ELVIS PRESLEY Introductions Pearl Harbor Show 1961

(c)Copyright belongs to the rightful owner I DO NOT OWN THIS VIDEO. © The trio played publicly for the first time on July 17 at the Bon Air club—Presley still sporting his child-size guitar.At the end of the month, they appeared at the Overton Park Shell, with Slim Whitman headlining. A combination of his strong response to rhythm and nervousness at playing before a large crowd led Presley to shake his legs as he performed: his wide-cut pants emphasized his movements, causing young women in the audience to start screaming.Moore recalled, “During the instrumental parts he would back off from the mike and be playing and shaking, and the crowd would just go wild”.Black, a natural showman, whooped and rode his bass, hitting double licks that Presley would later remember as “really a wild sound, like a jungle drum or something”.Soon after, Moore and Black quit their old band to play with Presley regularly, and DJ and promoter Bob Neal became the trio’s manager. From August through October, they played frequently at the Eagle’s Nest club and returned to Sun Studio for more recording sessions,and Presley quickly grew more confident on stage. According to Moore, “His movement was a natural thing, but he was also very conscious of what got a reaction. He’d do something one time and then he would expand on it real quick.”Presley made what would be his only appearance on Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry on October 2; after a polite audience response, Opry manager Jim Denny told Phillips …
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Formed 1981 in Dunfermline Scotland, the Band got their first lucky break by having a night on Radio 1 with Annie Nightingale, the show was recorded at the origional REL Studios in Edinburgh and the Dunfermline studio of first Skids manager Mike Douglas aka “PANO” and heard by the Managing Directors of WEA Records in London, Max Hole and Mike Heap while driving home. WEA invited the Band down to London to discuss a recording deal, at that time the oldest member of the band was 16 the youngest being 13, they were tempted with the offer of working with producer Tony Visconti, sadly they never got to meet Mr Visconti . A&M Records contacted the band wanting to meet at a Police concert in Edinburgh Playhouse to sign a record contract, the offer of a support slot to the Police on the next tour was offered as an addition, at the time the band had wanted to sign to A&M but the bands manager talked them out of signing as he had other offers. Peter Powell of Radio 1 heard early demos of the Band, he then Invited them to do 4 live tracks on a session for Radio 1 late 1983, and to appear for the first time live on tv on his show “The Oxford Roadshow” ORS 84 which was filmed in Manchester. The bands first tour was support act for Rock Band Big Country. – Early 1984 White China signed a record breaking major production deal with Island Records and Stiff Music in the UK, an American Deal with MCA was complete by the middle of that year. It became quickly obvious to the Band that things …
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