Wow, what a great Show! Folks were singin', dancin'...it was simply one of
the best evenings of Las Vegas entertainment I've had there in quite a while.
A Tuesday night shortly before Christmas 1956, Four legends...JOHNNY CASH,
JERRY LEE LEWIS, CARL PERKINS (he wrote Blue Suede Shoes), and ELVIS PRESLEY,
gathered at the Sun Records studio in Memphis Tennessee, where they'd launched
their careers. Word soon leaked out of an impromptu jam session. A newspaper
man who was there wrote, "This quartet could sell a million." Soon, they were dubbed
the Million Dollar Quartet. This was their only performance, a cultural flashpoint that
caught rock 'n roll at the moment of creation. Sun Records owner SAM PHILLIPS
discovered and produced the Million Dollar Quartet. That's why he, together with Presley
and Lewis were among the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame's charter inductees. Perkins and
Cash soon joined them.
It's all LIVE MUSIC. Everyone plays, sings and...looks the part. It moves quick with history,
music, comedy, flash backs scattered everywhere...all under one stage set...the studio.
Most of the group has or will have, other recording contracts in the works and Sam is left with nothing
but this loud mouth kid Jerry Lee who has a couple songs...'Great Balls Of Fire' and
'Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On' and Sam isn't too sure where his future lies...
Oh, and there's this other new guy Sam was told to check out. Funny lookin' kid with an even funnier
voice.........................Roy Orbison.
The Show is done at SMITH CENTER now...next stop LA but here's the curious part. In a recent
Robin Leach column of his 'Vegas Deluxe' www.vegasdeluxe.com he writes his 'rumor spies' have
it on good authority that around September 30th...'LEGENDS IN CONCERT', the long running Show
at Harrah's will be moving into the RIO and...MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is rumored to be moving
into Harrah's!
GOODNESS GRACIOUS, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE...this could be very cool!
Course...Harrah's might want it cut to 90min. Normal running time/no intermission is 1hr.45min.
Guess we'll have to wait and see huh...
the best evenings of Las Vegas entertainment I've had there in quite a while.
A Tuesday night shortly before Christmas 1956, Four legends...JOHNNY CASH,
JERRY LEE LEWIS, CARL PERKINS (he wrote Blue Suede Shoes), and ELVIS PRESLEY,
gathered at the Sun Records studio in Memphis Tennessee, where they'd launched
their careers. Word soon leaked out of an impromptu jam session. A newspaper
man who was there wrote, "This quartet could sell a million." Soon, they were dubbed
the Million Dollar Quartet. This was their only performance, a cultural flashpoint that
caught rock 'n roll at the moment of creation. Sun Records owner SAM PHILLIPS
discovered and produced the Million Dollar Quartet. That's why he, together with Presley
and Lewis were among the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame's charter inductees. Perkins and
Cash soon joined them.
It's all LIVE MUSIC. Everyone plays, sings and...looks the part. It moves quick with history,
music, comedy, flash backs scattered everywhere...all under one stage set...the studio.
Most of the group has or will have, other recording contracts in the works and Sam is left with nothing
but this loud mouth kid Jerry Lee who has a couple songs...'Great Balls Of Fire' and
'Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On' and Sam isn't too sure where his future lies...
Oh, and there's this other new guy Sam was told to check out. Funny lookin' kid with an even funnier
voice.........................Roy Orbison.
The Show is done at SMITH CENTER now...next stop LA but here's the curious part. In a recent
Robin Leach column of his 'Vegas Deluxe' www.vegasdeluxe.com he writes his 'rumor spies' have
it on good authority that around September 30th...'LEGENDS IN CONCERT', the long running Show
at Harrah's will be moving into the RIO and...MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is rumored to be moving
into Harrah's!
GOODNESS GRACIOUS, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE...this could be very cool!
Course...Harrah's might want it cut to 90min. Normal running time/no intermission is 1hr.45min.
Guess we'll have to wait and see huh...
