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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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45 rpm single record
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Gramophone record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Edison wax cylinder phonograph c. 1899
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Emil Berliner with disc record gramophone
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Hungarian Pathé record, 90 to 100 rpm
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Hollywood, California
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the Hollywood Boulevard – La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Label of an RCA Victor 78 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA manufactured 78s alongside the 45 until 1958.
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Label of an RCA Victor 45 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA used this label for its 45 RPM records from 1954 to at least 1964.
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RCA used this label for its American 45 RPM records during the Dynagroove era.
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RCA's LP label during the Dynagroove era was also used for 45 RPM records of the mid-to-late 1960s in countries such as Argentina, where this single was pressed.
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Songwriter and singer Chris de Burgh.
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Alan Parsons in an ESO 50th anniversary video.
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A Danish recording session
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Mixing Console
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Arthur Alexander
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Arthur Alexander was an American country songwriter and soul singer. Alexander wrote songs publicized by such stars as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Gerry, Alexander was born in Sheffield, Alabama. Working with Spar Music in Florence, Alabama, Alexander recorded his first single, Sally Sue Brown, under the name of June Alexander, a year later, Alexander cut You Better Move On at a former tobacco warehouse-turned-recording studio in Muscle Shoals. Released on Nashvilles Dot Records, the became a soul/R&B chart hit. You Better Move On is perhaps Alexanders best-known song, covered by the Rolling Stones, anna, a U. S. R&B Top Ten Hit, was covered by the Beatles and Humble Pie. Set Me Free were also major hits and established Alexander as an arranger of others tunes. Steve Alaimo was the first to record Alexanders Everyday I Have to Cry, Dusty Springfield also recorded the song for her first U. K. solo E. P. I Only Want to Be With You, released on 6 March 1964, in the mid-1960s, Alexander switched to another label, Sound Stage 7, but failed to find commercial success. Although a 1972 album for Warner Brothers was promising, the singers potential seemed to wither and he secured a pop hit with Every Day I Have to Cry Some on Buddah Records in 1975, but the success remained short-lived. The song was covered by Ike and Tina Turner, the McCoys, Dusty Springfield, Joe Stampley, C. J. Chenier, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Gentrys. For many years, Alexander was out of the music business, in 1990, he was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. He began to again in 1993 as renewed interest was shown in his small catalogue. His last album Lonely Just Like Me was his first in 21 years and he signed a new recording/publishing contract in May 1993 but suffered a fatal heart attack the following month, three days after performing in Nashville with his new band. Alexander is the only songwriter whose songs have been covered on albums by the Beatles. Go Home Girl was also recorded by Ry Cooder on his 1979 album Bop Till You Drop, Alexander, Jr at FindaGrave Alabama Music Hall of Fame Interview With Richard Younger, Get A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues, The Arthur Alexander Story
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Arthur Alexander, 1993, one of the last photos taken before his death
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B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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Victor 17929A and 17929B.
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My Ding-a-Ling
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My Ding-a-Ling is a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. It was covered by Chuck Berry in 1972 and became his only single in the United States. Later that year, in an unedited form, it was included on the album The London Chuck Berry Sessions. Guitarist Onnie McIntyre and drummer Robbie McIntosh who later that year went on to form the Average White Band and my Ding-a-Ling was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952 for King Records. When Bartholomew moved to Imperial Records, he re-recorded the song under the new title, Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling, in 1954, the Bees on Imperial released a version entitled Toy Bell. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey Jim Connors was credited with a record for discovering the song and pushing it to #1 over the airwaves. Billboard ranked it as the No.15 song for 1972, the song is based on the melody of the 19th century folk song Little Brown Jug. The song tells of how the singer received a toy consisting of silver bells hanging on a string from his grandmother, who calls them his ding-a-ling. According to the song, he plays with it in school, and holds on to it in situations like falling after climbing the garden wall. From the second verse onward, the lyrics consistently exercise the double entendre in that the toy bells could just as easily be substituted with a penis and the song would still make sense. In the live Berry version, Berry makes the chorus a call-and-response, in which the women in the audience sing “my” and the men respond by shouting “ding-a-ling. ”At one point, Berry notes that a few of the men are singing the womens parts and that some women are adding a harmony line, Berry allows and openly encourages it, exclaiming “its a free country. In the final verse, he admonishes those of you who will not sing by suggesting that they must be playing with own ding-a-ling, the lyrics with their sly tone and innuendo caused many radio stations to refuse to play it. British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse tried unsuccessfully to get the song banned, in Icons of Rock, Scott Schinder calls the song a sophomoric, double-entendre-laden ode to masturbation. Robert Christgau remarked that the song permitted a lot of new insight into the moribund concept of dirty. Berry refers to the song on the recording as our alma mater, even back in 1972, some stations would refuse to play the song on AT40, even when it reached number one. The controversy was lampooned in The Simpsons episode Lisas Pony, in which a Springfield Elementary School student attempts to sing the song during the talent show. He barely finishes the first line of the refrain before an irate Principal Skinner pushes him off the stage, the Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Billboard Books,2003, ISBN 978-0823076772 Guterman, Jimmy and ODonnell, Owen. The Worst Rock-and-Roll Records of All Time, New York, Citadel,1991, ISBN 978-0806512310 Lyrics
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"My Ding-a-Ling"
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Ballad
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A ballad /ˈbæləd/ is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally danced songs, Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in the Americas, Australia, Ballads are 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides, the form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century, the took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and is now often used for any love song. The ballad derives its name from medieval French dance songs or ballares, from which ballet is also derived, as a narrative song, their theme and function may originate from Scandinavian and Germanic traditions of storytelling that can be seen in poems such as Beowulf. Musically they were influenced by the Minnesinger, the earliest example of a recognizable ballad in form in England is Judas in a 13th-century manuscript. This means that the two words, ballad and ballet, are derived from the French language. Ballads were originally written to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines and these refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance. Most northern and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, known as ballad meter. Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed, there is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult. Ballads usually use the dialect of the people and are heavily influenced by the region in which they originate. Scottish ballads in particular are distinctively un-English, even showing some pre-Christian influences in the inclusion of elements such as the fairies in the Scottish ballad Tam Lin. The ballads do not have any known author or correct version, instead, having passed down mainly by oral tradition since the Middle Ages. The ballads remained a tradition until the increased interest in folk songs in the 18th century led collectors such as Bishop Thomas Percy to publish volumes of popular ballads. In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature, with a story, often concise, and rely on imagery, rather than description. Themes concerning rural laborers and their sexuality are common, and there are many ballads based on the Robin Hood legend. Another common feature of ballads is repetition, sometimes of fourth lines in succeeding stanzas, as a refrain, sometimes of third and fourth lines of a stanza and sometimes of entire stanzas
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Illustration by Arthur Rackham of the ballad " The Twa Corbies "
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A copy of Walter Scott 's The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
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Illustration by Arthur Rackham to Young Bekie.
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Painting based on The Beggar's Opera, Act III Scene 2, William Hogarth, c. 1728
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Elvis on Tour
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Elvis on Tour is a Golden Globe Award-winning American musical documentary film released by MGM in 1972. It was the thirty-third and final motion picture to star Elvis Presley before his death in 1977. A follow-up to the 1970 release Elvis, Thats the Way it Is, another musical documentary, Elvis on Tour also contains vintage footage of Presleys famous 1956 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and pre-tour rehearsal footage. It also includes footage of enthusiastic fan reactions scattered throughout the film, also included are portions of a forty-minute interview that Presley gave about his life and career before filming began. Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was unhappy with the inclusion of a scene which mocked Presleys acting career by showing screen kisses taken from a number of his previous films. According to the producers, it was a dig at the repetitiveness of these films by changing the background. Among those working on film were Martin Scorsese, who supervised montage sequences. The film was directed by Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel, the concert film reached #13 on the Variety National Box Office Survey. In general, documentaries were very rarely box office successes, however, despite costing upwards of $1.6 million to produce, most of which was Presleys $1 million fee, the film recouped its production costs after just three days in theaters. The 1997 VHS reissue was negatively criticized because of the lack of the images that were present on all previously released VHS copies of the film. Although Presley would be offered numerous roles over the next few years. Footage from Elvis on Tour would later be reused in the 1981 Elvis documentary This Is Elvis, the working titles of the film were Sold Out and then Standing Room Only, and a soundtrack album was planned with this title, but never released. All of the songs were performed by Elvis onstage unless otherwise noted. Many outtakes exist in the MGM vaults, including a performance of For The Good Times from the Hampton Roads. There was no album released to accompany the movie. However more recently some rehearsals and a complete show have been released by BMG, Elvis on Tour - The Rehearsals Elvis - Close Up Rehearsals and the four shows in their entirety have all been released unofficially. As part of the 75th birthday celebrations of Elvis Presley, Warner Bros. released a version of Elvis On Tour on DVD. However, the Johnny B. Goode live recording over the credits was replaced with a live recording of Dont Be Cruel due to copyright issues
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Elvis on Tour
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Travis Tritt
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James Travis Tritt is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums, in the 2000s, he released two albums on Columbia Records and one for the defunct Category 5 Records. Seven of his albums are certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America, the highest-certified is 1991s Its All About to Change, Tritts musical style is defined by mainstream country and Southern rock influences. In addition, he has received four awards from the Country Music Association, James Travis Tritt was born in Marietta, Georgia on February 9,1963 to James and Gwen Tritt. He first took interest in singing after his churchs Sunday school choir performed Everything Is Beautiful, at age fourteen, his parents bought him another guitar, and he learned more songs from his uncle, Sam Lockhart. Later on, Tritt joined his band, which occasionally performed at other churches nearby. Tritt began writing music while he was attending Sprayberry High School, his first song composition and he performed this song for his friends, one of whom complimented him on his songwriting skills. He also founded a group with some of his friends. During his teenage years, Tritt worked at a furniture store and he lived with his mother after she and his father divorced, they remarried each other when he was eighteen. He worked at an air conditioning company while playing in clubs, Tritts father thought that Tritt would not find success as a musician, while his mother thought that he should perform Christian music instead of country. Through the assistance of Warner Bros. Records executive Danny Davenport, the two worked together for the next several years, eventually putting together a demo album called Proud of the Country. Davenport sent the demo to Warner Bros. representatives in Los Angeles, nashville division, which signed Tritt in 1987. Davenport also helped Tritt find a talent manager, Ken Kragen, at first, Kragen was not interested in taking an entry-level act, but he decided to sign on as Tritts manager after Kragens wife convinced him. Tritts contract with Warner Bros. meant that he was signed to six songs. According to the contract, he would not be signed on for an album unless one of the three singles became a hit. His first single was Country Club, recorded in late 1988 and released on August 7,1989, the song spent 26 weeks on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, peaking at number nine. It was the track to his 1990 debut album Country Club. The month of its release, Tritt burst a blood vessel on his vocal cords, Second single Help Me Hold On became his first number one single in 1990. S
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Travis Tritt at Celebrate Virginia Live, 2009
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John Stamos
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John Phillip Stamos is an American actor and musician. He first gained recognition for his role as Blackie Parrish on General Hospital for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He is known for his work in television, especially in his role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House. Since the shows finale in 1995, Stamos has appeared in numerous TV films, since 2005, he has been the national spokesperson for Project Cuddle. From 2005 to 2009, Stamos had a role on the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Tony Gates. In September 2009, he began playing the role of Albert in the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie, from September 2015 to 2016, Stamos starred as the lead character in the Fox sitcom Grandfathered. As of 2015, he has been producer of the Netflix series Fuller House, as well as making occasional appearances. Stamos was born in Cypress, California, the son of Loretta, a model, and Bill Stamos. His father was of Greek descent, with roots in Santorini, Stamos began his acting career with the role of Blackie Parrish on the soap opera General Hospital in late January 1982, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984. That April, he went on to the role in the short-lived CBS sitcom Dreams. Later, he played a cast role in the sitcom You Again. with Jack Klugman, in the late 1980s, ABCs Full House gradually became a hit, and the show solidified Stamoss career. He asked that the characters last name be Katsopolis to highlight his Greek heritage, according to show creator and he played one of the shows protagonists, Jesse, who lives with his brother-in-law, whose deceased wife was Jesses older sister. Dannys best friend, Joey, also lives in the house with them, the three help each other raise three young girls. Jesse is known to be the bad boy at first until he falls in love with and marries Rebecca Donaldson and has twin boys, Nicky, in 1995, after eight seasons, the series came to an end. Stamos has since maintained close relationships with co-stars Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, Jodie Sweetin, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Andrea Barber, Stamos has appeared in numerous made-for-television films, stage productions, television series, and commercials. He had starring roles in the television series Thieves and Jake in Progress, both shows ran for several episodes before cancellation. Stamos was a guest star in a episode of MTVs The Andy Milonakis Show. He took part in one skit, which featured him in a tree, having rabies
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Stamos at the PaleyFest 2013 panel for The New Normal
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Stamos in February 1990
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Stamos playing with The Beach Boys at Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2014
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Lilo & Stitch
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Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at the Florida animation studio located at Disneys Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World near Orlando, the success of the film eventually started a franchise, a direct-to-video sequel, Stitch. The Movie, was released on August 26,2003 and this was followed by a television series, Lilo & Stitch, The Series, which ran from September 20,2003 to July 29,2006. A second direct-to-video sequel, Lilo & Stitch 2, Stitch Has a Glitch, was released on August 30,2005, a third sequel, a television film titled Leroy & Stitch, was released on June 23,2006, as the conclusion to the TV series. An anime that succeeded Lilo & Stitch, The Series, Stitch, ran in Japan from October 8,2008 to June 19,2011, with TV specials broadcast in 2012 and 2015. A Chinese animated series succeeding the Stitch, anime, Stitch & Ai, debuted on March 27,2017. Other animation studios produced the films and series, Stitch. The Movie, Lilo & Stitch, The Series and Leroy & Stitch were produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, Stitch Has a Glitch was produced by DisneyToon Studios, Dr. However, Jumba is imprisoned while Experiment 626 is supposed to be exiled on a desert asteroid. 626 manages to escape in a spaceship and activates the hyperdrive, causing its guidance systems to malfunction, the Grand Councilwoman dispatches Jumba and Agent Pleakley, the Councils Earth expert, to the planet to have 626 captured discreetly. 626 lands on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, only to be knocked unconscious by a passing truck, on Kauaʻi, a young woman named Nani has been struggling to take care of her rambunctious younger sister, Lilo. A social worker named Cobra Bubbles expresses increasing concern that Nani has not been able to take care of Lilo. Nani is confused and disgusted by the dog and questions Lilos decision, Lilo names 626 Stitch and shows him around the island. As Nani attempts to find a job, Lilo tries educating Stitch about Elvis Presley. In spite of this, Stitchs antics, including foiling Jumba and Pleakleys attempts to capture him, Nanis friend, David, invites Nani and Lilo to take a break and enjoy a day of surfing. While Nani, Lilo and Stitch ride on a wave, Jumba makes one final effort to capture Stitch from underwater, causing Nani to wipe out. Although everyone gets safely to shore, Cobra witnesses this event, telling Nani that although she means well. After seeing how much trouble he has caused, Stitch leaves, meanwhile, the Councilwoman relieves Jumba and Pleakley of their assignment, freeing Jumba to pursue Stitch using less covert methods. The next morning, David tells Nani of a job opportunity, Stitch, hiding in the nearby woods, encounters Jumba, who chases Stitch back to Lilos house
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Theatrical release poster
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A 1985 concept sketch of Stitch by creator Chris Sanders
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What the World Needs Now Is Love (album)
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What the World Needs Now Is Love is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Wynonna Judd, released in 2003 as her first album for Curb / Asylum Records. It produced four singles, the first of these, which was the title track. It was followed by Heaven Help Me at #37 and Flies on the Butter at #33. The fourth and final single, a cover of Foreigners I Want to Know What Love Is, did not enter the country charts, also covered on this album is Elvis Presleys Burning Love, Wynonnas cover was previously included in the soundtrack to the 2002 film Lilo & Stitch. Additionally, You Are was featured in the soundtrack to the 2003 film Someone Like You, finally, Flies on the Butter was previously recorded by Lari White on her 1998 album Stepping Stone
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Bump 'n' Grind (The 69 Eyes album)
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This is the official discography and videography for the Finnish band The 69 Eyes. This page includes all studio albums as well as compilation and live albums, also it features the singles the band has released and the compilation albums they have been included in. High Times, Low Life Music for Tattooed Ladies & Motorcycle Mamas Vol 1 Velvet Touch Love Runs Away Sugarman Barbarella Juicy Lucy High Times, supershow Gothic Girl Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams Helsinki Vampires
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The 69 Eyes at the M'era Luna Festival
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Eric Sardinas
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Eric Sardinas is an American blues-rock slide guitarist born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is noted for his use of the resonator guitar. He sometimes sets his guitar alight on stage and during shows, in 2000 in Sydney, Sardinas suffered third degree burns to his left wrist. Sardinas began to play the guitar at age six and leaned toward vintage recordings by such Delta bluesmen as Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Big Bill Broonzy, Elmore James, although he was left-handed, he eventually started to play right-handed. In 2002, he was featured on the Bo Diddley tribute album Hey Bo Diddley - A Tribute, performing the song Ride On Josephine. He signed to Steve Vais Favored Nations record label and was the act for Vais The Real Illusions Tour 2005 around the world. In 2008, Sardinas released Eric Sardinas and Big Motor on Steve Vais Favored Nations record label in the U. S
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Sardinas in 2008
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Amanda Lear
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Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model. Lear grew up in the south of France and in Switzerland and she began her professional career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and went on to model for Paco Rabanne and Ossie Clark among others. Around that time she met the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and would remain his closest friend, Lear first came into the public eye as the cover model for Roxy Musics album For Your Pleasure in 1973. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she was a disco queen, mainly in Continental Europe and Scandinavia. Lears first four albums earned her popularity, charting in the Top 10 on European charts. Her biggest hits included Blood and Honey, Tomorrow, Queen of Chinatown, Follow Me, Enigma, in the mid-1980s Lear positioned herself as one of the leading media personalities in mainland Europe, especially in Italy and in France where she hosted many popular TV shows. Amandas 1980s musical output saw her experimenting with different genres and trying to revive her career by re-recording earlier hits to various levels of success, 1980s also saw her release two books, an autobiography My Life with Dalí and a novel LImmortelle. Since the 1990s her time has been divided between music, television, movies and painting, despite frequent album releases, she failed to achieve success on charts with her music. However, her career remained successful, with Lear hosting numerous prime time TV shows, occasionally making guest appearances in French. She has also performed acting and dubbing roles in independent as well as major film productions, in the late 2000s Lear would reinvent herself as a theatrical actress, performing in long-running stage plays in France. To date, she has sold over 25 million singles and 15 million albums worldwide, Lear is also a widely recognized gay icon. Lears origins are unclear, with the singer herself providing different information about her background, contested facts include her birth date and place, her birth gender, names and nationalities of her parents, and the location of her upbringing. Most sources claim 18 November 1939 to be her date, including GEMA. During a 2010 interview with a French newspaper Libération, Lear presented her identity card to a journalist and this date seems to be age fabrication, as public records show that she began university in September 1964, and that she married in December 1965. She was a child to her parents who later divorced. Most sources, including Lears 1965 wedding certificate, confirm that her father was a French army officer and her mother appears to have had a Russo-Asiatic background. In a 1976 interview with Carmen Thomas for a German television show, Lear confirmed that her father was British and mother was Russian, however, she would later claim her mother had a French background. In her book, April Ashleys Odyssey, she recalls Lear performing drag acts under the stage name Peki dOslo
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Amanda Lear in France, 2011.
