{"id":4300,"date":"2020-01-27T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T21:57:31","slug":"birth-of-rock-roll-music-project-1954-1959-no-25-1956-warren-smith-sam-phillips-rock-roll-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/birth-of-rock-roll-music-project-1954-1959-no-25-1956-warren-smith-sam-phillips-rock-roll-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of Rock &#038; Roll Music Project 1954-1959 No. 25: 1956: Warren Smith: Sam Phillips: Rock &#038; Roll Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recording Date: February 5, 1956, Sun Recording Studio,\nMemphis, TN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debut recording for Warren Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is uncertain who wrote \u201cRock &amp; Roll Ruby\u201d.&nbsp; Some\nsay Johnny Cash.&nbsp; Cash is credited as the songwriter on the Sun #239\nrecord label.&nbsp; Others say that country hall of famer George Jones wrote\nthe song and sold it to Cash for $40.00.&nbsp; The song has become an early\nR&amp;R classic.&nbsp; It has been covered by many over the years.&nbsp; There\nis a terrific video online of Mark Knopfler covering the song in the studio\nwith Elvis\u2019 first guitarist Scotty Moore and his first drummer D. J.\nFontana.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can find it on the Dire Straits blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warren Smith\u2019s record outsold the debut Sun singles by Elvis, Cash, and Perkins.\u00a0 Sun released another hit by Smith in August of 1956 that we will include in an upcoming part of this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rock on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/RocknRoll-Ruby-Warren-Smith-Sun-2391956.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll Ruby &#8211; Warren Smith &#8211; Sun 239 (1956)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording Date: February 5, 1956, Sun Recording Studio, Memphis, TN. Debut recording for Warren Smith. It is uncertain who wrote \u201cRock &amp; Roll Ruby\u201d.&nbsp; Some say Johnny Cash.&nbsp; Cash is credited as the songwriter on the Sun #239 record label.&nbsp; Others say that country hall of famer George Jones wrote the song and sold it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newletters","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-17m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}