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    • Jul 30, 1954
    Elvis Presley makes his first advertised concert appearance, playing with Slim Whitman, Billy Walker and The Louvin Brothers at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis
    Aug 10, 1954
    Eleven days after he first played the venue, Elvis Presley makes an unpromoted appearance at Memphis' Overton Park Shell during a concert that features Slim Whitman, Carl Smith and Webb Pierce, who refuses to go on after Presley
    Sep 9, 1954
    Elvis Presley performs for the grand opening of Katz Drug Store on Lamar Avenue in Memphis. The show is witnessed by Johnny Cash, who meets his future Sun labelmate for the first time
    Sep 21, 1954
    Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow and Roy Acuff perform a three-hour show in Montgomery, Alabama, as the city spends the weekend saluting the late Hank Williams
    Oct 31, 1954
    When Eddy Arnold plays Memphis' Ellis Auditorium, a young Elvis Presley finds his way backstage. Presley meets Arnold and The Jordanaires, and spots--though he does not talk to--Colonel Tom Parker
    Jan 1, 1955
    Jim Reeves rings in the new year with American soldiers in Stuttgart, Germany, during a USO tour of Europe
    Feb 16, 1955
    Elvis Presley opens for Hank Snow in Odessa, Texas, where the audience includes one Roy Orbison
    Feb 22, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs a sold-out show in Hope, Arkansas, the home of nine-year-old Bill Clinton. Presley gets his first pink Cadillac stuck in mud in a two-car caravan that includes June Carter and Justin Tubb
    Mar 19, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs at the Eagle's Nest in Houston. Attending the show is future country singer Tommy Overstreet
    May 1, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs in New Orleans, beginning a three-week tour as an opening act for Hank Snow



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