List of songs recorded by Elvis Presley on the Sun label

A year after Presley joined RCA Victor, he had a spontaneous informal session with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis when visiting the Sun studio.

[7] He thought a combination of black blues and boogie-woogie music would be very popular among white people, if presented in the right way.

[8] In the spring, Presley auditioned for an amateur gospel quartet called The Songfellows, as one of the group was leaving and they were seeking a replacement.

[10] When Phillips acquired a demo recording of "Without You" and was unable to identify the vocalist, his assistant, Marion Keisker, reminded him about the young truck driver.

After running through a few songs, Presley expressed an interest in finding a band to play with, and Phillips invited local Western swing musicians Winfield "Scotty" Moore (electric guitar) and Bill Black (slap bass) to audition Presley.

[13] During the break, Presley began "acting the fool" with Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right (Mama)", a blues song.

[18] A week later, Sun had received some 6,000 advanced orders for "That's All Right" / "Blue Moon of Kentucky," which was released on July 19, 1954.

[19] After several performances with other bands, Presley arranged for Moore and Black to be his regular back-up group, giving them each 25% of the takings.

[20] Moore and Black were originally members of their own band, The Starlight Wranglers, but after the success of "That's All Right", jealousy within the group forced them to split.

[21] Over the next 15 months, the trio would release five singles, tour extensively across the South, and appear regularly on the Louisiana Hayride; it was the biggest rival to the Grand Ole Opry at the time.

They had originally auditioned for the Opry in October 1954, but they failed to impress the people in charge, or the audience, and were not invited back.

Several biographers cite Jim Denny, talent agent at the Opry, as the man who told Presley that he should "go back to driving a truck".

Although no longer under contract to Sun, Presley returned to the studios frequently over the next few months, visiting with Phillips and meeting many of the label's new artists.

On December 4, 1956, Presley visited Sun studios during a Carl Perkins recording session, which also featured a young Jerry Lee Lewis on piano, and a new artist named Johnny Cash looking on.

During a break in recording, Presley sat at the piano and began to sing along with Perkins, Lewis and Cash.

Phillips kept his tape recorder running during the impromptu jam session and seeing an opportunity to promote another of his new acts, he arranged for a reporter to cover the event.

The 1992 album The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters contains a fragment (1:03) of an alternate take in a slower, more country style.

This take was originally released on bootleg in 1974, having been located at Sun Records many years after Presley left for RCA.

Original: Arthur Gunter (1954, Excello) In 1951 Eddy Arnold recorded a song titled "I Want to Play House with You"[33][34] [35] by Cy Coben.

Original: The Eagles (1954, Mercury) In 2002, RCA included information in the liner notes of Sunrise as to Presley recording this song while simultaneously playing the piano, and not aided by his rhythm guitar, as previously believed.

Elvis is heard talking about a singer he saw in Las Vegas, doing his version of "Don't Be Cruel" and enjoying "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" from Chuck Berry.

Contains the five singles ("That's All Right" / "Blue Moon of Kentucky"; "Good Rockin' Tonight" / "I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine"; "Milkcow Blues Boogie" / "You're a Heartbreaker"; "Baby Let's Play House" / "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone"; "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" / "Mystery Train") plus "Harbor Lights", "I Love You Because" (alternate take 2), "Tomorrow Night", "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')", "Just Because", "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (slow version), "Tryin' to Get to You", and "When It Rains, It Really Pours".

Missing: A limited-edition 3-CD box set released in June 2012 by RCA/Sony collectors' label Follow That Dream (FTD) Records, as a companion piece to a book by Ernst Mikael Jørgensen, also entitled A Boy from Tupelo.

The A Boy from Tupelo book + CDs package, which was printed as a strictly limited run of 3,000 copies (each including a gift pack consisting in five 45-RPM reproductions of Presley's original Sun singles) sold out in 2012.