Elvis (2022)
Kodi Smit-McPhee: Jimmie Rodgers Snow
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[the afternoon before the Louisiana Hayride, Jimmie Snow has brought a record with him and plays it on a turntable]
Hank Snow : Hey, Jimmie, turn that record off.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow : Y'all have to hear this. Kids all over town are playing it everywhere I go.
[Jimmie turns up the volume - it's Elvis Presley covering Big Boy Crudup's song That's All Right]
Hank Snow : I hear Negro rhythms.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow : But with a country flavor.
Hank Snow : Sun Records? That's Sam Phillips' label.
Colonel Tom Parker : Oh, yeah, Phillips. He makes all those race records with the colored singers.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow : Well, this fella's on the Hayride tonight, after me in the newcomer spot.
Colonel Tom Parker : In Shreveport? No, they are not putting a colored boy on the Hayride.
Jimmie Rodgers Snow : [smiling from ear to ear] That's the thing.
[beat]
Jimmie Rodgers Snow : He's white.
Colonel Tom Parker : [stunned] He's... He's white?
[to himself]
Colonel Tom Parker : He's white?
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Jimmie Rodgers Snow : [Holding up a 45 rpm record with a Sun label] Hot diggity dog, Billy, I got one! Can't believe it. Blow your socks off!