In January 1954, he paid for a second personal record at the Memphis Recording Service. Keisker if she had heard of a band that needed a singer. Elvis dropped by 706 Union a number of times after that initial meeting to ask Ms.
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Instead, Elvis went to a professional facility, where a man who had ben written up in the papers would hear him sing. But if he had simply wanted to record his voice, he could have paid twenty-five cents a TW.T.
In later years he would always say that he wanted to make a personal record 'to surprise my mother' or 'I just wanted to hear what I sounded like'. There is little question that he stepped through the doorway at 706 Union with the idea, if not of stardom. He made a strong impression on Marion Keisker, a long-time Memphis radio personality who helped Sam Philips run his recording business at 706 Union. Elvis' second song for the flip side of the acetate was another Ink Spots song, ' That's When Your Heartaches Begin'. His prophetic answer, 'I don't sound like nobody', piqued her curiosity, and while Elvis was singing ' My Happiness' by the Ink Spots for his acetate record, Keisker also taped him so Phillips could hear him later. Marion asked Elvis what kind of music he sang and who he sang like. She noticed Elvis' flamboyant clothes and his long, slicked-back hair and engaged him in conversation. His tireless secretary and assistant, Marion Keisker, was running the recording studio alone. Unfortunately, on the day that Elvis decided to stop by, Phillips was not there. His reputation was built on his recordings of blues performers, but he had just begun to work with country singers when Elvis walked into his recording studio for the first time. Phillips financed the recording sessions, paid the musicians, recorded the artists himself (often serving as the studio engineer), and then leased the master recordings to other record companies. Phillips recorded these performers for independent record companies in other parts of the United States, including Chess Records in Chicago and the Modern label in Los Angeles. Phillips enjoyed a national reputation for discovering such talented R&B artists as Rufus Thomas and Junior Parker. He had opened Sun Records in 1952 to record both rhythm-and-blues (R&B) singers and country-western artists. By the time Elvis came to the recording studio, Sam Phillips was known as Memphis' most important independent record producer. The Memphis Recording Service was owned and operated by Sam Phillips, who had been recording rhythm-and-blues artists since 1950. The story of Elvis Presley's discovery begins with a shy, 18-year-old Elvis entering a recording studio in 1953 to cut two songs on an acetate disk at a cost of four dollars.
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