{"id":22561,"date":"2015-01-28T05:08:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22561"},"modified":"2016-11-11T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:18:19","slug":"january-28-1956-elvis-makes-his-first-network-tv-appearance-sthash-h52k7c5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22561","title":{"rendered":"January 28, 1956&#8230;Elvis Makes His First Network TV Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 28, 1956&#8230;Elvis Makes His First Network TV Appearance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elvispresleymusic.com.au\/pictures\/1956_january_28.html\">http:\/\/www.elvispresleymusic.com.au\/pictures\/1956_january_28.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Jackie Gleason brought his half hour, filmed version of &#8220;The Honeymooners&#8221; to CBS in the 1955-56 season, he decided to produce the half hour lead in show too. For that, he chose The Dorsey Brothers, Jimmy and Tommy, with their great bands, and called the production &#8220;Stage Show&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Like the live Gleason shows of the past and future seasons, it originated at CBS Studio 50&#8230;now called The Ed Sullivan Theater.<\/p>\n<p>On this particular Saturday night, Elvis Presley made his first ever network television appearance and you can see this rare performance at the link above. This is a photo from that night and CBS legend Pat McBride is behind the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis was paid $1,250 for each of the six &#8216;Stage Shows&#8217; on which he appeared. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/790392490998302\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/January-28-1956...Elvis-Makes-His-First-Network-TV-Appearance-sthash.h52K7c5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/790395897664628\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 28, 1956&#8230;Elvis Makes His First Network TV Appearance http:\/\/www.elvispresleymusic.com.au\/pictures\/1956_january_28.html When Jackie Gleason brought his half hour, filmed version of &#8220;The Honeymooners&#8221; to CBS in the 1955-56 season, he decided to produce the half hour lead in show too. For that, he chose The Dorsey Brothers, Jimmy and Tommy, with their great bands, and called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,822,851,787,806],"class_list":["post-22561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-ed-sullivan","tag-jackie-gleason","tag-net","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}