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Elvis, Nick Adams and Barbara Hearn visit George Klein broadcasting on WMC.
GEORGE KLEIN: As soon as the major part of the picture Love Me Tender had been made, Elvis came home. He dropped by to visit me at the station WMC, where I had my own three-hour-long rock ’n’ roll show. With him were Nick Adams, the actor, and Barbara Hearn, Elvis’ girl here in Memphis. I interviewed Elvis on the air. As we let teenagers come down to the studio and dance, there was a crowd there. They nearly busted the studio windows trying to get a peek at Elvis. I asked Elvis how he liked Hollywood. He said, “I like it okay, because everyone out there was real nice to me.” I asked him how he managed to memorize his lines, as he wasn’t even in a school play over at Humes High School. Elvis replied that it was easy, and that the rest of the cast were surprised at how easily he remembered his lines. Elvis said he believed this came from having to memorize so many songs.
While we were chatting on the air, I said, “Did anything unusual happen while you were making the picture?” Elvis said, “There was one scene where I was riding a horse under some trees. Well, the horse ran into a limb and I got knocked off. The funny part about it was that I didn’t get hurt at all, but the director Robert Webb almost swallowed the cigarette he was smoking.” On that day it wasn’t more than five minutes after Elvis arrived at Station WMC to appear on my show before two photographers and three newspaper reporters turned up to catch him for a picture and a word or two. Boy, did the word travel fast to the town that he was there!
This time, I leaned in and pressed my face against the glass — which did me a disservice because that picture was snapped and
it was in a TV Radio Mirror magazine that went all over the world, or the United States at least, and then appeared in a Sunday
Newsweek magazine with my face smashed against the glass. Anyway, he came out and he was combing that slick hair, and
all the girls and kids had grabbed a piece of notebook-paper out of their notebooks for him to sign his autograph. I was too
proud to ask for a signature so I told him, “You go ahead and sign those autographs and I'll finish combing your hair.” So, I
remember it was either what we call a duck-tail and I tried to comb it straight or it was straight and I tried to comb it the other
way. [It was] one or the other and it didn’t want to do it.
Of these four photos does anyone have any better quality to share, if not, sorry, but there are all I've got
Here's a video featuring Sandra Boettcher, made in 2015, about her memories of that day
Back at Audobon Drive.....
RCA did two things today, first they released Elvis' new single, Love Me Tender with a pre order of one million before it was even recorded.
Second, they announced that Elvis' record sales so far had reached over ten million.
Not bad, not bad at all.
On this day the New York Daily Mirror published an article....
• Specialists say girls had sex on their minds while watching Elvis
In an article titled “Girls Identify Elvis as Lover” in the September 28, 1956, issue of the New York Daily Mirror, writers Norman Miller and James McGlincy tried to uncover the reasons behind the Presley craze by consulting psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. After doing so, they came to the following shocking conclusion.
“When a teenager on the threshold of womanhood watches or listens to Elvis Presley, there is only one thing on her mind—sex. She may deny this. She may not even believe it herself. But that’s what it is, according to specialists.”
Miller and James then presented their evidence in the form of quotations from these “eminent,” but unnamed, specialists. “Watch their faces,” one psychiatrist said of the girls in Elvis’ audiences. “See their twitching, their uncontrolled movements. They are in ecstasy. They have identified Presley as their lover. Many of them are, to use an old-fashioned term, ‘good girls.’ Most of them, probably. They never would let themselves go with their own boyfriends. But, watching Presley, it’s safe.”
The psychiatrist pointed out that this reaction was not confined to teenage girls. He also had business women as clients, who he said felt frustrated and confined in what was still a man’s world.
“They are fearful of romantic involvement,” explained the doctor. “But they still want to escape the masculinity of the business world. They want to be women. Elvis Presley gives them that. They escape to their natural femaleness, listening to him. And it’s perfectly safe. Next day they go back to work with no ties, no danger, as there might be in a love affair. It’s vicarious. But it is a release.”
