BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 12) Beach Boy Blues While the excitement of Elvis Presley’s Saturday concert at Bloch Arena had not yet subsided, the twenty-six-year-old rock’n’roll star once again found himself in the…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 11) Elvis Presley (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)…. At around 6:30 p.m., less than an hour before the arena doors opened (people were admitted at 7:15 p.m.), the crowds on the…
BLUE HAWAII– Blue Hawaii, Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 10) Ticket sales officially began on Monday, March 13, 1961. The first tickets, priced at three, three and a half, five and ten dollars, were sold at…
“His Hand In Mine” History of the recording and release of the first gospel album performed by Elvis Presley Gospel music (the name comes from the words “God Spell” and means the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ) is…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 9) Such A Night The first days of December 1941 turned out to be some of the most tragic in the history of the entire modern history of North…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 8) “Elvis Presley – Blue Hawaii”… The slowly ending second day of work on the songs for “Blue Hawaii” was crowned by two recordings. Based on the old (the…
Kissin’ Cousins – the double role of Elvis Presley In 1962, Elvis Presley’s manager, “Colonel” Tom Parker, promised in interviews that his protégé would only appear in two films within a year. However, his promises soon faded, and at the…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 7) “Elvis Presley – Blue Hawaii”… In an interview many years ago (for the For Elvis CD Collector website), Roy C. Bennett, co-writer of the next song recorded that…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 6) Elvis Presley “Blue Hawaii”… Unlike “Aloha Oe,” “Ku-UI-Po,” the next ballad recorded that day, didn’t have quite the same history. It was a new song after “Hawaiian Sunset,”…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula- (part 5) Hawaiian Sunset “You know , it’s about a guy who just got out of the army (interesting, right?) and then he falls in love with a bunch of…
BLUE HAWAII– Postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula-(part 4) Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii… In addition to the aforementioned actresses, a small cameo in Presley’s new film was also played by the then twenty-two-year-old Miss Arizona of 1959,…
BLUE HAWAII – A postcard production and… the beginning of the Presley formula Angela Lansbury (or rather Angela Brigid Lansbury, because that was her full name) was feeling completely different emotions. The London-born, distinguished film, stage and television actress who…
