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    • May 4, 1956
    RCA releases Elvis Presley's "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" backed with "My Baby Left Me"
    Jun 2, 1956
    Elvis Presley arrives in Oakland, California, where Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana and Bill Black accuse him of recording "Be-Bop-A-Lula" with other musicians behind their backs. Presley assures them the record belongs to Gene Vincent
    Jun 5, 1956
    Elvis Presley appears on Milton Berle's NBC-TV show, performing "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" and "Hound Dog." One critic derides Presley's moves as "the mating dance of an aborigine"
    Jul 1, 1956
    Elvis Presley appears on the second airing of NBC's "The Steve Allen Show," wearing a tuxedo and singing "Hound Dog" to a basset hound
    Jul 2, 1956
    Elvis Presley records "Don't Be Cruel" and "Hound Dog" at the RCA Studios in New York. The latter song requires 31 takes
    Jul 3, 1956
    While catching a train home to Memphis, Elvis Presley meets "Be-Bop-A-Lula" artist Gene Vincent for the first time at New York's Penn Station
    Jul 4, 1956
    The city of Memphis declares Elvis Presley Day when the singer performs at the Memphis Chicks' ballpark
    Jul 13, 1956
    RCA releases Elvis Presley's double-sided hit, "Don't Be Cruel" and "Hound Dog"
    Jul 14, 1956
    Elvis Presley earns a #1 country single in Billboard magazine with "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"
    Jul 31, 1956
    Elvis Presley receives a speeding ticket in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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