July 5

On the 5th in 1954, Elvis Presley made his first commercial recording. The song[i] was That’s All Right (Mama)[ii], and for my money it remains the best song he ever did, and I don’t really like Elvis all that much. Despite countless rumors disputing the fact, Elvis remains steadfastly dead.

[i] This is seriously dating me. Before CDs, 8-Tracks and cassettes, music was sold on vinyl records, with music recorded on both sides. The flip side of That’s Alright (Mama) was Blue Moon of Kentucky

[ii] This event more than overshadows Sir Isaac Newton’s publication on that date in 1687 of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematic, which, besides lacking a consistent backbeat, only contained a description of universal gravitation and the three laws of gravitation and became the unifying center of the scientific revolution.