Lost and Found -- Shrine Auditorium, June 1956!

[drjohncarpenter]

Found these images below today, four great shots from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Friday, June 8, 1956:


Lot #5064 - Elvis Presley Group of Photographs
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/338763005245064-elvis-presley-group-of-photographs/


Elvis was having quite a busy week in the Golden State:

Jun 3 (Sun) - two performances, Oakland
Jun 4 (Mon) - "Milton Berle" rehearsals, NBC Burbank
Jun 5 (Tue) - "Milton Berle" rehearsals and live broadcast, NBC Burbank
Jun 6 (Wed) - performance, San Diego
Jun 7 (Thu) - performance, Long Beach


Presley's set on Friday night in the City of Angels was crowd-pleasing, to be sure:

Heartbreak Hotel
Long Tall Sally
I Was The One
I Got A Woman
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
Blue Suede Shoes
Hound Dog

Two unrecorded covers!

The photographer -- I found a few years back -- was Ernest E. Reshovsky.

At the time he was a Los Angeles-based, freelance magazine photographer-columnist. He shot a lot of Hollywood stars and such. One of his Elvis images ended up on the cover of the classic '50s box released by RCA back in the summer of 1992.

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Back in 1978 one made the cover of a legendary bootleg album, which also included a booklet filled with even more Reshovsky images from the show ("LIVE IN '55" was a typo). At the time these unpublished photos were found, unmarked, at a Los Angeles vintage/second-hand store. Lucky,

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Anyway, not sure if any here are "new" but they're sure fun to see and nice quality.

Elvis was on top of the world.

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[AndyDumas]

Excellent Quality Shots!

[elvis-fan]

Great photos, John! Any one of which could have made an incredible album cover...

I can only imagine walking into a record shop in 1956 and seeing the latest Elvis Presley long play record on the shelf with this cover... WOW!! It doesn't get any cooler than that!!
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[Markus K.]

Thanks so much for your post!
Those were the days!

[joekro1977]

Capturing photos of this quality with the equipment of the time was no easy task I suspect.

These images are new to me - wonderful stuff.

[2kisses&3scarfs]

Great shots, doc! Oh, how wonderful it must have been to see him in person back then! Thanks for sharing this.

[Joern]

Very nice photos. There are a few more interesting photos from that date. for eg this one... I don't know if it was posted before.

[jurasic1968]

Thanks a lot, Doc.

[drjohncarpenter]

Excellent Quality Shots!

And there are many more from that performance.

Wish we had a tape recording!

[Cryogenic]

Wow! These shots are heavenly and incredible! Heavenly-incredible!!!

Beautiful clarity and glorious poses on each, from poised and ready, to sylph-like and playful, to wild and raucous, to mock-constipated and flush with hormonal longing: the quintessential agony and ecstasy of youth, the guile and the glory of the young King!

Brilliant, Doc. Brilliant.

[jekhb76]

One more...
Awesome post! Thanks for sharing Doc.