"ALAN'S FIRST TOUR
It was a hot summer night in July of 1971 when I ventured
to a North Seattle Tavern for the talent contest that would change my life.
After being coaxed by a group of friends I took a chance of being embarrassed about my most
personal lifetime dream. To stand up and sing Elvis songs in front of a large crowd.
The place was packed with 500 or more people on that Sunday talent night at Eagar’s Tavern. As I walked toward the stage I overheard many of the audience's comments like "Oh! I'm sure" "Look at the Little Elvis". By the time I got up to the stage I was sufficiently angered as to not worry about being embarrassed.
I not only ended up winning the talent contest but the club hired me to perform
one night a week. I took the house band into a Seattle studio "The Have A Nice Day Recording Studio" and recorded an EP called Alan Sings "A Tribute To Elvis".
It consisted of a medley of 6 of my favorite Elvis songs and I narrated between each song. I took it around to many Seattle nightclubs
and Talent agencies. Soon I was performing a Tribute To Elvis one night a week in several popular Seattle nightclubs.
Then (Finally) in 1973 a local Seattle booking agency sent me on a national tour that lasted 7 years, which included Las Vegas in addition to many cities worldwide where even Elvis himself never ventured.
The articles you are about to read summarize my first national tour and
picks up at my first truly professional booking. "The Spokane House" In that section I've added detail beginning with the talent contest and concluding after the owner of the Spokane House
personally flew in the owners of 3 major nightclubs on his circuit in order to get me to agree to a return engagement for New Years Eve 1974
Select the early Years tab for a much more detailed in fact an embellishment about how I got started.
Alan "The Early Years"
Early Reviews
DICK CLARK PRESENTS
"ALAN"
TBird Reviews
"I guess the biggest
Thing that ever happened in 1974
Was Dick Clark."
Tropicana
Years
Tropicana Reviews
"This group of articles
Feature
My performance
At the Tropicana."
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Alan featured in Elvis Presley's Magazine