"Elvis Has Left The Building" --- And So Will We!

In 2002 at the age of 86, Horace Lee Logan passed away. For those folks who are not country music fans, Mr. Logan was a popular disc jockey in the 1940’s and 50’s, who hosted a program called the “Louisiana Hayride.” The “Hayride” helped popularize a number of country music’s biggest stars, including Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, and a Tupelo truck driver named Elvis Presley.

At a 1956 “Hayride” performance, the audience refused to empty Shreveport Memorial Auditorium following an appearance by the soon-to-be “King of Rock ‘n Roll.”

In an effort to quiet and disperse the crowd, Mr. Logan stepped to the microphone and uttered a sentence that would quickly become the stuff of legend.....

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—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets