Howzit all.

First off, thanx for all the good wishes, intelligent feedback and positive thoughts about my recent `In Conversation' live show. I'm still buzzing with ideas, and hope to devise more of the same, and even repeat the show if a demand exists - let me know.

To this week...

On Thursday the 26th August (as is my sporadic habit) I'll be on 702 at 13h30 - 15h00, and this time round the arm of the jukebox settles on..

The role of Sun Records, which launched not only Rock 'n Roll, but in the process the careers of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and later Roy Orbison and others, and will include a look at the early years those mentioned.

Here's what I'd like to try (but I need your help)...

Post your favourite Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison songs, and popular consensus will guide my choices.

Background

Sam Phillips launched Sun Records in 1952, named so as a sign of his perpetual optimism: a new day and a new beginning.

As a businessman, Phillips was patient and willing to listen to almost anyone who came in off the street to record. Memphis was the happy home to a diverse musical scene: gospel, blues, hillbilly, country, boogie, and western swing. Taking advantage of this range of talent, there were no style limitations at the label. Sun recorded them all.

In 1954 Sam discovered a humble truck driver named Elvis Presley, and groomed this raw talent into the greatest and most popular performer of all time. Here was a white country singer could perform with the excitement, unpredictability and energy of a blues artist, but also had the instant mass appeal to reach across and destroy cultural, musical and racial barriers.

Elvis helped form what was to become Rock n Roll by infusing Country music with R&B. His immediate popularity attracted a wave of ground-breaking, and often troubled, talent to the Sun label, including plain scary Johnny Cash, wildman Jerry Lee Lewis, and the “Rockin’ Guitar Man”, Carl Perkins.

These four soon became known as the Million Dollar Quartet. They were followed by Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Conway Twitty, and many other equally memorable musical talents.

`I said come on over baby, a-whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Yeah I said come on over baby, a-whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Well we ain't fakin', a-whole lotta shakin' goin' on'

HOWZIT SEAN?
OK -
ELVIS - 'BURNING LOVE"
JC - "BOY NAMED SUE"
JERRY LEE - "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE"
ORBISON - "CRYING"
GOOD LUCK WITH THE SHOW.

YO GARRY

Thanks bud
Excellent choices!

Check out this really cool Sam Phillips interview:

Hi Saun - I always enjoy with 702 show; I'll be glued to the radio.

If you can, please play Elvis: There's a honky tonk angel or American trilogy.

Hi Sean - looking forward to the show, how about:

Elvis - Polk Salad Annie
Johnny Cash - Girl of the North Country (from Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline)
Roy Orbison - maybe one of the Traveling Wilbury tracks?

How about a BB King number if you have a slot!

Jackson, (Johnny and June), "we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout"

Get Rhythm, "get rhythm, when you get the blues, get a rock 'n roll feeling in your bones, put taps on your toes and get goin' Johnny Cash