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Recording Sessions 1956
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Informal Session: "The Million Dollar Quartet"

Recording details:
Place: Sun Studio Memphis, Tennessee
Date: December 4, 1956
Producer: Sam Phillips
Engineer: Jack Clement
Recorded Numbers:
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Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5298
You Belong To My Heart
0:45
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5299
When God Dips His Love In My Heart
0:18
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5300
Just A Little Talk With Jesus
3:57
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5302
I Shall Not Be Moved
3:29
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5301
Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley
2:41
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5303
(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)
2:12
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5304
Down By The Riverside
2:29
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5305
I'm With A Crowd But So Alone
1:16
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5306
Farther Away
2:04
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5307
Blessed Jesus (Hold My hand)
1:26
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5308
As We Travel Along On The Jericho Road
0:47
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5309
I Just Can't Make It By Myself
1:12
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5310
Little Cabin On The Hill
0:41
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5311
Summertime Is Past And Gone
0:10
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5312
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
0:39
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5313
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
0:27
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5314
Keeper Of The Key (Carl Perkins)
2:08
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5315
Crazy Arms
0:16
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5316
Don't Forbid Me
1:14
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year

Don't Forbid Me
1:51
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5317
Too Much Monkey Business
1:17
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5320
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
1:42
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5318
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
1:54
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
2537
Reconsider Baby
2:51
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5321
Don't Be Cruel
2:20
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5322
Don't Be Cruel
2:13
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5324
Don't Be Cruel
0:34
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5323
Paralyzed
3:37
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5325
There's No Place Like Home
2:18
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5326
When The Saints Go Marching In
2:18
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5327
Softly and Tenderly
2:44
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5328
Is It So Strange
1:11
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5329
That's When Your Heartaches Begin
5:06
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5330
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
0:21
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5331
Rip It Up
0:20
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5332
I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye
0:35
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5333
Crazy Arms
3:45
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5334
That's My Desire
1:13
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5335
End of the Road
1:50
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5336
Black Bottom Stomp
1:11
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5337
You're the Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)
1:12
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Matrix:
Nr:
Titel:
Time:
Date:
1st Release:
Album:
Year 		VPA4
5338
Dialogue / Goodbyes
0:34
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Musicians:
Guitar Elvis Presley
Guitar Carl Perkins
Guitar Jay Perkins
Guitar Charlie Underwood
Piano Jerry Lee Lewis
Bass Clayton Perkins
Drums W.S. Holland
Vocals Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis
More Info:
In the Million Dollar Session, as it has become known, the primary singers, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, traded songs back and forth, sometimes singing only one or two lines. The jam continued with the five songs sung by Jerry Lee Lewis. The above sequence is not definitive, and some have suggested that more than this was recorded. Carl Perkins' band played on only certain songs.

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Informal Session: "The Million Dollar Quartet"

Concert details:
Place:
Date:
Producer:
Engineer: 		Sun Studio Memphis, Tennessee
December 4, 1956
Sam Phillips
Jack Clement
Songlist:
    Matrix:
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    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5298
You Belong To My Heart
0:45
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5299
When God Dips His Love In My Heart
0:18
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5300
Just A Little Talk With Jesus
3:57
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5302
I Shall Not Be Moved
3:29
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5301
Jesus Walked That Lonesome Valley
2:41
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5303
(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)
2:12
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5304
Down By The Riverside
2:29
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5305
I'm With A Crowd But So Alone
1:16
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5306
Farther Away
2:04
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5307
Blessed Jesus (Hold My hand)
1:26
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5308
As We Travel Along On The Jericho Road
0:47
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5309
I Just Can't Make It By Myself
1:12
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5310
Little Cabin On The Hill
0:41
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5311
Summertime Is Past And Gone
0:10
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5312
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
0:39
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5313
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
0:27
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5314
Keeper Of The Key (Carl Perkins)
2:08
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5315
Crazy Arms
0:16
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5316
Don't Forbid Me
1:14
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year

Don't Forbid Me
1:51
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5317
Too Much Monkey Business
1:17
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5320
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
1:42
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5318
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
1:54
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
2537
Reconsider Baby
2:51
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5321
Don't Be Cruel
2:20
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5322
Don't Be Cruel
2:13
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5324
Don't Be Cruel
0:34
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5323
Paralyzed
3:37
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5325
There's No Place Like Home
2:18
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5326
When The Saints Go Marching In
2:18
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5327
Softly and Tenderly
2:44
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5328
Is It So Strange
1:11
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5329
That's When Your Heartaches Begin
5:06
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5330
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
0:21
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5331
Rip It Up
0:20
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5332
I'm Gonna Bid My Blues Goodbye
0:35
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5333
Crazy Arms
3:45
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5334
That's My Desire
1:13
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5335
End of the Road
1:50
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5336
Black Bottom Stomp
1:11
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5337
You're the Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)
1:12
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
    Matrix:
    Nr:
    Titel:
    Time:
    Date:
    1st Release:
    Album:
    Year 		VPA4
5338
Dialogue / Goodbyes
0:34
December 4
2023-2
The Million Dollar Quartet
1990
Musicians:
Guitar Guitar:
Guitar:
Guitar:
Pian:
Bass:
Drums:
Vocals: 		Elvis Presley
Carl Perkins
Jay Perkins
Charlie Underwood
Jerry Lee Lewis Clayton Perkins
W.S. Holland
Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis
More Info:
In the Million Dollar Session, as it has become known, the primary singers, Elvis, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, traded songs back and forth, sometimes singing only one or two lines. The jam continued with the five songs sung by Jerry Lee Lewis. The above sequence is not definitive, and some have suggested that more than this was recorded. Carl Perkins' band played on only certain songs.