Sunday, June 05, 2005

This day in music history.

June 5, 1956, Elvis Presley appeared on the Milton Berle Show. While singing 'Hound Dog he wiggles his butt in a "suggestive gyrating movement". The media has a field day accusing Elvis and ABC of corrupting the nations youth with inappropriate sexual imagery. The next time Elvis appears on TV he is shown only from the waist up so the young girls could not see his hips. Elvis admits that when he "hears that music he just cant stop himself from moving like that". Some in the media and politics use this statement as proof that rock and roll casts an evil spell on children. Some call for a total ban on rock and roll.