![]() ![]() If you want to spend a little more time at the Cash-Presley nexus, I’d encourage you to listen to Million Dollar Quartet, a recording that captures Cash and Presley’s impromptu jam session with Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. Two characters just having a good ol’ time whilst simultaneously creating the genre of rock and roll.” Cash was the opening act Presley, the headliner. And each night, “Cash would impersonate his friend and touring partner, and then Elvis would come out and do the same. He was that charismatic.” Which brings us to the short, completely amusing clip found above.Īccording to the Pig River Records web site (a “comprehensive guide to music as it was 50 years ago”), this footage dates back to a 1959 tour. Every show I did with him, I never missed the chance to stand in the wings and watch. Cash admired Presley’s rhythm guitar playing and his showmanship. That’s the first time I met him.Īlthough the two musicians were “never tight,” they liked one another. With just one single to his credit, he sang those two songs over and over. The first time I saw Elvis, singing from a flatbed truck at a Katz drugstore opening on Lamar Avenue, two or three hundred people, mostly teenage girls, had come out to see him. ![]() In his autobiography, Johnny Cash recalled meeting Elvis Presley in Memphis, circa 1954: ![]()
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