Elvis Presley Louisiana Hayride

[rockliveson69]

There was an incredible bootleg of this whole show online... I've had the pleasure to download it, and it is simply just amazing.

[50sRocKabilly]

This is when Elvis was best 1954-55! Rockin Hillbilly with just bass and guitar.

[Burner1966]

Classic Elvis and at the tender age of 19.....Can't wait for my copy of the latest MRS Release of the Complete Hayride Shows 54 to 56 all remastered. OH Yes..

Cheap too over at Amazon UK.....Love That classic 50's Elvis and so clear in the  MRS Release. Go and buy it peoples.

[dreadnought45]

This is the Elvis I've always liked. While he became more sofisticated and his singing got better as he got older this is the raw emotion he exhibted when he started out. Elvis, Scotty, and Bill.

Ken, Toronto, Ont.

[nina1823]

That was pure, raw Elvis.

[w0103411]

The credits indicate that the recording is from October 16, 1954. But the advertisement displayed in the photograph background shows "L.S./M.F.T." (Lucky Strike means fine tobacco) on the bottom of the pack of cigarettes. The L.S./M.F.T. slogan was first printed on a pack of Luckies during 1955. Thus the photograph must be from a time later than 1954.

[JamesMatchboxLee]

MERCY.. Listen Brothers Take A Lesson. Schools In

[davidk4616]

I was seven years old when Elvis was playing at the Hayride. I lived in east Texas. I remember our neighbors went to the Hayride and came back and told us there was this young man named Elvis Presley that played and he was really good. I think they went back to see him a few times. I remember all that clearly. Man were they right.

[reneholz66]

thanks for this great moment of music...

[syncswim123]

Can anyone imagine how excited he was to be performing on the Louisiana Hayride, which he had so often listened to?

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

There will never be another Elvis.

I miss him.

George Vreeland Hill

[freedencevia]

love it

[MrMar2002]

thanks Elvis, always alive

[TheLongshot11]

I have forgot how bad you was starting out

[Britishguy18]

@TheLongshot11 How you mean?

[Clintreno]

Thanks great Elvis!

[sunrecords56]

Actually this could have been born out of the loss of Hank Williams.

[MrCraig1930]

I first listen to the Hayride on the radio in 1949.

[snoopdarr]

well hiyaSir... another legend of our times

[newwavepop]

WOW that is beautifully clear, what i would give to see video. man just to grasp what is about to happen and how it will effect generations to come. thank you original trio.

[Missnuvah]

Great video, thanks!!!!

[Missnuvah]

great video thanks!!

[MrJohnholme]

if one listen carefull you can hear Bill's slap playing - like there's percusion on - but it's him and doing same on Sun Recordings

[SEANFIR]

poor bill black was inaudible in all of these recordings!

[Kat38]

I never missed a Saturday night when he was on the Hayride. I was 15 yrs old.

[suzybelieves]

My mother-in-law saw Elvis at the Louisiana Hayride when he was just starting out. She was a big Elvis fan. He had so much talent!

[suzybelieves]

My mother-in-law saw Elvis at the Louisiana Hayride when he was just starting out.

[imaccuish]

You're listening to the birth of something special.

[Actingftw]

@imaccuish Very well put! I couldn't agree any more!

[sittnonchrome]

im 34 years old. i never realized he was only 19 around the time of this song. its amazing the gap between how good the teenage talent was back then and how bad it is now

[heitorcrespo]

thank you very much!! Now, everytime I go to the Municipal Auditorium here in Shreveport, I'm gonna remember this!

[RMCFShaunay1991]

Too right Dustybeers haha :) Great sound quality best one I've heard :)

[wildhorsestudios1421]

Elvis and Scotty together on guitar. Pure magic.

[TheSunRecords]

It's a BIG piece of music history.

[handymanm]

Love the early songs, sounds great live and so relaxed while being interviewed. I'll be damed if I can get two words out to an audience when I have to talk...

[PRJDanmark]

Elvis presley, for ever.

[dragstripphantoms]

Scotty Moore says that DJ Fontana played drums quietly behind the curtain.

[froglicking]

@dragstripphantoms hi,this is before dj fontana joined them.

[dragstripphantoms]

I'm saying that in Tilman Franks book, he claims that DJ played quietly behind the curtain during the first Hayride performances. That's how they met. DJ was a staff drummer @ the Hayride.

[Disappearingboy1039]

Sucks there's no drums. It would have sounded alot more intense.

[dustybeers]

Love the pic. Guess that's back when cigarettes weren't bad for you......lol Ah, the good ol' days

[borntokill30]

this is that's alright mama

[paulalautrec]

Yeahh!!! amasing!! when the Rock & Roll born!!

[zekerswel]

Been reading Guralinicks biography 'Last train to Memphis' last few days, makes it even greater to hear these historic recordings!

[fredoborja]

i had this on cd. but i also have johnny horton live from the hayride also.

[ClayBobBoGentry]

Poop Exists

[dale1966gto]

I've lived in Shreveport for 15 years and the Municipal day gurad to protect it0against vandalos, by Black gangd/.

[jonnyrancher]

At first, they didn't even know what to call this music. It was too R & B for country; too country for R & B. The announcer here, Frank Page, calls it "folk music."

Call it what you will. This was an important twentieth-century moment. Elvis Presley was about to change everything!

[happymommy03]

This was so great to hear!! Thanks so much for another wonderful video!! :o)Definitely worth the 5 stars I gave you! ;o) Loved hearing Elvis when his career was just taking off on "The Hayride!!" What a voice and what a man!! ;o) So young here yet so full of such amazing, incredible and never-ending talent!!

[KaDe381]

very nice