Elvis in The Army. On the way to Germany After completing his basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, Elvis set foot on German soil for the first time as a U.S. Army soldier on October 1, 1958. Elvis had departed…
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…
July 11, 1961. Elvis at the forefront of fashion Always at the forefront of fashion, Elvis commissioned Alan Fortas to purchase a pair of Renauld glasses, and Alan recounted how Presley managed to acquire this pair of glasses, which had…
JULY 3, 1957 A terrible accident ends the lives of Judy Tyler and her husband, actor Gregory Lafayette. Judith Mae Hess (her real name) had just finished filming “Jailhouse Rock” with Elvis Presley. After filming the movie, Judy and Greg…
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…
Elvis at the piano. June 29, 1956. Rehearsals for The Steve Allen Show When Alfred Wertheimer arrived at the midtown Manhattan loft to photograph Elvis’s rehearsal for NBC’s The Steve Allen Show, Elvis was in a corner of the studio,…
Joe Esposito Reveals The Great Mystery Joe Esposito: “…another great mystery is why Elvis never took advantage of the constant offers he received to perform outside the United States. It is generally believed that Colonel Parker put Kaos on these…
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,”…
Elvis Presley, Russwood Park, Memphis. July 4, 1956 On the evening of July 4, 1956, Elvis, Scotty Moore, Bill Black and DJ Fontana were tasked with headlining a charity concert at Russwood Park in Memphis in front of an estimated…
The show was for a good cause… The set list for the March 25, 1961 concert at Bloch Arena in Honolulu, HI, is a relic that links one of their greatest concerts with the construction of a memorial to those…
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…
