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Before ELVIS there was nothing* ( Falcon Neue Medien )

Flac Image  & cue file incl. covers 

first live-recordings, -performances and rare interviews,

Louisiana Hayride a.o. 1954 - 56 

1.Intro: Blue Suede Shoes 
2.Narration - Frank Page 
3.Introduction: Horace Logan/That's All Right, Mama 
4.Blue Moon Of Kentucky
 5.Narration - Frank Page
6.Good Rockin' Tonight
7.Introduction: Horace Logan/Baby, Let's Play House
8.Maybellene
9.Tweedle Dee
10.Introduction: Frank Page/Heartbreak Hotel
11.Long Tall Sally
12.Narration - Frank Page
13.I Was The One
14.Money Honey
15.I Got A Woman
16.Blue Suede Shoes
17.Hound Dog
18.Intro and Outro: Frank Page/Horace Logan: "Elvis Has Left The Building
19.Horace Logan: Hayride's Tenth Anniversary, April '58
20.That's All Right, Mama
21.Elvis Presley Interview Bob Harper Show 1956
22.Elvis Presley Interview WNOE Radio 1956
23.Blue Suede Shoes

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October 16, 1954

FRANK PAGE: Just a few weeks ago, a young man from Memphis, Tennessee recorded a song on the Sun label and in just a matter of a few weeks, that record has skyrocketed right on up the charts. He's only 19 years old; he has a distinctive style.....

Elvis Presley. Let's give him a nice hand. We've been playing his songs around for weeks. Elvis, how are you this evening?

Elvis: Just fine. How are you, sir?

Frank Page: Are you geared up with your band there...?

Elvis: Geared up. 

Frank Page: To let us hear your songs?

Elvis: Well, I'd like to say how happy we are to be out here. It's a real honor for us to get a chance to appear on the Louisiana Hayride show and we're gonna do a song for you. You got anything else to say, sir?

Frank Page: No, I'm ready.

Elvis: We're gonna do a song for you we've got out on Sun Records and it goes something like this. 


Elvis sang both sides of his record beginning with "That's All right, Mama". It was a bluesy Beale Street song that got a good response. "Blue Moon of Kentucky" was at least a country song, though Bill Monroe never sang it that way! On the recording of these first performances, you can hear that the engineer working the broadcast had to turn up the volume on the microphone in the audience in order to pick up a reasonable amount of applause. It was not a sensational beginning for the man who, in a matter of just a few more months would be dubbed "The King of Rock and Roll", whose every record would threaten to turn to gold and every album to platinum.




*John Lennon  Quote 
 - Before Elvis there was nothing -