Elvis Presley's (The King) First Record Auctions for $300,000

An acetic acid derivation recording of the anthem "My Happiness," the first melody Elvis Presleyever recorded, has sold at closeout for an aggregate of $300,000. An undisclosed purchaser put the winning offer Thursday (Jan. 8) at Graceland, the gallery and vacation destination that was Presley's previous home. Offering started at $50,000. Elvis Presley's Planes available to be purchased Presley recorded it in 1953 at Sun Records, the Memphis studio worked by Sam Phillips. Presley, then 18, paid $4 for the recording. As the story goes, Presley left Sun and went to the home of companion Ed Leek to hear it out. At the same time Presley, whose family did not have a record spinner, left the record there. Leek had kept the record, and after he and his wife kicked the bucket, their niece inherited it. She reached Graceland, and it was offered available to be purchased.