Million Dollar Quartet

no but it's not but like that's that's like being like you like back to the future and you like the sopranos how about we make back to the sopranos and i'm just and i have all the money and i've just done this thing and i can just do that Did you

guys ever hear of the Million Dollar Quartet? Heard about that?

No.

So that was...

He was born in Louisiana in 1935, and he became one of the architects of early rock and roll and rockabilly music as an artist at Sun Records, of course, had Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, etc., He was nicknamed the killer for his blistering, high-energy piano playing and his stage presence, and he skyrocketed to global fame in the late 1950s with hits like Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire.

He was a member of the Million Dollar Quartet, as they were called, alongside Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins.

and that cemented his legacy as being a pioneer who merged boogie-woogie piano with gospel and rhythm and blues.

His rise was abruptly canceled, as they say these days.

My

oldest son and my second oldest child played Johnny Cash, as you know, in Million Dollar Quartet and has done it multiple times.

And he had a run where the show was in Milwaukee.

And

The engineer Jack Clement let the tape run.

Phillips called the newspaper and the next day's headline named them the Million Dollar Quartet.

And what did four young rock and roll stars sing when nobody was selling anything? Mostly gospel.

The songs they had all grown up on.

You know, my hubby and I were down in Memphis in May, was it May? Well, one of our trips down there, and we went to Sun Studios.

And walking in there where, you know, the greats, like the Million Dollar Quartet, they perform.

You know, I even got to play guitar there like Johnny Cash did, putting the dollar bill in the keys to make it sound like it.

We have played June Carter Cash in a traveling tribute show for Johnny Cash.

How about that?

Yeah.

I think they were the Million Dollar Quartet if I'm not mistaken.

And those people, male and female, coming up is probably, you know, back in the day is why you wanted to do it too, you know, because, you know, being on stage and performing in front of folks and getting to sing, I mean, that's your deal, right?

I can, I can.

I'm building to Million Dollar Quartet.

So this, uh, wow, this was high octane, roof-raising rock and roll.

This, for me, is one of the hottest nights out in town.

Yeah.

But no, T- Conway was the fifth of the Million Dollar Quartet if there ever was gonna be one, but he signed with MGM instead of Sun Records.

Mm.

But he was around.