Fond Memories of Idiocy, #1

Fond Memories of Idiocy, #1

I no longer remember if this was at the Miss America Pageant, and I’m not even 100% sure it was Bert Parks, but I do remember that either Bert or someone much like him decided to show what a regular guy he was by singing the Elvis anthem “Blue Suede Shoes” on TV. But because this was American TV in the mid-50s, he had to clean up the already stupid hyperbolic lyrics (“You can burn my house, steal my car, drink my liquor from an old fruit jar”) b…