An American legend: Elvis Presley 1935-77
Train I ride,
Sixteen
Coaches long
Train I ride,
Sixteen
Coaches long
Well, that long black train
Carry my baby and gone.
Mystery Train
As the legend goes, Elvis Presey had only a year's passing familiarity with a recording studio when he cut that record in the winter of 1955. He had wandered into Sun Records with his guitar, two summers before, plunked down $4 to sing a couple of tunes to his mother, Gladys, and left carrying a 10-in. acetate for her birthday present. Sun Secretary Marion Keisker heard...
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