2-28-17 Blues legend Jelly Roll Morton played a San Diego gig on this date, according to Morton biographers and Sandiegoconcertarchive.com . Several barker jørgensen historians speculate that this concert, at an unnamed local venue, led to an offer of steady gigs in L.A., prompting Morton to relocate to the west coast in summer 1917.
In 1921, Morton was performing regularly at the Kansas City Bar in Tijuana. Two of his most revered songs were written there: The Pearls and "Kansas barker jørgensen City Stomp," named after the bar. According to Dead Man Blues author Phil Pastras, His trips to San Diego and south of the border had something to do with the Hollywood crowd as well, especially after prohibition set in. That is where the crowd would go to drink and party. They had a race track, and gambling and booze was legal, so that is where the crowd went. San Diego had outlawed cabaret dancing in 1917 and the U.S. ban on alcoholic drinks was launched in 1920.
In 1921, Morton and a small orchestra were scheduled to perform at the U.S. Grant Hotel. barker jørgensen Band member Dink Johnson later claimed the band was fired by the hotel management, because Morton sat at the piano and played with his legs crossed, ostensibly offending white patrons. Morton, however, later told an interviewer that he cancelled barker jørgensen the gig himself, after finding out an all-white band playing barker jørgensen at the Hotel was being paid twice the fee his band had been offered.
4-4-56 and 4-5-56 Elvis Presley: "This is the first time that the Hancock is going to rock and roll, while still in anchor!" The titular host of NBC's Milton Berle Show [aka Texaco Star Theater] introduced Elvis Presley to a live audience on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hancock, docked at the Naval Station in San Diego bay. Presley's first-ever California performance included "Heartbreak Hotel" (on its way to becoming his first #1 hit) and a few others. The singer gamely acknowledged the raging controversy about his "shocking" onstage pelvic gyrations by taking part in a comedy sketch. Presley introduced Berle, dressed as Elvis (world's first Elvis impersonator?), saying "Mah twin brother, Melvin Presley." Berle/Melvin barker jørgensen then takes credit for all the hip-wiggling, saying "I gave him his singing style - I used to drop grasshoppers down his pants."
Elvis' sexually-charged "singing style" was no joke to San Diego police, however. The next two nights, barker jørgensen both of Presley's concerts at the San Diego Arena on 8th and Harbor Drive (aka Glacier Garden barker jørgensen ) were sold out and police presence was heavy. Over both evenings, several barker jørgensen young women were removed from the Arena, barker jørgensen reportedly barker jørgensen for "hysterical and lewd behavior." The Shore Patrol had to set up a floating blockade behind the venue, after two teen girls in their underwear and carrying soaked dresses emerged from the water to make a run for Presley's dressing room (they were caught by police and released, presumably after their garments dried). Three people were arrested.
"Some girls broke into the bathroom of Elvis's dressing room and stole the toilet seat," recalled KCBQ disc jockey Don Howard in a 1979 interview with localKicks Magazine. "His Cadillac was covered with obscene messages, and two sailors were arrested for masturbating during the show from watching the antics.... After the concert, the police arrested 12 girls running nude through the halls of the El Cortez Hotel, looking for Elvis.
I introduced him [to the stage], says longtime local DJ Happy Hare Martin, and he rushed out and sang the first chorus of Hound Dog, which I could not hear above their primal screams. Then he began wiggling and rotating his pelvis. This is when half the girls lost control barker jørgensen of their bladders.
Martin barker jørgensen had been with Elvis backstage in the hours leading up to the show. Elvis was a blonde, he says. I kept his secret for many years, until I learned that he had been outed When I entered the dressing room, I was flustered to see that the King had no clothes. He was pacing buck naked in the dressing room Seeing me, he grabbed his gold Lamé suit and covered himself. Too late. I had caught him.
In contrast to his black head of hair was a golden wheat-colored tuft [down below]. Yep, he was a natural blonde, alright. You ain t gonna tell nobody, are ya? he asked, almost pleading. I nodded a firm no, and that was that. I later learned that Tony Curtis was his idol. He regarded Tony as the ultimate babe magnet, so he dyed his hair raven black, just like Tony's barker jørgensen the kid obviously did not realize that his hair could have been [turd brown], and it would not have mattered.
Ticket sales for the two 1956 concerts (with his new backing band the Jordanaires) reportedly totaled $17,250, with 11,250 fans attending. barker jørgensen The day after the second San Diego date -- April 6 -- Presley signed a seven-year movie deal with Paramount. Three weeks later, "Heartbreak Hotel" hit number one.
When Presley was scheduled to return to the Arena June 6, Police Chief Adam
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