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U.S. Army photo, VIRIN 591001-A-D0431-1001 (dvidshub.net/image/8152191), August 1959, Wildflecken, West Germany · U.S. Army, via the National Archives and Records Administration / Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) · Public Domain (official work of the U.S. federal government -- 17 U.S.C. § 105 -- no known copyright restrictions)
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Sources
- Elvis Presley
- Scotty Moore details the legendary That's All Right session -- Guitar Player (opened and read in full: Moore's own, directly quoted, first-person account of the July 5, 1954 Sun Studio session, including Sam Phillips's real-time reaction)
- Stories From Elvis Presley's Band -- Performing Songwriter (opened and read in full: independent, non-self, named-collaborator testimony from four members of Presley's 1969-77 TCB band -- guitarist James Burton, bassist Jerry Scheff, pianist Glen D. Hardin, drummer Ronnie Tutt -- on his rehearsal method, on-stage cueing, and working style)
- Recalling Elvis Presley's Iconic 1969 Las Vegas Run, 50 Years Later -- Rock Cellar Magazine (opened and read in full: TCB pianist Larry Muhoberac's own account of the pre-residency rehearsal process at RCA Studios)
- Steve Binder Remembers the 1968 Comeback Special -- Exclaim! (opened and read in full: director Steve Binder's own, directly quoted account of producing the special, including the Colonel Parker/"If I Can Dream" creative-control episode)
- Reinventing Elvis: The American Sound Studio Sessions -- Perfect Sound Forever / furious.com (opened and read in full: producer Chips Moman's and keyboardist Bobby Wood's own accounts of the January 1969 sessions)
- Behind the Song: "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley -- American Songwriter (opened and read in full: producer Chips Moman's own account, including the Colonel Parker publishing-rights dispute during the session)
- Elvis Presley -- Mississippi Blues Trail (official historical marker text, Mississippi Blues Commission; opened and read in full for its account of Presley's youth absorption of blues, country, pop, and gospel, including the named local influence Lonnie Williams)
- Elvis Presley records "That's All Right (Mama)" -- History.com (opened and read in full: used only to CHECK, not to support, the popular claim that Presley personally made repeated return visits to Sun Records between his 1953 acetate and the 1954 session -- this source documents the follow-up as initiated by Sun personnel, not by Presley, and that finding is why this candidate does NOT score a Sun-Records "kept returning" persistence anecdote; see provenance.notes)