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Long Way From the Armory35teratAge Gap Ends Awhile:»IElvis Knocks 'Em ColdR«folraatBy JERRY McDAMEL “Poke Salad Annie ” So did theIt had been a long time since crowd. With Elvis shaking and daI’d seen Elvis Presley. The last the fans screaming, Presley m,time was at the old downtown brought the old songs out: All anArmory in early 1955. The Ar- Shook Up, Teddy Bear, Don't bemory is gone, but Elvis still Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel. tm1^, THEN A PAUSE, then Elvis IAt that time, he was just a )0U a*ni * 'Uttie lead-in act for a singer And the crowd responding withnamed Faron Young, and as it another scream. And --'vls Iturned out, ole Faron just about and ■*3™*. 1didn t get on that night, what don {„knoW what I m *onna with a stunned audience's reac- ^ djd md hcrt ftcame: “Hound Dog!” All right!;n;ELVIS ( AME back to Albu- More screams. More bouncing- riquerque Wednesday night, and il Up.nnd-down Faron had been here this time, j^p crowd*’ For anvone irhe wouldn’t have got on at all.i tion to Elvis’ action.nnaccustomed to going to rock When the band hit the intro for shows, it was unusual. There fi “C. C. Rider, and a white-clad were those kids who were at the a bejeweled Presley strode on Armory 17 years ago, only they y stage, it was obvious from the were 30-35 years old thi« time rr screams the applause, and the out. There was the young freaks bouneing-up-and-down girls that and the young straights. Pro-the same electricity that shock- bably as good a cross-section of A ed an Albuquerque crowd 17 Albuquerque as has turned out) years ago was still there. in such numbers in a long time.Elvis grabbed the sell-out IF ELVIS glanced at a 35-crowd of 11,847 fans with a shot year-old woman, she screamed, of C. C., set them up with If he glanced at her 13-year-old “Proud Mary,” and knocked daughter, she screamed. For e them out with a nostalgic i about an hour, the generation v presentation of “Love Me Ten- gap was gone.I never was that big an Elvis that fan. I don’t have an Elvis record v everyone has always heard in the house. But I never saw s about were held to a minimum anything quite like what hap- d during the first six numbers, but pened at Tingley Coliseum flt; Elvis let go when he came to Wednesday night. cdithThe body movements
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Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Apr 20, 1972
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