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\nWho first recorded Elvis Presley?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
\n\nProducer Sam Phillips at Sun Records, a local blues label, was the first to record Elvis Presley. He responded to Presley\u2019s audition tape with a phone call, and several week\u2019s of recording sessions ensued with a band consisting of Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black. Their repertoire consisted of blues and country songs and gospel hymns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nWhat is the name of Elvis Presley\u2019s estate?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
\n\nGraceland is Elvis Presley\u2019s estate in Memphis, Tennessee, and remains one of the the U.S.\u2019s top tourist attractions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nHow did Elvis Presley die?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
\n\nElvis Presley died of a heart attack in 1977 brought on largely by drug abuse. He was 42 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nWas Elvis Presley drafted into the army?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
\n\nIn early 1958 Elvis Presley was drafted by the U.S. Army. Presley returned from the army in 1960, where he had served as a soldier in Germany rather than joining the Special Services entertainment division.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nWho was Elvis Presley\u2019s manager?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
\n\nColonel Tom Parker was a Dutch-born American show business promoter who was best known for managing the career of Elvis Presley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Elvis Presley<\/strong> (born January 8, 1935, Tupelo<\/a>, Mississippi<\/a>, U.S.\u2014died August 16, 1977, Memphis<\/a>, Tennessee) was an American popular singer widely known as the \u201cKing of Rock and Roll\u201d and one of rock<\/a> music\u2019s<\/a> dominant performers from the mid-1950s until his death.<\/p>\n
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From Tupelo to Sam Phillips and Sun Records<\/h2>\n
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Presley grew up dirt-poor in Tupelo, Mississippi, moved to Memphis as a teenager, and, with his family, was off welfare for only a few weeks when producer Sam Phillips<\/a> at Sun Records<\/a>, a local blues label, responded to his audition tape with a phone call. Several weeks worth of recording sessions ensued with a band consisting of Presley, guitarist<\/a> Scotty Moore, and bassist<\/a> Bill Black<\/a>. Their repertoire<\/a> consisted of the kind of material for which Presley would become famous: blues<\/a> and country<\/a> songs, Tin Pan Alley<\/a> ballads<\/a>, and gospel<\/a> hymns. Presley knew some of this music from the radio, some of it from his parents\u2019 Pentecostal<\/a> church and the group sings he attended at the Rev. H.W. Brewster\u2019s Black Memphis church, and some of it from the Beale Street blues clubs he began frequenting as a teenager.<\/p>\n
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Presley was already a flamboyant<\/a> personality, with relatively long greased-back hair and wild-colored clothing combinations, but his full musical personality did not emerge until he and the band began playing with blues singer Arthur (\u201cBig Boy\u201d) Crudup<\/a>\u2019s song \u201cThat\u2019s All Right Mama\u201d in July 1954. They arrived at a startling synthesis, eventually dubbed rockabilly<\/a>, retaining many of the original\u2019s blues inflections but with Presley\u2019s high tenor<\/a> voice adding a lighter touch and with the basic rhythm striking a much more supple groove. This sound was the hallmark<\/a> of the five singles Presley released on Sun over the next year. Although none of them became a national hit, by August 1955, when he released the fifth, \u201cMystery Train,\u201d arguably his greatest record ever, he had attracted a substantial Southern following for his recordings, his live appearances in regional roadhouses and clubs, and his radio performances on the nationally aired Louisiana Hayride<\/a>. (A key musical change came when drummer D.J. Fontana<\/a> was added, first for the Hayride shows but also on records beginning with \u201cMystery Train.\u201d)<\/p>\n
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