Elvis Presley's First Performance | Memphis Road Trip to Overton Park Shell

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<p>Imagine it's July 30th, 1954.</p>
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<p>It's a thick, humid Friday night in Memphis, Tennessee.</p>
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<p>The air at Overton Park is heavy, the kind of southern heat that sticks to</p>
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<p>your skin, but there's a buzzing energy coming from the 4,000 people packed</p>
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<p>into the grass in front of the shell.</p>
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<p>They've come to see a local variety show, but there's a name on the</p>
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<p>poster that looks a little unfamiliar.</p>
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<p>It says Ellis Presley.</p>
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<p>Backstage, 19-year-old truck driver is pacing.</p>
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<p>He's not wearing the conservative suits of the crooners of the era.</p>
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<p>He's draped in head to toe, bright pink, pink pants, a pink shirt,</p>
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<p>and a long narrow tie provided by the Lansky brothers on Beal Street.</p>
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<p>He's absolutely terrified.</p>
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<p>Three weeks ago, he recorded a song called, that's All Right, mama.</p>
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<p>It is been playing on the radio, but he's never done this, not like this,</p>
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<p>not in front of a crowd this size.</p>
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<p>He walks out onto that stage, the wood echoing under his boots.</p>
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<p>He looks out at the sea of faces, grips his guitar, and the music starts.</p>
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<p>But then something happens.</p>
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<p>His legs starts to shake.</p>
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<p>He's so nervous.</p>
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<p>His knees are knocking together and he begins to jiggle just</p>
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<p>to keep from falling over.</p>
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<p>Suddenly a sound rises from the front row that hasn't been</p>
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<p>heard in American music before.</p>
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<p>It's a piercing collective scream from the women in the audience.</p>
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<p>Elvis stops.</p>
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<p>He goes backstage after his two songs confused.</p>
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<p>He asked his manager, did I do something wrong?</p>
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<p>Why are they hollering at me?</p>
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<p>The answer was simple.</p>
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<p>They weren't hollering because he's made a mistake.</p>
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<p>They were hollering because they were witnessing the birth of a revolution.</p>
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<p>Welcome to Talk With History.</p>
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<p>I'm your host Scott here with my wife and historian Jen.</p>
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<p>Hello.</p>
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<p>Alright, Jen, so we are, this is an audio exclusive episode today.</p>
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<p>So for our podcast listeners, this is for you now.</p>
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<p>Elvis, obviously being us here in Memphis is a very, very</p>
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<p>popular topic on our channel.</p>
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<p>Seems to always do very well.</p>
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<p>So we've been wanting to do some more Elvis history this year.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it's the 20 50th birthday of America.</p>
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<p>And I, Elvis is popular because I think he's that American Dream story.</p>
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<p>We live here in Memphis, so there's a lot of Elvis history here.</p>
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<p>A lot of people who know the Elvis history here 'cause he never really</p>
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<p>left his hometown after 13 years old.</p>
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<p>He moves here 13, but his birthday is the beginning of the year.</p>
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<p>His birthday is January 8th, 1935.</p>
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<p>And so.</p>
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<p>They usually do something at Graceland.</p>
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<p>They usually have a birthday cake and a birthday proclamation</p>
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<p>and, but it's usually very cold.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>It's like it could be snowing and it could be rainy, and it's miserable</p>
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<p>and it's early in the morning and.</p>
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<p>I never go because of that.</p>
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<p>And you get your diehard fans that are out there.</p>
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<p>And actually, Lisa Marie, that was one of her last appearances before</p>
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<p>she passed, uh, three years ago.</p>
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<p>Oh, I didn't know that.</p>
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<p>She went to her dad's birthday celebration on January 8th</p>
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<p>and she passes January 12th.</p>
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<p>Wow.</p>
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<p>So it was the last time people really saw her.</p>
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<p>So it was very, it's very interesting how close.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And, and I remember when she passed away 'cause we were literally podcasting in</p>
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<p>our living room in Norfolk, Virginia.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>When we, we were wrapping up an episode.</p>
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<p>And either you, you or I,</p>
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<p>the news broke,</p>
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<p>but the news broke.</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>And so we ended the episode, we jumped on, we just kind of started a live</p>
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<p>stream and just started talking about it and it look, and unfortunately</p>
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<p>we were on like our other channel.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Our talk with history audio channel, and it took off, you know, and we had</p>
