| On January 10th 1956 Elvis Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville,The session produced "Heartbreak Hotel and I Was The One" it was released on January 27th,
The public reaction to "Heartbreak Hotel" prompted RCA to release it as a single in its own right (February 11).[77] By April it had hit number one in the U.S. charts, selling in excess of one million copies.
On March 23, RCA released Elvis Presley,first album.the majority of the tracks were country songs.The album went on to top the pop album chart for 10 weeks.
On April 1, Presley launched his acting career with a screen-test for Paramount Pictures. His first motion picture, Love Me Tender, was released on November 21
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