Category Elvis Presley

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…

“The real power behind Elvis” In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Elvis Presley’s ex-girlfriend Barbara Hearn reveals who the singer’s true guiding light was – and it wasn’t Colonel Tom Parker! Barbara and Presley had begun dating at…

“Elvis Presley: The Iconic 1957 Ottawa Performance That Shook Canada” Presley performed on stage at the Ottawa Auditorium, during the evening show, on April 3, 1957. Elvis arrived in town that same day. At last night’s performance in Toronto, Elvis…

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,…