A psychologist offered another theory for why Elvis affected girls and women as he did. “He’s primitive man. His dress, his actions, the music he sings, all these are primitive. And they arouse primitive instincts. Put Elvis Presley in a Brook Brothers suit, shave the sideburns and make him stand still while he sings a romantic ballad, and he would be just another unsuccessful entertainer.”
• There’s nothing sweet about a young girl going crazy for Elvis
The analyst went on to contrast the female reaction to previous singing idols with that provoked by Elvis. “Rudy Vallee crooning into his megaphone was a nice-looking young man who attracted older women who wanted to mother him,” he explained. “I think Sinatra probably always made the girls feel they ought to take him home and feed him a big steak, another form of maternal instinct. As for Johnny Ray, who knows? But in all those cases there was some sweet, romantic attachment between the fan and the star.
“There is nothing sweet about it when a young girl goes crazy for Elvis, as all of them seem to have done. I’ve talked with some of them and they certainly can’t define their reactions too well. They say, ‘He’s gone,’ or ‘He’s the greatest.’ What they mean is that they are gone, probably for the first time in their lives. Many of them are going through that disturbing, puzzling period of their lives when they begin to awaken to the fact they are women.”
As you can imagine, within days some of the girls who felt they had been over-analyzed in Miller and McGlincy’s article, responded in the Mirror with letters-to-the-editor. Two of them used sarcasm to counter the authors’ conclusion that “sex” was the only thing on their minds when they watched Elvis.
Vivian Barnsworth wrote, “Sex! Yes, that’s it! That’s what Elvis has got. That’s what sends those shivers up and down your spine. Oh, sweet daddy—sing to me Elvis, sing to me!”
Bertha Millerman added in her letter, “I’ve always wondered what irresistible attraction Elvis has had for me. Now I know, and I’m dreadfully ashamed. The Norman Miller-Jim McGlincy series has opened my eyes to my iniquity. Oh, sex—begone! Elvis, why have you done this to me?”
• Fifty years later, girl admits, “it was like a sexual experience”
When I spoke with some women who had attended an Elvis concert back in 1957, most of them admitted they had screamed. But, as the psychologist explained in the Mirror article, most of them couldn’t explain exactly why they had done so. For some it was clearly a mob response. Everybody else was screaming, so they did too.
Only once did I get a thoughtful response to the question, “Why did you scream when you watched Elvis?” It came from a woman, who was 15 when she saw Elvis perform in Spokane’s Memorial Stadium on August 30, 1957.
“We screamed when he came out. I didn’t know I was going to yell and scream. I’d never done that in my whole life. It was spontaneous. You know, his wiggle and that leg going; all of us started screaming when he did that. There was that feeling there like when I matured; it was almost like that feeling. He could excite you with his music so much. My mom’s gone; I guess she wouldn’t care if I said it now … it was like a sexual experience. It went through your body kind of like that.”
So maybe Miller and McGlincy came to the right conclusion back in 1956, at least for some of the girls. But then, Elvis was also right back then when he said, “We’re all getting something out of our system and no one’s getting hurt.” — Alan Hanson | © September 2008
GEORGE KLEIN: As soon as the major part of the picture Love Me Tender had been made, Elvis came home. He dropped by to visit me at the station WMC, where I had my own three-hour-long rock ’n’ roll show. With him were Nick Adams, the actor, and Barbara Hearn, Elvis’ girl here in Memphis. I interviewed Elvis on the air. As we let teenagers come down to the studio and dance, there was a crowd there. They nearly busted the studio windows trying to get a peek at Elvis. I asked Elvis how he liked Hollywood. He said, “I like it okay, because everyone out there was real nice to me.” I asked him how he managed to memorize his lines, as he wasn’t even in a school play over at Humes High School. Elvis replied that it was easy, and that the rest of the cast were surprised at how easily he remembered his lines. Elvis said he believed this came from having to memorize so many songs.
