith

Hi Keith. Who's singing that version?

[NightRider]

Like all the Sun stuff....but if i had to pick....would go for....

Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Mystery Train
I don't care if the Sun don't shine

[charlie rodgers]

all the sun stuff is fantastic music i really cant chose some over the others
both the slow ?nd uptempo songs got such a free spirited feeling about it realy cool to listening to.hope that their will be some interesting new things on the new j?rgensen sun set well anything new from sun will be very interesting.what a shame that some things have been lost,butI havent giving up hope that something may appear in the future(remember the first 2 acetades when their turned up),but as the years roll by the chance looks slimmer, and slimmer.

[Keith F]

Hi Keith. Who's singing that version?Come on TJ, I think you know it's my friend Jamie Kelley singing!

Keith

[charlie rodgers]

hi keith f
jamie kelley is the best impersonater ive ever heard especialy on the early stuff and he really makes something out off the music backin too ,their get that right feeling for the songs im not in to impersonators, a lot of them just cant sing at all and most off them really is a pain to listening to but jamie is really doing allright he dont over do his singing like so many others do and he has a good understanding of elvis way of singing and the music and he really got some of that elvis sound and tone to his voice and his delivery and feeling is very good.

[Keith F]

Yes Charlie, I totally agree, I wouldn't consider Jamie as an impersonator, he has his own voice, but it's uncannily like Elvis'.

I've known Jamie for a few years now, and I can honestly say he's one of the more genuine fans, and a true fan at that.

I think we'll be hearing a lot more of Jamie in the near future

Here's a medley I've done of some songs he's recorded recently

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keith.flynn1/audio/jamie_medley.MP3

I'm sure you'll agree he has a great voice, and very similar to Elvis at the same age!

Keith

[T_J]

Come on TJ, I think you know it's my friend Jamie Kelley singing!

Keith

I did indeed have Jamie in mind Keith ;) I hadn't heard him do that one, so was just double checking. He does a fine job, as usual.

[charlie rodgers]

thanks for that link keith id really like to here more off him doing little mama
and if only the sound was that good on the original elvis tracks of fool fool fool and heart of stone

[Elvisgirl]

just some of them....

I Forgot To Remember To Forget
trying to get to you
mystery train
baby let's play house
that's all right
good rockin' tonight
blue moon of kentucky
Blue moon
Good rockin' tonight
Tomorrow night
I'll never let you go
Little darlin'
Just because
I don't care if the sun don't shine
Milkcow blues boogie
You're a heartbreaker
I'm left, you're right, she's gone
When it rains it really pours

[Cryogenic]

I've not heard many Sun sides but I enjoy "That's All Right" as performed in the 68 Comeback Special and "Mystery Train" as performed in That's The Way It Is. Other than that, I don't really know. "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" sounds like something Elvis would have recorded at Sun, and I enjoy that, too.

[AKing]

My choices are:
That's All Right
Mystery Train
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
Good Rockin' Tonight

When you consider some were recorded a year before "Rock around the clock" it truly shows when Rock'n'Roll was really born.
A King

[P.S. Annie]

Hi Cryogenic

If I'm right When my Blue moon turns to gold again was taped for RCA in 1956. Hope to have helped you clear that up :)

[Cryogenic]

Yes, Guralnick explains that in "Last Train to Memphis". That's what I was alluding to. :P

[geordie]

not only is it my fav sun recording,but its always been in my top 10 elvis songs, blue moon of kentucky.also
mystry train
bbbbbbbaby lets play house
good rocking tonight
:king: :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

[Davey]

I really love Just Because, but a big shout out has to go to Mystery Train & Good Rockin' Tonight as well.

[Redroo]

What is your Favorite sun recoring's by Elvis.

mine are.

Mystery Train
I'm Left ' Your Right' She's gone-(original sun single)
Baby, Let's Play house
That's All Right
Good Rockin' Tonight.
Trying To Get To You.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's gotta be 'I'm left' followed by 'I forgot' back to back...

[samcats]

They are all fantastic, just about my favourite Elvis stuff.
Here's one i love which often gets left out, Tomorrow Night.
Sam Down Under

[Diane]

Mystery Train
Trying To Get To You

[Menwithbrokenhearts]

That's all right
Mystery Train
Blue moon of Kentucky
Blue Moon
Milk Cow blues boogie
I don't care if the sun don't shine
Let's play house
I forgot to remember

[MISSCLAWDY]

MINE ARE:
mistery train
blue moon of kentucky
trying to get to you

[JerryNodak]

Mystery Train

[Sheila]

It's Mystery Train! I love this one. (y)
That's all Right, I love it!(y)

[FlamingStar]

My fave songs from sun is:

Good Rockin' Tonight

Milcow Blues Boogie

I'm Left, You're Right She's Gone


Don't forget the demo of "Shake Rattle & Roll" from the BMG CD "Elvis At Sun" ;)

[hounddog]

Mine are Blue Moon, I'll Never Let You Go Little Darlin, Baby Let's Play House and Mystery Train

[STUD]

Hard to rank, but I'll try. Here are my top 5:

1) That's All Right
2) Good Rockin' Tonight
3) Mystery Train
4) Blue Moon of Kentucky
5) Trying to Get to You

[elvis himselvis]

there are for me only 2 sun recordings

Mystery Train
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again

[MauriceColgan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/MauriceColgan/SUNSESSIONS.jpg

I wore out 78rpms especially, "Trying to Get to You", Mystery Train" and "Baby Let's Play House"....... etc........in 1957:-)

How can we leave out the other classics? The 12inch gate-fold album above has quite a few out-takes. Interesting to hear how some of the songs actually developed.