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<p>tens of thousands of people because we were kind of one of the first to jump</p>
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<p>on a live stream and talk about it.</p>
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<p>It was like a reaction because.</p>
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<p>We had, again, I had just seen her at the birthday celebration.</p>
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<p>We had lived in Norfolk at that time, but she had just been to the Golden Globes.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that's right.</p>
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<p>Because Elvis had just been in the, the movie Gold Globes.</p>
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<p>The movie.</p>
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<p>Yeah, the movie.</p>
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<p>So she was just making a public appearance.</p>
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<p>So it was just very raw.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>That, that feeling.</p>
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<p>So, but this year, for his birthday, January 8th, it.</p>
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<p>60 degrees.</p>
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<p>It was</p>
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<p>perfect weather.</p>
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<p>It was no rain.</p>
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<p>I could get over there very easily.</p>
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<p>So I, I took the kids to school, got in the car, drove, parked, and walked up as</p>
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<p>they are doing the birthday proclamation.</p>
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<p>There might have been maybe a hundred people there.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And I was like, this is fantastic.</p>
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<p>Now, no family members had come this year, but they had sent flowers.</p>
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<p>So he definitely, you know, he has Priscilla, his ex-wife, but, uh, he has</p>
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<p>three granddaughters and, uh, they now own Graceland, but none of them were there.</p>
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<p>And so he had a, an old friend Jerry Schilling, he</p>
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<p>was there and he was talking.</p>
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<p>So, um, I was able to walk over to the grave site.</p>
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<p>When no one was there because they were all at the birthday of Proclamation.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So you had, but you basically had it all to yourself.</p>
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<p>You walked up and kind of filmed a short little video.</p>
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<p>It was amazing because if you know anything about birthday, anything</p>
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<p>about Elvis' birthday or the week of his death, August 16th, a lot</p>
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<p>of his fan clubs will send Res</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>And very specific res to his birthday and, and so I got to film all of those.</p>
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<p>I got to film his site.</p>
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<p>I got to film Lisa Marie before somebody came over and said.</p>
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<p>No one's allowed to be here.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So I got very lucky.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Well, and, and just so people know, it's not like she, she snuck</p>
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<p>up there because every day from, what is it, like seven to eight?</p>
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<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
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<p>They let, they let the public just walk up to, to his grave site.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So it's open every</p>
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<p>day for, for free.</p>
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<p>For free.</p>
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<p>You can walk up there.</p>
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<p>You can't go inside Graceland without a ticket, but you can walk up and</p>
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<p>visit his actual grave site where he is buried next to his parents.</p>
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<p>Uh, some of his family for, for free every day.</p>
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<p>So that's what you walked up there, just kind of assuming that was still the case.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And knowing that, I mean, I, I'm a local.</p>
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<p>Yeah,</p>
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<p>right.</p>
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<p>So I was just gonna go up and, and take some video and then</p>
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<p>they said, you can't be here.</p>
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<p>Oh.</p>
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<p>I was like, that's fine.</p>
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<p>So I walk over just as they're singing Happy Birthday.</p>
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<p>So I sing Happy Birthday, and then I get to take pictures of the cake.</p>
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<p>Now know that the cake is styrofoam.</p>
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<p>And they put like, just</p>
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<p>a little piece.</p>
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<p>Oh, okay.</p>
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<p>I couldn't tell from the, uh, from the video</p>
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<p>because it's beautiful.</p>
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<p>And then they have free cake for everybody That's</p>
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<p>cool.</p>
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<p>Across the street and everybody can get, have a piece of cake</p>
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<p>and celebrate Elvis's birthday.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>It, it's one of those things that as a local, it's fun for us to, to go,</p>
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<p>to go do, to go to these kind of.</p>
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<p>You know, yearly events at Graceland because you get all sorts of interesting</p>
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<p>characters out there, hardcore Elvis fans, people who were alive and remember, you</p>
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<p>know, hearing the news when you pass.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>So it's, it's always fun for us to kind of go over there because he's,</p>
