At first I would see a kid who used to come over to the Plantation Inn Club when we were over there. That kid was Elvis Presley. He would show up every Wednesday and Friday night to see me do Calvin's Boogie and Junior's Jive. I feel that Elvis' later success actually broke the ice for civil rights, because that was the issue during that time, the fact he sent the black idiom all over the world in his music.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "At first I would see a kid who used to come over to the Plantation Inn Club when we were over there. That kid was Elvis Presley. He would show up every Wednesday and Friday night to see me do Calvin's Boogie and Junior's Jive. I feel that Elvis' later success actually broke the ice for civil rights, because that was the issue during that time, the fact he sent the black idiom all over the world in his music." in the context of "Calvin Newborn African American Jazz guitarist, whose gigs at the Plantation Inn Club, as well as his home, Elvis frequented, in an interview for the documentary "Why Elvis"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.