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Salvador Dalí had a profound impact on Lear's painting career as well as her personal life
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Amanda Lear in 2010
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My Happiness (album)
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My Happiness is a studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released on March 17,2014 by the independent label Boomlover. The album is a tribute to Elvis Presley and my Happiness features thirteen songs previously performed by Presley, and is Lears third album consisting exclusively of cover versions, after A L and With Love. Lear announced working on a new album in May 2013, via her official Facebook page, the recording sessions would eventually continue into November at Studio Entouka in Paris, and the album received its release in March 2014. Suspicious Minds was released as the first single in an edited version, the music video, directed by Thibault Guerin, was released on 13 March. The album itself charted on French Physical and Digital Albums Chart, the deluxe version of the album was released in November 2014, and included dance remixes of selected songs as well as the previously unreleased cover of Love Me Tender
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STS-123
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STS-123 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station which was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-123 was the 1J/A ISS assembly mission, the original launch target date was 14 February 2008 but after the delay of STS-122, the shuttle was launched on 11 March 2008. The mission set a record for a shuttles longest stay at the ISS, STS-123 delivered the pressurized section of the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module as well as the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator to the International Space Station. The SPDM was delivered disassembled on a Spacelab Pallet and assembled during three spacewalks once it was at the station, in August 2007, STS-123 crew members participated in crew equipment interface tests for the ELM-PS at Kennedy Space Center. Processing continued on schedule for Endeavours launch in early 2008, NASA engineers applied the same ECO sensor modifications used on STS-122s external tank, to Endeavours tank. In January, a HEPA filter contamination issue was discovered, but was resolved, on 11 February 2008, Endeavour was rolled over to the Vehicle Assembly Building in preparation for mating with the external tank and solid rocket boosters. The Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, a dress rehearsal for launch with the crew. The first flight day is the day of launch for the astronauts and that day started at the launch site on 10 March 2008, with the actual launch in the early hours of the 11th and the astronauts going to bed several hours after launch. 10 March 2008 is called flight day 1 by NASA, even though the mission launched on 11 March. Endeavour launched on time at 02,28,14 EDT early into the night of 11 March 2008, the Flash Evaporator System switched from its primary controller to the backup controller during launch, and instrumentation for a few left-side control thrusters was lost due to a card failure. These anomalies were not expected to affect the mission, the shuttle closed in on the space station. The crew used a 50 ft laser-tipped boom to inspect its wings, the inspection has been standard procedure ever since the 2003 Columbia accident. Flight director Mike Moses said a quick look at the images the astronauts beamed down to Earth revealed no signs of trouble, in addition to performing the inspection, the astronauts also prepared their spacesuits for the five planned spacewalks and gathered the tools they would need for the docking. Docking occurred at 03,49 UTC and the hatches between the two spacecraft were opened at 05,36 UTC on, after docking the pallet carrying Dextre was moved to the Payload ORU Accommodation of the Mobile Base Station by Canadarm. Spacewalkers Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman worked on installing Dextre, however, the Spacelab pallet carrying the SPDM would not power up. Engineers on the ground tried a software patch, though later suspected a design flaw in Dextres temporary power cable caused the issue. Crew members on board Endeavour used a robotic arm to remove the Japanese Logistics Module – Pressurized Section from Endeavours cargo bay, the JLP was attached to its interim location on the Harmony module at 08,06 UTC. The crew spent time outfitting the Japanese Logistics Module, transferring supplies, the station’s arm operators grappled the Canadian-built Dextre Friday at 01,59 UTC
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The launch of STS-123, at 06:28 UTC on 11 March 2008.
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JEM Kibo ELM-PS in the Space Station Processing Facility
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JEM Kibo ELM-PS and DEXTR on ISS after STS-123
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Crazy Love (2007 film)
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Crazy Love is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was shown at the Seattle International Film Festival before going into limited release in the US. It later was shown at the Reykjavik International Film Festival, the Raindance Film Festival in the UK, an opening quotation from Jacques Lacan makes you think you’re headed for deep waters, when all that’s in store is a frolic in the shallows. Belongs to that class of documentaries that might be called the family freak show, but it also belongs to the more familiar category of the misery documentary, those nonfiction works that poke into the ghastliness of other people’s lives like a finger rummaging inside a wound. It also raises more questions than it answers, including the moral responsibility a documentary filmmaker assumes when his subjects seem so eager to exploit themselves. Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times said, In tone and suspense, Crazy Love feels like a noir thriller, for a film about a story as lurid as this, however, Crazy Love is surprisingly sensitive. You dont get the sense that the material is being exploited for its sensational qualities, what emerges instead is a fascinating portrait of two complex and damaged people forced to deal with the consequences of their actions. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Tamara Straus opined the film was among the weirdest explorations of connubial relationships since Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and like Edward Albees 1962 play, it leaves one feeling queasy about human nature. The film bogs down at points, making one wonder, Why care about these two nutballs, do we really need another voyeuristic study of the sad and dysfunctional. Fortunately, the third act delivers. It was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Feature, list of American films of 2007 Crazy Love at the Internet Movie Database Official website For Worse and for Better, Documenting an Obsession, New York Times article
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Kurt Russell
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Kurt Vogel Russell is an American actor. He began acting on television in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, in the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company where, according to Robert Osborne, he became the studios top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Silkwood. A and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis, also directed by Carpenter. Russell starred in films, including Overboard, Tombstone, Stargate, Death Proof. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Russell is the son of actor Bing Russell and he has three sisters, Jill, Jamie and Jody. In 1969, he graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in southern California and his sister Jill is the mother of baseball player Matt Franco. On April 24,1963, Russell guest starred in the ABC series Our Man Higgins and he played Peter Hall in the 1963 episode Everybody Knows You Left Me on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry The Eleventh Hour. Later, he played the character in the ABC western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. In NBCs The Virginian, he played the mistaken orphan whose father was an outlaw played by Rory Calhoun who was still alive, Russell played a similar role as a kid named Packy Kerlin in the 1964 episode Blue Heaven for the western series Gunsmoke. He appeared in five episodes of Daniel Boone in various roles, at age 13, Russell played the role of Jungle Boy on an episode of CBSs Gilligans Island, which aired on February 6,1965. He guest-starred on ABCs western The Legend of Jesse James, in 1966, Russell played a 14-year-old Indian boy, Grey Smoke, adopted by the Texas Rangers in the episode Meanwhile, Back at the Reservation of the NBC western series Laredo. In the story line, he works for a gang, but the Rangers take him under their wing. In 1966, Walt Disney wrote Kurt Russell on a piece of paper as his final words, in January 1967, Russell played Private Willie Prentiss in the episode Willie and the Yank, The Mosby Raiders in Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color. While filming the Sherman Brothers theatrical film musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, flippen and Tom Tryon appeared in the episode Charade of Justice of the NBC western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan. In a March 1966 episode of CBSs Lost in Space entitled The Challenge, he played Quano, in 1971, he co-starred as a young robber released from jail, alongside James Stewart in Fools Parade. Later, he guest-starred in an episode of Room 222 as an high school student who assumed the costumed identity of Paul Revere to warn of the dangers of pollution. In 1966, Russell was signed to a contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he became, according to Robert Osborne. Russell, like his father, had a baseball career, while in the field turning the pivot of a double play early in the season, the incoming runner at second base collided with him and tore the rotator cuff in Russells right shoulder
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Russell in 2015
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Russell in 2005
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Russell at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
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Ronnie McDowell
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Ronald Dean Ronnie McDowell is an American country music artist. He is best known for his 1977 song The King Is Gone, a tribute to Elvis Presley, from that single onward, McDowell charted more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts. Two of his singles – Older Women and Youre Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation — reached Number One on the country charts and he has also released more than twenty studio albums, and has been signed to Curb Records since 1986. The record took off immediately, gaining airplay on country and pop radio stations across the United States and it peaked at number thirteen on Billboards Hot 100 singles, and became a gold record. In January 1978, McDowell performed the song on the NBC special Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday, to date, The King Is Gone has sold more than 5 million copies. He actually recorded thirty-six songs, but not all of them were used in the film, McDowell also sang the Elvis vocals for the 1981 TV movie Elvis and the Beauty Queen and for the 1988 TV miniseries Elvis and Me. All of the Elvis vocals for the 1990 TV series Elvis were performed by McDowell, McDowell also contributed to the 1997 Showtime special, Elvis Meets Nixon. As a boy of eight, McDowell first saw Elvis in the 1958 movie King Creole, McDowell scored a second hit for the Scorpion label entitled I Love You, I Love You, I Love You before being signed by CBS Records Epic in 1979. McDowell charted a string of hit singles and albums for Epic between 1979 and 1986, every single release, except one, became a Top 10 hit, including Older Women and Youre Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation. Other hits during his Epic years included Watching Girls Go By, Personally, You Made A Wanted Man Of Me, Wandering Eyes, All Tied Up, McDowell toured constantly to support each album release, and consequently built a large fan base throughout the country. He sought the advice of such as Conway Twitty, who became his mentor. Twitty helped the singer with advice about touring, recording and entertaining the fans. Moving to Curb Records in 1986, McDowell scored a Top 10 hit with Its Only Make Believe, initially a member of McDowells back-up band would substitute for Twitty during live performances. Recently, however, McDowell has performed the live with Twittys prerecorded voice. Two years later, McDowell teamed up with Jerry Lee Lewis for a duet that McDowell wrote and he also recorded yet another Top 10 hit with his cover version of the pop standard Unchained Melody, which also became a No.1 country music video. He started appearing in venues and touring with artists such as Conway Twitty, Tammy Wynette. In January 2017 McDowell collaborated with Richard Lynch on a military tribute duet Love Tattoo, the sales of the single benefit American Veterans through the Love Tattoo Foundation established by Richard Lynch. McDowell often toured with The Jordanaires, Millie Kirkham, and one of Elvis Presleys original sidemen and they stage a no-jumpsuit tribute to Presleys music and life
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Ronnie McDowell presenting his Reflections of a King print during a concert in Florida, 2007.
