# Sun 209 issues That’s All Right, a Crudup blues, under Presley’s name as the public Memphis single

Date: 1954

## The fact

On 19 July 1954 Sun Records released That’s All Right (Sun 209), [Presley](/people/elvis-presley)’s first commercial single, covering Arthur Crudup.

It is one event.

## Context

Scholarship, not slogans: the label named Crudup as writer on many issues, and Dewey Phillips’s WHBQ play mixed Black and white records. Split the 1954 public-sound access row.

Elvis Presley’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Arthur Crudup wrote and recorded That’s All Right in the 1940s. Sun 209 (19 July 1954) made Presley’s up-tempo cover the public Memphis object. Phillips, Moore, and Black share the session. Later royalty fights around Crudup are a documented Black-composer rent problem, not a slogan that Presley invented the blues.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Library of Congress registry description of the Sun sessions and Smithsonian African American history context independently treat Crudup as the writer and Presley as the 1954 cover star.

Official or archival record: Sun Studio (https://www.sunstudio.com/; Sun Studio).

## Significance

A hit cover that out-circulated its Black original is a documented minority-rights cultural-rent path, not a unique theft docket invented here.

A Sun disc is not a 1968 NBC hour. Keep the dates.

A hit cover that out-circulated its Black original is a documented minority-rights cultural-rent path, not a unique theft docket invented here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Sun 209, 19 July 1954, covering Crudup.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Elvis Presley.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

## People

- Elvis Presley: https://factrail.ai/people/elvis-presley

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://nmaahc.si.edu/
- https://www.sunstudio.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/elv-crudup-1954