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60 Years Ago Today - Humes High School Talent Show

4/9/2013

 
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On April 9, 1953, a couple of months before Elvis graduated from high school at Humes, he performed in Humes' annual Minstrel Show. He was sixteenth on a 22-act bill, listed in the program as 'Elvis Prestly', he apparently shocked pupils, parents, and teachers alike with his performance of Teresa Brewer's 'Till I Waltz Again with You'. 

Both Elvis and his classmates date this as the beginning of his rise to fame. Elvis later said, 'It was amazing how popular I became after that', referring to the above performance. It was a seminal moment. Like a scene out of one of his future movies, Elvis set aside his own shy personality in favour of a popular and animated persona, and the peculiar-looking young man began to attract the attention of his peers like moths to a flame.

source: Elvis Matters


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