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[the afternoon before the Louisiana Hayride, Jimmie Snow has brought a record with him and plays it on a turntable]
Hank Snow: Hey, Jimmie, turn that record off.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: Y'all have to hear this. Kids all over town are playing it everywhere I go.
[Jimmie turns up the volume - it's Elvis Presley covering Big Boy Crudup's song That's All Right]
Hank Snow: I hear Negro rhythms.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: But with a country flavor.
Hank Snow: Sun Records? That's Sam Phillips' label.
Colonel Tom Parker: Oh, yeah, Phillips. He makes all those race records with the colored singers.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: Well, this fella's on the Hayride tonight, after me in the newcomer spot.
Colonel Tom Parker: In Shreveport? No, they are not putting a colored boy on the Hayride.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: [smiling from ear to ear] That's the thing.
[beat]
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: He's white.
Colonel Tom Parker: [stunned] He's... He's white?
[to himself]
Colonel Tom Parker: He's white?
Hank Snow: Hey, Jimmie, turn that record off.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: Y'all have to hear this. Kids all over town are playing it everywhere I go.
[Jimmie turns up the volume - it's Elvis Presley covering Big Boy Crudup's song That's All Right]
Hank Snow: I hear Negro rhythms.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: But with a country flavor.
Hank Snow: Sun Records? That's Sam Phillips' label.
Colonel Tom Parker: Oh, yeah, Phillips. He makes all those race records with the colored singers.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: Well, this fella's on the Hayride tonight, after me in the newcomer spot.
Colonel Tom Parker: In Shreveport? No, they are not putting a colored boy on the Hayride.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: [smiling from ear to ear] That's the thing.
[beat]
Jimmie Rodgers Snow: He's white.
Colonel Tom Parker: [stunned] He's... He's white?
[to himself]
Colonel Tom Parker: He's white?
Full Transcript
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Hey jimmie turn that record off
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Y'all have to hear this
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Kids all over town are playing it everywhere I go
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I hear negro rhythms
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But with a country flavor
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Sun records That's Sam Phillips' label
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Oh yeah Phillips
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He makes all those race records with the colored singers
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Well this fella's on the hayride tonight
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after me in the newcomer spot
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In shreveport
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No they are not putting a colored boy on the hayride
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That's the thing He's white
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He's
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He's white
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What do you think texarkana
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Shall we play it for the 27th time
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Well that's all right mama
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that's all right for you
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Shall we play it for the 27th time
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Everybody's talkin' 'bout this new Presley kid
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That's all right
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That's all right that's all right
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He's white
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Movie Summary
The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
