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    • 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"
    Jun 26, 1955
    Patsy Cline opens for Ernest Tubb at a free concert beneath the Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park. The show draws 15,000
    Jul 31, 1955
    Seventeen years after The Monroe Brothers split, Bill and Charlie Monroe deliver their first full-fledged reunion concert at the New River Ranch in Rising Sun, Maryland. Bill Monroe appears in a sling, having broken his collarbone in a bathtub accident
    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 6, 1955
    Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell, Eddie Dean, Freddie Hart and The Collins Kids perform the first-ever country concert at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The evening is emceed by songwriter Joe Nixon
    Aug 8, 1955
    Drummer D.J. Fontana appears for the first time as a regular member of Elvis Presley's band at a show at the Mayfair Building in Tyler, Texas
    Aug 12, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs a concert at Driller Park in Kilgore, Texas. In the audience is Bob Luman, who is so inspired that he forsakes traditional country for a future path in rockabilly-tinged country
    Sep 6, 1955
    After Johnny Cash tells him a story about a former Air Force buddy with distinctive footwear, Carl Perkins writes "Blue Suede Shoes" backstage before a show in Bono, Arkansas. Perkins plays it live for the first time that night
    Sep 11, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs the first of two shows on a Hank Snow package tour with Cowboy Copas and The Louvin Brothers at the City Auditorium in Norfolk, Virginia. In the audience: Gene Vincent



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