It's January fifteenth, and on this day in 1955... Elvis Presley performed at the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana, wearing a rust-colored suit, a black-dotted purple tie, and pink socks. But the real headline wasn’t his outfit—or even the songs he sang, which included “Hearts of Stone,” “That’s All Right,” and “Tweedle Dee.” It was who was in the audience: Colonel Tom Parker and his associate Tom Diskin. This marked the first time the Colonel saw Elvis live. After the show, Parker began laying the groundwork to form a connection with Elvis’s manager, Bob Neal—setting in motion a relationship that would change the course of Elvis’s career forever.
