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A section for all you budding etymologists where each week the origin of a word or phrase is investigated.
seats”
This week it is..... Elvis has left the building
Al Dvorin was the regular stage announcer for Elvis
The show is over - go home.
This was announced at the end of Elvis Presley’s Presley during the 1970s. He picked up the phrase and
concerts to encourage fans to accept that there would his version can be heard on several live recordings:
be no further encores and to go home. It is now used “Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building. Thank
more widely to indicate that someone has made an exit you and goodnight.”
The use of this term and the fact that Elvis is probably the
or that something is complete.
Oddly, although the phrase was routinely used to most prominent celebrity to be known (despite claims
encourage the audience to leave, the first time that it to the contrary) to be unambiguously dead, have given
was announced it was to encourage them to stay in their rise to the verb ‘to Elvis’, that is, to make a sudden exit.
seats. That first use was in December 1956 by Horace The Kelsey Grammar sitcom ‘Frasier’ used a play on
Logan, who was the announcer at the Louisiana Hayride the line at the end of each show - “Frasier has left the
show, in which Elvis was a regular performer. Presley building.”
had very quickly become very popular with teenagers
but had previously taken a regular lowly spot at the Is there an English phrase or saying that you would
Hayride, which was his first big break. He was on the bill like to know more about?
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quite early in proceedings but after his performance was
over and the encore complete, the crowd of teenagers,
who weren’t Hillbilly enthusiasts, began to leave. Logan
announced:
“Please, young people ... Elvis has left the building. He
has gotten in his car and driven away ... Please take your
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