{"id":25057,"date":"2014-08-16T06:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25057"},"modified":"2021-03-20T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T20:55:04","slug":"elvis-presleys-television-debut-the-dorsey-brothers-stage-showmost-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25057","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley&#8217;s Television Debut&#8230;&#8217;The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Elvis-Presleys-Television-Debut...The-Dorsey-Brothers-Stage-Show-Most-think.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nElvis Presley&#8217;s Television Debut&#8230;&#8217;The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Most think that Elvis made his television debut on &#8216;The Ed Sullivan Show; but actually, this was his first nationwide appearance&#8230;over seven months before his first Sullivan show. Coincidentally, both the Dorsey and Sullivan shows came from CBS Studio 50.<\/p>\n<p>Between January 28 and March 24, 1956, Presley appeared on the Dorsey brothers\u2019 show six Saturday nights in a row. This video is Elvis Presley&#8217;s television debut on January 28th.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Stage Show Appearance January 28, 1956 - Elvis Performing Shake Rattle &amp; Roll\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXiX3cl03DE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The four appearance contract, which was negotiated by the William Morris Agency, contained an option for two more appearances. When they were later picked up, Presley\u2019s fee was raised from $1,200 per show to $1,500 per show.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis was respectful of Tommy Dorsey when the two met for rehearsals at New York Nola Studios before Presley\u2019s initial January 28 appearance. At the rehearsal, Jackie Gleason, who produced the Dorsey show said, \u201cI don\u2019t like this guy.\u201d Dorsey disagreed. \u201cI like his kisser,\u201d he told Gleason. \u201cDon\u2019t worry about him. He\u2019s going to be one of the biggest names in show business in a short time.\u201d Dorsey knew talent when he saw it.<\/p>\n<p>There was some irony in Tommy Dorsey providing Elvis a national stage to build his popularity. Presley would soon surpass Dorsey as the biggest-selling recording artist in RCA history. Still, Tommy Dorsey remained an advocate for Elvis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t particularly care for his type of music,\u201d Dorsey told a reporter in Charlotte, \u201cbut that\u2019s the teen-agers\u2019 choice and if they like it we\u2019ll give it to them. Only time will tell if he has any lasting qualities. The kids want Elvis now and they should be able to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xu6tjv_19560128-elvis-presley-dorsey-brothers-stage-show-1_music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xu6tjv_19560128-elvis-presley-dorsey-brothers-stage-show-1_music<\/a>Elvis Presley&#8217;s 1st National Television Appearence<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/716614325042786\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis Presley&#8217;s Television Debut&#8230;&#8217;The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show&#8217; Most think that Elvis made his television debut on &#8216;The Ed Sullivan Show; but actually, this was his first nationwide appearance&#8230;over seven months before his first Sullivan show. Coincidentally, both the Dorsey and Sullivan shows came from CBS Studio 50. Between January 28 and March 24, 1956, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25058,"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":[],"class_list":["post-25057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057","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=25057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59898,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions\/59898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}