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Speaker 1: Canst plea. I'm buzz night. On the next Taking a

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Speaker 1: Walk Music History on Foot podcast, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: Pat Boone. Oh.

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Speaker 2: I loved Elvis. We were two Tennessee boys. I was

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Speaker 2: in Nashville, he was from Memphis, and he opened for

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Speaker 2: me the first time we met. And not any other

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Speaker 2: entertainer can say that. But I had a six month

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Speaker 2: head start. In nineteen fifty five, I had three R

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Speaker 2: and V Cover Records million selling hits. When I headlined

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Speaker 2: the DJ sock Coop in Cleveland. Bill Raddle, the nation's

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Speaker 2: number one DJ, asked me to come in and headline

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Speaker 2: to sock Coop for six hundred and fifty kids in

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Speaker 2: high school, and he brought Elvis up, had him come

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Speaker 2: up from the Sreeport, Louisiana where he was on the

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Speaker 2: Louisiana Hay Ride doing country songs, trying to work R

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Speaker 2: and B flavor into them. He was an opening act

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Speaker 2: and he's saying, that's all right, mama, that's all right

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Speaker 2: with me, And that was R and B and they

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Speaker 2: loved that, and so did I. I was backstage and

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Speaker 2: I realized that's why RCA had just signed him.

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Speaker 1: That's next time on Taking a walk,