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    • Apr 10, 1955
    Sun releases Elvis Presley's "Baby Let's Play House," backed with "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone"
    May 1, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs in New Orleans, beginning a three-week tour as an opening act for Hank Snow
    May 13, 1955
    An Elvis Presley performance causes a riot for the first time in Jacksonville. Mae Boren Axton sees the show, and promises to write him a hit. Six months later, she brings him "Heartbreak Hotel"
    May 16, 1955
    An intelligence officer writes to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover that Elvis Presley is a "definite danger to the security of the United States" and "possibly a drug addict and a sexual pervert." The letter is placed in an FBI file on The King
    Jun 5, 1955
    Elvis Presley's pink Cadillac is destroyed when it catches fire while traveling between Hope, Arkansas, and Texarkana
    Jun 8, 1955
    MGM chief Frank Walker telegrams Sun Records' Sam Phillips with an offer to buy Elvis Presley's recording contract. It's the latest among a series of offers from Decca, Capitol, Mercury, Chess, Atlantic and Dot
    Jul 11, 1955
    Elvis Presley records "Mystery Train," "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" and "Trying To Get To You" at Memphis' Sun Recording Studio
    Jul 31, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs at the Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida. A photo from the show is used the following year as the cover for the album "Elvis"
    Aug 1, 1955
    Johnny Cash plays the first major concert of his career, opening for Webb Pierce, Wanda Jackson and Elvis Presley at the Mississippi-Alabama Fairgrounds in Tupelo, Mississippi. They work four more cities over the next four days
    Aug 3, 1955
    Elvis Presley's parents are expected to sign a deal in Little Rock making Colonel Tom Parker an advisor to their son, but Presley's mother, Gladys, delays the decision
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