This is a true story of the author's encounters with the young Elvis Presley, whom she met at a local concert only months before his rise to national fame. The future King was then still the Hillbilly Cat; a local up-and-comer in Sam Phillips' stable of young rockabilly artists on Sun Records. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash - who also performed that night - were both part of a package tour headlined by country star Webb Pierce at the Sheffield Community Center on the night of August 2, 1955. After an outrageous onstage flirtation, the twenty-year-old singer asked the seventeen-year-old high...
This is a true story of the author's encounters with the young Elvis Presley, whom she met at a local concert only months before his rise to national ...