No doubt about it. Elvis Presley is still the king. Forty-one years old and though far from fat, definitely heavier than his posters and promotional photos would have you believe, Elvis still packs them in.

The amazing thing about it is that with tickets priced at $10 and $12.50, Elvis still puts on a show that gives the audience its money’s worth. Persons leaving last night’s concert at Freedom Hall Civic Center didn’t complain about the price of the tickets, much less the quality of the show. Elvis Live 1976.  It seems impossible but it was 20 years ago last December that RCA Victor bought Elvis’ recording contract from Sun Records for the then unheard of price of $10000. RCA issued its first Elvis recording Heartbreak Hotel and reissued all his records on Sun just in time for the holiday season. For the first four months of 1956, Elvis kept at least three of his records in the Top 10 across the nation. And at one time had six in the Top 10 of Billboard magazine.