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Elvis Aaron Presley was born into a poverty stricken family on January 8, 1935. He and his twin brother (Jessie Garon who died at birth) were the sons of Vernon and Gladys Love Smith Presley. Gladys Smith gave birth in two-room house built by her husband and her ....

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.... a better life. They lived in low - income housing. He buys his clothes on the famous, Beadle Street, and he absorbs the gospel and blues that he hears there. Elvis graduated from Hughes High School in 1953. He recorded an album for his mother as a present at Sun Records in 1954. In late 1955 his recording contract was sold to RCA Records. The songs that he recorded was " My Happiness and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". Sam Phillips, finally calls him in to record "Big Boy" Crudup's " That's All Right" and song was backed by "Blue Moon of Kentucky". By 1956, he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that uniquely combined his ....