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    Elvis Presley released his first hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" in January 1956. The song became the number one song on the Billboard pop charts for eight weeks and sold over one million copies, making it Elvis's first million-selling single. Rock and roll in the mid-1950s was dominated by Elvis Presley, who brought the genre into the mainstream through his television appearances, movies, and chart-topping records. Elvis popularized rockabilly by combining country with rhythm and blues, and his energetic performances helped establish rock and roll as a popular new musical form.

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    Elvis Presley released his first hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" in January 1956. The song became the number one song on the Billboard pop charts for eight weeks and sold over one million copies, making it Elvis's first million-selling single. Rock and roll in the mid-1950s was dominated by Elvis Presley, who brought the genre into the mainstream through his television appearances, movies, and chart-topping records. Elvis popularized rockabilly by combining country with rhythm and blues, and his energetic performances helped establish rock and roll as a popular new musical form.

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    Elvis Presley released his first hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" in January 1956. The song became the number one song on the Billboard pop charts for eight weeks and sold over one million copies, making it Elvis's first million-selling single. Rock and roll in the mid-1950s was dominated by Elvis Presley, who brought the genre into the mainstream through his television appearances, movies, and chart-topping records. Elvis popularized rockabilly by combining country with rhythm and blues, and his energetic performances helped establish rock and roll as a popular new musical form.

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    Elvis Presley released his first hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" in January 1956. The song became the number one song on the Billboard pop charts for eight weeks and sold over one million copies, making it Elvis's first million-selling single. Rock and roll in the mid-1950s was dominated by Elvis Presley, who brought the genre into the mainstream through his television appearances, movies, and chart-topping records. Elvis popularized rockabilly by combining country with rhythm and blues, and his energetic performances helped establish rock and roll as a popular new musical form.

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    ELVIS PRESLEY FIRST HIT "HEARTBREAK HOTEL.

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    1.“From Elvis in Memphis” (RCA, 1969)


    2. “Elvis Presley” (RCA, 1956)
    3. “That’s the Way It Is” (RCA, 1970)
    4. “Elvis” (RCA, 1956)

    ● Elvis Presley releases his first hit. In January , iconic Rock 'n' Roll performer Elvis Presley released
    his first pop single "Heartbreak Hotel." Elvis recorded the track earlier in the month at a studio in
    Nashville, Tennessee not long after he had signed his major recording contract with RCA.
    "Heartbreak Hotel" soon became the number one song on the Billboard pop charts for eight weeks
    after its release, it also hit number one on the country singles chart. This was also his first single to
    sell over one million copies. During the month of January he also had his first network TV appearance
    on Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's "Stage Show."

    Elvis Presley, 1957 Rock and roll dominated popular music in the mid 1950s and late 1950s, and
    quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of
    various black musical genres of the time, includingrhythm and blues and gospel music; with country
    and western and Pop. [1] In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockeyAlan Freed began playing rhythm and
    blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase "rock and roll" to
    describe the music.
    Elvis Presley, who began his career in the mid-1950s, was the most successful artist of the popular
    sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances, motion pictures, and chart-
    topping records. Elvis also brought rock and roll widely into the mainstream of popular culture. Elvis
    popularized the four-man group and also brought the guitar to become the lead instrument in rock
    music. Presley popularized rockabilly, a genre that combined country with rhythm and blues which
    some claimed it was a new sound. Some claimed that Presley invented the genre by combining
    country with rhythm and blues. Elvis became the biggest pop craze since Glenn Miller and Frank
    Sinatra. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his
    uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial during that
    period. Presley's massive success brought rock and roll widely into the mainstream and made it
    easier for African-American musicians to achieve mainstream success on the pop charts.

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