# Sun 209 puts a mixed blues-country public sound on a cheap Memphis disc

Date: 1954

## The fact

On 19 July 1954 Sun 209 placed That’s All Right / Blue Moon of Kentucky in Memphis shops and on radio.

It is one event.

## Context

Scholarship: the mix is real and so is Crudup’s prior authorship. Split the rent row.

[Elvis Presley](/people/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.

Same 19 July 1954 disc as the Crudup-rent row. Access and rent share a spine. Phillips, WHBQ’s Dewey Phillips, Moore, and Black share the making.
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 National Recording Registry listing of the Sun sessions and Sun Studio’s public history independently date the 1954 disc.

Official or archival record: Library of Congress — Complete National Recording Registry Listing (Elvis Presley Sun sessions) (https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/complete-national-recording-registry-listing/; Library of Congress).

## Significance

A cheap mixed-genre disc is a [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) path in a Jim Crow city, not a repeal of Jim Crow.

Keep the Crudup rent row separate.

A cheap mixed-genre disc is a social-cohesion path in a Jim Crow city, not a repeal of Jim Crow.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Sun 209, 19 July 1954, as a public Memphis disc. Not established: that the disc integrated venues.

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

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/complete-national-recording-registry-listing/
- https://www.sunstudio.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/elv-sun-209-access