June 27th in Elvis History

It’s June twenty-seventh, and on this day in 1954… Elvis Presley got his first real shot at Sun Records. Marion Keisker, assistant to Sam Phillips, urged her boss to give the young man with the sideburns a chance to try out a new song from Nashville publisher Red Wortham. Elvis hurried to the studio and spent the afternoon working on “Without You,” but couldn’t deliver a usable take. Still, Sam Phillips saw something in him. A few days later, during another session, Elvis would spontaneously break into “That’s All Right”—and music history would begin.