28th October 1956, Sunday

Post by **Graeme** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:29 am

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ColinB · Post by **ColinB** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:53 am

He received a gold record for the Love Me Tender single sales:

: Wrongly tagged 29th !

Post by **Alan** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 8:15 pm

Elvis' second appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.

Rare ticket for the 4pm rehearsal only shown below.

Click on the movie camera icon
below to play todays show

silverwings · Post by **silverwings** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:04 pm

silverwings · Post by **silverwings** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:14 pm

elvisechoesofthepast.com
By Bob Pakes

Paramount Theatre, New York

silverwings · Post by **silverwings** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:21 pm

elvisechoesofthepast.com
By Bob Pakes

Studio 50, CBS

silverwings · Post by **silverwings** » Thu Feb 11, 2021 7:36 pm

Private Presley · Post by **Private Presley** » Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:29 pm

October 28, 1956

“Who is the one individual who has helped save the most money in US healthcare in the last century?
The answer—surprisingly—might be Elvis Presley.”

The first time Elvis Presley performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” some 60 million people—more than a third of the United States’ tuned in. One month after this record-breaking appearance, the King returned to the variety show, delivering rousing renditions of “Hound Dog,” “Love Me Tender” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”

But before he took to the stage that day, October 28, 1956, Elvis posed for the press as he received a polio vaccine. Hundreds of newspapers across the country published accounts of the event with photos of the star smiling jovially as a doctor administered the shot.

At the height of outbreaks in the late 1940s, polio paralyzed an average of more than 35,000 people each year; the disease particularly affected children, infecting nearly 60,000 and killing 3,000 in 1952 alone. Spread virally, it proved fatal for two out of every ten victims afflicted with paralysis. Though millions of parents rushed to inoculate their children following the introduction of Jonas Salk’s vaccine, in 1955, teenagers and young adults had proven more reluctant to get the shot. As the New York Times reported the day after Elvis’ television appearance, just 10 percent of New York City’s teenagers had been vaccinated to date, “despite the fact that, after young children, they were the most susceptible to the disease.”

Public health officials recruited Elvis, who had skyrocketed to fame that year with his gyrating hips, crooning tunes and rakish good looks, to mobilize America’s teens. “He is setting a fine example for the youth of the country,” New York City’s health commissioner, Leona Baumgartner, told the Times. In just six months, the polio vaccination rate among American teens went from 0.6% to more than 80%, and researchers give the publication of the photo of Elvis getting the vaccine most of the credit.

Elvis helped take the stigma over getting vaccinated and also spawned teenage activism in support of the vaccine in the form of a group called “Teens Against Polio” whose members canvassed door-to- door, and set up dances where only vaccinated individuals could get in. It showed, almost for the first time, the power of teens in understanding and connecting with their own demographic

Today, we face a pandemic of global proportion and the doubts regarding vaccines permeates society, specially here in the US, and there is great hesitancy to get vaccinated which continues to result in the US leading the world in number of cases and deaths.

According to Joanne Kenen of Politico in an editorial dated 12/18/2020: “Vaccines can’t stomp out pandemics if large numbers of people shun them. Rebuilding trust—in science, in medicine, in political leaders, in common purpose—is fraught and complex. And there’s no Elvis to unite America.”

Private Presley · Post by **Private Presley** » Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:36 am

New York City Commissioner of Health Leona Baumgartner, right, holds the arm of Elvis Presley as Assistant Commissioner Harold Fuerst administers the polio vaccine to Elvis Presley