60 years ago ... Elvis first appeared on The Louisiana Hayride - thanks to Bill Bryan for this Throwback Thursday : It was Saturday, October 16, 1954 and Elvis Presley was one of probably 20 singers scheduled to perform that night at the Louisiana Hayride. The show began, as usual, at 8 p.m. Lucky Strike was one of the shows sponsors and Elvis was brought out as the Lucky Strike amateur contestant shortly after nine. The audience gave him a polite reception, nothing unusual by any means and nothing like the applause many of the others on the show got that night. Horace Logan usually introduced the main attractions but since Elvis was an unknown, Frank Page was asked to do the honors. Page would later remark, If I had known how famous those words would become, I would have put more thought into them. They were printed first in a Look Magazine article, and later on in hundreds of books and newspapers. With that and the first strum of Elvis’ guitar the fuse was lit for his rocket-powered ride to become the world’s number one Rock’n’Roll superstar!
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:53:15 +0000
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