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Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, an inspiration to Elvis Presley among others, is born in Forest, Mississippi, USA.Full article:
Elvis Presley : The coloured folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and juke joints and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goose it up. I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw.?
(Source : interview in the Charlotte Observer, June 26, 1956)
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(Source : interview in the Charlotte Observer, June 26, 1956)