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…
Elvis Always Benefactor On Christmas Eve… when most of us were spending that special night with our families, Elvis went to jail. He visited all the prisoners regardless of their race, gender, creed and regardless of the seriousness of the alleged…
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…
“The King” and “The Boss” Did you know that Bruce Springsteen (The Boss) can be seen wearing an Elvis (The King) Fan Club badge on the cover of his classic 1975 album “Born To Run”? Elvis’s image is 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…
Elvis and Fashion Elvis was different in every way. His originality and innovation in every aspect of his life were his hallmark, and of course, so was his way of dressing. The King challenged all fashion norms during the 1950s.…
The Worst News… “Elvis died this morning” By Kathy Westmoreland Kathy Westmoreland…. It was raining in Los Angeles when I took Elvis Presley’s plane to join his next concert. There were about ten musicians and two from the Sweet Inspirations when…
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…
Elvis in Las Vegas 1956. The Artist’s Disappoinment The truth is that what happened in Las Vegas in April 1956 was not what Elvis expected a couple of weeks earlier, on April 23, when he made his debut at the…
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…
