Today, on 14 December in Elvis History

Somewhere during this period before Christmas Elvis made his first appearance in Gladewater, Texas. There was a show in the Mint Club, by Tom Perryman, a local DJ, who would book Elvis continually in the area around Texas, even during the next year.

Elvis and director Hal Kanter drove to Shreveport with Bitsy Mott, Gene and Junior Smith. They had dinner at the Trio Restaurant in Pine Bluff, Arkansas with Jim Ed and Maxine Brown. They left after midnight and arrived in Shreveport early in the morning where they checked into the Captain Shreve Hotel.

Again Elvis donated $55,000 for Memphis charities.

Elvis spent the weekend in Palm Springs.

Elvis returned to Los Angeles.

Elvis returned to Memphis, flying as Jon Burrows, along with Charlie Hodge, Sonny West and James Caughley, who traveled under their real names.

There was a session at the Stax Studios but around 3:00 a.m. Elvis found out there was no food ordered for the group and so he stopped. Only one song was recorded: Talk About The Good Times.