Elvis pulling into the driveway of Graceland in 1969.

Today in Elvis Presley history on January 21, 1958 during Production of King Creole, Elvis Presley and Jan Shepard share a joke between takes at Paramount Studios, Hollywood.

“King Creole,” Elvis’ fourth motion picture opens nationally and the reviews are the best he will ever have for his acting. Its impressive list of co-stars and supporting cast includes Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger and Vic Morrow. It becomes a top five film at the box office. The movie is set in New Orleans and based upon the Harold Robbins novel, "A Stone for Danny Fisher." This is Elvis in his prime – The film will come to be regarded as one of the best Elvis movies, his greatest acting performance, and proof of his potential to have become a respected serious actor, though the realization of this desire will remain forever out of his grasp.

The Presley's moved to Lauderdale Courts, a public housing project in 1949. Their apartment number 328 was located at 185 Winchester Street. Without trying to draw attention too himself, Elvis starts to make new friends. He made friends with Evan "Buzzy Forbes and soon meets Buzz's friends Paul Dougher, Farley Guy and Jim Denson.

Evan "Buzzy" Forbes: "I've heard a lot about how protective Mrs. Presley was of Elvis, that he didn't go anywhere without or doing anything unless she gave her approval We would go out at night like normal kids. I can't say that Elvis' mother never followed him to school, but I never saw her go to School with him.

Buzzy said: Paul Farley, Elvis and I would walk across the bayou to and from school . A number of students with Humes High Schools class of 1953, pointed to Evan "Buzzy" Forbes as Elvis' best friend.

A number of people who knew Elvis in those years might term the quartet of Elvis Presley, Buzzy Forbes, Paul Dougher, and Farley Guy as "The Rat Pack".

Elvis Presley

January 18-22, 1971

Trousdale Estates

Elvis & Priscilla's trailer at The Circle G Ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi in 1967.

On January 17, 1956 Elvis Presley performed at the City Auditorium in Beaumont, Texas on the 17th of January 1956. He performed two shows, one at 7pm and one at 9pm, as part of the Hank Snow All Star Jamboree tour.

Before Elvis…..

January 16, 1971~ Fifty four years ago today, at age 36, Elvis was honored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of America as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year” at an awards ceremony in Memphis.

July 1956, coming home from Biloxi, MS