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Elvis Presley Coursework 1. Study Source A. What can you learn from Source A about Elvis Presley 's impact on popular music in the USA in 1955? In Source A the magazine "Billboard" Presley is described as: "A Winner! Presley Hot As $1 Pistol" This statement means that Elvis is in demand and that he is popular and wanted as a musician by lots of different people. When Presley brought out two tracks in March 1955 (called Heartbreak Hotel and I Was The One) he went straight to number 2 in the charts, even though people knew that he was singing black style music. In number 1 place was Perry Como's jukebox Baby, Perry Como was a respectable, conforming, all-round nice guy of the time. So this Source tells us that despite the style of Presleys music he still was "good enough" to cause a worry to the existing, well loved singers of that...

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