Elvis 1955

Do you remember the Hillbilly Cat and the Blue Moon Boys? It is not quite as cool and crisp as the Beatles, is it? But this is the name that Elvis and his three-piece band started with. And this is how they first moved on to New York to try to break beyond the south and make for the big time. Bob Neal, their manager at the time, got them an audition for the Arthur Godfrey Show.

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It was an exciting chance, and the Hillbilly Cat and the Blue Moon Boys took off for New York amid an air of optimism….

They flew into the cold grayness of New York knowing that as Southerners, they would probably hate the city, but willing to love it. They took one look at New York when they were on the ground and decided they would rather be in a swamp. The Godfrey Show audition team heard them go through their best and biggest routine and then decided that a swamp might be the best place for the Hillbilly Cat and the Blue Moon Boys…. The Hillbilly Cat and the Blue Moon Boys marched back south, beaten into submission by those damn Yankees. The big time, the really big time, was not for Elvis - just yet.

-- “Elvis: What Happened?” by Steve Dunleavy

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