This song was written and recorded by blues
singer Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. Mr. Crudup also wrote two other songs that Elvis
would record, "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine". Elvis said in a 1956
interview for the "Charlotte Observer" newspaper in North Carolina, "...I used
to hear Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now and I said that if I ever
got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like
nobody ever saw." Elvis recorded "That's All Right" July 5/6, 1954 in first
formal recording session at Sun Studio in Memphis. Sam Phillips was the
producer/engineer, Elvis and Scotty Moore played guitar and Bill Black played
the upright bass. It was released as Elvis's very first single in July 1954 with
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" as the flip side. RCA re-released it on their label in
December 1955 after they bought Elvis's Sun Records contract. Some of the others
who have recorded it are Roy "Smiley" Maxedon, Marty Robbins, Billy Swan, Bob
Dylan, Ann Wilson, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Albert King, Rod Stewart, Waylon
Jennings, Sunny Burgess, Jimmie Rogers and Paul McCartney.