KING CREOLE– Elvis’s best movie role –(Part 10) By Mariusz Ogieglo In early March, filming was moved from Los Angeles to New Orleans, a day’s journey away. However, before Elvis and the rest of the cast went on location filming in…
“It was the most beautiful car I had ever seen, the day I bought it I parked it outside my hotel and stayed up all night just looking at it.” Elvis Presley Elvis bought his first car as soon as…
Joyce Bova was a Capitol Hill staffer on the House Armed Services Committee when she first met Elvis in 1969 in Las Vegas during her vacation. The couple saw each other off and on, in various cities and even at…
AUGUST 24, 1956 20th Century-Fox’s stage 1, Hollywood. Producer: Lionel Newman/ Arranger: Ken Darby/ Engineers: Bob Mayer/Ken Runyon Guitar: Vito Mumolo/ Accordion: Dom Frontieri/ Bass: Mike “Myer” Rubin/ Drums: Richard Cornell/ Vocals: Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson/ Banjo: Luther Rountree, Charles…
“Ufff!! “I’m too scared to explode.” By Rosa García Mora Although the young Elvis, 21, would not have admitted it, you could feel it in him and hear it in his voice. Maybe because of the bright lights or the wee hours…
KING CREOLE– Elvis’ best movie role –(Part 9) By Mariusz Ogieglo New Orleans Even before filming of “King Creole” began, the film’s director, Michael Curtiz, repeated that he was afraid of working with Presley. As he said, he was afraid that…
FEBRUARY 21, 1956 Elvis did 4 shows on February 21, 1956 at the Florida Theatre, Sarasota, FL. The Sarasota newspaper called Elvis Presley “the most talked about new personality in the last 10 years of recorded music” (the most talked-about…
“The Sound Of Your Cry” By Rosa García Mora “The clock by the bed ticks, too loudly in the quiet night I lie in the dark thinking I must leave before dawn Before you open your eyes and beg me…
My encounters with Elvis in 1959 and 1960Sigrid Schutz I live in Mainz and on 24.5.1959 I went on a day trip to Bad Nauheim with acquaintances who owned a car at the time. As a raving Elvis fan, I…
KING CREOLE– Elvis’ best movie role –(Part 8) By Mariusz Ogieglo Recordings continued for almost the entire next day. ” Recording sessions are usually boring, unless the recording artist in the studio is a gentleman named Elvis Presley ,” remembered a Paramount…
On December 29, 1976, after offering his surprising recital in Dallas, Elvis appeared at the Birmingham Coliseum in Birmingham, Alabama. And once again he gives the public a performance remarkable for its energy, without reaching the dangerous voltage of the…
DECEMBER 15, 1956 Last show for the Louisiana Hayride at the Hirsch Youth Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. ‘Shreveport Times’: “…the revolving minstrel was practically not heard due to the deafening screams from the 9,000 fans who filled the Hirsch. The…
