Recalling a rare performance by the King on what would have been his 85th birthday
Globe Photos/Mediapunch/Shutterswas inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The long-awaited honor came 12 years after Presley was one of the first members enshrined in the newly formed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. His connection to country music was evident from the beginning of his career, even if his sole Grand Ole Opry performance on October 2nd, 1954, was allegedly followed by Opry manager Jim Denny’s advice that he return to his day job as a truck driver in Memphis.
in Shreveport, performing “That’s All Right,” and a rocking cover of bluegrass legend Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” the two sides of Presley’s inaugural Sun release, recorded by Sam Phillips three months earlier. A local and regional sensation, the song failed to chart nationally, but Presley’s live appearances, many of which included country acts such as Hank Snow began to attract national attention from zealous fans.
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