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The Golden Girls
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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14,1985, to May 9,1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and it was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards and it also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four received a Emmy Award, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top-10 highest-rated programs for six of its seven seasons, in 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, the series revolves around four older, single women sharing a house in Miami, Florida. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothys 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo, after the retirement home where she lived burned down. The pilot episode featured a gay character named Coco, who worked as a cook for the women, after six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and the seventh season at number 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanches Uncle Lucas, Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers, as of 2016, it was the 17th-most watched television finale. Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a flight attendant. According to the timeline presented, Dorothy and Stan would have had three children, with their oldest son or daughter near 40 by the beginning of the series. However, due to a lack of continuity in the writing, Michael and Kate were repeatedly shown as being in their 20s during the run of the show, thus not being old enough to be the child with whom Dorothy got pregnant in high school. In the series episode, Dorothy marries Blanches uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth. Arthur also played Dorothys grandmother, Sophias mother, in an episode to when they lived in Brooklyn. Upon Charlies death, she moved to Miami and she eventually found work at a grief counseling center, though she later ended up as the assistant to a consumer reporter at a local TV station. In later seasons, Rose became romantically involved with college professor Miles Webber, during season six, Miles was placed into the Witness Protection Program, but returned later in the season. Their relationship continued throughout the series, and shortly into the sequel series, in season one, Rose is stated to be 55
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Main characters in the final scene from the season two episode "Big Daddy's Little Lady" (from left): Estelle Getty as Sophia, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, Betty White as Rose, and Beatrice Arthur as Dorothy
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Rue McClanahan in 2007
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Miami skyline as used for the season one title card
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The Golden Girls Disney Legends plaque at Walt Disney Studios
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Talk show
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A talk show or chat show is a television programming or radio programming genre in which one person discusses various topics put forth by a talk show host. Usually, guests consist of a group of people who are learned or who have experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times, a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts, a call-in show takes live phone calls from callers listening at home, in their cars, etc. Sometimes, guests are already seated but are introduced and enter from backstage. There have been many notable talk show hosts, in many cases, there are several major formats of talk shows. Generally, each subgenre predominates during a specific programming block during the broadcast day, Breakfast chat or early morning shows that generally alternate between news summaries, political coverage, feature stories, celebrity interviews, and musical performances. Late morning chat shows that two or more hosts or a celebrity panel, and focus on entertainment and lifestyle features. Daytime talk shows, generally featuring a host, a guest or a panel of guests, and these shows may feature celebrities, political commentators, or ordinary people who present unusual or controversial topics. The hosts are often comedians who open the shows with comedy monologues, Sunday talk or political discussion shows are a staple of network programming in North America. These shows feature elected political figures and candidates for office, commentators, syndicated daytime shows may appear overnight in some markets, and some afternoon programs have similar structures to late night talk shows. These formats may vary across different countries or markets, Late night talk shows are especially significant in the United States. Breakfast television is a staple of British television, the daytime talk format has become popular in Latin America as well as the United States. Talk-radio host Howard Stern also hosted a show that was syndicated nationally in the USA. The tabloid talk show genre, pioneered by Phil Donahue but popularized by Oprah Winfrey was extremely popular during the last two decades of the 20th century, politics are hardly the only subject of American talk shows, however. Sports talk shows are very popular ranging from high-budget shows like The Best Damn Sports Show Period to Max Kellermans original public-access television cable TV show Max on Boxing. Craigslistin in Philly is a show you can attend at Plays & Players theatre in Philadelphia. The host is Aaron and they comment on and invite acts, to be considered one just has to post on craigslist mentioning the show in your post helps. Talk shows had been broadcast on television since the earliest days of the medium, joe Franklin, an American radio and television personality, hosted the first television talk show
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Dick Cavett and Jack Paar
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Viva Elvis
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Viva Elvis was the seventh resident Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip. It resided at the Aria Resort & Casino and premiered on February 19,2010, the show closed on August 31,2012. Cirque du Soleil partnered with Elvis Presley Enterprises to produce this show, CKX, Inc. the company that owns the rights to Elvis Presleys name, likeness, and music publishing, signed an agreement to have Cirque du Soleil create the Elvis-themed residency show. The gala premiere was scheduled for January 2010 on what would have been Elvis 75th birthday. CKX and Cirque du Soleil eventually intended to develop additional touring shows, due to low attendance records for Viva Elvis, MGM Resorts asked Cirque du Soleil to replace the show. The show had its performance on August 31,2012. On March 7,2012, Cirque du Soleil announced that following its second Radio City Music Hall engagement, the Elvis Theater was designed with a conventional proscenium layout reminiscent of an opera house. The stage had 16 platforms, divided into 12 sections which could rise 10 feet, the shows opening scene contained a jukebox made of chrome and gloss black which is 70 feet wide by 22 feet high. It also incorporated a 50-foot-tall video screen, also seen during the opening, a 29-foot-long, blue suede shoe weighed 7,000 pounds and was made of steel and fiberglass. During Got a Lot of Livin to Do, seven trampolines were utilized, the entire structure took up the entire width of the stage and weighed 30 tonnes. The set for the Jailhouse Rock scene was based on the requirements for a circus art called marche inversée. It had ten tracks that allowed acrobats to walk upside down, attached by their feet, while dancers performed right side up on other levels, the acts for Viva Elvis were staged to the music of Elvis Presley. The wardrobe collection as a whole contained nearly 400 costumes and around 1,500 costume components, part of this total came from more than 450 pairs of shoes and 150 custom wigs. Cirque du Soleil, for the first time, used flocking to create some of the accessories, some of the several wigs used for the show were created using urethane foam, which gave them the appearance of Japanese manga. The music for Viva Elvis was created in partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the soundtrack album, which was released on November 5,2010, was released under Sony Legacy Recordings and was produced by Erich van Tourneau. Official Cirque du Soleil site Official site for Viva Elvis Album
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series
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Lilo & Stitch, The Series is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. It premiered on September 20,2003 on ABC as part of ABC Kids, the series ended on July 29,2006 after airing 65 episodes in two seasons. A sequel spin-off of the 2002 feature film Lilo & Stitch, the Movie, it was the first of three television series produced in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. It was aired on Disney Channel worldwide, but has only released on DVD in full in Japan. The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumbas missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong. Meanwhile, the former Captain Gantu and his reluctant partner, Experiment 625, running for two seasons, it had a total of 65 episodes. The storyline of The Series concluded with the Disney Channel broadcast of the television film Leroy & Stitch on June 23,2006, Stitch – One of the two lead characters, also known as Experiment 626. After finding out about his 625 other experiment cousins, he and Lilo set out to them, reform them to good. He also learns more about life on Earth along the way, Lilo Pelekai – The other lead character, she is Stitchs owner and best friend. She assists Stitch in finding his cousins, naming them, Dr. Jumba Jookiba – The creator of the many genetic experiments, which includes Stitch, he lives with the Pelekai ʻohana after being exiled to Earth in the original film alongside Pleakley. He plays the role of Lilo and Nanis uncle in the ʻohana and he frequently assists Lilo and Stitch in capturing the experiments, usually by providing them with various tools he creates. Pleakley – A former agent for the United Galactic Federation, he lives with the Pelekai ʻohana after being exiled to Earth in the film alongside Jumba. He plays the role of Lilo and Nanis aunt in the ʻohana and he also assists Lilo and Stitch in capturing the experiments, but to a lesser extent. He normally helps Nani out in maintaining the household, in the episode Fibber, it was revealed that his first name is Wendy. Nani Pelekai – Lilos older sister and legal guardian, and caretaker of the household that they live in and she is usually busy and stressed out, and frequently has to deal with Lilo and Stitchs antics. He works from his cell which he set up as a laboratory. His name is usually mispronounced much to his chagrin, usually as Hamsterwheel or Hamsterveal, Gantu – A supporting antagonist who was fired from his position as captain of the Galactic Armada at the end of the original film, he serves as Hämsterviels henchman. He fights against Lilo and Stitch in capturing the experiments, but is defeated due to his arrogance, bad luck
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Miss Universe 2010
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Miss Universe 2010, the 59th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 23 August 2010 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela crowned her successor Ximena Navarrete of Mexico at the end of the event,83 contestants competed for the crown. NatalieRotman. This stopped her from participating in the pageant and she was replaced by one of her runners-up, Jessica Scheel. She competed 1 year later at Miss Universe 2011, Romania – Alexandra Catalina Filip was Miss Universe Romania 2010 but 1st runner-up, Oana Paveluc, represented Romania instead. Turkey – Turkey sent Miss Turkey World 2010, Gizem Memic, because its Miss Universe 2010, Serenay Sarikaya, was below 18, Bulgaria – The Miss Bulgaria Organization did not send a representative to compete in Miss Universe 2010. Cayman Islands – On 8 September 2009, it was announced that the Miss Cayman Islands 2009 contest would not take due to lack of funding. Since the winner of that contest also competes in Miss World, Estonia – Valeri Kirss, Estonias national director, was selling the Eesti Miss Estonia pageant. Ethiopia Iceland Montenegro – Original contestant Nikolina Lončar was not allowed to participate because she was only 16 at the time of her crowning and she later participated in Miss Universe 2011. Namibia – Miss Namibia 2010, Odile Gertze, was crowned on 31 July 2010, since that was only one week from the official start of Miss Universe 2010, national director Connie Maritz decided not to send the winner to Miss Universe but to Miss World 2010 instead. Turks & Caicos Vietnam – Vietnam did not have a representative this year and they officially withdrew from the pageant
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The Game Plan (film)
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The Game Plan is a 2007 American family sports comedy film directed by Andy Fickman and written by Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price and Audrey Wells and starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson. It follows an NFL quarterback who finds out he has an 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship and it was the last film to be distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, after Disney retired the Buena Vista moniker across their companys divisions in the same year. The Game Plan was released in the United States on September 28,2007, the next morning, an 8-year-old girl named Peyton Kelly arrives on Joes doorstep saying that she is his biological daughter, and that his divorced wife sent her there to meet him. His agent, Stella Peck, thinks this will be bad for his image, at the opening of his own restaurant, Joe leaves without Peyton, and is on the cover of a tabloid the next day. Stella decides Joe needs a new fatherly image, Peyton then says that Joe has to repay her, so she has him take her to a ballet academy run by Monique Vasquez. Monique has Joe join their ballet performance to him that ballet takes just as much athletic ability as football. Joe and Peyton begin their relationship after Peyton calls his arrogant, Joe takes Peyton and her new friends to the mall where he begins to develop romantic feelings for Vasquez. The Rebels march through the playoffs via three road games, Denver in the Wild Card round, Indianapolis in the Divisional round and they eventually make it to the championship game held in Arizona in a rematch with the New York Dukes. Stella offers Joe a $25 million endorsement deal with Fannys Burgers, while at lunch with Joe and Monique, Peyton accidentally reveals that her mother does not know that she is with him. She was supposed to go to a school program for the month. Joes former sister-in-law and Peytons legal guardian, Karen Kelly, arrives and she announces her intent to take Peyton home and he tries to convince Karen that he wants his daughter to stay. Joe discovers that Sara, his ex-wife and Peytons mother, was killed in an accident six months earlier. After overhearing Stella explaining that Peyton would be a distraction to Joe, Karen and Peyton return home. Later, while going through Peytons bag under her bed, Joe finds some photos and reads a letter from Sara, saying that she hid Peyton away from Joe, as the championship game begins, Joes mind is not fully set on the game and he is soon injured. Joe is surprised to discover that Peyton has arrived with Karen, understanding Joes earlier words about how he wants to remain in Peytons life, Karen decides to let Peyton live with Joe. Near the end of the quarter, Joe passes the ball to the running back, Webber. Joe hurries his team to the line with the clock running, with time for one last play, Joe throws a lob pass to Sanders, who catches the pass, allowing the Rebels to win their first championship. In a post-game interview, Joe declines the Fannys Burgers offer, Joe, Peyton, and Monique dance together in Joes apartment to the song Burning Love
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The Simpsons
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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a depiction of working-class life epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa. The show is set in the town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks, Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19,1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into a prime time show and became an early hit for Fox. Since its debut on December 17,1989,615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast and its 28th season began on September 25,2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, the Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27,2007, and grossed over $527 million. On May 4,2015, the series was renewed for seasons 27 and 28, on November 4,2016, the series was renewed for seasons 29 and 30, consisting of 22 episodes each. The Simpsons received widespread critical acclaim throughout its first nine or ten seasons, Time named it the 20th centurys best television series, and Erik Adams of The A. V. Club named it televisions crowning achievement regardless of format, on January 14,2000, the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards,30 Annie Awards, Homers exclamatory catchphrase Doh. has been adopted into the English language, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms. Despite this, the show has also criticized for what many perceive as a decline in quality over the years. The Simpsons are a family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield, Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife, although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another. The family owns a dog, Santas Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball V, renamed Snowball II in I, both pets have had starring roles in several episodes. The show includes an array of supporting characters, co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople. The creators originally intended many of these characters as jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town
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James L. Brooks (pictured) asked Matt Groening to create a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show
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Part of the writing staff of The Simpsons in 1992. Back row, left to right: Mike Mendel, Colin ABV Lewis (partial), Jeff Goldstein, Al Jean (partial), Conan O'Brien, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Mike Reiss, Ken Tsumura, George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti (partial), CJ Gibson and David M. Stern. Front row, left to right: Dee Capelli, Lona Williams, and unknown.
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How to Train Your Dragon 2
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It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-animated film How to Train Your Dragon and the second in the trilogy. The film is written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T. J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig, with the addition of Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, DeBlois, who co-directed the first film, agreed to return to direct the second film on the condition that he would be allowed to turn it into a trilogy. He cited The Empire Strikes Back and My Neighbor Totoro as his main inspirations, the entire voice cast from the first film returned, and Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou signed on to voice Valka and Drago, respectively. DeBlois and his team visited Norway and Svalbard to give them ideas for the setting. Composer John Powell returned to score the film, how to Train Your Dragon 2 benefited from advances in animation technology and was DreamWorks first film to use scalable multicore processing and the studios new animation and lighting software. The film was released on June 13,2014, and like its predecessor, critics praised the film for its animation, voice acting, action scenes, musical score, emotional depth, and darker, more serious tone compared to its predecessor. It received the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the film won six Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature and Best Director. The film grossed over $621 million worldwide, making it the 12th highest-grossing film of 2014 and it earned less than its predecessor at the US box office, but performed better internationally. A third installment in the trilogy, How to Train Your Dragon 3, is scheduled to be released on March 1,2019, five years after the Viking village of Berk and the dragons made peace, they now live together in harmony. Hiccup goes on adventures with his dragon, Toothless, as they discover, now 20 years old, he is being pressed by his father, Stoick the Vast, to succeed him as chieftain, although Hiccup remains unsure if he is ready for this responsibility. The two dragon riders escape and return to Berk to warn Stoick about the army that Drago is amassing. Stoick orders the villagers to fortify the island and prepare for battle, Hiccup, however, refuses to believe that war is inevitable. Undeterred, Hiccup flies off with Toothless in search of Drago to try to reason with him and they run into a dragon rider named Valka, who is revealed to be Hiccups long-lost mother. She explains that she, like her son, could not bring herself to kill dragons, Stoick tracks Hiccup to the nest, where he discovers that his wife is still alive. Meanwhile, Astrid and the other riders kidnap Eret to find Drago, Drago and his armada lay siege to the nest, where he reveals that he has his own Bewilderbeast to challenge the Alpha. A battle ensues between the two dragons, which ends with Dragos Bewilderbeast killing its opponent and becoming the new Alpha. Dragos Bewilderbeast then seizes control of all the dragons, which hypnotically obey
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Theatrical release poster
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Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou, who have joined the cast as Valka and Drago Bludvist respectively, attending the film's premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
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Director and writer Dean DeBlois promoting the film at the 2014 WonderCon.
