"Mystery Train" Performed by Bernadette Small & Friends

Here's Bernadette Small & Friends performing an old blues song made famous by Elvis Presley "Mystery Train" "Mystery Train" is a song recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Considered a blues standard,[2] Parker, billed as "Little Junior's Blue Flames", recorded the song for producer/Sun Records owner Sam Phillips and it was released on the Sun label. The song was written by Junior Parker (aka Herman Parker), with a credit later given to Phillips. Elvis Presley's version of "Mystery Train" was first released on August 20, 1955 as the B-side of "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" (Sun 223). Presley's version would be ranked #77 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2003.[7] It was again produced by Sam Phillips at Sun Studios, and featured Presley on vocals and rhythm guitar, Scotty Moore on lead guitar, and Bill Black on bass. Moore used a country lead break,[8] and toward the end of the record is an echo of the 1946 "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis.[9] For Presley's version of "Mystery Train", Scotty Moore also borrowed the guitar riff from Junior Parker's "Love My Baby" (1953),[10] played by Pat Hare. "Mystery Train" is now considered to be an "enduring classic", the flip side of this record "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" reached the Billboard National Country music chart #1 position by February 1956, remained there for 5 weeks, and stayed on the charts for 39 weeks.[15] The May 12, 1956 issue of Billboard listed "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" at the #1 "Country & Western" "Top Juke Box Hit Records" for the period Januarty-April 1956 with no mention of "Mystery Train".[16] It was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a nationally known country music star. Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2013

Added 7 Apr 2026