While we were chatting on the air, I said, “Did anything unusual happen while you were making the picture?” Elvis said, “There was one scene where I was riding a horse under some trees. Well, the horse ran into a limb and I got knocked off. The funny part about it was that I didn’t get hurt at all, but the director Robert Webb almost swallowed the cigarette he was smoking.” On that day it wasn’t more than five minutes after Elvis arrived at Station WMC to appear on my show before two photographers and three newspaper reporters turned up to catch him for a picture and a word or two. Boy, did the word travel fast to the town that he was there!
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| SANDRA (BOETTCHER) PFISTER: George Klein was the DJ we listened to every single night. A girlfriend of mine, whose older sister went to Humes High School with Elvis, called me and said, “Are you going to watch Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show?” I said, “Who is Elvis Presley?” And that is the first time that I heard his name. The reason I was there was because at that time every high school took a turn on a Friday afternoon when you could go up to George Klein's studio and dance while he would DJ for a couple of hours. That was the day that Elvis and Nick Adams were in the studio behind the glass. |
This time, I leaned in and pressed my face against the glass — which did me a disservice because that picture was snapped and
it was in a TV Radio Mirror magazine that went all over the world, or the United States at least, and then appeared in a Sunday
Newsweek magazine with my face smashed against the glass. Anyway, he came out and he was combing that slick hair, and
all the girls and kids had grabbed a piece of notebook-paper out of their notebooks for him to sign his autograph. I was too
proud to ask for a signature so I told him, “You go ahead and sign those autographs and I'll finish combing your hair.” So, I
remember it was either what we call a duck-tail and I tried to comb it straight or it was straight and I tried to comb it the other
way. [It was] one or the other and it didn’t want to do it.
- TV Radio Mirror, April 1957
Of these four photos does anyone have any better quality to share, if not, sorry, but there are all I've got
Here's a video featuring Sandra Boettcher, made in 2015, about her memories of that day
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Back at Audobon Drive.....
RCA did two things today, first they released Elvis' new single, Love Me Tender with a pre order of one million before it was even recorded.
Second, they announced that Elvis' record sales so far had reached over ten million.
Not bad, not bad at all.
On this day the New York Daily Mirror published an article....
• Specialists say girls had sex on their minds while watching Elvis
In an article titled “Girls Identify Elvis as Lover” in the September 28, 1956, issue of the New York Daily Mirror, writers Norman Miller and James McGlincy tried to uncover the reasons behind the Presley craze by consulting psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. After doing so, they came to the following shocking conclusion.
“When a teenager on the threshold of womanhood watches or listens to Elvis Presley, there is only one thing on her mind—sex. She may deny this. She may not even believe it herself. But that’s what it is, according to specialists.”
Miller and James then presented their evidence in the form of quotations from these “eminent,” but unnamed, specialists. “Watch their faces,” one psychiatrist said of the girls in Elvis’ audiences. “See their twitching, their uncontrolled movements. They are in ecstasy. They have identified Presley as their lover. Many of them are, to use an old-fashioned term, ‘good girls.’ Most of them, probably. They never would let themselves go with their own boyfriends. But, watching Presley, it’s safe.”
The psychiatrist pointed out that this reaction was not confined to teenage girls. He also had business women as clients, who he said felt frustrated and confined in what was still a man’s world.
“They are fearful of romantic involvement,” explained the doctor. “But they still want to escape the masculinity of the business world. They want to be women. Elvis Presley gives them that. They escape to their natural femaleness, listening to him. And it’s perfectly safe. Next day they go back to work with no ties, no danger, as there might be in a love affair. It’s vicarious. But it is a release.”
A psychologist offered another theory for why Elvis affected girls and women as he did. “He’s primitive man. His dress, his actions, the music he sings, all these are primitive. And they arouse primitive instincts. Put Elvis Presley in a Brook Brothers suit, shave the sideburns and make him stand still while he sings a romantic ballad, and he would be just another unsuccessful entertainer.”
