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After making his first appearance on National TV on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show, Elvis stayed in town.| www.elvispresley.com.au
Bill Monroe's bluegrass waltz, 'Blue Moon of Kentucky', got the Sun Studio treatment by Elvis and his band. If you listen to the original version of 'Blue Moon of Kentucky', recorded by Bill Monroe in 1947, you might notice it's pretty different from Elvis' version.| www.elvispresley.com.au
'Daddy-O' Dewey Phillips was born on May 13, 1926 - Dewey was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed. Starting his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ-AM in Memphis, he was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his 'Red, Hot & Blue' show on radio and television. In July 1954, he was the first DJ to broadcast the young Elvis Presley's debut record, That's All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentuck...| www.elvis.com.au
Elvis' first movie, Love Me Tender, premiered Nov. 15, 1956 at New York's Paramount Theater. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Hal Wallis was born, Harold Brent Wallis on 14 September 1899 in Chicago. He died on October 5, 1986. He was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture producer. His family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1922 where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Sam Phillips had been thinking more and more that the key lay in the connection between the races, in what they had in common far more than what kept them apart. There were always going to be 'some bastard white people', he knew, but far more to the point was the spiritual connection that he had always known to exist between black and white, the cultural heritage that they all shared. 'Not to copy each other but to just - hey, this is all we've got and we're going to give it to you. This is o...| biography.elvis.com.au
Elvis' second movie and his first in color was the 1957 Paramount film 'Loving You'. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Nearly as legendary as his famous client was Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager. He was mysterious and colorful, and, under his guidance, his one and only client -- Elvis -- reached unimaginable heights.| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Elvis Presley on Monday, October 28, 1957, just after the general press conference, but prior to his debut at the Pan-Pacific in Los Angeles. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au