Elvis Presley - First Television Appearance on January 28th 1956 [UNCUT] 

“ Elvis then and now the coolest guy that ever lived “.

This is hardcore. It is impossible to think of a world without Elvis.

There is NOTHING like Elvis from 1954 - 1958......EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched that LIVE back then! Yes, I'm 80 years old, and have loved that man ever since!

What a dynamic performance for his first national TV appearance. Elvis looks good, moves good, and sings brilliantly. What must have the American public thought of that performance. He totally revolutionised pop culture and music.

When Elvis Presley walks off the stage after singing "I Got A Woman" you just know the world in Pop music and culture had just changed and for that I thank Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey for inviting Elvis Presley And The Blue Moon Boys on their "Stage Show" television program!

His clothes , his hair , his looks ,his shake , no one had ever seen or heard anyone like him !

Big bands and big band singers controlled the music scene throughout the forties and early fifties. Then along came Elvis. Regards from an 88 (birthday today, March 10th) year old English Elvis fan who was born 1936, one year after Elvis. England, 2024.

These early appearances on the Stage show fundamentally changed the course of popular music...forever.

Who would have thought back then just how much talent he really had, and how huge his song list would be and how much better his voice really was?!

Elvis will always be The King! The haters are clueless😊

My twin sister and I met him at a gas station at 4-years-old! He was performing in Toledo at turkey time, so it was 1956. He came over to our car at a gas station and talked to us, shook our hands and told us he was a twin too! We knew who he was even at that young age! 🤩😍

The Elvis From the '50's was the best.

The defining moment in American culture that signaled a new era, when EVERYTHING was about to change. Truly a momentous, things will never be same" moment.

I can just hear parents thinking "Dangerous".................Worlds Greatest Entertainer!

And so it begins....

This is amazing! This is Elvis just as he appeared on TV back in the day complete with how it must have sounded with the small TV speakers. The guy was pure dynamite!

Pure class. Elvis took the world by storm. There's nothing wrong with the way he dressed, looked, and sang. I love these b/w performances. Elvis was ( and still is ) the king. No one will ever take that away from him. People thought he was different, but he was a normal young man with a good voice and his own style. There will never be another like him. I love Elvis ❤️ He was the man ❤

Elvis was our introduction to Rock A Billy music! We had never heard anything like it and we loved it! I was a kid working in a ice cream store in Dallas Tx. in1955 or1956 when I heard Elvis for the 1st time. I became a life long fan!

Great little band. Sotty Moore, Bill Black D. J. Fontana and of course Elvis, covering songs and giving it the Elvis treatment. Bill Black's Kay bass is now owned by Paul McCartney.

It's been said that co-producer Jackie Gleason was responsible for booking Elvis on Stage Show. The Dorsey Brothers didn't care for Elvis at all, and given the stark contrast of Elvis' performances, verses the status quo music at the time, it's easy to see why. At the very moment Elvis stepped foot on that stage, he was a massive 9.0 Earthquake that forever shook the world of music.

Young Elvis doing what he does best: Rockin' and Rolling! 💃💃💃 Awesome! Love his voice and moves. 👍🥇🎤🎧

Energy, pitch, intonation, soul - it's all there. Perfect performance. Who could touch him?

I love black and white footage, it defines an Era, especially in music.

I love a young Elvis✨💌💌💌

THEY WERE ON THIS SHOW FOR 9 WEEKS STRAIGHT....YOU CAN'T DESCRIBE THE CLAMOR THIS CAUSED

the world history can be divided as before and after this moment.

Yes Elvis lad just turned 21 years , 20 days before this appearance on the Tommy and Jimmy STAGE SHOW program !