• There’s nothing sweet about a young girl going crazy for Elvis
The analyst went on to contrast the female reaction to previous singing idols with that provoked by Elvis. “Rudy Vallee crooning into his megaphone was a nice-looking young man who attracted older women who wanted to mother him,” he explained. “I think Sinatra probably always made the girls feel they ought to take him home and feed him a big steak, another form of maternal instinct. As for Johnny Ray, who knows? But in all those cases there was some sweet, romantic attachment between the fan and the star.
“There is nothing sweet about it when a young girl goes crazy for Elvis, as all of them seem to have done. I’ve talked with some of them and they certainly can’t define their reactions too well. They say, ‘He’s gone,’ or ‘He’s the greatest.’ What they mean is that they are gone, probably for the first time in their lives. Many of them are going through that disturbing, puzzling period of their lives when they begin to awaken to the fact they are women.”
As you can imagine, within days some of the girls who felt they had been over-analyzed in Miller and McGlincy’s article, responded in the Mirror with letters-to-the-editor. Two of them used sarcasm to counter the authors’ conclusion that “sex” was the only thing on their minds when they watched Elvis.
Vivian Barnsworth wrote, “Sex! Yes, that’s it! That’s what Elvis has got. That’s what sends those shivers up and down your spine. Oh, sweet daddy—sing to me Elvis, sing to me!”
Bertha Millerman added in her letter, “I’ve always wondered what irresistible attraction Elvis has had for me. Now I know, and I’m dreadfully ashamed. The Norman Miller-Jim McGlincy series has opened my eyes to my iniquity. Oh, sex—begone! Elvis, why have you done this to me?”
• Fifty years later, girl admits, “it was like a sexual experience”
When I spoke with some women who had attended an Elvis concert back in 1957, most of them admitted they had screamed. But, as the psychologist explained in the Mirror article, most of them couldn’t explain exactly why they had done so. For some it was clearly a mob response. Everybody else was screaming, so they did too.
Only once did I get a thoughtful response to the question, “Why did you scream when you watched Elvis?” It came from a woman, who was 15 when she saw Elvis perform in Spokane’s Memorial Stadium on August 30, 1957.
“We screamed when he came out. I didn’t know I was going to yell and scream. I’d never done that in my whole life. It was spontaneous. You know, his wiggle and that leg going; all of us started screaming when he did that. There was that feeling there like when I matured; it was almost like that feeling. He could excite you with his music so much. My mom’s gone; I guess she wouldn’t care if I said it now … it was like a sexual experience. It went through your body kind of like that.”
So maybe Miller and McGlincy came to the right conclusion back in 1956, at least for some of the girls. But then, Elvis was also right back then when he said, “We’re all getting something out of our system and no one’s getting hurt.” — Alan Hanson | © September 2008
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Re: 28th September 1956, Friday
I have not read a specific date for these photos. On the FECC, they had it as Oct. 1956
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This is in Rebel With A Cause '56Private Presley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:25 amI have not read a specific date for these photos. On the FECC, they had it as Oct. 1956
The calender on the wall in Georges studio is open on the month of September.
Nick Adams and Barbara Hearn are in the footage.
30th September 1956 Elvis and Nick fly back L.A.
The next time the three of them are together isn't until half way through October.
I'm very confident the month is September.
From there the clothes that Elvis is wearing match with this date, that's not to say other days in September dont match, but the photos we do have from the other days doesn't match and we have the four early evening photos now which are dated the 28th where the clothes do match.
David English and Pal Granlund who compiled Rebel With A Cause '56 and Brian Petersen who had independantly confirmed the date of the 4 early evening photos, one of which has Nick Adams in it wearing the same shirt as well that he does in the footage, offer pretty compelling reasons for accepting the 28th over and above any other date offered. That's not to say they couldn't be wrong.
That youtube clip is the same as the one I included above. I downloaded it and put it on this server just in case it stops being on youtube. The link doesn't like the time at the end so I'll try and fix that (&t=598s - I'll leave the time here so I can pop it back once fixed)
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