Million Dollar Quartet

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Million Dollar Quartet
Famous photograph taken during the recording session. L-R: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash
Background information
Genres	Rock and roll rockabilly blues country gospel
Years active	1956 (original Million Dollar Quartet session) 1977 (Johnny Cash Christmas television special) 1981 (as The Survivors) 1985 (as Class of '55)
Past members	Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis Elvis Presley Carl Perkins Roy Orbison (Class of '55)

"Million Dollar Quartet" is a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash made on December 4, 1956, at the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title "Million Dollar Quartet". The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks. A few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley: The Million Dollar Quartet. This session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll.