Last night was our final program in the Performing Arts Series for this year at the auditorium here in town, and the season definitely went out with a bang. The show was a reenactment of, literally, one night in Memphis, when as just sort of a fluke, Carl Perkins was recording at Sun Studio there, and Jerry Lee Lewis was playing with him. As it happened, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley both stopped by the studio while they were there, and they all four just started jamming together. AND the engineer that had been recording kept the tapes rolling, so it was all recorded. Someone at the studio went and told the newspapers what was going on, so a photographer came over and took pictures of the event, and the next day the article in the paper had the headlines The Million Dollar Quartet – and that’s what they were known from then on. I had never heard that story before – and they told lots of other ones. Just such a fun, fun show, and the musicians were fantastic. I just wish the pictures had turned out better.
