THE VOICE THAT SHOWED THE WORLD THAT IT WAS “DIFFERENT” “What’s in Him is the warmth, the particularity of communication,” says Peter Guralnick, whose two-volume biography of Elvis, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, stands as the definitive…
Don’t kill Elvis… The song “Love Me Tender” became such a hit that over the next years various myths and legends began to grow around it. Not always entirely true. One such story, very often reproduced in various sources…
I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET Elvis Presley’s first #1 is practically unknown, and yet, without him, the world would have been another. The legendary tale that Phillips, Keisker, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and Elvis Presley produced and recorded…
ELVIS AND THE BILLBOARD In 1965, the Beatles were still established as kings, while Elvis continued in his cinematographic exile. In this new article you will find anecdotes and great detail regarding the recordings that were published in single format.…
The long-awaited single with “Love Me Tender” on the A-side and the bravado sung ballad “Anyway You Want Me (That’s How I Will Be)” on the reverse appeared in stores only on September 28. And in just a few…
ELVIS PICTURES Elvis in 1951, at age 16, with his cousin Bobby James Smith (1941-1968), in the photo booth at Loew’s State Theatre, on Main Street, Memphis, where Elvis worked as an usher. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Bobby was…
ELVIS PRESLEY HISTORY Elvis’s great-great-grandmother, Morning White Dove (1800-1835), was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. She married William Mansell, a settler from West Tennessee, in 1818. William’s father, Richard Mansell, had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mansell is a…
FUN IN ACAPULCO EDITED 31-OCT-1963 ALBUM, RADIO RECORDERS – STUDIO B RCA NASHVILLE 1. MEXICO 2. EL TORO 3 MARGARITA 4. GUADALAJARA 5. FUN IN ACAPULCO 6. BOSSA NOVA BABY 7. LOVE ME TONIGHT 8. SLOWLY BUT SURELY 9. VINO,…
One night in the summer of ’53, as Elvis was sitting in the back of the “Flamingo,” a Beale Street nightclub, a young black pianist, Billy “The Kid” Emerson, approached him and they spent some time talking about music.…
A million orders for an album that hasn’t been released yet… Even if we agree with the critics who called Elvis’ first film role “small” (or even symbolic) and not “very demanding“, it must be noted here that Presley…
Elvis was never aware of the influence he had and continues to have on other artists, and the admiration they felt and feel for him. Always one of her biggest fears was, what would happen when he left… if…
LITTLE ROCK TOLD BY WHO WAS THERE T.H. Barton Coliseum Little Rock, Arkansas April 17, 1972. My mom nearly fainted when she saw the tickets and found out they were in ROW 3 on stage left. We had seen…