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<p>El Elvis is one of those rare, just global phenomenon that is known</p>
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<p>literally throughout the entire world and has had an impact on probably</p>
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<p>every single person on this planet.</p>
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<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>So it's always.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:06:55</time>
<p>It's always a big thing because there, there are people who were very, very</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:06:59</time>
<p>emotional about Elvis and who care deeply about kind of what he left</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:03</time>
<p>behind, and so it was cool for us to, to do another video on, on this topic</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:07</time>
<p>and I. I respect that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:09</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:10</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:10</time>
<p>So I even in the line, I am one of those people I engage with the, with the public.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:15</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:15</time>
<p>Because I'm a historian, so I met these four women in the line.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:18</time>
<p>If they're listening to it, they, I gave 'em all my card, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:20</time>
<p>they're part of an Elvis Peasley fan club and have been for years.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:24</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:24</time>
<p>And they're from all around the world and they've met each other and now</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:28</time>
<p>they always get together, the four of them, once a year in Graceland.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:32</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:33</time>
<p>And they're, it, it was just amazing to hear their stories, where they were when</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:36</time>
<p>they heard Elvis died, what Elvis meant to them, how much they've come to the, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:41</time>
<p>candlelight vigils for his birth, for the, his passing, his birthday celebrations.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:45</time>
<p>Like they're very much inundated in doing this as a group.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:50</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:50</time>
<p>And it, what's very neat to hear from all different, I'm from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:53</time>
<p>Europe, like, it was just amazing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:54</time>
<p>And so it was great to, to engage with them and then have the birthday cake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:07:59</time>
<p>And if you know anything about Elvis Presley as well, uh, he.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:03</time>
<p>Would leave his Christmas decorations up until after his birthday.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:06</time>
<p>Yeah, that was like a, that was a thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:07</time>
<p>Everybody said, oh, you gotta leave him up at least until January 8th.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:10</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:10</time>
<p>So I show you some of the Christmas decorations as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:14</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:14</time>
<p>'cause he has a great huge nativity set and stuff like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:17</time>
<p>So it, it was neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:17</time>
<p>I never had gotten to do that before and I never.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:20</time>
<p>Because of the weather.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:21</time>
<p>I wasn't gonna, and I, we've, we've done his death week and we've</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:25</time>
<p>done, they call it Elvis week here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:27</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:27</time>
<p>And they're kinda like vigil.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:28</time>
<p>But to do this was super cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:29</time>
<p>So it got me thinking about the 250 birthday of America, the nineties, first</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:34</time>
<p>birthday of the King of rock and roll.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:36</time>
<p>And it got me thinking to more of firsts of Elvis Presley because Elvis Presley</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:40</time>
<p>really was that groundbreaking first in so many ways when it came to music.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:45</time>
<p>And because we're celebrating America two 50.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:48</time>
<p>What else first could we really do, and we've always talked</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:52</time>
<p>about doing Overton Park, shell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:53</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:54</time>
<p>We have been in the location when we did Memphis Bell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:08:58</time>
<p>It's kind of a central park here in Memphis.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:01</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:01</time>
<p>It's like a downtown, like you said.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:02</time>
<p>Like what?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:03</time>
<p>Like what?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:04</time>
<p>New York has their.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:05</time>
<p>Central Park, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:06</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:06</time>
<p>This is the, the park area in central Memphis?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:08</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:08</time>
<p>We have a, a, an art museum there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:11</time>
<p>The zoo is there and this, this Overton Park shell, which was a, a music venue.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:17</time>
<p>They used to do operas and musicals there, and it was built.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:22</time>
<p>The 1930s during the depression era, it was one of those works</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:25</time>
<p>projects administration from president Roosevelt's New Deal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:28</time>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:29</time>
<p>Where they gave jobs to people to protect the culture of America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:31</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:32</time>
<p>Building up the infrastructure as well as some cultural stuff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:35</time>
<p>But it's now, it's one of the only.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:37</time>
<p>Only depression era.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:38</time>
<p>Bandshell is still active.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:41</time>
