Elvis Presley - Good Rockin Tonight video free download

Elvis at his best during his Rockabilly days. At this time he was known as "The Hillbilly Cat" and "The King of Western Bop". Thats what they called him long before they called him "The King of Rock n Roll" because before anyone had a name for this new music that Elvis, Scotty & Bill had created most people veiwed him as a country singer or a "Hillbilly" singer as Pat Boone called him.

Some people claim that Elvis just "stole" his style from black Rhythm & Blues singers but it couldn't be further from the truth. What not many people know is that country music was at least as important to Elvis as blues music.

- The first song Elvis ever sang in public was Red Foleys country classic "Old Shep".

- His first musical hero was hillbilly singer Missisippi Slim who learned him how to play guitar back in Tupelo, Missisippi. The first time Elvis ever performed on radio was on Slims country radio show at age 12.

- When Elvis met one of his idols Ernest Tubb in 1954 he told him that it was his real ambition to sing country music "But they tell me that if im going to make any money i got to sing this other kind of music".

- His first number one hit was country song "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" in 1955.

- When Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins & Johnny Cash jam together in 1956 and sang some of their favorite songs Elvis sang mostly country songs (no blues songs) from people like Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe and Hank Snow. This recording is now known as "The Million Dollar Quartet".