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The kids got it: they picked up on Elvis' sexuality, his vitality and fun. Adults thought kids picked up an infection too. The same cultural paranoia that had parents burning horror comic books in 1954 had them calling for a TV ban on Elvis the Pelvis, and Presley was obliged...
After the guest shots on "Stage Show" and with Berle and Allen, Elvis was ready for Ed Sullivan. (Sullivan had previously averred he would never sign the singer for his program. But when Elvis' Allen turn creamed Sullivan in the ratings, Ed and Col. Parker made a deal: a precedential...
By this time, teenage girls had figured out how to get into a TV show that had Elvis. They had also learned to Elvis was a mature TV performer. His hair now dyed jet-black to look better on camera, he wishes a speedy recovery to Sullivan, recently injured in...
That would have required quite a few blessings. since a record 83% of the viewing audience was tuned in to Elvis on Sullivan. It was official now: the kid was King.
Brando had it easier than Presley; for in pop, more than in acting, it's tough to remain in the vanguard. Consider the four overlapping phases of Elvis' music. Phase 1: At Sun Records, he borrowed blues from blacks and country songs from rednecks, passing them along to the huge...