Marion Keisker MacInnes was an American record producer.
10 Facts About Marion Keisker
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Marion Keisker was the first person ever to record the singing voice of cultural icon Elvis Presley.
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Marion Keisker was married to Angus Randall MacInnes and had a son, Angus David MacInnes, before divorcing.
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Marion Keisker was a radio show host for WREC, where Sam Phillips worked as an announcer.
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Marion Keisker became a station manager and later Phillips's assistant at the Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records.
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Marion Keisker is best remembered as the first person to record Elvis Presley, on July 18,1953.
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Marion Keisker was alone in the office of Sun Records, which served as office for the Memphis Recording Service, when Presley came there to record two songs, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin", for a fee of $3.25.
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Marion Keisker left Sun Records in February 1957 and joined the US Air Force, in which she was commissioned as a captain and served as information officer in charge of the Armed Forces television station at the Ramstein Base in Germany.
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Marion Keisker's correspondence is archived at the Memphis Public Library.
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Marion Keisker has been portrayed by Ellen Travolta in the 1979 film Elvis, by Jill Jane Clements in the 2005 CBS miniseries Elvis, by Margaret Anne Florence in the 2017 CMT series Sun Records and by Kate Mulvany in the 2022 film Elvis.