Million Dollar Quartet Book

Million Dollar Quartet BookBrief Description: Million Dollar Quartet is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. Biographical Note: Stephen Miller has had a lifelong interest in popular music in general and country music in particular. He was a regular contributor to Scot Country, a radio show broadcast from

Brief Description:

Million Dollar Quartet is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.

Biographical Note:
Stephen Miller has had a lifelong interest in popular music in general and country music in particular. He was a regular contributor to Scot Country, a radio show broadcast from Edinburgh. He has written biographies of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson (all published by Omnibus Press). He has recently been involved in the production of programmes relating to country music on BBC Radio 4: Married with four grown up children, Stephen Miller divides his time between Edinburgh and Nice.

Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.;'The Million Dollar Quartet' is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday the 4th of December 1956 in the Sun Recordings Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were part of an impromptu jam session between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, four men who would go on to shape American music for the rest of the 20th century. This book looks at the events of the sessions and its relevance to subsequent popular music.

Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Sam Phillips -- 2. Carl Perkins -- 3. Jerry Lee Lewis -- 4. Elvis Presley -- 5. Johnny Cash -- 6. December 4, 1956 -- 7. The Songs -- 8. Reunions -- 9. Subsequent Careers -- 10. The Musical Stage Show -- Acknowledgements -- Further Reading

Contributor Bio:Miller, Stephen
Stephen Miller has had a lifelong interest in popular music in general and country music in particular. He was a regular contributor to Scot Country, a radio show broadcast from Edinburgh. He has written biographies of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson (all published by Omnibus Press). He has recently been involved in the production of programmes relating to country music on BBC Radio 4: Married with four grown up children, Stephen Miller divides his time between Edinburgh and Nice.