Elvis Presley - end of 1956 into 1957. Elvis in Memphis and Elvis in Hollywood Audobon to Graceland!

What was Elvis up to at the end of 1956/beginning 1957? We visit sites in Memphis where Elvis played football, watched shows, and bought Graceland. Million Dollar Quartet
TIMESTAMP
0:00 Hotel Chisca, Memphis
0:10 November 1956
0:20 Site of Loew's State Theater, Main St., Memphis
0:30 Crump Stadium, Memphis
1:14 Memphis Recording Service, Memphis
1:44 Site of Ellis Auditorium, Memphis
2:12 Where Elvis played football in Memphis
3:06 Site of Kennedy Veterans Hospital
3:43 January 1957
4:11 Audubon Drive
5:17 Buys Graceland
6:50 May - November 1957 overview
7:25 Outro

Memphis to Hollywood and Audobon to Graceland! This is the latest installment of my potted history of Elvis Presley - an Elvis biography - that I've compiled from videos of our visits in and around Memphis in 2017 and 2019. This edition opens with Elvis at Crump Stadium in Memphis where Elvis turned up too late to present the carnvial queen with her award! A few days later Elvis was at the Memphis Recording Studios (Sun Studios) where he took part in what was to become known as the Million Dollar Quartet Session with Sun Records artists the man in black Johnny Cash, the Killer Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Elvis had a haircut at Jim's Barbers. Elvis was at Ellis Auditorium on Memphis' Main St, as Elvis attended Radio WDIA's Goodwill Revue show. Vegas showgirl and Elvis girlfriend Dottie Harmony, spent Christmas at Graceland, and a couple of days later Dottie Harmony watched Elvis play football at the Dave Wells Community Center field. Elvis pre-induction tests were at Kennedy Veterans Hospital just around the corner from his Elvis Audobon Drive home. This would be Elvis home for only a short time longer as Elvis mother Gladys and Elvis father Vernon found a house in the suburb of Whitehaven which Elvis paid a deposit without seeing it. That house of course was Graceland, Elvis last home in Memphis, and this time it would be aspiring Hollywood actress Yvonne Lime that Elvis would take along to check on progress of renovations. The rest of the year was taken up with Elvis' 3rd film Jailhouse Rock for MGM, one of my favourite Elvis films, touring, recording and more downtime in Memphis than he'd had for the last 2 years. Before too long Uncle Sam would call and Elvis joined the army.........

Sources of information include books by Peter Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen, Pal Granlund, David English, Erik Lorentzen, Alan Hanson, Paul Richardson and Keith Flynn. Websites include elvisinfonet.com, elvis.com/au, historic-memphis.com, and the fascinating stories and information contributed by so many to the sites, and magazines Elvis The Man and His Music and Essential Elvis. Also the Memphis locations books Elvis - Memphis Style by Mike Freeman and Follow Me To Memphis by Andrew Hearn.
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31 October 1956 - Natalie Wood visits Elvis in Memphis. takes her to meet Dewey Phillips during his WHBQ radio show at Hotel Chisca
8 November 1956 - Elvis vacation in Las Vegas,
Elvis impressed by singer of Billy Ward & His Dominoes performances of Elvis' songs Don't Be Cruel and Paralyzed. Jackie Wilson.
20 November 1956 - Elvis attends Loews State Theater for a screening of Love Me Tender
Crump Stadium in front of us here - well a rebuilt Crump Stadium.
The old one has come down of course. It was here on Friday 30 November 1956 that Elvis was back in Memphis
Elvis attended the E.H. Crump Memorial Game for the Blind here at the stadium where he was to present the Carnival Queen award to one Sue Manker
Tuesday 4 December 1956 Elvis was at Memphis Recording Service where the famous Million Dollar Quartet session took place with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Elvis had his hair cut at Jims's Barbers and then Elvis and George Klein attended the WDIA Goodwill Revue at the Ellis auditorium, with BB King, Ray Charles, Rufus Thomas, The Moonglows
15 December 1956 , Elvis last Louisiana Hayride show.
Dave Wells Community Center where Elvis would play football at the very start of his career He was here December 1956
And he came here with his short-lived girlfriend at the time, Dottie Harmony.
Kennedy Veterans Hospital,
Elvis came on the 4th January 1957 with Dottie Harmony for his pre-induction army physical
6 January 1957 - Elvis makes his 3rd and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and is filmed from the waist up for his performance of Don't Be Cruel.
12-13 & 19 January 1956 - Elvis records songs at Radio Recorders including All Shook Up and the tracks that will make up the Peace In The Valley EP.
14 January 1957 - Elvis begins recording songs for the soundtrack for his second movie Loving You. 27 January 1957 - Gladys is admitted to hospital in Memphis.
1034 Audubon Drive Gladys and Vernon found Graceland in Whitehaven
Elvis left LA on 17th of March and two days later he put down $1,000 deposit on Graceland completing the purchase a week later for $102,500.

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