COME WHAT MAY – 2-CD SET
What If RCA had released an LP album like our brandnew REEL TRAX release in November of 1966? We don ?t know for sure of course, but we assume that the view on Elvis ? career in the Sixties…
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ELVIS. "SHE'S NOT YOU"
ELVIS “SHE’S NOT YOU” The song was recorded on March 19, 1962, at Studio B in Nashville and released on July 17, 1962. “She’s Not You” reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the…
2-LP SET – ELVIS LIVE 1972
NEXT RELEASE 2-LP SET – ELVIS LIVE 1972 Capturing the best of the four shows with a “D” side similar to Colonel Parker’s “Bonus Tracks” style. April 9, 1972 – Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia April 10, 1972 – Richmond…
THE VOICE THAT SHOWED THE WORLD THAT IT WAS "DIFFERENT"
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…
LOVE ME TENDER – Elvis Presley's First Film Role (Part 9)
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"
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 (1965) – THE SINGLES
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.…
LOVE ME TENDER – Elvis Presley's First Film Role (Part 8)
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 AND HIS COUSIN BOBBY SMITH
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…
THE INDIAN HERITAGE OF ELVIS PRESLEY
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…
BEALE STREET, 1953 – "When It Rains It Really Pours"
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.…
LOVE ME TENDER – Elvis Presley's First Film Role (Part 7)
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…
