Elvis 1953 MaywoodBeach 1500 crop copy

when the world’s most valuable record was an elvis disc

FOL­LOWING HIGH SCHOOL GRAD­U­A­TION in June 1953, Elvis Presley set his sights on be­coming a recording artist. On July 18, he vis­ited the Sun Records studio on Union Av­enue in Mem­phis. There he paid $4 for the priv­i­lege of recording two songs onto one disc. Sixty years later, that disc be­came the most valu­able record in the world. [Read more] “when the world’s most valuable record was an elvis disc”