<p>Yeah,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:41</time>
<p>so it's super neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:42</time>
<p>It think of, um, the Hollywood Bowl.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:44</time>
<p>It looks like a bowl kind of set low and then it kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:48</time>
<p>gradually goes up in elevation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:50</time>
<p>So when the people sit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:53</time>
<p>The shell is a little bit further down, but the acoustics will reach out at you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:09:57</time>
<p>So it's really neat how it's set up because it's really, it, it really</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:01</time>
<p>lends itself to hearing good music.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:03</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:03</time>
<p>Well, and that's why, and we'll talk about a little bit, there were so</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:05</time>
<p>many famous musicians, not just Elvis, that performed there over the years.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:09</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:09</time>
<p>So when we went there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:11</time>
<p>And again, it's Memphis, it's, you have such great access to things.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:15</time>
<p>If you're gonna do like an Elvis Presley kind of tour of Memphis, like we've</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:18</time>
<p>done the mausoleum where Elvis was first buried, you can go to where he lived.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:22</time>
<p>You can go to his original house before Gracely, and this Overton Park</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:27</time>
<p>shell is just available to you to go walk on the stage and take pictures.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:30</time>
<p>And, and so we were there and we actually met, someone who runs the tour behind it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>We didn't even know there was a tour.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:37</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:37</time>
<p>Behind it,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:37</time>
<p>there's like a, there's like a backstage area if you go and watch, we're not</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:41</time>
<p>doing a video version of this podcast, but if you go and watch our video</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:43</time>
<p>from Overton Park, shell, and I'll, I'll link that in the show notes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:47</time>
<p>If you look at the Shell itself, and you'll see like in the center of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:50</time>
<p>Shell as kind of like the backdrop of the narrowest point, is this what looks</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:54</time>
<p>like a blue record and it's probably.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:56</time>
<p>Eight, nine feet tall.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:58</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:10:58</time>
<p>Behind that, there's actually a door that goes behind the Overton Park.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:02</time>
<p>Shell think like that's where a green room would be for artists that are performing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:07</time>
<p>There's a restroom back there and they've kind of turned it into this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:09</time>
<p>little kind of mini backstage tour type thing that you can do, like museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:13</time>
<p>It was really cool.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:15</time>
<p>It was really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:15</time>
<p>They had a lot of the flyers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:17</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:17</time>
<p>And the photographs and it, it really told the story of Overton Park shell, so.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:23</time>
<p>Again, this was built in the 1930s named for the Park, Overton Park,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:28</time>
<p>and what happens is they start doing a lot of like concerts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:32</time>
<p>And so what happens with Elvis Presley is he has just performed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:38</time>
<p>That's all right, mama At Sun Studio on July 5th, 1954.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:43</time>
<p>Sam Phillips has taken that record over to the local dj, Dewey Phillips, no relation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
<p>And Dewey Phillips plays this record and people start calling.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:51</time>
<p>They say, Hey, play it again.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:52</time>
<p>Play it, play it again.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:53</time>
<p>It's been on repeat for days.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:55</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:55</time>
<p>And so then they, they go and find Elvis Presley to interview him on</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:11:59</time>
<p>the show because everyone thinks he.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:00</time>
<p>He's African American.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>So they make sure he says what high school he goes to.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:04</time>
<p>'cause think this is 1954.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:06</time>
<p>This is still segregation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:07</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:07</time>
<p>So when he says what high school they go to, they're like, this is a white boy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:10</time>
<p>So it's very interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:11</time>
<p>He's starting to, to do this bridging of culture and.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:15</time>
<p>The, the song is getting played a lot.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:18</time>
<p>And so what is the next concert coming up in Memphis where he can</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:23</time>
<p>be a part of the opening acts?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:25</time>
<p>And so three weeks later there's a concert at Overton Park Shell, and the headliner</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:29</time>
<p>is this country singer Slim Whitman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:32</time>
<p>So they put Elvis on the, the mar on the poster.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:35</time>
<p>But they don't even spell his name right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:36</time>
<p>Yeah, because they don't even know who he is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>They</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>spell it Ellis, E-L-L-I-S.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>So if you can see the original poster, it's really</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
<p>funny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
<p>Yeah, it's awesome.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
