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If you take a look around in 2024, you can still find a ton of things that will remind you of Elvis Presley. But there are only a few of us who will remember being there and hearing an Elvis song on the radio for the first time ever on July 2, 1954. The Moment the World Was Introduced to Elvis PresleyPrior to the moment that Dewey Phillips — a local radio DJ in Memphis, Tenn. — played Presley’s first ever song, “That’s All Right,” most people in America had never heard the name Elvis Presley. As the story goes, Phillips heard the tape that had been recorded just days before at Sun Records, and…

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