OCTOBER 24, ON THIS DAY IN ELVIS HISTORY

October 24, 1955

Together with local rockabilly Sonny Burgess, who would start for Sun the next year, Elvis performed at the Silver Moon Club, Newport, Arkansas.
At the same time Colonel Parker had sent a telegram to Sam Philips to tell him he's got all authorization from Gladys and Vernon to negotiate for Elvis in order to buy his contract from Sun.

October 24, 1956

Elvis had to leave for New York, but before that he, his parents and Juan Juanico attended a special screening of a rough cut of Love Me Tender. Except for Elvis everyone was enthusiastic. Elvis however was not satisfied by his acting.

October 24, 1959

Elvis was again hospitalised in the 97th General Hospital in Frankfort for tonsillitis.

October 24, 1960

 Arkansas State University inducted Elvis into the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity as an honorary member.

October 24, 1961

Elvis had to attend a music meeting after which he was introduced to some fighters, to choose someone as his double in Kid Galahad.

October 24, 1976

Elvis performed at the Roberts Stadium, Evansville, Indiana..

Date:	24 Oct 1976
Time:	8.30pm
Venue:	Evansville, IN. Roberts Municipal
Tickets:	13,500
Costume:	Indian feather (white) suit
Track list:	Also Sprach Zarathustra See See Rider I Got A Woman/Amen Love Me Fairytale You Gave Me A Mountain Jailhouse Rock It's Now Or Never My Way Blue Christmas That's All Right Are You Lonesome Tonight? Softly As I Leave You Hound Dog Help Me America [band introductions] Early Morning Rain What'd I Say Johnny B. Goode Love Letters School Days Hawaiian Wedding Song Can't Help Falling In Love

 

CONCERT DETAILS: Tour Ref: On Tour number 25 - October 14th - October 27th 1976 Date: October 24 1976 Venue: Roberts Municipal Location: Evansville IN Showtime: (8:30 pm) Crowd: 13500 REVIEWS: Article *: ELVIS ATTIRE: Suit: Chief Belt: Second belt Cape: GROUP ATTIRE: Sherrill Nielsen: White sleeveless Jumpsuit The Sweet Inspirations: Long White Dress JD Sumner and The Stamps Quartet: Black Suit Musicians: Black Suit TICKET STUBS:

SONGS - TRACKLISTINGS: 2001 Theme C C Rider I Got A Woman - segued medley with - Amen Love Me If You Love Me You Gave Me A Mountain Jailhouse Rock Help Me All Shook Up Teddy Bear - segued medley with - Dont Be Cruel And I Love You So Fever America The Beautiful Polk Salad Annie Band Introductions Early Morning Rain ( featuring John Wilkinson ) Whatd I Say ( featuring James Burton ) Johnny B Goode ( featuring James Burton ) Drum Solo ( featuring Ronnie Tutt ) Bass Solo ( featuring Jerry Scheff ) Piano Solo ( featuring Tony Brown ) Electric Piano Solo ( featuring David Briggs ) Love Letters School Day Hurt ( followed by a reprise of above song ) Hound Dog Funny How Time Slips Away Blue Christmas Thats All Right Cant Help Falling In Love Closing Vamp CDRS FROM CONCERT: PICTURES FROM CONCERT: © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © ©

