Backstory in BlueCertificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research It may be that the song most baby boomers identify from July 1956 is a simple twelve bar blues, hyped on national television by a twenty one year old Elvis Presley and his handlers. But it is a very different song, with its elongated fourteen bar choruses of rhythm and dissonance, played on the night of July 7, 1956,