THE BEST-SELLING RECORD OF ELVIS PRESLEY’S CAREER The soundtrack of “Blue Hawaii” enters the Billboard chart for a period of a year and a half, staying at number # 1 for 20 weeks, and only surpassed by “GI Blues” as…
COMBINING MUSICAL AND FILM CAREER “Wild in the Country,” co-starring Hope Lange, Millie Perkins and Tuesday Weld, made its national premiere on June 22, 1961 to mixed reviews. Like “Flaming Star,” it is a melodrama with few performances. musicals by…
LAST LIVE APPEARANCES UNTIL 1969 On February 25, 1961, Elvis appears in Memphis at a luncheon in his honor where he receives numerous recent awards and is shown to the press and other people who attend. A press conference follows.…
On September 8, 1960, filming and recording of the soundtrack for his sixth film, “Flaming Star,” for 20th Century Fox began. The film is a drama with just a couple of songs. Elvis plays the son of a white father…
NEW RECORDINGS AND THE TV SPECIAL WITH FRANK SINATRA STUCK ON YOU WOULD BE ELVIS’ FIRST Nº1 OF THE 60’S Elvis has his first recording session after Army on March 20, 1960. RCA is eager for its star to record…
LAST MONTHS IN GERMANY On January 8, 1960, Elvis did a second telephone interview with Dick Clark. Elvis throws a birthday party that includes 200 guests, including Priscila. Joe Esposito and others are presented with a trophy inscribed, “Elvis Presley.…
ELVIS AND PRISCILLA: FIRST MEETING On August 15, 1959, Captain Joseph Beaulieu moves from Texas to Wiesbaden Air Base, near Friedberg, Germany, accompanied by his wife and children, including his 14-year-old stepdaughter, Priscilla Ann. Priscilla is the only child from…
INTERVIEWS IN THE MILITARY SERVICE On January 8, Elvis is interviewed without cameras via transatlantic telephone by Dick Clark on “American Bandstand” on ABC-TV. The show serves to commemorate the star’s 24th birthday. Later in January, the family moves from…
GOODBYE TO GLADYS PRESLEY On August 8, Gladys Presley falls ill and returns to Memphis by train where she is hospitalized with acute hepatitis. Elvis is granted emergency leave and arrives in Memphis on the afternoon of August 12. He…
SOLDIER PRESLEY’S CONCERNS After the recording session in Nashville, Elvis returns to Fort Hood, where he continues his instruction and learning process. Everything and being in military service, the contact between manager and artist is permanent. The Colonel is in…
THE FILMING OF KING CREOLE In January 1958, once the Christmas holidays were over and his 23rd anniversary had been celebrated, Elvis left Memphis for California where he began filming his fourth film, an adaptation of the novel “A Stone…
ELVIS’S FIRST THREE PERFORMANCES IN THE ISLANDS In November 1957, Elvis boards the USS Matsonia bound for Honolulu. Col.Tom Parker has closed three performances that will take place between November 10 Elvis makes his first three appearances on an island…
