It was 1933 & Bill Basie was stranded in KC when his vaudeville touring group disbanded, so he took a job playing organ for silent movies before joining, then swiftly leading, his own big band into music history as “Count” Basie (and his Cherry Blossom Orchestra)

Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash famously met purely by chance at Sun Studio in 1956 and held a jam session that would eventually be known as THE MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET — the recordings weren’t found for over a decade.

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