Blog: The Sly Oyster

In 1956, Elvis Presley played a homecoming gig in Tupelo, Miss. for the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show.  He was The King of rock n'roll; in this footage of the show, dug up by Dangerous Minds , which is one of the few to be the actual audio of the concert with the actual video, even Elvis is hard to hear over the screams of the teenage girls.  It's riveting stuff, from a time when rock icons meant something.  In the opening song, "Heartbreak Hotel," at one point, Elvis can barely contain himself and starts to laugh.  Even he [...]