Archive for July 8th, 2009

Elvis’s career began 55 years ago today

by: admin July 8, 2009

Many people played an important rol in Elvis Presley’s career, and Dewey Phillips was certainly one of them. He was the one who, 55 years ago today, on July 8th 1954 gave Elvis’s very first single Thats All Right, a spin in his radio show Red, Hot & Blue, broadcast live from Hotel Chisca downtown [...]

Gospel Music Artists hold Branson Convention USA

by: admin July 8, 2009

The Branson Gospel Music Convention will be held July 14-17, 2009 at the Branson Convention Center in Branson, Missouri.
This four day event will celebrate the legacy of Southern Gospel Music and the artists who made it great, while featuring some of the best known and best up and coming artists in the nation. Southern Gospel [...]

Elvis was in the building

by: admin July 8, 2009

It’s not exactly a new Elvis sighting. But it does offer a bit more insight into the guy who became the king.
And it’s brought to you by Bellinda Myrick-Barnett, a 1966 Odessa
High graduate who went on to be Miss West Texas and Miss Texas as well
as a professional singer and actress. She tells the story [...]