Elvis Has Left the Building

On this day in 1956 Elvis played his final Louisiana Hayride show, and the legendary phrase was born, by Horace Logan at the end of the show. The Louisiana Hayride could have been the the Nashville of the South, however part of the advertising parameters prevented the musicians from performing on the show from advertising such. Many of its performers graduated on the the Grand Ole Opry, as the Hayride would embrace younger and new artists, whereas the Opry, as it still is today, was a little more snobbier.