It's October eleventh, and on this day in 1956... Elvis Presley performed at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, drawing a record-breaking crowd of 26,500 fans—the largest audience he had performed for in the 1950s up to that point. Making a dramatic entrance in an open car that drove him to a stage set up at the fifty-yard line, Elvis delivered a landmark concert that underscored his explosive popularity and growing dominance in American music.