I was watching this tv the night it was showing

Thank you, Elvis... thank you very much! 😉

Love seeing these earlier performances! 😁❤

This is a complete list of appearances by Elvis Presley And The Blue Moon Boys on the Dorsey Brothers "Stage Show" Television series ~ JANUARY 28,1956 ~ Shake, Rattle And Roll/Flip, Flop And Fly I Got A Woman FEBRUARY 4,1956 ~ Baby, Let's Play House Tutti Frutti FEBRUARY 11,1956 Blue Suede Shoes Heartbreak Hotel FEBRUARY 18,1956 ~ Tutti Frutti {Second Version} I Was The One March 17,1956 ~ Blue Suede Shoes {Second Version} Heartbreak Hotel {Second Version} March 24,1956 ~ Money Honey Heartbreak Hotel {Third Version}

いちばん始めにR&Rを歌うには「R&Rを反対運動された事」等👑Elvis👑は大変な覚悟でR&Rを歌った王様👑Elvis👑の心が凄いです🕺いつでもTrackの運転手に成ると言った🕺何でも始めにする「歌う」事は大変なRiscが有ります🕺後から歌う人は簡単ですが👑Elvis👑の凄さです🕺R&Rの王様👑Elvis👑です🇺🇸🇯🇵🇺🇸そういう事等で🗺🌍🗺中の人が👑Elvis👑を大好きに成ました🕺今も「ヤッパリ👑Elvis👑がいちばん格好良い」と言って居られます🕺最高峰です🎉🎉🎉

le début de la gloire pour la plus grande star de tous les temps

Sings amazing! For the first time on tv. Especially i got a woman sings it perfect

Congratullations, Greetings from Lima, Perú

He always knew how to be a star.

Elvis in the 50s was absolutely THE BEST -- Totally uninhibited, his natural dark blond hair tossing wildly with his every move ... The original rebel JAMES DEAN, who died tragically just a few months before was Elvis's idol .. It was Dean who paved the way for rebel Elvis (look it up) ... Dean changed acting, Elvis the music...

the bass is in Paul McCartney hands now; he has it now

Elvis-The best performer of all time.

Year I fell for Elvis. And I'm so happy it happed😍😊

Elvis Presley I remember the first time I heard him when I was in school wanna heard Elvis Presley the first record I ever bought was a Elvis Presley record I grew up with his music I Love The Way Elvis Presley dance and sing I guess the 50s were better now

Certainly one of a kind

Thank You, thank you very much 🥰💯😍💞 Love my baby😍

Elvis sera toujours Elvis The King

Oh my young Elvis, please wait for me. As soon as I finish my work I'll get back to you my love. I promise. ❤.

*Esse sim sempre eterno único e imortal❤❤❤*

Thankyou for sharing excellent

The king of music

Merci pour ce partage en live et cette vidéo Superbe archive datant de ma naissance J'adore Magnifique Quel souvenir Évidemment je n'ai vu cela que plusieurs années après Quelle classe Quel professionnalisme même pour une 1ère TV RIP Elvis Presley

If the producers had any idea what "I'm like a one eyed cat, peeping in a seafood store" really meant, Elvis would have been banned from tv for life! I am amazed he got away with it.

Elvis con su hermosa musica nos trasmitió energia.❤ELVIS PRESLEY ÚNICO

Elvis was young, so was TV, R&R and a culture that changed the world to this day. Love the RCA-77DX carbon-ribbon mic!

“BOSS”🕶

First ever tv appearance and bill randle says " we saw this guy the first time whilst making a movie short" He's referring to what is now called " the pied piper of brooklyn" A filmed performance of Elvis and at the time bigger stars around October 1955, there's debate on wether elvis actually sang or not in the movie short, but it was certainly made as bill randle mentions in this clip

I remember this night. The girls screamed and loved him, the guys not so much. He threatened their masculinity. I went out and bought three of his records and didnt even have a record player.

Great video Elvis, Keep it up 💯 👍

Congratulations!!!.. Thanks!!