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Homefront (video game)
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Homefront is a first-person shooter video game developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ. The game tells the story of a movement fighting in near-future against the military occupation of the Western United States by a unified Korea. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011, after THQs bankruptcy, the rights of the game were sold to Crytek who then sold the rights to Koch Media after restructuring their company. Deep Silver, a subsidiary of Koch Media have published the reboot Homefront, the single-player campaign features many elements found in many other first-person shooter video games, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. It takes 5 to 10 hours to finish the game, all depending on the players experience, the multiplayer component of Homefront is focused on large-scale, vehicle-based combat reminiscent of Kaos Studios first title, Frontlines, Fuel of War. The defining innovation of Homefronts multiplayer is its battle system, which is an in-game currency that allows a player to purchase weapons, gear. The multiplayer gameplay takes place in the period before the United States armed forces were completely scattered, each copy of Homefront contains an online pass, granting users access to the full multiplayer experience. Although the online pass is not required to play multiplayer, those who play without an online pass will be unable to progress further than level 5 of the total 75 levels. The online multiplayer function of the game is now due to the sale of THQ in late 2013. Homefront is set in a dystopic United States, in the year 2027 and this precipitates extreme economic turmoil and massive social unrest in the United States. Subsequently, in 2017, the U. S. military recalls much of its overseas presence, by 2024, Koreas annexation has continued throughout Southeast Asia, including its emerging economic powers, giving the GKR an empire reminiscent of Imperial Japan. S. Creating an EMP blast that wipes out much of the electrical infrastructure. In the ensuing chaos, the Korean Peoples Army launches an instant amphibious invasion and they seize control of Hawaii and much of the U. S. Korean paratroopers are deployed over the Midwestern United States, and with the U. S. military severely crippled and scattered, Jacobs sees that the Korean troops have seized control of the town, taking potentially valuable residents into custody and executing resistors. However, the bus carrying Jacobs is ambushed by American resistance fighters Connor and Rianna, who lead him to Oasis, a resistance hideout founded by local state patrolman Boone Karlson. Boone, Connor, and Rianna are aware of Jacobss background as a pilot, Boone initiates the operation with himself, Jacobs, Connor, Rianna, and Hopper. The group plans to steal several tracking beacons from a used as a labor exchange facility. These beacons are to be placed on fuel trucks so they can be tracked and hijacked, however, Arnie betrays the team in order to protect his children, forcing the team to kill him and eliminate all forces in the camp
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Promotion of Homefront at the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo
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Korean People's Army
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The Korean Peoples Army constitutes the military force of North Korea and, under the Songun policy, the central institution of North Korean society. Kim Jong-un is the Supreme Commander of the Korean Peoples Army, the KPA defence force consists of five branches, Ground Force, the Navy, the Air Force, the Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Special Operation Force. The Worker-Peasant Red Guards also come under control of the KPA, the KPA faces its primary adversaries, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces and United States Forces Korea, across the Korean Demilitarized Zone, as it has since the Armistice Agreement of July 1953. As of 2016, with 5,889,000 paramilitary personnel and this number represents 25% of the population. North Korea officially dates the foundation of the KPA back to the establishment of Kim Il-sungs anti-Japanese guerrilla army, in 1978, Military Foundation Day was changed from 8 February to 25 April, the nominal day of establishment of this army in 1932. In 1939, the Korean Volunteer Army, was formed in Yanan, the two individuals responsible for the army were Kim Tu-bong and Mu Chong. At the same time, a school was established near Yanan for training military, by 1945, the KVA had grown to approximately 1,000 men, mostly Korean deserters from the Imperial Japanese Army. During this period, the KVA fought alongside the Chinese communist forces from which it drew its arms, by September 1945, the KVA had a 2,500 strong force at its disposal. The headquarters felt a need for a unit for security around railways. That unit was activated on 15 August of the year to supervise existing security forces. Military institutes such as the Pyongyang Academy and the Central Constabulary Academy soon followed for education of political, after the military was organized and facilities to educate its new recruits were constructed, the Constabulary Discipline Corps was reorganized into the Korean Peoples Army General Headquarters. The previously semi-official units became military regulars with distribution of Soviet uniforms, badges, the State Security Department, a forerunner to the Ministry of Peoples Defense, was created as part of the Interim Peoples Committee on 4 February 1948. In addition, the Ministry of State for the Peoples Armed Forces was established, before the outbreak of the Korean War, Joseph Stalin equipped the KPA with modern tanks, trucks, artillery, and small arms. On 4 November, China openly staged a military intervention, on 7 December, Kim Il-sung was deprived of the right of command of KPA by China. The KPA subsequently played a minor role to Chinese forces in the remainder of the conflict. By the time of the Armistice in 1953, the KPA had sustained 290,000 casualties, in 1953, the Military Armistice Commission was able to oversee and enforce the terms of the armistice. Soviet thinking on the scale was replaced since December 1962 with a peoples war concept. The Soviet idea of warfare was replaced with a Maoist war of attrition strategy
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A monument in Pyongyang, depicting North Korean airmen and a MiG fighter.
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Flag of the Korean People's Army.
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North Korean soldier, 2005.
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
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Planes, Fire & Rescue is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film. It is a sequel to the 2013 film Planes, a spin-off of Pixars Cars franchise, produced by DisneyToon Studios, it was theatrically released by Walt Disney Pictures on July 18,2014. Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Danny Mann, and Cedric the Entertainer reprised their roles of Dusty Crophopper, Skipper, Chug, Dottie, Sparky, and Leadbottom, respectively. New cast members included Hal Holbrook, Julie Bowen, Ed Harris, Regina King, Wes Studi, since winning the Wings Around the Globe race in the first film, Dusty Crophopper has a successful career as a racer. Unfortunately, his engines gearbox becomes damaged because Dusty routinely operates the engine beyond its design limits, no longer able to race and faced with the possibility of returning to his old job as a crop-duster, Dusty goes on a defiant flight and tests his limits. In doing so, Dusty exceeds his limits and makes a landing at Propwash Junction airport. The residents put out the fire with some difficulty, but the accident leads government inspector Ryker to condemn the airport for inadequate firefighting personnel, aggrieved at his carelessness, Dusty offers to undergo training to be certified as a firefighter to meet the necessary regulations to reopen the airport. To that end, Dusty travels to Piston Peak National Park where he meets a fire, the leader of an efficient unit, Blade is initially unimpressed by the small newcomer and Dustys training proves to be a difficult challenge. Maru, the mechanic, replaces Dustys original undercarriage with two pontoons fitted with retractable undercarriage wheels for his new role as a firefighter. During training, Dusty learns that Blade was formerly an actor who played a helicopter on the TV series CHoPs. Later, Dusty is devastated by a call from his friends at Propwash Junction noting that all attempts at finding a replacement gearbox have failed, lightning in a thunderstorm over a forest near Piston Peak starts several spot fires which unite into a serious forest fire. Eventually, the make it to land, and Dusty confesses his physical disability. They shelter in a mine while the fire passes. The situation is complicated in that Blade also is damaged from protecting Dusty in the fire, meanwhile, Blade shows up and assists Harvey and Winnie by holding up the bridge. Dusty successfully drops water and extinguishes the fire, allowing the campers to escape just before the bridge collapses and he tries to glide through the trees to make a safe landing, but one of his pontoons hits one of the trees and he crashes. Unconscious, Dusty is airlifted back to base where he wakes up five days later to find that ranger Jammer is now in charge of the park, to much delight. Maru tells him not only has his structure been fully repaired, he has built a superior. Impressed at Dustys skill and heroism, Blade certifies him as a firefighter, Propwash Junction is reopened with Dusty assuming his duty as a firefighter, celebrated with an aerial show with his new colleagues from Piston Peak
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Theatrical release poster
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Fuller House (TV series)
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Fuller House is an American family sitcom and sequel to the 1987–95 television series Full House, airing as a Netflix original series. It was created by Jeff Franklin, and is produced by Jeff Franklin Productions, tanner-Fuller, a veterinarian and widowed mother of three sons, whose sister and best friend—the mother to a teenage daughter—provide support in her sons upbringings by moving in with her. Netflix ordered an initial 13 episodes which were released on February 26,2016 worldwide, on March 2,2016, the series was renewed for a second season, and production for the second season began on May 5,2016. Thirteen new episodes were ordered and were released on December 9,2016. On December 24,2016, the series was renewed for a season that will be released in 2017. Like the original series, the show is set in the house in San Francisco. Tanner-Fuller is a veterinarian and the mother of three young boys, candace Cameron Bure as Donna Jo D. J. Tanner-Fuller, a mother who has a full-time job as a veterinarian. Steves fiancée who is similar to D. J. Isaak Presley as Bobby Popko, Jacksons friend and a love interest for Ramona Lucas Jaye as Taylor, Maxs intelligent and challenging best friend Mckenna Grace as Rose, Television was considering a series reboot. John Stamos, who had a stake in the show. In April 2015, it was reported that Netflix was close to closing a deal to produce a 13-episode sequel series tentatively titled Fuller House, a representative for Netflix said that the report was just a rumor. On April 20, he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, confirming the spin-off series had been green-lit by Netflix. In a parallel to the series, Fuller House focuses on D. J. who is a recently widowed mother of three boys, with her sister Stephanie and best friend Kimmy moving in to help raise the boys. The series starts off with an episode featuring a Tanner family reunion. On April 21, Netflix confirmed the series was in development, filming of the series began in July 2015 and lasted until November 2015. In December 2015, the release date was revealed as February 26,2016. Later in the month, Carly Rae Jepsen revealed she and Butch Walker recreated the Full House theme song, Everywhere You Look and it was disclosed that John Stamos would have a recurring role as Jesse Katsopolis and would also be producing
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Disney California Adventure
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Disney California Adventure Park, commonly referred to as Disney California Adventure, California Adventure, or DCA, is a theme park located in Anaheim, California. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, the 72-acre park is themed after the history and culture of California. The park opened in 2001 as Disneys California Adventure Park, the concept of a theme park dedicated to California arose from a meeting of Disney executives in 1995, following the cancellation of the WestCOT project. Construction of the began in 1998 and was completed by early 2001. Disney spent the several years incrementally adding new rides, shows, and attractions. In 2007, Disney announced an expansion of the park as well as a major overhaul of a significant portion of the park. Construction lasted for five years and was completed in stages, culminating with the opening of Buena Vista Street, according to the Themed Entertainment Association, the park hosted approximately 9.4 million guests in 2015, making it the 11th-most visited theme park in the world that year. In front of the Sun Icon of the former Sunshine Plaza, To all who believe in the power of dreams, Disneys California Adventure opens its golden gates to you. Here we pay tribute to the dreamers of the past, the people, explorers, immigrants. And we salute a new generation of dreamers who are creating the wonders of tomorrow, from the screen to the computer screen. Disneys California Adventure celebrates the richness and the diversity of California and its land, its people, its spirit and, above all, the dreams that it continues to inspire. On the plaque of the flagpole in Buena Vista Plaza on Buena Vista Street, To all who come to place of dreams. This unique place embraces the richness and diversity of California and its land, its people, its stories and, above all, the dreamers it continues to inspire. The present-day site of Disney California Adventure was acquired by Walt Disney in the 1950s, after succeeding with the multi-park business model at Walt Disney World in Florida, the Disney company decided to turn Walt Disneys original theme park into a multi-park resort complex as well. In 1991, Disney announced plans to build WestCOT, a west coast version of what was known as EPCOT Center. The high price tag of the park as well as the companys financial. In the summer of 1995, Michael Eisner, Disneys CEO at the time, gathered company executives in Aspen, from those meetings, Disney decided it would instead build a park themed to the history and culture of the state of California. It was intended to appeal to adults while Disneyland was intended to appeal to children, the park was expected to draw large crowds when it opened on February 8,2001
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Victorian style architecture in Paradise Pier
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The Carthay Circle Theater
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Elvis (1956 album)
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Elvis / Elvis Presley No.2 is the second studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in October 1956 in mono. It spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart that year and it was certified Gold on February 17,1960, and Platinum on August 10,2011, by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was originally released in UK in 1957 as Elvis Presley No.2 with a different front cover and it was also catalogued as Rock n Roll No.2. The latter two, contracted to Hill and Range, the company of Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Also included was the song with which Presley won second prize at a fair in Tupelo when he was ten years old, Red Foleys 1941 country song, Old Shep. With all but one track on the album recorded at a set of sessions over three days in September, Presley and his touring band of Scotty Moore, Bill Black. Fontana, along with The Jordanaires, managed to recreate the loose feel from Sun Studio days, mixing rhythm and blues and country and western repertoire items as they had on all of his Sun singles. The piano player on this album is not registered in the official RCA archives, except for the song So Glad Youre Mine, which was cut at a previous session in New York. In a 1984 interview conducted by Jan-Erik Kjeseth, Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires stated that he was the player on most of the songs on the album. In an article written by Kjeseth for the Flaming Star magazine, it was argued that the player on Love Me, Old Shep. Ernst Jørgensen, writer of Elvis Presley - A Study in Music, Kjeseth also claims that Elvis played the piano on the single from this session, Playing for Keeps. Again, Jørgensen seems to be of the same opinion, Gordon Stoker played the piano on Rip it Up and Anyplace is Paradise. RCA first reissued the original 12-track album on Compact Disc in 1984 and this issue, in reprocessed stereo sound, was quickly withdrawn and the disc was reissued in original monophonic. RCA reissued an expanded edition of the album in 1999, for the 1999 reissue, six bonus tracks were added that were both sides of three singles, altering the running order. Four of the tracks were chart-toppers, Love Me Tender, Too Much, and the double-sided classic Hound Dog and Dont Be Cruel. Bonus tracks recorded on July 2 at RCA Studios in New York City, in September at Radio Recorders and these rock-nroll tapes are believed to have been among those ignobly dumped into the Delaware River near RCA Victors Camden, New Jersey plant in the late 1950s. J. Fontana – drums The Jordanaires - backing vocals Chart positions for LPM1382 from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, the album tracks are presented in the same order as on the original LP, followed by the six bonus tracks that were included on the 1999 reissue. Elvis Presley, A Life In Music - The Complete Recording Sessions,1998, the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, revised first edition,1980
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Peace in the Valley (EP)
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Peace in the Valley is an extended play single by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono, catalogue number EPA4054, in April 1957. The recordings included were taken from sessions on January 12,13 and it reached number three on the short-lived Billboard EP chart, and number three on the album chart, and number 39 on the singles chart. By the 1950s, Presleys hometown of Memphis, Tennessee had become a center for music in the United States. Presley grew up listening to music, and maintained an abiding love for gospel singing his entire life. This EP initiated Presleys commercial presentation of this interest, Presley would go on to make many more recordings of spiritual music, including the issue of the gospel albums His Hand In Mine, How Great Thou Art, and He Touched Me. All four selections are gospel classics, including two by Thomas A. Dorsey the father of black gospel, the four songs are all reverential in spirit, rather than celebratory, uptempo gospel songs. Six months after the appearance of this EP, the four songs issued here would be added to eight recordings of Christmas songs for his first holiday album, J. Fontana – drums Neal Matthews - Jordanaires group member Hugh Jarrett - Jordanaires group member
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Elvis for Everyone!
