1956

March 1956 (?) - Unknown Location (Interviewer : Don Davis)

				Opening Music: "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
			Don Davis	Who's that man singin' there? Who is that man? Why, of course, it's Elvis Presley and that was the beginning. Elvis Presley, welcome to
				the show.
			Elvis	Thank you very much, Don. It's really a pleasure to be here.
			Don Davis	Elvis, that was the beginning of this great career that you're building for yourself, wasn't it?
			Elvis	That's right. It all started out real quick like, just like that.
			Don Davis	Uh-huh, Just shooting right up into stardom. Well c'mon, right into the microphone, buddy, and tell us just where that session was held.
			Elvis	Well, it was held in Memphis, Tennessee, about three blocks from my home, in a recording studio, and 1 just walked in just by accident
				and oh, boom!
			Don Davis	And there you were huh? Who were the boys on the session with you?
			Elvis	Scotty Moore and Bill Black.
			Don Davis	Just a trio making' all that music?
			Elvis	That's right. Well, actually there's only two. See, I'm just singin, I'm not… I play the guitar but they don't record it.
			Don Davis	Elvis, I understand that this sound that you get on record was really a mistake, or at least was kind of a gimmick thing at first. Is that true?
			Elvis	That's right. We rust more or less landed upon it accidentally.
			Don Davis	Uh-huh.
			Elvis	Nobody knew what they were doing until we had already done it.
			Don Davis	Just got in there and had yourself a really good time and the folks took to it.
			Elvis	Just had a ball. And it kind of...it surprised me cause it went over very well.
			Don Davis	And the folks all over the country are talking about that sound, and you haven't changed it of course, now have you?
			Elvis	No, I'm still staying with the same pattern.
			Don Davis	Uh-huh.Then didn't Mr. Steve Sholes and Mr. Chuck Crumbacker come along and hear some of your singing and have you switched
				over to one of the big record companies?
			Elvis	That's right. I met Mr. Chuck Crumbacker down in Meridian, Mississippi, at Jimmy Rodgers Memorial Day.
			Don Davis	Isn't it true that Chuck Crumbacker saw you in a very, uh, sort of conservative outfit down there and told you you're just gonna have to
				wear louder clothes? Is that true?
			Elvis	Yes sir. He, uh, I was wearing a pink suit.
			Don Davis	A pink suit? Very conservative.
			Elvis	Very conservative, pink suit. And he told me I was goin' to have to get something a little louder. He said you cant see that thing.
			Don Davis	What happened when you wore that pink suit in Jacksonville, Florida as if I didn't know?
			Elvis	Well, it was kind of eliminated from me.
			Don Davis	I know. Well I'll just tell the folks in case you're a little too modest about it. The folks just went so crazy over Elvis' singing that as soon
				as he tried to get down off the stage they disrobed the lad, cut it up into two-inch squares and everybody took home a sample. And he
				no longer has a pink suit. So you had to substitute something pink in your wardrobe... and then you got a car.
			Elvis	Well you can't put the car in a wardrobe, but I had the car even before 1 got the suit.
			Don Davis	Oh you did? So you bought the suit to match the car?
			Elvis	That's right. I kinda thought that would be a gimmick and really, it drew a lot of attention in the trade papers, about the pink suit and the
				pink car. But I've kinda slacked off on the pink now because I think the color is changing to purple or something.
			Don Davis	Well, you certainly live it up on those personal appearances and I know that the folks listening in to the program will want to get out and
				see Elvis Presley and the grand show, whenever it comes around to their neighborhood. In fact, go on out and see all these live country
				music entertainers because there's nothing like a live show. I keep sayin' that.
			Elvis	Yeah.
			Don Davis	I know that the response has been so tremendous that there's just not gonna be any stoppin' this Elvis Presley boy, and all the folks are
				going to be hearing a lot more information from him. And of course they're going to be hearing, right here on the show, all of your latest
				recordings as they come out. Elvis, I want to thank you very much for dropping by the show.
			Elvis	Don, it was really a pleasure and I sure appreciated your spins on my records.
			Don Davis	Thanks again, Elvis, and drop around real soon.
			Elvis	Thank you very much.
			Don Davis	This young fellow, Elvis Presley, is proof of the old saying that if you've got something different, something good, folks will buy it. And
				man, he's got it! On stage, he's six-foot of spring steel who really knows how to sell a song. I know lots of fellows say "oh nothing like
				that'll ever happen to me." Well buddy boy, you just keep a tryin'. It's happening every year. Thank you very much, Elvis Presley, for
				droppin' by.

(Source : 'Elvis - Word For Word' by Jerry Osborne)