<p>I show it in the video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
<p>And so he, if again, if you're a fan of the channel, you know, he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:46</time>
<p>goes to Lansky Brothers, which is a clothing store right on Beal Street.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
<p>So Beal Street is the African American Streets location.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:53</time>
<p>If you saw the movie Elvis, it's where he's getting a lot</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:55</time>
<p>of this inspiration of sound.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:12:57</time>
<p>And, uh, so the Dr the clothing is more colorful and he.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:02</time>
<p>Picks out a pink outfit, pink pants, and a pink shirt with a long tie, which</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
<p>they lend to it in the movie Elvis.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:09</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:09</time>
<p>They, they do show that, although I don't think they're, it's not the same.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
<p>What?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
<p>He's wearing it, it's not the same location.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
<p>They're, they're not making it look like he's at the Overton Park shell,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:16</time>
<p>but they're doing this moment.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:18</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:18</time>
<p>So again, it's, if you know anything about living in the south in the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>summer, this is July 30th, Ugh, 8:00 PM</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:25</time>
<p>It's so hot.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:26</time>
<p>It's a hot evening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:27</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:28</time>
<p>Like you said, it's muggy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:30</time>
<p>At least the sun has gone down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
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<p>But people are sitting here and if you look at the shelf,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:34</time>
<p>the shelf sits further down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:35</time>
<p>So when he gets out on stage, his.</p>
<p></p>
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<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>His pelvis or his His</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:39</time>
<p>waist.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>His waist is eye level.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:42</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:42</time>
<p>To these 4,000 people.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:44</time>
<p>And again, he's nervous.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:45</time>
<p>He's never performed in public.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:47</time>
<p>His song is big, so it's the only song he really knows and he starts to shake his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:52</time>
<p>leg with the music and the nervousness.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
<p>It's kind of a twofold thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:55</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:55</time>
<p>He's kind of moving his leg with the music and he's nervous and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:13:59</time>
<p>he's wearing these big pleated.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:02</time>
<p>Pink pants.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
<p>They're not cuffed at the bottom, and so they shake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
<p>The fabric is very loose and so it's moving.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:09</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:09</time>
<p>The, the movie, if you guys haven't watched the Elvis movie, who</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:12</time>
<p>is the director of Baz Luhrman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:13</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:13</time>
<p>If you haven't watched the Elvis movie, they do a great job of showing</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:16</time>
<p>that scene and how the women just start going crazy for Elvis and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:20</time>
<p>that that really happened.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:21</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
<p>And so, 'cause people had just never.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:24</time>
<p>Seen that before.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:26</time>
<p>And uh, we, we've reviewed that movie too, if you wanna watch that,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:29</time>
<p>because again, you can't live in Memphis without knowing Elvis history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:32</time>
<p>And so he plays That's all right, mama and Blue Moon of Kentucky.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:37</time>
<p>The two songs he knows people are screaming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:39</time>
<p>He doesn't really know what that reaction is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:42</time>
<p>As you would if you've never seen a beatlemania, if you've never seen someone.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
<p>He's the beginning of this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>'cause that, that wasn't a thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:48</time>
<p>Well, and one thing that, that our, our tour guide Cole mentioned to us was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:52</time>
<p>the, the sound, not only projects from the stage, but it also is gonna kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:56</time>
<p>of, focus at the people on the stage.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:58</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:14:59</time>
<p>So all these women screaming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:01</time>
<p>It.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:01</time>
<p>You know, he said that there were musicians that would say,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
<p>it sounded like a train when they're up on stage sometimes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
<p>'cause it's so loud.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
<p>And so he, it was, he just kind of had this reaction when he got off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>He's like, did I do something wrong?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:12</time>
<p>So he didn't know if it was good or bad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>If they didn't like his music and they were.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:16</time>
<p>It wasn't booze exactly, but he didn't know what that reaction was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
<p>And the manager there said, no, they love it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:21</time>
<p>Get out there and do it again and again.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:24</time>
<p>He doesn't know any other songs.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:26</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:26</time>
