December 4, 1956 –  Four young rock-and-roll giants, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gathered around a piano singing the kind of music they’d all grown up on: gospel.  The location was the modest storefront recording studio at 760 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, owned by Sam Phillips, the legendary producer of Sun Records fame.

The caption under the photo that ran in the next day’s Memphis Press-Scimitar was “Million Dollar Quartet.”

Listen to the recording…