The Jordanaires of rockabilly with "Blue Moon of Kentucky" it was his first live performance on national radio broadcast. He had just recorded his first record at Sun studios, That's All Right just a few weeks prior. An afternoon in 1955, the Jordanaires played a show in Memphis with Eddy Arnold to publicize their new syndicated TV series, "Eddy Arnold Time" (for the program the group used the name Gordonaires). They sang "Peace in the Valley", and when the show was over, Elvis Presley, an emerging singer, talked with them and said, "If I ever get a recording contract with a major
The Who Tour 1971 in the year. 1971 was also the first year the group performed with backing tapes, which allowed them to include the synthesizer tracks from both "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley" onstage. Recorded backing tracks would be used more extensively during the "Quadrophenia" tours in 1973–1974 and in later years for songs like "Who Are You", "You Better You Bet", and "Eminence Front". Live material from 1971 (excluding TV appearances where the band mimed to pre-recorded material) has appeared on a number of different releases: The band played at least six shows at London's Young Vic theatre between 4