<p>So he goes out and does, that's all right, mama and Blue Moon, Kentucky</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:29</time>
<p>again now, because he's starting to get this reaction and he's starting to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:33</time>
<p>feel, I think, you know, optimistic.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:36</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:36</time>
<p>And probably confident in his performance.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:38</time>
<p>'cause it don't, you have to know this kid.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:40</time>
<p>He's never performed before.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
<p>He keeps doing the shake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:42</time>
<p>He keeps doing the shake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:44</time>
<p>He just kind of part makes it as part of his routine now.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:47</time>
<p>Because again, think about Elvis Presley.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:49</time>
<p>He's stumbled into this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:51</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:52</time>
<p>And so this is his first time with showmanship.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:55</time>
<p>Now we think of Elvis Presley at Vegas and how he can really</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:15:58</time>
<p>work an audience and all of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:00</time>
<p>Well, this is the beginning of all of that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
<p>It was such a, like a lightning in a bottle type moment.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:04</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:04</time>
<p>You capture this moment and you know, luckily for us, you know, looking back</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
<p>on it, you know, 50 plus years later, we got to see at least, you know, what the,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:14</time>
<p>uh, some of the printout posters were and hear some of the stories after the fact.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:18</time>
<p>Like there's really no photos.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:20</time>
<p>I think there, there's a couple photos that I put in the video, but I don't</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:22</time>
<p>know if they're exactly from that night because he actually performs</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
<p>again like a week or two later.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:27</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:27</time>
<p>And so I think that time they actually get some more cameras out there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:30</time>
<p>And so some of the pictures I show, I think are actually from August 7th.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:33</time>
<p>This was July 30th.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:35</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:35</time>
<p>Um, because I think news got around like, hey.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:38</time>
<p>We have something here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:40</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:40</time>
<p>No one's expecting this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
<p>And through the years, Elvis will come back to Overton Park</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:44</time>
<p>Shell and perform some more.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:46</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:46</time>
<p>And he, again, it gets to the point where he is a huge draw and it's gonna</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:51</time>
<p>be too much where he's gonna have to go to other places that have bigger</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:55</time>
<p>venues because he's such a huge draw.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:16:57</time>
<p>But there's a picture of him and Carl Perkins signing each other's autographs.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:00</time>
<p>Right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:01</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:01</time>
<p>Kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:01</time>
<p>of just like in jest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>In jest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
<p>And so he really is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:05</time>
<p>Again, appreciates where he comes from and he, he remembers Overton Park</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:09</time>
<p>Shell and now it's gonna become a venue for like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:13</time>
<p>Isaac Hayes, the Allman Brothers gonna perform there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:15</time>
<p>You have a picture of that in the video?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
<p>They have a couple really good pictures.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
<p>There's some big names that played there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:18</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:19</time>
<p>Ro Orbison, Lisa Marie will perform there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
<p>Bonnie Rai.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:22</time>
<p>You know, I grew up, my parents love Bonnie Rai.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:24</time>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:24</time>
<p>And so they, the history of Overton Park, shell, they go through again.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:29</time>
<p>Anything else, they're culturally, they get into the sixties.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:33</time>
<p>There's a lot of those kind of rockers black Sabbath and things like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:37</time>
<p>It's easy top.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:37</time>
<p>And then they wanna stay away from that kind of lifestyle.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
<p>'cause they feel like they're bringing on some of the riffraff.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:42</time>
<p>So they go into like Yacht Rockies.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:44</time>
<p>Easy listening.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
<p>Survivor.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>Uh, and then that kind of loses steam and so then the shell loses steam.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:52</time>
<p>And there's two times that people try to.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:55</time>
<p>Tear it down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:17:56</time>
<p>Basically, they tried to make a, a interstate through there and they tried</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:00</time>
<p>to make a theater for the art museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:02</time>
<p>And both times it's saved by grassroots movements.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:06</time>
<p>People who are like, no, let's save the shell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:08</time>
<p>It means so much to American history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:09</time>
