Sunday, 16 May 2010 / Published in Elvis, Fun Fact

Fun Fact #238: Elvis perfoms “Old Shep”

Elvis’s first public performance was at the Mississippi-Alabama competition Fair and Dairy Show. The young Elvis entered the singing dressed as a cowboy, and had to stand on a chair to reach the microphone. His performance of “Old Shep” by Red Foley earned him second prize.

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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 / Published in Elvis, Fun Fact, Songfellows

Fun Fact #26: Songfellows rejected Elvis

In 1954, when Elvis was cutting some early records at Sun Studios, he auditioned for an amateur gospel quartet called the Songfellows. They turned him down…

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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 / Published in Elvis, Fun Fact

Fun Fact #233

Fun Fact #233: Elvis recorded more than 600 songs in his music career, but didn’t write a single one of them. 

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