Words About Music (286): Scotty Moore

We would just go in and Sam would suggest some songs or Elvis did maybe something he knew. Nothing was pre-determined. We just tried different things and probably found one that everyone felt comfortable with and had a good groove, and that would be it. It's ironic though that the very first things we put down, Sam recorded them and he kept them. And the only thing I can figure is after we did "That's Alright Mama" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky", he felt like we did have a direction, so we would go through these different tunes. He may have recorded some of them and played them back and we said, "No, that ain't happening". Then he would erase the tape. He never kept any of that. I guess because tape cost so much. So those very early things, when we were just experimenting around, he never kept. I bet he wished he had.
Scotty Moore