Post by Admin on Feb 13, 2019 20:24:52 GMT -5
The original photo caption says “A 20-year-old Elvis Presley appears with Jimmy Dean on WMAL in 1955.” The TV appearance was actually in 1956 and Presley was 21 at the time. (Evening Star, Sunday, June 27, 1976. Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection © Washington Post.
Elvis Presley visited WMAL-TV on Friday, March 23, 1956 when the station was located in the Chevy Chase Ice Palace at 4461 Connecticut Avenue NW. It was early in his career. His first number one hit, “Heartbreak Hotel,” had been released that January. To promote his performance that night aboard the Potomac cruise ship S.S. Mount Vernon, Presley appeared on WMAL-TV’s “Town and Country Time Show,” hosted by Jimmy Dean (of sausage fame) at 6:30 p.m. This broadcast interview has become legendary. Presley’s responses to questions were so brief as to be almost nonexistent. Jimmy Dean: So you’re gonna to be on the S.S. Mt. Vernon tonight, are you Elvis?
Elvis Presley: Yep.
Dean: Have you ever worked on a boat before?
Presley: Nope.
Dean: I imagine you’re looking forward to this, aren’t you?
Presley: Yep.
Years later, Presley apologized to Dean, saying that he had been scared by the camera and couldn’t speak. As far as the impression Elvis left that night, one witness told the Evening Star newspaper that although Presley hadn’t said much he had been cooperative and “went mad signing autographs.”
Presley would visit Washington only three more times – for the infamous meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House on Dec. 21, 1970, and for concerts at Cole Field House at the University of Maryland in 1974 and Capital Centre in 1977.
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