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Is the twenty-third album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3450, in August 1965. Recording sessions took place over a span at Sun Studio in Memphis, RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. It peaked at number 10 on the Top Pop Albums chart, sessions in late May 1963 failed to coalesce into his fifth studio album of the 1960s, and by 1965 Presleys musical output had been focused exclusively on his movie career and soundtrack output. He had not released a studio album since Pot Luck in June 1962. RCA Victor invented the concept of an Anniversary Album to celebrate Presleys tenth year with the label, the albums cover depicting Presley standing next to the RCA Victor trademark Nipper the dog, sitting atop a cash register. Since May 1963, Presley had only made one non-movie session in January 1964 that yielded a mere three tracks, two of which had already been issued as sides for singles. Bereft of new material, RCA Victor assembled this album from unused tracks going all the way back to the Sun Records years, from sessions for both soundtracks and regular commercial releases. Possibly owing to its assembly from scraps and rejects, although it made the top ten on the LP chart, several tracks had appeared on film, but had not been issued on record before. In My Way had appeared in the 1961 film Wild in the Country, Sound Advice in the 1962 film Follow That Dream, the remaining eight tracks had been unissued in any form. RCA had intended to include the unreleased Sun Records track Tennessee Saturday Night, in 2014 Elvis for Everyone was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special 2-disc edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes
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Love Letters from Elvis
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Love Letters from Elvis is the twelfth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1971. The album was made up of leftovers from Elvis marathon June 1970 recording sessions in Nashville, most of the other 35 songs recorded during those sessions had been used in Elvis 1970 albums Thats the Way It Is and Elvis Country. Wanting to squeeze out an album from the sessions, RCA records had producer Felton Jarvis mix, overdub. The songs title track was an instance of Presley re-recording a past hit in the studio. Got My Mojo Working is edited down from a jam session, Presleys version incorporates lyrics from Hands Off. Three songs from album were released on singles. The single Life / Only Believe was released in March 1971 and it was Elviss lowest chart position for a single since Almost in Love had reached #95 in late 1968. Heart Of Rome was placed on the B-side of the non-album track Im Leavin released as a single in August 1971 it reached #23 in the UK and #83 in Australia
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Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas
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Elvis sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas is a 1971 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, and Elvis second and final Christmas album. The album was released in October 1971, followed by the single from the album Merry Christmas Baby / O Come All Ye Faithful released in November 1971. This album was a top seller and topped the Billboard Holiday Albums Chart and it did not have the commercial appeal of Elvis’ first Christmas album. Over the years, it has become a perennial favorite and it was certified Gold on November 4,1977, Platinum on December 1,1977, 2x Platinum on May 20,1988 and 3x Platinum on July 15,1999 by the RIAA. Presley is accompanied on most of the songs by The Imperials Quartet, on later pressings, the song Blue Christmas, which was recorded on June 27,1968, was added to the track listing. The song had previously released on the 1968 album, Elvis. Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas at Discogs
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He Touched Me (album)
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He Touched Me is a 1972 contemporary gospel music album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. It earned him his second of three Grammy Awards, the album his third and final studio gospel album, and the most contemporary of the three. He Touched Me was certified Gold on March 27,1992 and Platinum on July 15,1999 by the RIAA
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Elvis (1973 album)
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Elvis is a 1973 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. It sold over 1 million copies worldwide despite being released soon after the more successful Aloha from Hawaii album. It is sometimes called The Fool album after one of the songs included in it, Fool was issued as a single and reached number 15 in the UK, backed by a live version of Steamroller Blues. Fool and Where Do I Go From Here were recorded in March 1972 and its Impossible is a live recording from the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas from February 1972. Tracks 3,4, 6–10 were leftovers from the March, three songs feature Presley on piano, Its Still Here, Ill Take You Home Again, Kathleen and I Will Be True. These three selections were all released together for a time as part of the 1980 boxed set. The song Fool was also released in this collection, four other songs in this album were also reissued in other albums, Its Impossible, Padre, For Lovin Me and Dont Think Twice, Its All Right. After more than 20 years of being out-of-print on vinyl, RCA reissued this album in March 1994 on the CD format, aPL1-0283 Elvis Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
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From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee is an album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on May 16,1976 on RCA Records. According to Sony musics Elvis The Music site, the album was released on May 17, since music at this time period was normally released on Mondays, it is believed that the May 16th date is more accurate. It is often mistaken that this is a recording as the album states the songs were recorded live. While this is true, the songs were recorded live in the studio at a studio set up in Presleys mansion, Graceland. Two songs recorded during the session, Moody Blue and She Thinks I Still Care would be released the year on his final album. From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee was the Presleys fourth album to reach #1 on the Billboard country music album chart within the last four years. Hurt was a top 10 hit on both the country and adult contemporary charts, while For the Heart stalled at #45 on the country charts, the latter did make the pop top 30. Both songs would again find success on the charts in the 80s – For the Heart became the first single for the Judds in 1983. From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee was certified Gold on October 10,1977 by the RIAA, in 2000 the albums tracks were added to Moody Blue to create an expanded 19-track CD of the latter title. In 2000 a two-disc edition of From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, all songs recorded at Graceland, Memphis. Elvis Presley – vocals, guitars, bass on Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain J. D. com
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Moody Blue
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Moody Blue is the final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records the month before his death in August 1977. Moody Blue was a previously published hit song recorded at the earlier Graceland session, also recorded at the February session was She Thinks I Still Care. Way Down became a hit after Presleys death less than one month after this albums publication, the album was certified Gold and Platinum on September 12,1977 and 2x Platinum on March 27,1992 by the RIAA. One of those was his version of Unchained Melody which he accompanied himself on the piano, RCA and the producer Felton Jarvis had booked a recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, for January 1977, to record some new tracks for this album. Presley had chosen a few songs to record with the help of Jarvis, most of them were rather country, unfortunately, Presley never showed up at that session, claiming that he was sick and thus staying home. Jarvis and RCA had nothing left to do but to fill the album with the live tracks mentioned above, the song Moody Blue was released as a single in December 1976 and it reached number one on the Billboard Country Singles Chart and #31 on the pop chart. Way Down was released as the next single during the early summer of 1977. This album reached three on the Billboard album charts after his death, although it had already entered the top 40 before he died. This was the last album by Presley to reach the TOP40, Moody Blue was also a number one album on the Country Albums chart. Moody Blue was issued in July 1977, and it peaked on the chart after Elvis death on August 16,1977. RCA pressed the album on vinyl, to match the title track. Following Presleys death, Unchained Melody was also released as a single and this version was not the same as on the Moody Blue LP. The single version was a version of the song, recorded in Rapid City. The original RCA CD issue contained the tracks and cover art as the original vinyl LP. Elvis Presley – vocals, piano, guitars, executive producer The Sweet Inspirations – background vocals Sherrill Nielson – background vocals Kathy Westmoreland – background vocals J. D
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Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis
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Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis is a live album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records in July 1974. It was recorded on March 20 of the year at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee. The cover features of a photograph of Presleys home, Graceland, the album was recorded on the same day as his Good Times album was released. Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis was Presleys fifth live album in less than five years and he earned his third Grammy Award for this albums performance of How Great Thou Art. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 15,1999, in the United States, Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis topped Billboards Country chart and reached the top 40 of the Top LPs & Tape listings. It was Presleys last album to reach the top 40 until Moody Blue in 1977, although the live album was not a major commercial success, it did produce the singers third and final Grammy Award winner, How Great Thou Art, which won for best inspirational performance. Two other gospel songs, Why Me Lord and Help Me, are given an inspired performance. Another highlight is the Sun years classic Trying to Get to You, a favorite choice of Presleys. The live recording of Let Me Be There from this album was used as filler on Presleys final studio album. It was also issued as a single in 1974, with the same song on both sides. On March 17,2014, close to the 40th anniversary of the concert, disc one corresponds with the FTD version, in that it features the complete show from the Mid-South Coliseum. Disc two also includes several recently rediscovered studio rehearsal recordings from August 1974, on release, the two-CD set re-entered the UK Albums Chart at number 74
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Elvis in Concert (album)
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Videotaped and recorded in June 1977, both the special and album were broadcast and released on October 3, six weeks after Presleys death. The album peaked at No.5 on the Billboard chart in late 1977 and it was certified Gold and Platinum on October 14 and 3x Platinum on August 1,2002, by the RIAA. The show was recorded two days at concerts in Omaha on June 19 and Rapid City, South Dakota on the 21st. Longtime RCA/Elvis producer Felton Jarvis produced the recordings, which were done to 4-track multitrack, after his death, they write, it was decided to go ahead with the special as a tribute. Elvis last concert was in fact on Sunday, June 26,1977 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, No professional recording of this last performance has ever been issued, but bootlegs of amateur recordings have. During the special, Presley performs a selection of his hits, although it was a regular part of his repertoire for years, Presley requires a lyric sheet when he performs Paul Ankas My Way. He also loses his train of thought during Are You Lonesome Tonight, indeed, a concert recording of Presley similarly joking around during the monologue section of Are You Lonesome Tonight. Dating from 1969 has been reissued by RCA several times, nonetheless, the documentary This is Elvis uses this performance to illustrate Presleys poor condition at the time. The soundtrack album was issued as a 2-LP package, including a disc of performances that were not included in the TV special. It was also released on 8-track, on May 22,1992, the special saw its first release on a single-disc CD. Unfortunately the CD barely improved on the poor sound quality of the original album. Elvis Fans Comments /Opening Riff Also Sprach Zarathustra See See Rider Thats All Right Are You Lonesome Tonight, goode And I Love You So About. com gave the album a positive review, but conceded that this album is not a standout Elvis concert. What it is, however, is an important piece of Elvis lore. Their review went on to say that the record is Elvis Presleys least effort, as well as his last
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Jailhouse Rock (EP)
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Jailhouse Rock is an extended-play, seven-inch 45 RPM record released on RCA Victor, catalogue EPA4114, during November 1957. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on April 30 and May 3,1957 and it peaked at #1 on the newly inaugurated Billboard EP chart. Unlike Loving You but like Love Me Tender, a full long-playing album soundtrack was not devised for Jailhouse Rock, the title song Jailhouse Rock had already been released as a single on September 24,1957, and went to #1 on the singles chart. The writing and production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller played prominent roles in the making of the soundtrack, writing four of its songs and working with Presley closely in the studio. Dont Leave Me Now had also appeared on the Loving You album, additional original music for the film was composed by producer Jeff Alexander, and the song sung by the Hunk Houghton character, One Day, was by Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper. The songs from the EP are available on the 1950s box set from 1992, three tracks were previously unreleased alternate takes, along with two newly mixed stereo versions of Love Me Tender and Poor Boy. Elvis Presley – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric bass Scotty Moore – electric guitar Dudley Brooks – piano Bill Black – double bass, fontana – drums The Jordanaires – background vocals
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King Creole (album)
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King Creole is the sixth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor, LPM1884 in mono in September 1958, recorded in four days at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It contains songs written and recorded expressly for the 1958 film of the same name starring Presley and it followed the films release by over ten weeks. It was certified Gold on July 15,1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America, presleys performance of Trouble in the film alludes to Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley, he would return to the song for his tremendously successful 1968 television comeback special. The songs Hard Headed Woman and Dont Ask Me Why appeared as two sides of a single on July 10,1958, to coincide with the release of the film. Hard Headed Woman, the A-side, and Dont Ask Me Why both made the pop chart, peaking at number one and number 25 respectively. RCA first issued the original 11-track album on disc in 1988. Track 3 was originally issued on the LP Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 3 in December,1978, lPM-1884 King Creole Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-1884 King Creole Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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G.I. Blues (album)
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Blues is the eleventh album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2256, in October 1960. It is the soundtrack to the 1960 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place on April 27 and 28, and May 6,1960, at RCA Victor Studio C and Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. The album topped the Billboard Top Pop Album chart and it was certified Gold on March 13,1963 and Platinum on March 27,1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Music on this album comprised songs that had appeared in the film of the same name, the song Wooden Heart was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it was number one for six weeks. In the United States, Joe Dowell recorded a version of Wooden Heart that topped the Billboard Hot 100. Four songs from this album appear on the 1995 soundtrack compilation Command Performances, The Essential 60s Masters II, blues, Wooden Heart, Shoppin Around, and Doin the Best I Can. Interestingly, the melody for Tonight Is So Right for Love was taken directly from a barcarolle composed by Jacques Offenbach, an American release of Tonights All Right for Love did not occur until it appeared on the compilation album Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 1 in 1974. On April 27,1997, RCA remastered the album for compact disc, blues was released on the Follow That Dream label in a 7-inch digi-pack edition featuring a booklet and two CDs containing the original album tracks and numerous alternate takes. A follow-up album, Café Europa, which contained a booklet. This album featured more alternate takes of the G. I, fontana, Frank Bode, Bernie Mattinson – drums LPM-2256 G. I. Blues Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-2256 G. I, blues Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley album)
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Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2426, on October 20,1961. It is the soundtrack to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21,22, and 23,1961. In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboards Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on December 21,1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27,1992, on the US Top Pop Albums chart Blue Hawaii is second only to the soundtrack of West Side Story as the most successful album of the 1960s. RCA and Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had planned a schedule of one soundtrack and one popular music release per year for Presley. To coincide with the location of the film, touches of Hawaiian music were included, the title song was taken from the 1937 Bing Crosby film Waikiki Wedding, and Hawaiian Wedding Song dates from a 1926 operetta. The songs Cant Help Falling in Love and Rock-A-Hula Baby were pulled off the album for two sides of a released on November 21,1961. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 in the category of Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television, the success of this soundtrack and its predecessor G. I. Blues, both of which sold in greater quantity than Presleys two regular releases of the time, Elvis Is Back. and Something for Everybody, set the pace for the rest of the decade. Blue Hawaii was reissued on disc in 1997 and again in 2008. The latter edition was a deluxe 2-disc release on the Follow That Dream label that featured numerous alternate takes and it also corrected the error with the 1997 issue that incorrectly reversed the stereo channels. On April 29,1997, RCA released a remastered and expanded version for compact disc, tracks 1-7 were the seven songs from side one of the original LP and tracks 8-14 were from side two. J
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Kid Galahad (EP)
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Kid Galahad is a mini-album by Elvis Presley, containing songs from the motion picture of the same name. It was released by RCA in August 1962 and it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 27,1992 for the sales of 250 thousand copies. Recording sessions took place ten months prior to the release on October 26 and 27,1961, at Radio Recorders Studios in Hollywood. Six songs were recorded for the film and the soundtrack was issued as an extended play record in August 1962 to coincide with the films premiere, the extended play record was certified Gold on 03/27/1992 by the RIAA. Fontana – drums Buddy Harman – drums Profile at AllMusic
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Charles Bronson and Elvis Presley on a 1962 United Artists 11" x 14" lobby card
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Fun in Acapulco (album)
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It is the soundtrack to the 1963 film of the same name starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on January 22 and 23,1963 and it peaked at number three on the Top LPs chart. The album, along with the film, would be Presleys last release before the arrival of Beatlemania. The third of his tropical travelogue films for Paramount Pictures after Blue Hawaii, Girls. finds Elvis frolicing in Mexico. The standard stable of songwriters for Presley delivered songs to match, with titles like Marguerita, El Toro, You Cant Say No In Acapulco, included as well was the 1937 standard Guadalajara by Pepe Guízar. Bossa Nova Baby arrived in one month prior to the soundtrack, coupled with the track Witchcraft by rhythm and blues songwriter and arranger Dave Bartholomew. Compensating for the short ten-track It Happened at the Worlds Fair album, Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, insisted on making Fun in Acapulco a good value. Two additional tracks, Love Me Tonight and Slowly But Surely were pulled from the album sessions of May 1963. In 2003 Fun in Acapulco was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in an edition that contained the album along with numerous alternate takes. J. Fontana – drums Hal Blaine – drums