amazing

For all the nice comments here about how this is the moment that ''history changed'', the truth was that the audience, at this point (Jan. 28, '56) did not really know how to ''take'' Elvis and didn't know who he was. He was the fastest rising star in the South. But not in New York (for sure). They applauded politely, on cue. But he was booked for 6 shows. MEANWHILE, RCA releases Heartbreak Hotel. Now when he performs the song on the Feb. 11 show, the Dorsey band insists on backing him, and they mess the song up with their squaresville horn section. But by the time of the March 17 show, the song is a major hit, the audience is FILLED with screaming girls and the Dorsey band stays silent. THAT is the footage of the moment that he changes the course of Western Culture! He has ALL of the confidence and power we associate with Elvis Presley. He toys with the audience, sneers and leers, as they go berserk. THAT was the performance heard around the world! BTW, I am AMAZED that he did those two songs without a pick! By the time of the latter performances, he has a pick and the staggering power of his rhythm guitar REALLY adds drive. The version of Money Honey he performs on March 24 (final Dorsey Show and available on YT) is, in my opinion, greater even than the studio version (which is piano dominated). It is SAVAGE, guitar dominated rockabilly and, by then, he is a superstar (and he knows it). These Dorsey Shows were before Berle, Steve Allen, or Sullivan. Over the course of the six shows he goes from stiff and uncertain (and a mostly adult audience) to a sensation on the edge of superstardom like had never been imagined before, playing for an audience of screaming fans (who KNOW that he is, indeed, THE ONE).

Gene Vincent blue caps very similar. Great Rock n roll.

Probably the greatest thing they ever showed on television. My old man said that Elvis was like Hank Williams on meth . 🎉

Fantastic. !!

Thank you for this !!!

❤❤🎉😊

Elvis forever

始めてのTV出場とは思え無いR&Rの凄さ👑Elvis👑の覚悟と魂は全てにおいて可能にしました👑Elvis👑の勢いは永遠に続きます🎶♫🎶これからも❤🌹❤🌹❤

Elvis loses his guitar pick at 4:08 and plays the rest of the song with his fingers....hard. Professional.

Fantastisk flott å se ❤

love

First time I've seen the I got a women performance in a while, seems to be doing it in a lower key than usual I thought it might have been slowed down!

Respeito muito os Beatles..mas nunca existiu um quarteto como esse.Elvis,Scot,DJ Fontana e Bill Black..Sensacionais!

6:19 Imagine it's 1956, and you've got 3 daughters, 12, 14 and 16, and you are all there in the living room with your wife, and while your 3 girls have given way to complete hysteria beyond anything you could ever imagined, while watching Elvis on TV. Then you turn and look over to your wife, and you see her brow perspiring , eyes locked to the screen. The Pat Boone world just got dangerous, and Frank Sinatra was yesterday's fish

Just like the February 1964, debut of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. They broke right through a very stale barrier and (at least Elvis) just "let loose." The Dorsey brothers (giants of the 1940s "swing" era) probably couldn't believe how something so raw and simple could take over so quickly. I think they looked rather stunned - hated it but kept smiling and "invited him back next week!." Oh boy!. omg.

When are all the Elvis Presley "Stage Show" performances going to be compiled and put out on a DVD box set?

♥️🥰😘🌟👏👍

On his way now

Unlike other performers of his time, Elvis actually looked like he was having fun! He was the original Woke-he woke everyone up!

This is before i was born, but damn he was great.

this first tv appearance is historical; singing rhythm and blues is historical

Love that guy on the base player. Guves Elvis a run with his movements❤

❤❤❤❤❤

Elvis 54-60, ‘Numero Uno…’

Esto en 1956 esto fue una bomba. En el mundo de ahora no se lo parece pero fue así.

America only discovered him when he showed up on TV in '56, but if you google his tour schedule from 1954-5, you see him gigging 5-6 nights a week across the south & west coast, in high school gyms, church basements, county fairs, VFW halls, etc. Paying his dues, learning his trade, etc. The way "overnight success" is supposed to work...🙏🎼🎭😎

Thanks for this

He also did "Money Honey" must have been taken out on the actual broadcast.

incredibly cool

John Lennon once said..."before Elvis there was NOTHING!" How very true. How I wish someone would have saved Elvis from his demise.

WOW

Are you able to to this with the other appearances on stage show?

Elvis Presley maior artista de todos os tempos

С Скотти Муром Элвис делал великую музыку.❤

Elvis and the boys set the music world on fire.Lot's of Bible thumpers claimed that he was the👿incarnate.

Natural black soul

❤👑👑👑👑👑❤️

Backed by The blue moon boys ,Scotty Moore lead, DJ {Dominic Joseph} Fontana drums and Bill Black bass. I've often wondered why they didn't see themselves a four piece group as opposed to Elvis and The blue moon boys.

Elvis guitar style hard to copy

Check out "One night of sin" the original one night with you. So raw . Thats Elvis.

Omg