30 junio 2012

Bobby Rydell

We Got Love






I Dig Girls


Walter Louis Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland


 (Hank Garland family Collection)

Fri. June 29, 1956 in NYC

June 29, 1956 Elvis and his party took a chartered plane to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they caught a Delta flight to New York City, where Elvis was fitted for a tux, for the rehearsal for the Steve Allen Show. After that Elvis took a train to Richmond, VA.

Elvis Presley at the rehearsal hall for The Steve Allen Show on Fri. June 29, 1956 in NYC


The tux fitting for the ill-fated Steve Allen Show appearance

                 Skitch Henderson, Elvis Presley: Hudson Theater, New York, NY, Friday, June 29, 1956


       Elvis’ feet.  He is wearing his tuxedo outfit for the Steve Allen show



  

28 junio 2012

Elvis Presley made an appearance, but did not sing at Russwood Park for a benefit for St. Jude's Hospital on June 28, 1957. Elvis is flanked by comic Lou Costello and actress Jane Russell. The estimated crowd was 11,000.




With Lou Costello, Jane Russell, Susan Hayward and Ferlin Husky at Danny Thomas' Shower of Stars to benefit St. Jude's Hospital at Russwood Park in Memphis on June 28, 1957 (Lamar Fike is alo in the 1st and 3rd photos)