On December 4, 1956, rock-and-roll history was made at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, when record producer Sam Phillips made a jam-session tape of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins singing gospel. The group’s photo in the newspaper was captioned “Million Dollar Quartet.” Though Phillips had called the newspaper, the tape they made did not surface for twenty years. It was first heard in 1981. By that time, the musicians were legends.