[STUD]

there are for me only 2 sun recordings

Mystery Train
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again

He recorded When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again for RCA, not Sun. Did you mean Blue Moon of Kentucky or Blue Moon?

[elvis himselvis]

no i mean when my blue moon turns to gold again
my fault
thnx for information(y)

[kathy parkinson]

mystery train for me too. Kathy

[Lee82]

That's All Right
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Good Rockin' Tonight
Milkcow Blues Boogie
Baby Let's Play House
I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone
Mystery Train
Blue Moon
Trying to Get to You

[nerma]

I Love MY HAPPINES'' and THAT'S WHEN YOUR HEARTACHES BEGIN"-As a
present for his mother
1954 SUN STUDIO:clap:

[Donut]

Mistery Train and Baby Let?s Play house with no doubt for me (y)

[ForeverTheKing]

It's a hard choice...well...to me BABY LET'S PLAY HOUSE and MYSTERY TRAIN!!:P :clap:

[Trelane P]

I love the r&b stuff over the country sides so my favs are:

good rockin tonight
milk cow blues
baby let's play house
mystery train

Oh, for me elvis came into his own with his 2nd single good rockin tonight. It's head and shoulders above that alright. He oozes confidence in a way that is staggering for a 19 year old white boy singing r&b in 1954. It blow's my mind.

1954 - Good Rockin' Tonight
1955 - Baby Let's Play House
1956 - Heartbreak Hotel
1957 - Santa Claus Is Back In Town
1958 - TROUBLE
1960 - Reconsider Baby
1961 - Little Sister

It doesn't get any better that that little collection.
T
UK

[Unchained Melody]

It's hard to beat a lineup of songs such as these.

That's All Right
Good Rockin' Tonight
Mystery Train
Tryin' To Get To You
Blue Moon
Blue Moon of Kentucky

[ELV1S]

as far as i'm concerned, the SUN essions were the defining moment in music history where everything changed, all the tracks are special, I've been playing Baby, Lets Play House alot recently (y)

[hounddog]

Oh you have to get the Sun recordings, it's where it all began.

Blue Moon, Trying to Get to You, Bbay Let's Play House are my favs but i love most of the sun stuff never could quite warm to I Love You Because.

[Raised on Rock]

"Hold It fellas, that dont move me, lets get real real gone for a change..."

It wasnt Haley, it wasnt Berry, all those came later, it was in those singles under the names of Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill (THe BLue Moon Boys) produced and recorded by a guy called Sam Philips in Memphis were we first heard what we now call rock and roll, everything in rock music since 1954 till Led Zeppelin springs from there, even in today groups like the White Stripes, The Strokes, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs we can hear the dealyed reververated raw energy and simpleness of the original basic rock sound created for the first time at sUn Studios with Elvis. Although this is not only about rock and roll music, but just about music making, about expontaneus creation and unmatched originality, about a sound that for many reasons created such a deep impression in our minds and still is capable to do it, as any true universal artistic expression; this is timless music, a sound that at least for me hits on a special zone and makes my heart beat faster, like remember your first love, or an image loneliness at moonlight driving by yourself, makes you feel awake and open, makes you feel good. There is something definetively haunting about this music.

Basic SUn tracks:

Milkcow Blues BOogie
Mystery Train
Blue Moon
Trying To Get TO YOu
I Forgot TO Remember TO Forget Her
Good ROcking TOnight
Thats All RIght
Baby Lets Play House

If you Havent hear those, if you dont dig those tracks, you may understand a lot of things, but you dont understand a thing about rock and roll... not even if people call you a rock star baby.

[elvis himselvis]

i really like "Paralysed"
did he recorded this song in sun studio's??
I know he sang it with the million doller quartet sessions

[moody_ blue]

if you are een reall elvis fan
you loved all the periods of elvis
i loved all the sun recordings
but i think my number one is

BABY LETS PLAY HOUSE
(y)

[Sheila]

I love all his Sun Recordings. The most favorite of all is "Mystery Train" and "That's All right".(y) Sheila

[Raised on Rock]

i really like "Paralysed"
did he recorded this song in sun studio's??
I know he sang it with the million doller quartet sessions

Although The Million Dollar QUartet Session happened at Sun Records, ELvis recorded "Paralysed" at Radio Recorders Hollywood in Sep '56.

[vulcandude]

Why choose? I love all of them! LOL!

[Wendy56]

All of them! Can't decide. :P

[amzietamzie]

Very very tricky, they're all absolutely amazing and have a truly magical sound. I guess if I had to pick favourites, I would go for Blue Moon of Kentucky, That's All Right, Blue Moon and Mystery Train :notworthy

[stefankoch]

Blue moon of Kentucky
Baby let`s play house
:notworthy

[moondust]

My Top 5 Sun Records by Elvis are ...

1. Baby let's play house
2. Just Because
3. Mystery Train
4. You're Heartbreaker
5. That's alright Mama

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[Bona_Fide_Daddy]

milkcow blues boogie- it rocks!!!

[Trisi]

my favourite sun recordings are

Baby Let's play House
I don't care if the sun don't shine
Mystery Train
Good Rockin' Tonight
Trying to get to you
Milcow Blues Boogie(y) (y)
I forgot one:Just Because

[jadedragon61]

All those early Sun tunes rock, but I gotta pick:

Good Rockin' Tonight

Baby, Let's Play house

That's Alright Mama

I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone

[KPM]

Blue Moon- so haunting and serene. Baby Lets Play House-Good Rockin Tonight-Mystery Train.

[elvis himselvis]

I like Blue Moon of Kentucky and You're a Heartbreaker

[leah]

its hard to pick favorites because their all fantastic but if i had to it would be mystery train-trying to get to you-blue moon of kentucky-you're a heartbreaker