The Complete Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956 (CD+BOOK) (CD-Book)

By mid-1954, a special 30-minute portion of Louisiana Hayride was being broadcast every Saturday on the AFN Pacific channel of the United Kingdom. On October 16 of that year, a teenager from Memphis, Tennessee named Elvis Presley appeared on the radio program. Presley's performance of his newly-released song from Sun Records brought a tepid response, according to former Hayride emcee Frank Page, but soon after Presley was nonetheless signed to a one-year contract for future appearances. The immediate and enormous demand for more of Presley's new kind of rockabilly music actually resulted in a sharp decline in the popularity of the Louisiana Hayride that until that point had been strictly a country music venue.

•Compilation of all Elvis tracks recorded for the LOUISIANA HAYRIDE between 1954 and 1956

•All tracks are re-mastered and include restored and more complete versions than before.

•Also included is the recent discovery of Elvis last performance in 1956.

•Presented in 100 page hardback book with many rare and unreleased photographs.

•Contains extensive linear notes, with informative and historical facts on Elvis time with the Louisiana Hayride.

•Louisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American music. Elvis Presley performed on the radio version of the program in 1954, and made his first television appearance on the TV version on March 3, 1955