CONCERT DATE: October 24, 1976 (8:30 pm) Evansville, IN. Roberts Municipal. Official denies reports saying Elvis-ticket sales mishandled  by James Szymanski The Evansville Press September 27, 1976 Reports that tickets sales for the Elvis Presley concert at Roberts Stadium Oct. 24 may have been mishandled were denied today by A.J. Stofleth, stadium manager. Mrs.. Frances Smith of 3503 Kathleen said today that she was the first person in line when the windows opened at 8 a.m. Saturday. "When we got to the window, they told us that the first 11 rows were already gone and that the best seats we could have were in the 12th row," she said. Mrs. Smith said she started waiting outside the stadium at 3 p.m. Friday and was in line 17 hours before the windows opened. She said the clerk at the window offered no explanation for why she couldn't buy eight tickets at her choice. "There were no tickets sold or reserved before we started selling them at the windows," Stofleth said today. He added that "those people could have had from row seats on the side if they had wanted them. I'll give you $100 for every seat we sold before the windows opened." Mrs. Smith wound up taking seats in the 12th row. Several persons telephoned the Evansville Press over the weekend complaining that they were not able to buy choice seats for the show even though they were near the front of the line. Stofleth also said he had received a number of similar calls from angry fans. Those who did camp out at the stadium left a mess behind that stadium employees had to clean up yesterday. "It was ridiculous," Stofleth said "They left a lot of trash and paper around." He said nearly 11,000 tickets have been sold for the show and windows will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to sell remaining tickets. The only seats that remain are roll-out bleachers for $10.25. The largest block of seats sold were to an Elvis Presley fan club from Canada which bought 250 tickets, Stofleth said. The concert has generated great interest throughout the Midwest with groups from as far away as Chicago and St. Louis planning to attend. CONCERT DATE: October 24, 1976 (8:30 pm) Evansville, IN. Roberts Municipal. Legend replaces zest for Elvis  By James Szymanski The Evansville Press October 25, 1976 A slight lift of his leg was all it took. Afleeting glance over the shoulder followed by a pirouette and a dreamy stare from his blue eyes freed primal screams from the front rows. Then came the teasing from the stage as a diligent valet-musician wrapped silk scarves around the sweaty neck of the King, Elvis Presley. Time after time, he dried himself before a crush of women waiting to catch one of his annointed souvenirs. It was just the kind of excitement they came to experience. The sellout crowd of 13,600 who came to hear Elvis perform set a new Roberts Stadium record. Most of the fans who began arriving more than two hours before showtime were so overcome with hero worship that Presley didn't have to work too hard. His 41-year-old body wasn't moving with the same speed or vigor it did when Presley was the heart-throb of every high school girl in the mid 1950s. His voice was atrong but his delivery was a little lackadaisical, especialy on some old favorites like "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" But Elvis did reach down with enough lusty, forceful wailing to assure even the most skeptical that the King is not dead. His supply of wiggles has dwindled over the years, there was enough hip-churning in "Fever" to set off a white flash of bulbs from teh thousands of cameras in the audience. And he still managed to scale a few high notes, twice in fact, during "Hurt," his latest single recording. Any other singer might have gotten only a lukewarm response for the same effort Elvis made, but then, Elvis is not just any other singer. What he has lost in energy and zest has been replaced by legendary status. What his fans came to applaud last night was more Elvis the Legend than Elvis the Singer. Some women in the audience, however, felt a little more than respect for a legend. Mrs Susan Blythe, 32, of 725 Sheffield said minutes before the show, "I feel terrific just being here." Carolyn Buechler, 19, a student at Indiana State University, waited for Elvis from her front row center seat. "I'm shaking all over," she said waiting for the house lights to dim. Seventy year old Amelia Koch of 2719 Garvin was there out a grandmotherly affectin for Elvis. "I have lots of his records from when my grandson used to live at home," she said. "I like Elvis because he was so good to his mother and father. When he made it big, he wasn't afraid to mention them" Despite earlier complaints about tickets being sold before the windows opened and large blocks of seats being given out early to companies, none of the persons questioned in the front rows said they got their tickets before they went on sale. Most of the audience members questioned said they had to wait hours in line to get their $12.75 seats. A few, however, said they got lucky and were able to buy tickets that had been returned to the stadium ticket office. One of the few sore spots amid the memories and the mayhem was the commercialism that pervaded the scene in and around the stadium. You could hardly walk a few steps from your car before being assaulted