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Kissin' Cousins (album)
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Kissin Cousins is the twentieth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2894, in April 1964. It is the soundtrack to the 1964 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 26 and 27, and September 29 and 30,1963. It peaked at six on the Billboard Top LPs chart. The album was certified Gold on March 27,1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America, the former version of Kissin Cousins would be issued as a single in February 1964, with It Hurts Me on the B-side. It would peak at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, anyone, included in the album, was omitted from the film. Pappy, Wont You Please Come Home, performed by Glenda Farrell, is included in the film but omitted from the album. Three selections — Once Is Enough, One Boy, Two Little Girls, note Kissin Cousins was released as a single on February 10,1964. It reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the singles B-side, It Hurts Me reached number 29. The British release of the reached number 10. J. Fontana – drums Buddy Harman – drums
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Frankie and Johnny (album)
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Frankie and Johnny is the twenty-fifth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3553, on March 1,1966. It is the soundtrack to the 1966 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, on May 12,13, and 14,1965. It peaked at number 20 on the Top LPs chart and it was certified Gold and Platinum on January 6,2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America. To coincide with the 19th century setting of the film, some traditional song material was utilized for the soundtrack, when the Saints Go Marching In is an old gospel hymn that has become a jazz standard associated with the traditional hot jazz of New Orleans. It is paired in a medley with Down by the Riverside, both are in the public domain, and the team of Giant, Baum, and Kaye captured the publishing for Freddy Bienstock and Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The title song, Frankie and Johnny, is a variant on the American popular song first published in 1904, with changed lyrics, another publishing royalty was secured for Gladys Music. Twelve songs were recorded at the sessions for Frankie and Johnny, the title song was issued as a single, with Please Dont Stop Loving Me on the B-side. The running order of the tracks was altered and three songs from the album were omitted —Chesay, Look Out Broadway, and Everybody Come Aboard. The front cover does not indicate that this is a soundtrack album. It did not chart on the Billboard 200, the original Frankie and Johnny soundtrack album was reissued in Canada and elsewhere however. Not until 2010 would the complete original Frankie and Johnny soundtrack be widely available in the United States again, in 2003 Frankie and Johnny was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes. Note Frankie and Johnny was released as a single in March 1966 and its highest position was number 25. The singles B-side, Please Dont Stop Loving Me, also charted for eight weeks, note Chesay, Look Out, Broadway, and Everybody Come Aboard were not included in the reissue. J. Fontana – drums Buddy Harman – drums
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Spinout (album)
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Spinout is the twenty-seventh album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3702, on October 31,1966. It is the soundtrack to the 1966 film of the same name starring Presley, recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, on February 16 and 17,1966. It peaked at number 18 on the Top Pop Albums chart, in early 1966, executives at RCA and Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had arrived at the same conclusion. They could no longer records of only soundtrack recordings and session leftovers to perform as strongly as in the past. Popular music was rife with changes in the mid-1960s, and with chart dominance from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, soundtrack sales were plunging, shifting fewer units and peaking at lower positions on the chart. But the Spinout sessions still adhered to the formula of the past four years. Nine songs were recorded for the soundtrack, all of which appeared in the film, most of the songs derived from the standard pool of songwriters, their publishing rights signed over to Elvis Presley Music and Gladys Music, the companies owned by Elvis and the Colonel. One song Stop, Look, and Listen was previously recorded by Ricky Nelson, Elvis performed the song Adam and Evil on stage in the film which features a long drum roll at the beginning. He makes reference to Adam and Eve in the Bible, that Adam and Evil they go hand in hand / Eve taught him sin, Elvis clicks his fingers throughout the track. Acknowledging shifts in taste, three tracks of a contemporary nature were added as a special bonus to bring the album up to a more acceptable running time. Recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee during the sessions for his gospel album How Great Thou Art, the other was Tomorrow Is a Long Time, an original by Bob Dylan, with a ballad from a later Nashville session in June. Down in the Alley had been released in 1957 by The Clovers, ill Remember You had been a record by Don Ho, and reflected Presleys infatuation with Hawaii and its culture. Even with these inclusions, the album fared better than its predecessors in 1966. Dylan confessed to Rolling Stone in June 1969 that Presleys version of Tomorrow Is a Long Time was the cover of one of his songs that he treasured the most. In 2004 Spinout was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in an edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes. Note Spinout was released as a single in October 1966 with All That I Am as its B-side. The songs reached number 40 and 41, respectively, in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and, respectively, fontana – drums Buddy Harman – drums Album
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Clambake (album)
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Clambake is the thirtieth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3893, in October 1967. It is the soundtrack to the 1967 film of the same name starring Presley and he entered RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee on February 21,1967 for Recording sessions for his twenty fifth film. Supplemental material sessions took place on September 10 and 11,1967 and it peaked at number 40 on the Billboard 200. By the end of 1966, Presley no longer commanded the same level of sales or artistic respect as he had during the first ten years of his career, but Elvis had little enthusiasm at this juncture for more soundtrack sessions, the project already in jeopardy before it started. The album would prove to be a point in Presleys career. After many years of churning out forgettable songs for forgettable films, all realms of popular music had totally bypassed him during the 1960s while he had been lost in Hollywood. So Presley decided to begin recording music written by accomplished songwriters, a session to record additional material in Hollywood was cancelled in August, rescheduled at RCA Studio B in September. Both selections were issued as a single at the end of September before being added to the album, Presley also requested a song he had heard on the radio in Los Angeles by Jerry Reed, inviting Reed himself to duplicate the distinctive acoustic guitar part. They rousted Reed from a fishing-trip, who arrived to play on Presleys version of his own composition, after it was recorded, Reed refused to turn over the usual publishing percentages to Freddy Bienstock, another assault on the soundtrack formula that had been in place throughout the decade. Five songs were selected from this session to bring the album up to a total of twelve tracks, in 2006 Clambake was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes
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Speedway (album)
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Speedway is the thirty-second album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3989, in May 1968 — the May 1 date is disputed. It serves as the album for the 1968 film Speedway starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at MGM Studios in Hollywood, California and it peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200. By June 1967, while Presley was toiling at the sessions for this soundtrack, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, had the music industry in thrall. The Monterey Pop Festival had taken place just the past weekend some 300 miles up the California coast from where Presley was working. He was probably aware of some of the changes being wrought in popular music around him, eight tracks were recorded at the sessions, with Suppose, the only song that held interest for Elvis, dropped from the movie. Two tracks were pulled for a single, Your Time Hasnt Come Yet Baby with Let Yourself Go on its flipside, and both sides made the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 but bombed sales-wise. There Aint Nothing Like A Song, rejected from the soundtrack for Spinout, was one of two songs feature the lead vocals of Nancy Sinatra, here in duet with Presley. All her vocals, and her Your Groovy Self, the time a track without Elvis featured on any of his releases, were recorded at a separate session on June 26. Three leftover tracks, including one from the May 1963 lost album sessions, were unearthed to round out the album, Speedway took over the new low for chart position and album sales by Presley, shifting units numbered in five figures, jeopardizing his recording career. Much to his relief, it killed the soundtrack formula, this being the final Presley dramatic feature film to have a soundtrack album. His last five movies of the decade — Stay Away, Joe, Live A Little, Love A Little, the Trouble with Girls, and Change of Habit — concentrated on Presley the actor, not Presley the singer, with minimal song requirements. LPM-3989 Speedway Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-3989 Speedway Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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Elvis (NBC TV Special)
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Elvis is the thirty-fourth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in December 1968. Recording sessions took place in Burbank, California at Western Recorders on June 20,21,22 and 23,1968 and it peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Gold on July 22,1969 and Platinum on July 15,1999 by the RIAA, unlike the drudgery of the feature film soundtrack recordings, Presley was genuinely excited by the project. The two ballad tracks from album were issued as singles. If I Can Dream being released earlier in the month, backed on the B-side with a song from his movie in theaters at the time, Live a Little, Love a Little and it peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest charting single since 1965. Memories was released two months after the broadcast, backed with the title song to his next film, Charro. By making it to the top ten on the chart after his previous album had charted at a dismal #82. Presley insisted the mono mixes for these songs were retained for the album, several hours of music were recorded for the special, and the unused material has been reissued in many different formats over the years. On August 27,1991, RCA released a version for compact disc. On August 5,2008, Legacy released a 4-CD compilation of the recording sessions for the special. Elvis Presley A Life in Music, The Complete Recording Sessions, new York, St. Martins Press,1998, LPM-4088 Elvis at the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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That's the Way It Is (Elvis Presley album)
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Elvis, Thats the Way It Is is an album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP4445, in November 1970. It consists of eight tracks recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville. It accompanied the release of the documentary film of the same name. It was certified Gold on June 28,1973 by the Recording Industry Association of America, the track You Dont Have to Say You Love Me had been released as the advance single on October 6, its b-side, Patch It Up, appears in a live version here. The Next Step Is Love had previously released as a b-side in July 1970. Its b-side How the Web Was Woven was also taken from this album, a rehearsal version of the latter song was featured in the 1970 documentary Elvis, Thats the Way It Is. On June 11,2000, a three-disc Special Edition was released and it contained the full album remastered, along with added bonus studio tracks recorded around the same time. The set also includes the full August 12,1970 midnight show from The International Hotel, in 2008, the collectors label Follow That Dream released a two-disc special edition of the album, with a 20-page booklet. This edition contains the original album plus bonus tracks and outtakes. In 2009, the Follow That Dream label released The Wonder of You which contains the concert from August 13,1970. Some concert footage from that date was used in the documentary, on July 6,2012, Follow That Dream released a two-disc LP special edition of the album. This edition offers highlights from the 2-CD Follow That Dream release and it contains 21 tracks and features different takes of the songs
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Viva Elvis (album)
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Viva Elvis is the soundtrack remix album of the Cirque du Soleil show Viva Elvis, which focuses on the life and music of American singer and musician Elvis Presley. The album, though initially produced as a soundtrack to the show, the two prior albums were the urban country-influenced 1981 Guitar Man record and the 2008 Christmas Duets CD. Unlike Love, however, Viva Elvis features new backing instrumentation on track in an attempt to modernize the arrangements
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Elvis' Golden Records
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It is a compilation of hit singles released in 1956 and 1957, and is widely believed to be the first greatest hits album in rock and roll history. It is the first of five Elvis Golden/Gold Records compilations, four of which would be released during Presleys lifetime and it peaked at number three on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was certified Gold on October 17,1961, Platinum on May 20,1988, 5x Platinum on March 27,1992 and 6x Platinum on August 17,1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Every flip-side also hit the chart separately from its parent hit side, with four making the Top 40, love Me was also included on the Elvis Vol.1 EP single which made the top ten on the singles chart. Presley responds, saying I have 25 million sellers, and two albums that have sold a million each, the original 1984 RCA CD issue in reprocessed stereo sound, was quickly withdrawn and reissued in original monophonic. Two more charting B-sides, I Was the One and My Baby Left Me, RCA Victor had purchased the rights to reissue Sun material when buying Elvis contract from Sam Phillips in 1955, using Sun recordings to fill out album tracks throughout the decade. The unified Billboard Hot 100 singles chart was not created until August,1958, after the release of this compilation, and of course after the release of all of these singles. Chart positions referenced would be taken from the Best Sellers In Stores chart, although early measurement of rock, chart positions for singles taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart except as indicated. Elvis Golden Records at Discogs LPM-1707 Elvis Presley Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong
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Elvis Gold Records, Volume 2, also known as 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Cant Be Wrong, is the ninth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor in November 1959. It is a compilation of hit singles released in 1958 and 1959 by Presley, therefore, the phrase was not part of the original title of the album. The boasting on the label appears nearly exclusively on records from RCA Victors Hollywood pressing plant, Elvis Gold Records, Vol.2 peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was certified by the Recording Industry Association of America for a Gold Record Award on November 1,1966 and it was certified for a Platinum Record Award for sales of one million copies in the US on March 27,1992. Elvis Gold Records, Vol.2 consists of both sides of five singles released during 1958 and 1959, two sides made number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and six others reached the Top 10. In the 1950s, a Gold Record awarded to a single required certified sales of one million copies in the United States and this is different from the definition in use since the 1990s, when a Gold Record for a single was reduced to sales of 500,000 units. In 1984, RCA reissued the original 10 track album on disc in reprocessed stereo sound. This issue was withdrawn and the disc was reissued in original monophonic. RCA reissued the album again in 1997 in a 20 track expanded edition, adding one A-side and one B-side, several of those EP tracks were hit singles in other countries, notably the UK. The bonus tracks are interspersed within the tracks, with the running order to the album substantially altered. The unified Billboard Hot 100 singles chart was not created until August,1958, chart positions for records prior to this date were taken from the magazines Best Sellers in Stores chart. In some cases, the measurement of success of rock. Chart positions for the tracks on the CDs were taken from the peak position that the EP album achieved on Billboards then extant EP chart. The famous cover photo, of images of Elvis wearing the gold lamé suit designed by Nudies of Hollywood, has been copied many times. The 1983 album by Rod Stewart, Body Wishes, The Elvis Costello & The Attractions bootleg album of the name from the 1980s. Blues Travelers more modest 1,000,000 People Cant Be Wrong of 1994, blumfelds second studio album LEtat Et Moi from 1995. The Falls compilation 50,000 Fall Fans Cant Be Wrong from 2004,100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Cant Be Wrong, also from 2004. 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Cant Be Wrong from 2005
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Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4
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It is a compilation of hit singles released between 1961 and 1967, peaking at number 33 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Gold on March 27,1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Singles were no longer reaching the Top 40 automatically, and while his recent single Big Boss Man sold 350,000, that fell short of the needed 500,000 to qualify for gold status in US singles sales. Usually a guaranteed seller, this sold only 400,000 copies, better than his recent soundtrack albums. The future of Presleys career was certainly in question, Elvis Gold Records Volume 4 comprises five Top 40 A-sides along with seven b-sides, five of which also made the Top 40. The first three Gold Records volumes covered two to three years of releases, but there was a five-year gap between this and the previous volume. This would be the last of the series issued during Presleys lifetime, Elvis Gold Records Volume 5, which included singles from 1969 to 1977, was released posthumously in 1984. The July 15,1997 reissue of Elvis Gold Records Volume 4 added six tracks, rock-A-Hula Baby dated from the 1961 soundtrack to Blue Hawaii, pulled off that album as the flip to accompany Cant Help Falling In Love as a single. Three tracks were the singles for their respective soundtracks, Bossa Nova Baby for Fun in Acapulco, Kissin Cousins for its album. The gospel song Crying in the Chapel had been recorded during the sessions for His Hand in Mine, by 1968, the practice of releasing LPs in mono was being discontinued. As a result, RCA issued very few copies of Gold Records Vol.4 and are considered collectors items. Original recordings were produced by Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley, Chet Atkins, Urban Thielmann, George Stoll, chart positions for singles taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart
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Elvis Sings Flaming Star
