ELVIS PRESLEY My Happiness That's How Your Heartaches 10" JACK WHITE Third Man
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Description
LIMITED 78RPM 10" release, Third Man Records (TMR 306)
A modern copy Elvis Presley's 1st ever recording, put down on wax in June of 1953 at Sun Records' Memphis Recording Service.
Taken from the one and only original cut and other than lacking the base metal plate of original acetate pretty much perfect down to the reversed out Sun labels. Also in run off groove a tribute inscription to Marion Keisker, the original talent scout, plus on the other a dedication to Ed Leek.
An 18-year-old Elvis Presley walked through the doors of the Memphis Recording Service at 708 Union Ave. in the summer of 1953. He carried a beat-up guitar that he'd had since the age of 11 and enough money to make a $3.98 record of his own voice.
He sang two '30s ballads -- ''My Happiness'' and ''That's When Your Heartaches Begin'' -- hoping to catch the attention of Sam Phillips, who had started his own label, Sun. When he was done, Marion Keisker, who helped run the place with Phillips, typed his name on the back of a label for Sun act The Prisonaires, and Presley left with his acetate.
For more than six decades, that record of Elvis singing ''My Happiness'' was kept by the family of the high-school friend Presley left it with, Ed Leek. As part of an auction at Graceland on Jan. 8 (2015) -- which would have been Presley's 80th birthday -- it was valued at approximately $100,000. It sold to an unknown Internet bidder for $300,000.
That bidder was Jack White.
A piece of American musical history
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