EARLY ROCK & ROLL

MUSIC STYLES

• Lead Instruments were Guitars and Saxiphones
• Originated from African American music styles such as Gospel, Jazz, Boogie Woogie and Rhythm and Blues, with Country

CLOTHING STYLES

• Teenage boys wore tight fitting blue jeans and white T-Shirts.
• Girls wore felt poodle skirts, stockings, tight blouses and sweaters.

DANCE STYLES

• Popular dances: Twist, Bunny Hop, The Creep
• Normal dances would be dancing by your self then with someone repeatedly.

ART/THEATRE

• Sunset Boulevard
• Rear Window
• Vertigo
• Singin' in the Rain
• 12 Angry Men
• Ben-Hur
• Some Iike it Hot
• These were a few popular titles from the 1950s
• First Movie In Color!

IMPORTANT HISTORICAL EVENTS

• 1945 - Nazis surrender.
• 1944 - Roosevelt re-elected
• 1955 - Disney Land opens in California.
• 1950 - Korean War begins
• 1952 - Dwhite D. Eisenhower elected.
• 1950 - First organ transplant (kidney)
• 1953 - DNA is discovered.
• 1955 - Vietnam war begins.
• 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• 1956 – Jackson Pollock dies in a car crash
• 1961 – Alan Shepard pilots the Freedom 7 capsule to become the first American in space

ELVIS'S YOUTH

• January 8, 1935: Gladys Presley gives birth to two children. Jessie Garen was born a stillborn but Elvis Aaron made it through.
• October 3, 1945: Elvis at 10 years old, gets on a chair at a microphone & sings Old Sheep at a youth talent contest.
• June 3, 1953: Elvis graduates from Humes High School.
• 1958: Elvis joins the US Army

ELVIS'S MUSIC

• Can't Help Falling in Love-1961
• Hound Dog-1956
• Jailhouse Rock-1957
• Blue Christmas-1957
• Suspicious Minds-1969
• Love Me Tender-1972
• In The Ghetto-1969
• Elvis Presley Prefers Rock n' Roll!

ELVIS FUN FACTS!

• Elvis's natural hair color is brown!
• Elvis was 6 feet tall and wore size 11 shoes.
• Elvis recorded more than 600 songs, but did not write any of them.
• Elvis bought his first guitar at the age of 16
• Elvis Presely got a C in his eigth grade music class!
• He is distantly related to Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter

SITES USED

• IMDB.com
• Wikipedia.com
• Graceland.com