That’s All Right The year before Elvis signed with Sun Records and began his run to fame, he was touring local establishments paying warm-up gigs in an obscure small-time band. Elvis going solo got his first national exposure during the KWEM Radio Station Saturday Night Jamboree, a weekly amateur program, which also featured Johnny Cash, Reggie Young, Charlie Feathers and several others… all still fairly unknown at the time. Today in 1954 Elvis took to the stage at the 900-seat arena and performed “That’s All Right,” one of his signature songs. According to all accounts, Elvis’s performance did not go over very well because he was a little too rock-n-roll for the country music show. The building where Elvis played was since demolished, but on that location a plaque marks the date when one of the most popular rock-n-roll acts of all time played for radio audiences for the first time. Elvis went on to entertain baby-boomers for many decades to come…and even after his death in August 1977. youtube/watch?v=yWgprZu4Hk4
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:26:57 +0000
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