Wanda Jackson - Sparklin' Brown Eyes

I have been to Sun Records, according to them Rocket 88 from 1951 is the first Rock & Roll song. I disagree, that song is way to bluesy still to be a Rock n Roll song, Bill Haley's cover from the same year is just a country version of the same song. Elvis contract was sold for 35K not 50K, which at the time was the largest any recording contract was ever sold for, so you cant say a mere 50K.

You do realize that most of Elvis's earlier songs were actually copies of music that were made by other musicians already, correct? In fact, the legal battles relative to copyright enfrigement, bankrupted Sam Philips & that's why Elvis was sold off to RCA. His contract went for a mere $50k. It sounds like you've fallen for the media misdirection that the Presley family has put out to pull away from the fact that Elvis's status was created by the likes of Sam Phillips & the entire RCA crowd.

Also, the SOLE reason Elvis' contract was sold to RCA was because Sam Philips' wanted to money to promote Carl Perkins. Perkins also being a song writer, Elvis only a singer, Philips' thought Carl Perkins would be a bigger success than Elvis. The reason again why Elvis was a success was because of his talent not because of any record company promotions. 32 years after Elvis death, he is the #1 selling recording artist in China, is that because Sun & RCA are promoting Elvis.

Is it Elvis' ghost that is recording songs in China, that we don't know about here in America. No it's because the Chinese people like the sound of his music. So don't give me the BS that the only reason Elvis was as big as he was was because Sun & RCA created him. If people didn't like him, no matter how much Sun and RCA promoted him he would not be successful.

Was Elvis the first white singer to sound like a black singer? No Frankie Laine did the same thing a generation before Elvis, Bing Crosby did the same thing a generation before Frankie Laine. But what Elvis did do, that no one before him did, was take a song and combine elements of blues passion and voice inflection and country beat into one song. And that was the beginning of Rock n Roll, not Rocket 88 or 60 Minute Man or The Fat Man '49 or Good Rockin ' Tonight from '47, or any other song

I never suggested that he was the first white to sound like a black. He was marketable in that sense though... and to talk theory...None of Elvis's music truly falls out of the genre of country...it has so many 7th chords and 5th chords. So if your argument is the sound/ theory of those other songs is they're too country or to bluesy...Elvis's stuff is too. You're twisting fact...and arguing opinion. I can go on for days like this...I have studied theory all my life.

You are right, songs like "Jailhouse Rock", "Hound Dog", "King Creole" all country songs.

Of course a lot of his early songs will sound a little like country, Rock n Roll is the offspring of Blues and Country combined. You take blues lyrics and passion add a country beat and u have rock n roll, and visa versa, take a country song's lyrics, add a blues sound and passion and u have rock and roll, but no matter which way you do it Elvis still recorded it first.

Yes I know Elvis only covered songs already released as well as having songs written for him. And I know all the songs he covered, in the early days, and his sounded nothing like the originals, except for that's alright mama which sounds like the original, and I have all the originals, as well as the covered of those originals before he covered them.

And get your facts, straight, Sun never filed for bankruptcy. Who filed for bankruptcy was the original tenet in the sun building prior to Sam Philips forming sun records, that Philips' bought out to start Sun Records.

I never said Sam Philips "filed for bankruptcy". I said that he was bankrupt, meaning: He himself was in a financial bind and the sale of Elvis's contract is what bailed him out.