Elvis Presley (The Dorsey Brothers Show 1) 1956
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Uploaded by georgebellagio on Jul 20, 2011
SHOW 1 - SHAKE RATTLE & ROLL / FLIP FLOP & FLY, I GOT A WOMAN. The Dorsey Brothers "STAGE SHOW" - CBS Studio New York -- january 28, 1956.
Elvis Presley first appeared on national television in the USA on January 28, 1956, on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show in New York. On Monday, January 23, 1956, Elvis, Scotty Moore, Bill Black and D.J. Fontana rehearsed in Memphis for their television debut. Elvis and Colonel Parker flew to New York on Wednesday the 25th. They stayed at the Warwick Hotel on 52nd Street. Elvis ate dinner in the Hickory House restaurant the night they arrived and did some sightseeing on the 26th. Perhaps as an indicator of things to come, Scotty, Bill and D.J. were not afforded a plane trip and drove from Memphis to New York and arrived on January 27th.On Saturday, Jan. 28, he and the guys went to the Nola Studio, between 51st and 52nd St., to rehearse for that night's 'Stage Show', which aired live at 8 o'clock from the CBS studio on W. 54th St. 'Stage Show' was produced by Jackie Gleason largely as a cheap warmup act for his own 8.30pm program. It wasn't a blockbuster, but it got respectable ratings. That night the show aired from CBS Studio 50. Elvis performed two songs, 'Shake Rattle & Roll / Flip Flop & Fly' and 'I Got A Woman'. It was raining and the then-unknown Elvis Presley did not draw a large studio audience, however one serviceman stationed in New Jersey in attendance that evening said, 'I often went on Saturday nights to the Dorsey brothers show and I was there when Elvis Presley made his national television debut on that show. I had never heard of him and was startled when he appeared on stage and hundreds of girls began screaming'. Elvis stayed in town after the show and at around 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 30, he and the band headed for the RCA Studio, 155 E. 24th St. They recorded for seven hours that day, then three hours on Jan. 31 and another several hours on February 3. More about Elvis' New York Sessions.
Those sessions yielded 'Blue Suede Shoes' and seven other tunes: 'My Baby Left Me', 'One-Sided Love Affair', 'So Glad You're Mine', 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You', 'Tutti Fruitti', 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' and 'Shake, Rattle and Roll'. 'Blue Suede Shoes' was the only hit single in the bunch, but the sessions were crucial in Elvis history because they marked the point at which he started moving away from his raw, pure Sun sound to the more commercial and mainstream sound RCA envisioned for him.Elvis appeared four more times on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show. About halfway through this engagement, RCA realized they had nothing in their photo file on Elvis. They needed to get a few publicity shots. RCA offered the job to Alfred Wertheimer who 'jumped at the chance'. It was just a one-day assignment at the rehearsal and telecast of Elvis' fifth Dorsey Brothers Stage Show in New York. RCA wanted photos for release to newspapers: head shots; Elvis at the microphone; Elvis with fans; or, best of all, Elvis with celebrities. Al Wertheimer took the required photographs, but he didn't stop there. By the time he parted company with Elvis that night, Wertheimer had snapped over 400 photos of Elvis, nearly all of which caught casual off-stage moments. Wertheimer was able to shoot before, during and after the Dorsey show rehearsal, as well as back stage before the live telecast.
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MASTER!!!
splaterrr 1 month ago
Where did you get this footage?
revenstock 3 months ago
ELVIS THE KING,,,THE START OF THE LEGEND,,,,,,GOD REST HIS SOUL...& THE LORD HAS SENT US ANOTHER SAVIOR OF ROCK & ROLL.............A PRINCE....HE IS HERE AMONG US............ANDY PROBYN ...BLESS THE NEW PRINCE....
SHADYLADY159 4 months ago
First time on TV and he hit the spot immediately!!! The true master of COOL
OmarGudmunds 5 months ago