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Mar 2, 1956
Elvis Presley gets pulled over on Riverside Drive in Memphis for speeding
Mar 8, 1956
Less than a week after he was last cited for driving too fast, Elvis Presley gets another speeding ticket in Memphis
Mar 22, 1956
Carl Perkins suffers a broken collarbone, a concussion and cuts when the Chrysler transporting his band to New York for "The Perry Como Show" back-ends a truck in Delaware. Also injured in the accident are brothers Clayton and Jay Perkins
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
Jul 31, 1956
Elvis Presley receives a speeding ticket in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Aug 11, 1956
Painter Jackson Pollock dies in an alcohol-related accident in Springs, New York. Noted for his abstract work, he's recognized nearly 60 years later in the Eric Church country hit "Mr. Misunderstood"
Aug 29, 1956
Carl Perkins wrecks the Cadillac Sam Phillips had presented him in April while speeding near Brownsville, Texas
Sep 1, 1956
Elvis Presley buys his mother a pink Cadillac and records "Love Me" at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles
Sep 3, 1956
Police in Springfield, Missouri, answer a disturbance call to find Red Foley's wife, Sally, in the front seat of their car crying. Her face and forehead are covered with marks, and she accuses her husband of hitting her, though she does not file charges
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
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