Million Dollar Quartet
This summer our family made a visit to the Windy City, Chicago. Eight of us took in as much as we could in a couple of days. While there, we went to see a show called Million Dollar Quartet , a dramatic recreation of an impromptu jam session with four legendary pioneers of rock 'n roll - Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley. On a December evening in 1956 those four legends all found themselves at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records, had the wherewithal to record the session which ranged from Gospel harmonies to all-out rock 'n roll. The show chronicled that night including the conversations that took place between all the characters. The actor that played Sam Phillips was a narrator of sorts providing some monologue that gave historical perspective on the artists and the time period. At times everyone on the stage would freeze while Phillips pro...