Elvis in Ottawa
Posted: September 30th, 2025, 10:24 am
April 3 1957
Elvis played Ottawa
and half of Parliament attended this concert instead of going to work
Elvis interviewed by Mac Lipson from CKOY radio backstage before Elvis' two shows - Elvis makes a political statement about the only way that the USA stopping people having a nice time is by turning communist...
Clips of the concert:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.2892575
articles:
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... ril-3.html
Gord Atkinson remembered Elvis unable to leave his dingy converted hockey dressing room because of the mobs outside the building, sitting quietly, eating a plain cheese sandwich, in between shows when he interviewed him before he introduced him onstage for the evening performance. Gord hosted a weekly program for teenagers CFRA called the Campus Corner where they had conducted a big rating contest to determine the most popular recording artist of the year and Elvis won by an overwhelming majority of votes.
After the interview Gord presented Elvis with a scroll on behalf of all the listeners of radio show.
Elvis played Ottawa
and half of Parliament attended this concert instead of going to work
Elvis interviewed by Mac Lipson from CKOY radio backstage before Elvis' two shows - Elvis makes a political statement about the only way that the USA stopping people having a nice time is by turning communist...
Clips of the concert:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.2892575
articles:
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... ril-3.html
Gord Atkinson remembered Elvis unable to leave his dingy converted hockey dressing room because of the mobs outside the building, sitting quietly, eating a plain cheese sandwich, in between shows when he interviewed him before he introduced him onstage for the evening performance. Gord hosted a weekly program for teenagers CFRA called the Campus Corner where they had conducted a big rating contest to determine the most popular recording artist of the year and Elvis won by an overwhelming majority of votes.
After the interview Gord presented Elvis with a scroll on behalf of all the listeners of radio show.