by vendors pushing everything from "I Love Elvis" banners to $5 paper portraits hawked as being "suitable for framing" The audience seemed imaptient with the groups who preceded Elvis, Th eLas Vegas polish of the Hot Hilton Horns, a brassy show band, was like a little too much sugarfor the majority of Elvis fans. Middle-aged husbands in pastel leisure suits kept checking their watches while a Canadian comic leaned on pat lines about kids smoking dope and his fear of flying. It wasn't until about a half hour into the show that the Sweet Inspirations, a soul-shaking trio of sisters shook the crowd from his polite indifference. Except for "Love Me Tender," Elvis managed to work in most of his standards including "Jailhouse Rock," Don't Be Cruel," and "Fools Rush In." After about an hour on stage, Elvis thanked the crowd for being a good audience, then rushed out the stadium tunnel behind a wall of hulking body guards. CONCERT DATE: October 24, 1976. Evansville, IN. Elvis Knocked Them Out Like He's Done For Years Scott Hill The Evansville Courier The triple wrapped Ace bandage on her left wrist made it a little difficult to handle the borrowed binoculars, but she managed. She looked to be the age that would have made her a teen-ager when Elvis Presley stormed America two decades ago. And finally she was seeing him live. "Look at me, just look at me" she pleaded to a stranger, "I'm shaking from my toes all the way to the top of my head" Why! "I don't know." Shaking the pam out of her wrist, she raised the binoculars with her right hand and observed Elvis. She let an ooooohhhhhh escape from her lips. "It's just not fair that you have to get old and can't scream like the young kids," she paused and then she realized why she was shaking. "I can't scream. That's why I'm shaking!" There was no [...] for her to feel inhibited. From the concrete floor to the [...], the women screamed loudly and often. She would have blended in perfectly. Elvis, the Living Legend with a capital L, was back and you couldn't generate more excitement by putting the Grand Canyon on a flatbed truck and touring the country with it. At 41. The King not dead. Singing to the largest paid concert crowd in Roberts Stadium history, Elvis knocked them out like he's done for 20 years. The King may be 41 but he's not dead. During his 65 minute onstage he sang all or part of 24 songs, striding across the stage and dripping several dozen sweat soaked towels into gaggles of females beneath the footlights. The legendary pelvis didn't move as in years past, but the legs did, and that was plenty good for the shrieking masses, some of whom gave Elvis gifts that appeared to be portraits or posters. The woman in the ACE bandage had gotten a bad seat for this second coming - behind the stage - and had abandoned it for a front view of Elvis. "What POWER that man has" she said only moments before begrudgingly returning to her seat. Throughout the stadium, concertgoers peered at Elvis though binoculars - brought from home, borrowed, and even a $6 variety sold by vendors who were part of Elvis 80-member entourage. "You are the ONE!" crowed one teenaged boy high in the bleachers. "He sure don't look his age." said another. Elvis' entrance followed 45 minutes of opening acts and a half-hour intermission that sent the 13,500 plus unprepared patrons into a collective moan upon hearing about it. "Thus Spake Zarathustra," the classical ditty made famous by the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey," was his entrance music. Had it been for any other entertainer . It could have been called very, very pretentious. But somehow, it just fit. Bathed in eight multicolor spotlights and wearing a white jumpsuit, he walked calmly onstage, bowed subty to his fans and launched the fast-paced, well-timed show. From "C.C. Rider" through "Jailhouse Rock" through "All Shook Up" and on and on. Elvis operated his spring-loaded legs in his time-proven manner of eliciting screams - screams that erupted even when The King stood still in that inimitable way of him. He is all Glitter and Big Time. When the house lights dimmed at 8:30 pm. elvis was eating dinner at Drew Regional Airport where he'd park his four-engine jet earlier. Dressed in his plane. The plane was where he dressed for the show - and where he undressed after it. A black limousine, doors open, sat ready, backstage for Elvis quick exit. There was no encore. Among his entourage are program hawkers who stand at the entrances Fans grimace when he tells them the souvenir books costs three bucks, but they buy them anyway after one of those you-only-live-once. to the heavens or their mates. Throughout the stadium, more members of his troops sell $5 posters, $3 buttons and those binoculars. "Check them out before you buy them." the spyglass hawkers yell. Elvis spent a few minutes more onstage than was predicted earlier, and he left them screaming for more. Courtesy of Scot Knockin Them Out In Evansville Recorded live at the Roberts Municipal October 24, 1976 Evening Show. Evansville, IN. Tracklisting Recording: Audience Highlights: If You Love Me, Help Me, America The Beautiful, Polk salad Annie, Hurt (reprise), Funny How Time Slips Away. Blue Christmas & That's All Right Sound:  Contents:  Covers: [front] [back]

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