In 1956, Elvis Presley appeared on The Steve Allen Show and sang to a basset hound. Allen was visibly delighted by the situation, but Elvis didn’t seem as keen. He was stiff and uncomfortable, but, as a people pleaser, he agreed to the spectacle. He would later go on to describe it as the most embarrassing moment of his career.
Elvis Presley sang to a dog on ‘The Steve Allen Show’
Ahead of Elvis’ performance on The Steve Allen Show, Elvis met Sherlock, a basset hound wearing a bow tie and top hat. In a rehearsal, Sherlock ignored him entirely, and Allen encouraged him to “get to know” her.
Elvis Presley and Sherlock | NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
During the actual performance, Elvis took the stage in a suit and began to sing, likely to no one’s surprise, “Hound Dog” to Sherlock. According to Graceland,...
Elvis Presley sang to a dog on ‘The Steve Allen Show’
Ahead of Elvis’ performance on The Steve Allen Show, Elvis met Sherlock, a basset hound wearing a bow tie and top hat. In a rehearsal, Sherlock ignored him entirely, and Allen encouraged him to “get to know” her.
Elvis Presley and Sherlock | NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
During the actual performance, Elvis took the stage in a suit and began to sing, likely to no one’s surprise, “Hound Dog” to Sherlock. According to Graceland,...
- 8/20/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the first 14 years of Elvis’ recording career with RCA, nearly all his records were credited to “Elvis Presley With the Jordanaires,” because that’s the way Elvis wanted it. Many of those early hits were built around the imaginative vocal ideas of the group’s arranger, Neal Matthews, and all four members of the vocal quartet took an active role in crafting the sounds that dominated much of the pop, rock & roll and country music charts from the mid-1950s on. To Elvis, who met the Jordanaires in 1955, they were more than a studio backup group. While Baz Luhrmann’s awards contender “Elvis” focuses on other aspects of Elvis’ influences, the Jordanaires were not part of the movie’s story, but they are an essential component of rock and roll history. Jordanaire tenor Gordon Stoker tells the story:
By the summer of 1955, I thought I’d seen it all.
By the summer of 1955, I thought I’d seen it all.
- 10/26/2022
- by Michael Kosser
- Variety Film + TV
Nashville, Tenn. — Gordon Stoker, a member of The Jordanaires vocal group that backed Elvis Presley, died Wednesday. He was 88.
His son, Alan, told The Associated Press that Stoker died at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., after a lengthy illness. Stoker, who was born in Gleason, Tenn., got his start playing the piano on Wsm radio and its signature show, the Grand Ole Opry.
Alan Stoker said his father was just 15 when he started playing professionally. He joined the Jordanaires as a piano player, but then became tenor vocalist. The group was already well known for their gospel singing when Presley recruited them to perform on his recording of "Hound Dog," in 1956.
The Jordanaires originated in Missouri and came to Nashville, where they backed Red Foley on a segment of the Opry called the "Prince Albert Show," according to John Rumble, senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
His son, Alan, told The Associated Press that Stoker died at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., after a lengthy illness. Stoker, who was born in Gleason, Tenn., got his start playing the piano on Wsm radio and its signature show, the Grand Ole Opry.
Alan Stoker said his father was just 15 when he started playing professionally. He joined the Jordanaires as a piano player, but then became tenor vocalist. The group was already well known for their gospel singing when Presley recruited them to perform on his recording of "Hound Dog," in 1956.
The Jordanaires originated in Missouri and came to Nashville, where they backed Red Foley on a segment of the Opry called the "Prince Albert Show," according to John Rumble, senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
- 3/27/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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