16th April 1955, Saturday
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APRIL 16, 1955 SATURDAY
Elvis Presley played the "Big ''D'' Jamboree" in Dallas, Texas. The show was held in the Huge Sportatorium from 8:00 p.m. to midnight, and featured Sonny James, Hank Locklin, born in McLellen, Florida on February 15, 1918. In his youth Locklin leaned toward becoming an Irish tenor, Charlene Arthur, the Bellew Twins, Jimmie Collie, Doug Bragg, LeFawn Paul, Orville Couch, Riley Crabtree, Joe Bill and others, including three bands.
According to promoter J.F. Dolan, Elvis "pulled a terrific crowd". "This is the Big ''D'' Jamboree, broadcasting live from the Dallas Sport Auditorium", the announcer said, "and you've just been listening to the great young sensation, Elvis Presley, singing his new platter, "Baby, Let's Play House"!.
It serves as an important vehicle to expose Elvis to listeners across Texas, and Bob Neal arranges for four appearances on the show, despite the fact that Elvis will have to pay a substantial penalty for missed Hayride shows. At this time Neal also commits Elvis to do two Beaumont, Texas, shows in June with the same promoter.
For Elvis' debut on this day, Big State Distributors, the company who sold independent record labels like Atlantic and Sun to the jukebox operators, sent their heavy-hitter, Alta Hayes, out to make sure Presley didn't make a fool of himself on live radio. Convinced that Elvis would strike i big someday, Alta bought a couple hundred copies of ''That's All Right'' from Sun. To hedge her bets, she hired a gaggle of girls to sit in the front row of the arena and yell like they enjoyed the show when he played. She gave them records as bribery. Sure enough, when he appeared on stage, the girls started screaming and carrying on.
It looked like Alta got her money's worth, but as Smokey Montgomery of the Light Crust Doughboys remarked later, those girls didn't scream any louder than the unpaid girls. In June Elvis played under Marty Robbins, but by September he headlined.
Kay Wheeler's first Elvis Presley Fan Club, organized in Dallas, Texas, kept close tabs on the future King of Rock And Roll, helping him receive newspaper publicity.
The club sent out postcards when Elvis Presley appeared in Dallas, and were responsible for the many hand-lettered signs at his concerts. As early December 1954, the Dallas Elvis Presley Fan Club printed membership cards and handed out advertisements on his Texas appearances.
Elvis Presley played the "Big ''D'' Jamboree" in Dallas, Texas. The show was held in the Huge Sportatorium from 8:00 p.m. to midnight, and featured Sonny James, Hank Locklin, born in McLellen, Florida on February 15, 1918. In his youth Locklin leaned toward becoming an Irish tenor, Charlene Arthur, the Bellew Twins, Jimmie Collie, Doug Bragg, LeFawn Paul, Orville Couch, Riley Crabtree, Joe Bill and others, including three bands.
According to promoter J.F. Dolan, Elvis "pulled a terrific crowd". "This is the Big ''D'' Jamboree, broadcasting live from the Dallas Sport Auditorium", the announcer said, "and you've just been listening to the great young sensation, Elvis Presley, singing his new platter, "Baby, Let's Play House"!.
It serves as an important vehicle to expose Elvis to listeners across Texas, and Bob Neal arranges for four appearances on the show, despite the fact that Elvis will have to pay a substantial penalty for missed Hayride shows. At this time Neal also commits Elvis to do two Beaumont, Texas, shows in June with the same promoter.
For Elvis' debut on this day, Big State Distributors, the company who sold independent record labels like Atlantic and Sun to the jukebox operators, sent their heavy-hitter, Alta Hayes, out to make sure Presley didn't make a fool of himself on live radio. Convinced that Elvis would strike i big someday, Alta bought a couple hundred copies of ''That's All Right'' from Sun. To hedge her bets, she hired a gaggle of girls to sit in the front row of the arena and yell like they enjoyed the show when he played. She gave them records as bribery. Sure enough, when he appeared on stage, the girls started screaming and carrying on.
It looked like Alta got her money's worth, but as Smokey Montgomery of the Light Crust Doughboys remarked later, those girls didn't scream any louder than the unpaid girls. In June Elvis played under Marty Robbins, but by September he headlined.
Kay Wheeler's first Elvis Presley Fan Club, organized in Dallas, Texas, kept close tabs on the future King of Rock And Roll, helping him receive newspaper publicity.
The club sent out postcards when Elvis Presley appeared in Dallas, and were responsible for the many hand-lettered signs at his concerts. As early December 1954, the Dallas Elvis Presley Fan Club printed membership cards and handed out advertisements on his Texas appearances.
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Re: 16th April 1955, Saturday
Brilliant stuff PP!
Love it when I see a date out of the blue come up, I get quite excited lol
(Not sure about the middle photo, The jacket is darker than the pants, the others it's lighter. Was one lot of clothes for one show and the other for the other show?)
Love it when I see a date out of the blue come up, I get quite excited lol
(Not sure about the middle photo, The jacket is darker than the pants, the others it's lighter. Was one lot of clothes for one show and the other for the other show?)
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