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Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others is the thirty-third album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in stereo, PRS279, in October 1968. It was reissued for normal retail channels as Elvis Sings Flaming Star in March 1969, becoming the first Elvis Presley budget album on the RCA Camden subsidiary label, the 1969 release peaked at number 96 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on July 15,1999, and Platinum on January 6,2004, All tracks were compiled from sessions for Presley film soundtracks, with the exception of Tiger Man from the Singer Christmas Special. The cover of Chuck Berrys Too Much Monkey Business was a warm-up at a session for film songs to Stay Away, Joe. The Texas medley and All I Needed Was the Rain appeared in Viva Las Vegas and Stay Away, Joe, respectively, while Wonderful World appeared over the credits to Live A Little. Flaming Star had been one of two songs performed in that film. This track has the distinction of being the first live recording by Elvis ever commercially released, the remaining songs were not actually used in their respective films. It was reissued in 1975 by Pickwick Records, and again for compact disc by Sony Music Entertainment in 2006, note RCA originally released Flaming Star on the extended play single Elvis By Request – Flaming Star, which peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Elvis for Everyone 1965 album Lets Be Friends 1970 album PRS-279 Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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Let's Be Friends
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Lets Be Friends is the thirty-seventh album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Camden Records CAS2408, in April 1970. It is the second Presley budget album to appear on the RCA subsidiary label and it peaked at number 105 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on June 15,1999 and Platinum on January 6,2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America, similar to its predecessor Elvis Sings Flaming Star, Lets Be Friends collects mostly unreleased songs recorded for Presley film soundtracks. Two non-movie outtakes appeared from the winter of 1969 sessions at American Sound Studio in Memphis, Ill Be There, mama was sung in the film Girls. Girls. by The Amigos and Presleys version first appeared on album, with an alternate, abridged version included on the compact disc Elvis Double Features. Lets Forget About the Stars had been recorded for the film Charro, almost was one of only two tracks from The Trouble with Girls to see release in Presleys lifetime. Like all Presley releases on the budget Camden label, this album has a short running time. It 1975 it was re-issued on Vinyl, by Pickwick Camden Records with the original Camden catalog #CAS2408 and it was reissued for compact disc by Sony Music Entertainment in 2006
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The Sun Sessions
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The Sun Sessions is a compilation of Elvis Presley recordings at Sun Studios in 1954 and 1955. It was issued by RCA Records in 1976, and had issued and charted as The Sun Collection in the UK the previous year. It features liner notes by Roy Carr of the New Musical Express, the album features most of the tracks Elvis recorded at Sun studio and were produced by Sam Phillips, the head of Sun Studios. Elvis began his career with Sun Records label in Memphis. Phillips signed Presley after hearing a song that he had recorded for his mother on his birthday and it includes Thats All Right one of the few recordings regarded as the first rock and roll record. Phillips said that Presley was rehearsing with his band, Scotty Moore and Bill Black, when Presley started singing the song, Phillips said that the version of the song was what he was looking for when he signed Presley, and turned the tape recorder on. Elvis recorded more than 20 songs at Sun, including some private recordings, of these,15 appear on this album. The Sun Sessions was released in March 1976 and reached #76 on the pop, the single Baby, Lets Play House combined with Im Left, Youre Right, Shes Gone reached #5 on the country charts in 1955. Also, RCA Victor saw that Elvis was rapidly building a reputation for his live performances and they offered Sun Records $35,000 to buy out Presleys contract. The single Thats All Right did not chart in the US when released in 1954, in 2004, the song became the focus of attention when it was the subject of a great deal of publicity because of the 50-year anniversary. There was a ceremony on July 6,2004 featuring Isaac Hayes, Justin Timberlake. The song went top five in the UK and Canada and also charted in Australia, the Sun Sessions was also re-released in 2004 to celebrate the anniversary. In 2003, the album was ranked #11 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, in 2001, the TV channel VH1 named it the 21st greatest album of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock, in 2002, The Sun Sessions were chosen by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress to be included in its archives given their importance to the development of American popular music. This album is the very first Elvis album to feature I Dont Care If The Sun Dont Shine, after more than 20 years, The Sun Sessions marked the songs official debut on LP. Note The last six tracks are original Sun recordings, but were not issued until 1956 on Presleys first album from RCA Victor and they were never released on Sun
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Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5
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Elvis Gold Records Volume 5 is the final album in the Golden/Gold Records series by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued posthumously on RCA Records in stereo, AFL14941, in March 1984. It is a compilation of hit singles released between 1968 and 1977 and it is the only one of the series to miss the Billboard album chart, bubbling under at #207 for two weeks. However, it was certified Gold on 7/15/1999 by the RIAA, Gold Records Volume 5 comprises nine Top 40 A-sides along with one b-side, For the Heart from 1976. Released more than sixteen years since the installment in the series. The second half of the focused on Elvis late period singles including Burning Love. Interestingly, RCA did not base the selection solely on commercial factors, the July 15,1997, reissue added six bonus tracks taken from a three-year span from 1967 to 1970, including three additional Top 40 singles. The sequence was left intact, though If I Can Dream was moved to the end of the disc. Only Memories which was featured on Elvis comeback special and You Dont Have To Say You Love Me, a top twenty single in 1970 are consistent with the selection from the original album. Originally recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, RCA Studio C in Hollywood, Western Recorders in Burbank, California, Stax Studio and in The Jungle Room in Memphis, original recordings produced by Felton Jarvis, Chips Moman, Bones Howe and Billy Strange. Chart positions taken from the Billboard singles chart
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Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Performances
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It also includes a booklet with session details and an essay by Charles Wolfe. It was certified platinum on by the RIAA on July 15,1999. The set comprises recordings of music made by Presley during his career. The contents of all three gospel albums Presley released in his lifetime are included, while other songs had appeared on singles, an extended play single, the set also contains five previously unreleased selections, and the two discs present the studio masters in chronological session order. Disc one contains the entirety of his two albums released respectively in 1960 and 1967, His Hand In Mine and How Great Thou Art,3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The remaining five tracks appeared on Presley albums released during the 1970s and these nineteen compact discs, containing 507 recordings in total, constitute a substantial percentage of Presleys career output. All selections recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, the Stax Recording Studio, unknown location for the March 1972 jam session. Original recordings produced by Steve Sholes or Felton Jarvis, elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York, St. Martins Press,1998, ISBN 0-312-18572-3
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Tiger Man (album)
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Tiger Man is a compilation from American singer and musician Elvis Presley consisting of tracks from his second comeback concert in 1968. Personnel includes, Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, D. J, Presleys friend Alan Fortas also provides percussion on a guitar case, with hands. Lance LeGault is on tambourine, just off the stage, near Presley, compilation producers, Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon. Engineers, Al Pachucki, Mike Moran, Dick Baxter. Recorded at NBC Studio 4, Burbank, California on June 27,1968, includes liner notes by Colin Escott. Out of two small concerts Elvis Presley recorded for his comeback TV special on June 27,1968, TIGER MAN is the second show. During the most captivating segment of Elvis Presleys phenomenal 1968 television comeback special, Presley reunited with original band members Scotty Moore, to film that segment, Presley and the group performed two sets before a small, but rapt studio audience. Surely, most rock and blues music aficionados who have ever seen One Night With You will not need much convincing to buy TIGER MAN and these performances quite simply capture Presley at his best, singing with a joy and fire absent from much of his 1960s output. At the same time, Presley is clearly giving it his all, as if trying to undo in one set all the damage that years of safe. An unusual and stunning aspect is that Presley swaps axes - the electric guitar - with Moore early in the set, instead of Moores groundbreaking country-blues fusion guitar licks, we hear something completely new and unexpected. Presleys wild, thrashing, and incendiary rhythmic lead guitar playing reveals a side of Elvis Presleys musicianship previously unheard on disc and it is not something serious music fans want to miss, and it is displayed very well on this album. He had played the guitar live before, on a very few occasions. And he played it on both before and after the special. But there is no recorded evidence of THIS kind of playing. Moore is generous, giving his friend and bandmate room to shine, while he either gently fingerpicks or strums along with Presley, and Presleys strumming friend Charlie Hodge
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Sunrise (Elvis Presley album)
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Sunrise is a two-disc compilation of Elvis Presleys studio recordings at Sun Studio from 1953 to 1955, released in 1999, RCA 67675-2. Tapes for at least three songs have been lost, Sun versions of I Got A Woman, Uncle Pen, the first would be recorded by Presley during his first RCA session. All of the commercial recordings were produced by Sam Phillips. Phillips released Presleys recording contract to RCA for the sum, in 1955 dollars. This gave RCA the rights to all of Presleys masters recorded at Sun, the first disc presents all eighteen Sun titles from professional recording sessions during the singers stay at the label. The opening ten tracks comprise the A and b sides of the five officially released Presley singles on the Sun label, outtakes from sessions at Sun were used to fill in catalogue items for RCA, with five used for Presleys debut LP. The second disc compiles seven alternate takes from the studio sessions. The remaining selections derive from acetates or basic recording equipment, and are not of sound quality. The first four tracks comprise the pre-professional test recordings made by Elvis alone in July 1953, the set includes Thats All Right, one of candidates for being the first rock and roll record. Elvis entire period at Sun is one of the events in the birth of rock and roll. The body of his work at Sun is so transcendent, so fresh, like all great art its sources may be obvious, but its overall impact defies explanation. In 2012 Rolling Stone magazine placed Sunrise at number 11 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, for more detailed information on the recording sessions, see Elvis Presleys Sun recordings. Chart positions for LPs and EPs from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, positions for singles from Billboard Pop Singles chart except where noted
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ELV1S
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ELV1S,30 #1 Hits is a greatest hits collection of songs by American rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. It was released by RCA Records on September 24,2002 and it is the first Elvis Presley album to feature the remix of A Little Less Conversation by Junkie XL that was released earlier in the year and reached No.1 in the UK and Australia. When released, ELV1S,30 #1 Hits was an instant success, going straight to the top of the charts in several countries. By 2003 the album had received certifications in more than fifteen regions and had millions of copies worldwide. A companion album, 2nd to None, was released the next year, ELV1S,30 #1 Hits was compiled by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen and Roger Semon using chart data from the pop singles charts in Billboard, Cashbox, New Musical Express, and Record Retailer. Not all of Elvis number ones are included as it is only a one-disc set, the compilation was produced and mixed in stereo and 5.1 by David Bendeth with remastering by Ted Jensen on the first thirteen songs and George Marino on the last sixteen songs. The songs were engineered by Ray Bardani, and were transferred from master tapes by Brent Spear, the 18 recordings recorded in stereo were digitally remixed from the original multitrack recordings. In 2003, it became the first, and so far, the stereo tracks were remixed into 5.1 surround sound for the first time and the 13 tracks recorded in mono were remastered and presented in a simulated 5.1 format. The songs were presented in order, with A Little Less Conversation as track 1. There are also tracks which are sections of three songs, giving an A, B comparison of the original master and the remaster. A2003 reissue of the featured a bonus disc with outtakes. A Wal-Mart release had a disc with Elvis post-army interview. In the first week following the release, it topped the record charts in 17 territories. The album was Presleys first album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200 and was his first number one since 1973, the album helped Elvis to have the longest span of number one album on the 200. The album has sold three million copies in Europe alone and has shipped over double that amount. ELV1S,30 #1 Hits received mostly favorable reviews from music critics, David Browne of Entertainment Weekly felt that the album did succeed in its purpose, but not all of the songs on the collection had enough quality. CANOE predicted that the album would not do as well as the Beatles 1 because almost all of the songs can be found on other collections and it is missing several definitive songs. Robert Christgau gave the album his highest rating out of all of Elvis albums that hes reviewed, parke Puterbaugh, on his Rolling Stone review of the album, gave the album five out of five stars and felt that the recordings had improved sound quality
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Christmas Duets
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Three tracks on the album do not have duet vocals, The First Noel, If I Get Home On Christmas Day, and Winter Wonderland. However, the tracks for these songs were re-recorded by contemporary musicians. The Martina McBride and Carrie Underwood duets have both charted on the Billboard country charts, with the reaching the Top 40. The second version of Blue Christmas was never released outside of the video
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Elvis the King
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Elvis the King is a box set comprising 18 singles of the recorded work of American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 2007 by RCA Records. The box set is available in both CD and 10 vinyl formats, the first release was Monday, August 13,2007, marking 30 years—to the week—since the death of Elvis Presley. The second single was released on Thursday, August 16, which is the anniversary of Presleys death. From then on, the singles were released every Monday until December 2,2007, note, original chart positions are in brackets August 20 also saw the release of the HMV-exclusive single My Baby Left Me, which is also available on CD and 10 vinyl format. This reached #19 in the UK, as well as the box set, a 2 CD compilation album of Presleys work was also released. The album reached #1 in the UK and in Germany, in Germany it was his very first #1 album
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The Complete Elvis Presley Masters
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The Complete Elvis Presley Masters is a box set covering most of American singer and musician Elvis Presleys recording career, released on October 19,2010 by RCA Records/Legacy Recordings. The box set contains 711 original master recordings as recorded during Elvis lifetime and 103 additional rare recordings, the set omits the recordings made for the 1977 Elvis in Concert TV special and album. The box set features a 240–page hardcover book with complete discography produced exclusively for this collection, researched and written by Ernst Jørgensen. It includes an individually numbered certificate of authenticity, the Complete Elvis Presley Masters at MusicBrainz
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Love Me Tender (film)
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Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15,1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget and it is in the Western genre with musical numbers. As Presleys movie debut, it was the time in his acting career that he did not receive top billing. Love Me Tender was originally to be titled The Reno Brothers and this was the only time that Presley played a historical figure. The family is informed that eldest brother Vance has been killed on the battlefield. After four years of war, the return home and find that Vances girlfriend Cathy has married Clint. Although Vance accepts this wholeheartedly, the family has to struggle to reach stability with this issue. The subplot of unresolved passion carries the film, it is clear from the outset upon the Reno brothers return home that Cathy still loves Vance, honor prevails for Vance, but jealousy turns Clint into an irrationally thinking rival for the love of the heroine. In the films opening scenes, the plot is presented. They do not know that the war ended only a day before, the Confederates come to a decision to keep the money as spoils of war, an issue that will come back into the plot after the Reno brothers return home. A conflict of interest ensues when Vance tries to return the money against the wishes of some of his fellow Confederates, the film reaches its tragic conclusion with Clints death during a final shootout. In the end, the money is returned, the Reno brothers are released, jones as Pardee Fleming Dick Sargent as Confederate Soldier Barry Coe as Mr. Davis Before his success as a singer, Presley had shown interest in becoming an actor. When he first met his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, he expressed an interest in the movies. In interviews during his rise to fame, Presley would often talk about his hopes of attending somewhere like the Actors Studio and he also insisted that he would not like to sing in any of his movies because he wished to be taken seriously as a film star. However, Parker had a plan to cross-promote Presleys films with his music, because of this, not only is Elvis regarded as a musician, he is regarded as an actor as well. Presley screen-tested for Hal Wallis on March 26,1956 at Paramount Studios, the test lasted three days and included Presley performing two scenes from The Rainmaker, and lip-syncing to Blue Suede Shoes. Wallis partner, Joe Hazen, commented, As a straight actor and his first screen test, a scene from the William Inge play The Girls of Summer, resulted in drama coach Charlotte Clary declaring to her class of students, Now that is a natural born actor. On April 2, Wallis offered Presley a contract for one motion picture, the contract was finalized on April 25, and also stipulated that Presley was free to make at least one picture a year for other studios
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King Creole
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King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. Wallis and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins, Presley later indicated that of all the characters he portrayed throughout his acting career, the role of Danny Fisher in King Creole was his favorite. To make the film, Presley was granted a 60-day deferment from January to March 1958 for beginning his military service, location shooting in New Orleans was delayed several times by crowds of fans attracted by the stars, particularly Presley. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on July 2,1958, the critics were unanimous in their praise of Presleys performance. King Creole peaked at five on the Variety box office earnings charts. Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher works before and after school to support his surviving family, after Dannys mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans. At work one morning, Danny rescues Ronnie from her abusive date, after a taxi ride to Dannys high school, Ronnie kisses him. Danny responds to witnessing schoolmates teasing by kissing Ronnie back and then punching one of them in the face when he makes a teasing remark. Dannys reaction summons him to the office, where Miss Pearson, his teacher. Mr. Evans is sympathetic, but powerless to help, so Danny decides to out of school to find work, against the wishes of his father. When Danny leaves the grounds, three young men lure him into an alley. Their leader, Shark, wants revenge for Danny hitting the student at school. Danny defends himself so well that it impresses Shark, so Shark invites Danny to join his gang, Shark then has Danny to help the gang shoplift at a five-and-dime by singing Lover Doll to distract the customers and staff. Only Nellie, who works the bar, notices Dannys complicity in the theft. Later that night, Danny meets Ronnie again at The Blue Shade nightclub, at first, she pretends not to know him, as she is accompanied by her boyfriend and the clubs owner, Maxie Fields, aka The Pig. When Maxie does not believe her, she claims she heard Danny sing once, Maxie insists that Danny prove he can sing. That situation makes it easier for Danny to go against his fathers wishes, Danny does, and when he becomes a hit at the King Creole, Maxie tries to hire him. Danny declines his offer out of loyalty to Charlie, Shark, now working for Maxie, suggests to Danny they beat up Primont to help his father
