 preferences in academia. The lawsuit was filed on the 60th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson's signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Derek Dennis, ABC News. It was Elvis Presley's first record, but it was a cover. Arthur Big Boy Crudup first recorded That's Alright, but received scant royalties before dying. Spent later years working farms in Virginia. Seventy years after Elvis made it a cultural milestone, Virginia plans to install a highway marker honoring Crudup.