Lost Elvis Presley Tapes

# Lost Elvis Presley Tapes

Now at last, you can hear them too!
Mississippi Man Discovers Long Lost Tapes
Made By Elvis Presley Before He
Became Famous!
If you are an Elvis Presley fan, this may be the
says the DJ and then, the hunt is on!
most exciting message you will ever read.
Well, to make a long story short, they find the
Here is why. In 1955, a full year before Elvis
tape but it is so old and so dried out it starts to
became famous, he got a chance to play at the
crumble as soon as they touch it. So, they get a
Eagles Hall at 2204 Louisiana Street in Houston,
special machine that can play the tape without any
Texas. He went there with Scotty Moore, his gui-
tension at all and...
tar player and first sidekick,
THEY ARE ABLE
and Bill Black, his bass player.
TO SAVE EVERY
Well, what happened is, the
three of them got up there on
that stage and...

THEY SET THAT
JOINT ON FIRE!
You see, this was Elvis
before he was tamed down,
before Colonel Parker got
a hold of him, before Steve
Allen tried to "detwitch" him,
before he was told he had to
stop all that shaking or else the
TV cameras could only shoot
him from the waist up. This
was Elvis totally uninhibited!
Well anyway, there was a DJ
down in Houston named
Benny Hess who used to go
around recording live acts on
his tape recorder and then, if
he liked what he heard, hed
play the tape on his radio
show. Then, after that, to save
money, he'd use that same tape

TONIGHT'S the NIGHT
From 8:00 - 11:00 P.M.
GRAND PRIZE
JAMBOREE
Presents
ELVIS PRESSLEY
LOUISIANA HAYRIDE STAR
* HOOT GIBSON
FAMOUS WESTERN MOVIE STAR
* SONNY BURNS
* IROWN BROS
* TOMMY SANDS
At Eagles' Hall
A Block South of Gray on Lauisiona
BIFF COLLIE
as Master of Ceremonies
Also Appearing on the Show Will Be
somes O'Gwynne,
Coyo Wilcox, the Dixie Dritters,
Ernie Hunter, and Herb Remington!
* NEXT WEEK'S GUEST *
TOMMY COLLINS

SINGLE SONG
ELVIS SANG AT
THAT CONCERT. They also got Elvis talking
to the audience between songs
and, believe me, this is not the
same Elvis you saw in all
those dumb movies. No way! This is the hip-shaking, pelvis
pounding, tough-talking Elvis
in the first flush of his man-
hood before he was homogenized and "cleaned up" for
public consumption! When Scotty Moore first
heard the tape, he said,
'That's me, I can't deny it. You can hear Bill Black (the
clown of the group) hollering
in the background!"
So, with the help of Stan
Kesler, a songwriter who was
at Sun Records when Elvis
was there, the tape gets converted to one side of a record
to record somebody else
album. Then, on the other
instead of saving the original
side, they get Scotty Moore
recording. So, what he does this time is, he goes. talking and he tells what it was like traveling
to the Elvis concert at the Eagles Hall and he
around that first year with Elvis. What stories! records it and... Scotty tells about how he and Bill Black and Elvis
HE DECIDES IT'S
got stranded in Shreveport, Louisiana because they
NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY
didn't have enough money to pay the hotel bill! ON HIS RADIO SHOW! He tells about how his wife nearly ran out the back
door when she first saw Elvis because he was
Thank God! If that tape had been played, it
dressed so "weirdly" in a pink suit and white
would have been recorded over like all the others
shoes.

He tells about their Grand Ol' Opry appear-
and, it would have been lost forever. As it turns
ance which was a disaster. (Elvis was advised to
out, however, the tape was simply tossed in a
go back to driving a truck!) He tells about how
drawer where it was forgotten for more than 20
Bill Black's clowning around was needed to win
years! the audience over so they would at least give Elvis
Hard to imagine, isn't it? But, believe it or not,
a chance. And so on. back then, the people at the Eagles Hall didn't even
All in all, this may be the most historically
know how to spell Elvis Presley's last name. They
important record album ever produced. It was tied
used two S's instead of one and spelled his name
up in lawsuits for several years but now, at last,
"PRESSLEY.' Take a look at their newspaper ad
it is available for release on a very limited basis
and you'll see what I mean. to the general public. 66
•..you won't
BUT YOU MUST
believe your ears... ACT FAST! As you know, Elvis has sold hundreds of mil-
Whatever. So, to get on with the story, 22-years
lions of records but this one is truly rare. This
go by and, as we all sadly remember, Elvis Pres-
album is called THE FIRST YEAR and only
ley passes away on August 16. 1977. Millions of
10,000 of this special limited edition were produced