Remember When & Music Thursday

This week, we are combining our two features into one........ in honor of Elvis Week in Memphis Tennessee

This first one, from 1957, more closely resembles today's music videos than any other musical segment from film and television in the 1950's (or 60s and 70s for that matter).

Here's Jailhouse Rock


And Hound Dog from the final ever Milton Berle Show, this one was so controversial and shocking in 1956, it may have had a hand in NBC canceling the show after 8 long, hugely successful years. Notice about mid-way, a woman in the audience appears rather disgusted, if not stupefied, by his performance.



Below is the famous Ed Sullivan telecast where Elvis could only be photographed from the waist up. This was in response to the firestorm started with the Milton Berle Show and two previous appearances on Ed Sullivan. The firestorm created and the ensuing censorship was the same magnatude of the Janet Jackson / Justin Timberlake incident during the Superbowl halftime show.



And grown up Elvis at his best. This one is terrific.