
On the train from New York City to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Elvis Presley listens to the acetate (gramophone record made from the master tape) of “Hound Dog,” “Don’t Be Cruel,” and “Any Way You Want Me,” and hears his music as his fans will hear it on a cheap record player, 1956
by Alfred Wertheimer

Elvis Presley with a fan photographed by Alfred Wertheimer, 1956