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Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecomingis a collaborative studio album byRoy Orbison,Johnny Cash,Jerry Lee Lewis, andCarl Perkins. It was released on May 26, 1986, by America/Smash Records, a subsidiary ofPolygram Records. The album was produced byChips Moman.
While the album was in part a tribute toElvis Presley, it was mainly a commemoration of those young performing hopefuls, the four album participants, who — as had Presley — all began their careers withSun Recordsin the 1950s. Recorded atSam Phillips'Sun Studiosand completed at American Sound Studios, the album was documented by Dick Clark Productions, which filmed it from start to finish; by The Commercial Appeal, the Mid-South's largest circulation newspaper; and byNine-O-One Network Magazine, the first edition of which was sold with the album in a telemarketing package.
The final song of the session, "Big Train (from Memphis)", written by John Fogerty, includes the blended voices ofJohn Fogerty,The Judds,Dave Edmunds,Ricky Nelson,Sam Phillips, andJune Carter Cash. Fogerty told a reporter that he was thinking about the old Sun Records sound when he wrote the song.The extended finale of the song features the singers singing lines from various Sun Records songs, including "That's All Right Mama", "Blue Suede Shoes," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", "Folsom Prison Blues" and others.
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