Elvis Presley August 5 1955, Memphis. Overton Park Shell August 5, Bob Neal's eighth annual Country Music Jamboree. The show also included Elvis Presley, Webb Pierce, Sonny James, Johnny Cash , Wanda Jackson and some 22 other country music and comedy performers. They drew a crowd of over 4000.
The Memphis Press Scimitar on August 6 reported that the Shell was jammed with an overflow audience for the show and that several hundred were turned away. Local amateur photographer Robert Dye who photographed Elvis at the Shell on August 5th recalled one performer loaning him his guitar after Elvis couldn't find his in time to go on and was pretty agitated after Elvis returned it with two strings broken.
Bob Neal's eighth annual Country Music Jamboree August 5, 1955
Elvis Presley August 5, 1955 Overton Park Shell
Elvis and Texas Bill Strength at the Overton Park Shell
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