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    • Apr 10, 1956
    Producer Sam Phillips convinces Carl Perkins to drive him to Southern Motors Cadillac in Memphis, where Perkins receives a new Caddy marking Sun Records' first million-seller, "Blue Suede Shoes." Phillips deducts the cost from Perkins' royalties
    May 13, 1956
    Harry, Abe and Jack Warner sell Warner Bros. Pictures for $22 million. The next day, Jack Warner buys it back. Within two years, the company adds a record label, eventually associated with Randy Travis, Hank Williams Jr. and Faith Hill
    Jun 13, 1956
    Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters buys San Francisco radio station KSFO for a cool $1 million
    Sep 8, 1956
    Jimmy Boyd is arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles after he was spotted drag racing and skidded into a fire hydrant on Kester Avenue trying to elude the police. Boyd is fined $100
    Dec 3, 1956
    Elvis Presley buys a 1957 Cadillac Seville in Memphis for $8,400
    Mar 19, 1957
    Elvis Presley puts down $1,000 to buy Graceland Mansion in Memphis. The deal is completed less than one week later, as Presley buys the property for $102,500
    Apr 24, 1957
    The Internal Revenue Service issues a $270,000 lien against Red Foley, charged with underpaying his income taxes from 1948-1955
    Jun 19, 1957
    David Ragsdale is accidentally shot in the back at a San Mateo, California, bar. A year later, Ragsdale files a $500,000 suit against Ray Price, reasoning that if Price hadn't been singing, he wouldn't have been at the club
    Oct 26, 1957
    A month after guitarist Scotty Moore and bass player Bill Black resigned, Elvis Presley employs them again, beginning with a show in San Francisco. They receive raises, from $200-per-show to $250
    Dec 31, 1957
    Ernest Tubb is fined $250 when he hits a tree, driving drunk, on Lynwood Terrace in Nashville with his 1957 Cadillac



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