live in Memphis

In November 1948 the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. After living for almost a year in the rooming house, they received a two-bedroom apartment in public housing complex known as courts. Recorded at Humes High School, received only C Presley music in the eighth grade. When his music teacher said he had no talent for singing, the next day, he brought his guitar and sang hits recently, "to keep them icy cold Fingers Off Me" in an effort to prove otherwise . classmates later recalled that teachers "agree that Elvis was right when he says he did not like the type to sing." It is usually too ashamed to do openly, and sometimes harassed by classmates who considered him a "boy mom." In 1950, he began practicing the guitar regularly under the direction of Jesse Lee Denson, neighbors two and a half years older than him. They and three other boys, including two pioneers of rockabilly in the future, brother Dorsey Burnette andJohnny forming loose musical collective that plays often in the vicinity of the Court [21]. In September It began delivering on the Loew's State Theater. Other jobs followed over the school years: precision tools, Loew again, and marl of metal products.

During its first year, Presley began more important among his classmates, particularly because of his appearance: he grew sideburns and hair styles with rose oil and petrolatum. In his time, he will travel to Beale Street, the heart grows bluesscene Memphis, and gaze with envy, wild clothes prominently in the window Lansky Brothers. In his senior year, he was wearing it. Overcoming reluctance about done outside the court, he attended the annual event Humes "Minstrel" in April 1953. Sing and play guitar, he opened with "Till I Waltz Again With You", the latest hit by Teresa Brewer. Presley noted that the performance has done much for his reputation: "I am not popular at school ... I failed it the only music that I never miss And then they enrolled me in this talent show ... when I got onstage, I heard these. roars and whispers, and so on, because I know there is not yet singing It's amazing how I became popular after that .. "

Presley, who had never received formal musical training or learning to read music, learned and played by ear. He often with a jukebox and booths listening record store. He knew all the songs he loved and Hank Snow records by singers like Roy Acuff other countries, Ernest Tubb, Ted Daffan, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Davis and Bob Wills. The Southern Gospel singer Jake Hess, one of his favorite players, is a significant influence on the style ballad-singing. He was a regular audience member at the center to sing all night a month, in which many white gospel group that makes spiritual music reflects the influence of African-Americans. He loved black music gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Like many of his friends, he attended a blues on demand, in a separate document from the South, which aims only at night for an audience exclusively white. He must listen to the regional radio station that played "Race Results": spirituals, blues, and sounds of modern rhythm-heavy backbeat and blues. Many of his future recordings inspired by local African American musicians such as Arthur Crudup, and Rufus Thomas. BB King Presley recalled that he knew before it was popular when they were both used to visit Beale Street. At the time he graduated high school in June 1953, Presley had chosen as future music.(First recordings)

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