Elvis Presley turns into 'Elvis the Pelvis' on national TV

5 June 1956: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicThis wasn't Elvis's first TV appearance – six months earlier he'd featured on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show on CBS – but his performance on The Milton Berle Show was the one that saw him christened "Elvis the Pelvis".The kid from Mississippi was already a star in the south, but in front of an audience at NBC studios in Hollywood, he introduced himself to a wider world, singing I Want You, I Need You, I Love ...

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