<p>It means so much to our city.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:10</time>
<p>And at one point, it's saved by the Levitt Foundation and from, so from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:15</time>
<p>2005 to 2022, it's named Levitt Shell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
<p>So you might see that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
<p>So that's, that's actually how we first knew it, because we lived</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
<p>here during that, that initial time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:23</time>
<p>And so they replaced the Overton Park with Levitt Shell, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:26</time>
<p>they did like 600 free concerts.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:29</time>
<p>150,000 people came to see those concerts as they really did revitalize it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:33</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:34</time>
<p>But in 2022, they went back to their original name, Overton Park.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:38</time>
<p>Shell.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:38</time>
<p>Now they're celebrating their 90th anniversary.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:40</time>
<p>Yeah, they're gonna be doing free concerts again.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
<p>And if you're an Elvis fan, I definitely make it out there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
<p>Do that tour behind, uh, in the back area because it was so neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:52</time>
<p>You're standing there in the green room where Elvis Presley stood.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:54</time>
<p>Oh</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:55</time>
<p>yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:55</time>
<p>And all these famous musicians.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:18:57</time>
<p>It's super neat to stand there and to be there and to learn the history of this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:01</time>
<p>It, it was a great surprise and I was really happy we did it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:04</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Speaker:</cite>
<time>00:19:05</time>
<p>One of the things that again, our, our tour guide, we kind of unexpectedly</p>
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<p>came upon him and he, he gave us a tour.</p>
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<p>Was he mentioned they believe that it's likely that Elvis' father</p>
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<p>probably helped build the shell Yes.</p>
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<p>In the, in the thirties because it was a WPA project and Elvis'</p>
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<p>father actually worked in some of those projects in the Memphis area.</p>
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<p>So it's, there was a good chance that his father actually kind of</p>
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<p>helped build this, this bandstand.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>That launched, that launched his son's, you know, global stardom.</p>
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<p>It's just so amazing and it's so amazing to stand on that stage</p>
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<p>and kind of move your hips.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And like be like, I'm here where this all happened.</p>
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<p>Like it was super neat to do that and to be there.</p>
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<p>I had read something.</p>
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<p>This Overton Park Show is part of like a music trail you can do through</p>
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<p>Tennessee, and they say that more songs and songwriters and music come out of</p>
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<p>Tennessee than anywhere else in the world.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I believe that.</p>
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<p>And that is super neat to be a part of that and to stand there and do that.</p>
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<p>So if you get a chance, this is a part of American history, part of Elvis history.</p>
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<p>America two 50, that American Dream story, and again, one of the only depression</p>
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<p>Arab ban shells that still exists.</p>
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<p>So get out there and, and to, and see it and be a part of American history.</p>
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<p>It's easy to look back at the night in 1954 and see the legend.</p>
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<p>We know now the gold suits, the flashing lights of Vegas, the global icon.</p>
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<p>But when you stand on the boards of the Overton Park shell, you realize</p>
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<p>that history isn't just about the person, it's about the place.</p>
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<p>There's a beautiful, quiet irony in the dust of that stage.</p>
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<p>Nearly two decades before Elvis stepped into those pink pants, his</p>
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<p>father Vernon was likely out there in the Memphis heat swinging a hammer</p>
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<p>or hauling stone as part of the WPA.</p>
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<p>Think about that for a second.</p>
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<p>The father helps build the foundation during the Great Depression at a time of</p>
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<p>struggle and rebuilding for the nation.</p>
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<p>Then 18 years later, his son stands on that very foundation and</p>
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<p>launches a cultural explosion that would define the American century.</p>
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<p>The shell wasn't just a backdrop, it was an instrument.</p>
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<p>Its perfect Acoustics carried those first nervous notes of Blue Moon of</p>
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<p>Kentucky across the park and straight into the future from the New Deal</p>
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<p>laborers who poured the concrete to the rock legends like Johnny Cash and Black</p>
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<p>Sabbath, who followed in footsteps.</p>
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<p>The stage has always been about the American spirit of starting something new.</p>
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<p>Elvis left the building that night, but he left something behind in Memphis that</p>
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<p>still vibrates in the air at Overton Park today, it reminds us that sometimes</p>
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<p>things you're most nervous about that jiggle in your step or that tremor</p>
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<p>in your voice is actually the spark that's going to light up the world.</p>
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