15th October 1955, Saturday
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Re: 15th October 1955, Saturday
Ralph Lowe Jr., Scotty and Elvis onstage at the Cotton Club
Pat Lowe and Elvis at the Cotton Club
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Re: 15th October 1955, Saturday
October 15, 1955
After performing at the Fair Park Auditorium in Lubbock, Texas on October 15, 1955, Elvis and his group went to the Cotton Club for his second performance of the evening.
The Cotton Club was a ballroom, concert arena, and dance hall in Lubbock, Texas. It was a venue for big bands, country and western performers, rock-and-roll artists, and all musicians who fell in between. For over forty years it stood as the most influential and diverse performance venue in the region. The Cotton Club was unique because of its blindness to race, color and musical genre. It was known to book the best talent that waltzed through West Texas from Bob Wills to Harry James.
The Cotton Club was owned and operated by Lubbock native Ralph Lowe and his family. Operating the place was a family affair. Ralph’s daughter, Pat - at the young age of 14, would be at the restaurant right after school to be sandwich prep ‘cook’. She would also go behind her father’s back and sneak aspiring musicians like Buddy Holly and Mac Davis in via the kitchen in order to watch the Elvis’ performances. The young ‘cook & crook’ developed a friendship with Elvis, and one time they were playing tic-tac-toe on a restaurant table that has already been set up with its white tablecloth and got the table cover dirty. Ralph, the ultimate businessman, added $1 to Elvis’ bill that night to cover cleaning cost for the table cloth! He could have made more than just a dollar, if he had the foresight to have Elvis sign the table cloth and use it in future marketing of The Cotton Club - that “the King Was Here”!
After performing at the Fair Park Auditorium in Lubbock, Texas on October 15, 1955, Elvis and his group went to the Cotton Club for his second performance of the evening.
The Cotton Club was a ballroom, concert arena, and dance hall in Lubbock, Texas. It was a venue for big bands, country and western performers, rock-and-roll artists, and all musicians who fell in between. For over forty years it stood as the most influential and diverse performance venue in the region. The Cotton Club was unique because of its blindness to race, color and musical genre. It was known to book the best talent that waltzed through West Texas from Bob Wills to Harry James.
The Cotton Club was owned and operated by Lubbock native Ralph Lowe and his family. Operating the place was a family affair. Ralph’s daughter, Pat - at the young age of 14, would be at the restaurant right after school to be sandwich prep ‘cook’. She would also go behind her father’s back and sneak aspiring musicians like Buddy Holly and Mac Davis in via the kitchen in order to watch the Elvis’ performances. The young ‘cook & crook’ developed a friendship with Elvis, and one time they were playing tic-tac-toe on a restaurant table that has already been set up with its white tablecloth and got the table cover dirty. Ralph, the ultimate businessman, added $1 to Elvis’ bill that night to cover cleaning cost for the table cloth! He could have made more than just a dollar, if he had the foresight to have Elvis sign the table cloth and use it in future marketing of The Cotton Club - that “the King Was Here”!
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