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The day Elvis came to town
Imagine being a teenager in Miami in the mid 1950's.
If you turned on the radio you might have heard this, or this.
And for four straight weeks, starting in March of 1956, the number one best-selling single was a song called "The Poor People of Paris" by Les Baxter.
But in the last week of April, Baxter's song was knocked out of the number one spot by a song called "Heartbreak Hotel," sung