Jerry Kennedy, record producer, songwriter and guitar player and a native of Shreveport, LA, recalling his attending one of Elvis' almost four dozen shows at Municipal Auditorium in the period from October 1954 to December of 1956, as reported in radio station 710keel on December 28, 2018.

I was a 13 year old kid sitting on the front row on Hank Williams' last performance at the Municipal Auditorium. It changed my life. A couple of years later, during one of Elvis ̪Presley's appearances with the Louisiana Hayride, I was also in attendance there, with a friend, and we got real mad at all of the girls screaming when Elvis was doing his shaking. It upset us that we couldn't hear anything

— Jerry Kennedy

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About Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.