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G.I. Blues
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Blues is a 1960 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, and Robert Ivers. The movie was filmed at Paramount Pictures studio, with some pre-production scenery shot on location in Germany before Presleys release from the army, the movie reached #2 on the Variety weekly national box office chart in 1960. The movie won a 2nd place or runner-up prize Laurel Award in the category of Top Musical of 1960, U. S. Army Specialist 5 Tulsa McLean is a tank crewman with a singing career. Serving with the 3rd Armored Spearhead Division in West Germany, McLean dreams of running his own nightclub when he leaves the army, Tulsa and his buddies have formed a band and perform in various German Gasthauses, night clubs, and on an Armed Forces stage. In one bar, he discovers the record Blue Suede Shoes sung by someone named Elvis Presley on a jukebox. Dynamite and Turk have vied for women before when the two were stationed in Hawaii, when Dynamite gets transferred to Alaska, Tulsa is brought in to take his place. He is not looking forward to it, but must go through with it, Tulsa uses his Southern charm and calls Lili maam. She at first sees Tulsa as another Occupation Duty GI, then after a day on the Rhine, Lili begins to fall for him. Tulsas friend Cookie, meanwhile, falls in love with Lilis roommate, in the end, Ricks and Marlas baby son Tiger helps Tulsa win the bet for the outfit—and Lilis heart. 5 Tulsa McLean Juliet Prowse as Lili Robert Ivers as PFC Cookie James Douglas as Rick Letícia Román as Tina Sigrid Maier as Marla Scotty Moore as himself D. J. Despite his previous three films being mostly slammed by the critics, they warmed to King Creole and its star, Presley felt confident that he had a future in acting after this praise and he was looking forward to returning to Hollywood after his time in the army. The script was written by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson, who had done the final revisions for Hal Wallis on Dont Give Up the Ship, in 1958 they came up with an original treatment for an Elvis Presley movie called Christmas in Berlin. It was later known as Cafe Europa before becoming GI Blues, eight months prior to Presley being discharged, in August 1959, producer Hal Wallis visited with him in Germany to go over the script for G. I. Blues and film some on-location scenes, although some scenes were used in the final film, Presley did not film at any time during his time there. Elvis double, Private First Class Tom Creel, was used for some shots, the U. S. Army supplied tanks and vehicles on manoeuvres to be used in the filming, and appointed public information officer John J. Mawn as technical advisor for the film. Mawn had presided over Presleys military press conferences, Presley returned to the U. S. in March 1960 and began work on the film in late April. Hal Wallis originally wanted Michael Curtiz to direct but eventually selected Norman Taurog, dolores Hart, Joan Blackman and Ursula Andress were all tested to play the female lead before deciding on Juliet Prowse. The film, which was not well received by critics, was released on November 23,1960, Presleys return to the screen led to a riot in a Mexico City theater showing G. I
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Flaming Star
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Flaming Star is a 1960 Western film starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden, based on the book Flaming Lance by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the mixed-blood Pacer Burton, the film was directed by Don Siegel and had a working title of Black Star. The movie reached No.12 on the box office charts, Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither, Elvis Presley as Pacer Burton Barbara Eden as Roslyn Pierce Steve Forrest as Clint Burton Dolores del Río as Neddy Burton John McIntire as Sam Pa Burton L. Q. Originally Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando were lined up to play the brothers, blues, had been a success at the box office and had led to one of his best selling albums to that point. However, determined to be taken seriously as an actor, Presley asked for roles with fewer songs. Flaming Star was initially to include four songs, but after Presley demanded two of the songs be removed, it ended up only the title song and a short number at the opening birthday party scene. Barbara Steele, a British actress originally signed to play the love interest, was replaced during filming by Barbara Eden after studio executives decided that Steeles accent was too pronounced, the film was released only one month after G. I. Blues but did not achieve the degree of box office success. Presleys next film, Wild in the Country, also failed to impress fans or critics and this led to musical-comedies such as Blue Hawaii and Kid Galahad, which set the precedent for most of his roles for the rest of his career. No longer would Presley be considered a serious actor, Movie reviews Movie review by For Elvis Fans Only Review by Rachel Sanders at Apollo Movie Guide. DVD reviews Review by Jon Danziger at digitallyOBSESSED
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Blue Hawaii
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Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical, the film won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the category of Top Musical of 1961. Chadwick Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, girls. in 1962 and Paradise, Hawaiian Style in 1965. Wallis was keen to put Presley into a film that showed how the army affected a man, actress Juliet Prowse, who had starred with Presley in GI Blues, was approached to be his love interest again. However, after her demands were put forward, Paramount decided to drop her as a candidate for the role. Presley was apparently so pale before shooting that Wallis personally recommended a brand of tanning lamp to darken his skin, the film was announced in the fall of 1960 as Hawaii Beach Boy. At the time, film producer Walter Mirisch had a similar titled film in production, Hawaii, Presley arrived in Hawaii on March 18,1961, to prepare for a charity concert that he was performing on March 25 to raise funds for the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. He arrived at the studio on March 21 to start the recording of the films soundtrack. Following location filming, the returned to the Paramount lot to finish other scenes for the film. Presley would relax during filming by giving karate demonstrations with his friend and employee, Red West, Wallis warned the female stars of the film to avoid parties hosted by Presley because they were turning up for shooting looking tired. Producer Hal Wallis would use the box office returns from Blue Hawaii to finance an upcoming Wallis film, 1964s Becket, starring Richard Burton, Presley was 26 at the time this film was released, and a not yet 36-year-old Angela Lansbury played his characters mother. Lansbury would later comment that her appearance here was one of the worst in her career, nancy Walters, who was cast as the older school teacher was, in reality, only 18 months older than Presley. Much of the film was shot on location at the Coco Palms Resort on the east coast of Kauai, the resort has been abandoned since Hurricane Iniki in 1992. In actuality, Kahala is located on the side of Diamond Head from Waikiki. There were several scenes filmed in and around the famous Waikiki Beach, including the driving scenes. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack album was on the Billboard Pop Albums chart for 79 weeks and it has been certified by the RIAA for sales of three million copies in the U. S. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 in the category of Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television
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Kid Galahad
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Kid Galahad is a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer. It was released by United Artists, the film opened at #9 at the box office when released in the United States in August 1962. Variety ranked it #37 on the list of the films of 1962. Kid Galahad was shot on location in Idyllwild, California and its supporting cast included Gig Young, Lola Albright and Charles Bronson. Some critics rate it as one of Elvis Presleys best performances, the film is a remake of the 1937 original version starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart and directed by Michael Curtiz, who also directed the Presley 1958 film King Creole. Willy Grogan is a boxing promoter based in the Catskills resort region of Cream Valley. He owns the Grogans Gaelic Gardens inn and he is a contemptible man and is in debt and pays little attention to the woman who loves him, Dolly, a chain-smoking, love-starved woman residing at the camp. Into their midst comes Walter Gulick, a man recently discharged from the Army who loves the peaceful setting almost as much as he loves working on old cars. Walters simple goal is to go into business as a mechanic at a nearby garage, Willys younger sister, Rose, shows up unexpectedly. She and Walter immediately hit it off, the obsessively protective Willy doesnt want his kid sister falling for some grease monkey mechanic and two-bit boxer. Dolly is envious of the couples romance and resents Willys interference. One day, Walter, in need of work, accepts an offer of five dollars to be a sparring partner, Willy is persuaded to let this Galahad take a shot in a legitimate ring. Both men are reluctant, but each has a need for the money, Walter begins working out under the watchful eye of Willys top trainer, Lew. After several successes in the ring, Walter is readied for his biggest fight, gangsters want him to take a dive so that Willy can pay off his debts to them, but Galahad throws his muscle behind Willy and emerges victorious. He wins the big fight against Ramon Sugar Boy Romero as well as Willys approval, retiring undefeated to his vintage car, reigning welterweight champion Orlando De La Fuente also appeared as Ramon Sugar Boy Romero. Shooting began in early November 1961 in Hidden Lodge, Idyllwild, California, list of American films of 1962 Elvis Presley on film and television Elvis Presley discography Behind the Scenes look at Kid Galahad at Elvis Presley News
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
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Girls. is a 1962 Golden Globe-nominated American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. Return to Sender, which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie, the movie opened at #6 on the Variety box office chart and finished the year at #31 on the year-end list of the top-grossing movies of 1962. The movie earned $2.6 million at the box office, the film was the second of three films Presley shot on location in Hawaii. Elvis Presley plays Ross Carpenter, a Hawaiian fishing guide and sailor who enjoys boating and sailing out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he seeks to find a way to buy the Westwind, Ross is caught in a love triangle with two women, childish, insensitive club singer Robin, and sweet Laurel. When Wesley Johnson makes advances on Laurel, Ross punches him out, Wesley owns the boat, so Ross thereby loses it. Laurel, however, is not who she pretends to be, Ross has to choose between her and Robin. Elvis Presley as Ross Carpenter Stella Stevens as Robin Gantner Laurel Goodwin as Laurel Dodge Jeremy Slate as Wesley Johnson Benson Fong as Kin Yung Robert Strauss as Sam Anderson Ann McCrea as Mrs, the winner that year was The Music Man. Elvis Presley received a 2nd place Laurel Award for the best male performance in a musical for his role in this movie. Earned $2,600,000 at the box office in the United States, list of American films of 1962 Elvis in Hawaii fansite. Girls. at the Internet Movie Database Girls, Girls. at the TCM Movie Database Girls. Girls. at AllMovie Review by Jamie Gillies at Apollo Movie Guide Review of the movie collection Lights, collection by Paul Mavis at DVD Talk, August 6,2007. Review by Jon Danziger at digitallyOBSESSED
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Tickle Me
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Tickle Me is a 1965 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a champion rodeo bull-rider and bronco-buster. Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as best male actor in a film for this role. The film made $5 million at the box office, the soundtrack had no new material, as album cuts were selected, then overdubbed. In two cases, different takes were used, julie Adams and Jocelyn Lane co-star. The screenplay was written by Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds, who had written The Three Stooges film shorts, the film was first released in the VHS format in the early 1980s in a limited version from Allied Artists Home Video. It was issued again by CBS/Fox video in 1985,1987 and 1992, in 2007, Tickle Me was released for the first time on DVD, in the wide-screen letterbox format. Lonnie Beale, a rodeo star, is trying to make ends meet until the season starts up again. He comes to the town of Zuni Wells because a friend says Lonnie can get a job on a ranch, having no other option, Lonnie begins singing in a local club, but he gets fired after a fight with one of the customers. Vera Radford sees his performance and offers a job at a ranch she runs called the Circle-Z to take care of the horses. The Circle-Z is not what Lonnie expected, though, it is a guest ranch where actresses and models go to weight and to get in shape. They share a vision of what the town must have been like when it was still populated. Back at the ranch, people trying to abduct Pam to find the location of the treasure. They want a letter in Pams possession, Lonnie finds himself defending her more than once. Lonnie and Pam begin a relationship, but matters are complicated when Vera throws herself at him, when rodeo season starts, Lonnie goes on the circuit. But because things were left unresolved with Pam, he is unable to do his job well, every time he tries to call, she hangs up on him, and when he writes to her, she sends it back, marked Return to Sender. Eventually, one of the hands, Stanley, finds Lonnie on the circuit. When the two reach the Circle-Z, Pam is on her way to Silverado, so they follow her, a fierce storm begins, so the trio spends the night in a hotel that is not as deserted as they think. It seems to be haunted, as strange things happening to Pam
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Frankie and Johnny (1966 film)
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Frankie and Johnny is a 1966 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a riverboat gambler. The role of Frankie was played by Donna Douglas from The Beverly Hillbillies TV series, the film reached #40 on the Variety weekly national box office list for 1966. The budget of the film was estimated at $4.5 million, the director was Frederick De Cordova, who was the director and producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson beginning in 1970. Johnny and girlfriend Frankie are performers on a Mississippi River riverboat, Johnny is a compulsive gambler who is down on his luck and in debt. Johnny and his friend Cully, a musician and composer, visit a camp to get his fortune told. A lady reads tea leaves and tells Johnny that he will meet a red-haired woman who will bring him luck. Back on the boat, Johnny and Cully promptly encounter Nellie Bly, Nellie has just caught Braden seducing another singer, Mitzi. Since she has red hair, Nellie is persuaded by Johnny to touch his chips for luck, after he wins, Johnny is convinced that the gypsy must be correct. Frankie finds out and becomes jealous, as does Johnnys boss, in a bit of musical theatre, Frankie shoots Johnny for dancing with Nellie Bly while singing Cullys new song. A Broadway recruiter sees the show and buys the rights to this new song, suggesting that Frankie. Landing in New Orleans, the musical cast and riverboat crew attend a masked ball, Frankie, Nellie and Mitzi each rent the same Madame Pompadour costume. Johnny is eager for the luck of redhead Nellie to win more money, being masked and in costume, Frankie and Nellie scheme to switch places to test Johnnys lucky-redhead theory. Johnny wins ten thousand dollars at a wheel, but when he kisses the woman he believes to be Nellie. She throws the winnings out the window, Blackie, a dim-witted stooge who works for the boss, hears Braden drunkenly complain about how he has lost Nellie. Thinking he can be of help, Blackie switches the blank cartridge in Frankies stage gun for a real bullet, the boss tries to prevent the impending disaster, but arrives at the theatre too late. Frankie has shot Johnny for real, Frankie forgives his gambling as the love of her life appears to be dying on stage. Johnny then stands up, apparently unhurt, Johnny was saved because the bullet struck a lucky medallion he was wearing that Frankie had given him. Filming started in May 1965 and took place in Hollywood and New Orleans, under his contract with United Artists, Presley was paid $700,000 plus 50% of the profits
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii, the film reached #40 on the Variety weekly box office chart, earning $2.5 million in theaters. Rick Richards returns to his home in Hawaii after being fired from his job as an airline pilot and he and his buddy Danny Kohana go into the helicopter charter business together. But Ricks reckless flying and his careless negotiations with local women may cost Rick the business, disaster looms as Danny becomes overdue on a flight after Rick has been grounded by government officials. Rick must decide if he should risk losing his license forever by going to look for his friend, collection by Paul Mavis at DVD Talk, August 6,2007 Review by Jon Danziger at digitallyOBSESSED
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Live a Little, Love a Little
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Live A Little, Love A Little is a 1968 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was directed by Norman Taurog, who had directed several previous Presley films and this was to be Taurogs final film. The film introduced the song A Little Less Conversation, a take of which would form the basis of a remix that returned Presley to international music sales charts in 2002. This film had Presley sharing the screen with another legendary singing idol, Rudy Vallee, but Vallee, then in his late 60s, did not sing in this movie. Greg Nolan is a photographer who lives a carefree life — that is, until he encounters an eccentric. Bernice assumes different names and personalities whenever the mood hits her, after having her Great Dane dog, Albert, chase Greg into the water when he insults her after a kiss, Bernice invites him to stay at her beachfront home. She later manages to make him lose his job and apartment after drugging him, however, Bernice also manages to find Greg another home. He wants to repay her so he gets two full-time photographer jobs, one for a Playboy-like magazine owned by Mike Lansdown, the other for a very conservative advertising firm co-owned by Mr. Penlow. The two jobs are in the building, forcing Greg to run from one to the other without being detected. He also must deal with Bernice and her eccentric ways, Elvis Presley as Greg Nolan Michele Carey as Bernice Don Porter as Mike Lansdown Rudy Vallee as Mr. It had a more mature tone than other Presley musicals with strong language, drug references, Elvis was paid $850,000 plus 50% of the profits. Unlike many previous films which involved location scenes shot against a backdrop, scenes were filmed in and around Hollywood, along the Malibu coast, at Marineland, and at the Los Angeles Music Center. The film co-starred Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Vallee, and Dick Sargent, several of Presleys Memphis Mafia friends, such as Red West and Joe Esposito, also appeared. Released on October 23,1968, the failed to impress most critics. Due to a poor performance on US release, the film was not released at all in many regions. A Little Less Conversation was released as a single with Almost in Love on the side on September 3,1968. It peaked at #69, while its b-side scraped into the Billboard Hot 100 at #95 independently, Edge of Reality appeared on November 5,1968, as the b-side to RCA single 47-9670 If I Can Dream, the song Presley used to close out his 1968 Christmas Special. Wonderful World, which played over the credits to the film
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Elvis Meets Nixon
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Elvis Meets Nixon is 1997 film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Rick Peters, Bob Gunton, and Alyson Court. It is an account of the true story of American singer Elvis Presley meeting President Richard Nixon on December 21,1970. The film had a VHS release, but has not yet released on DVD or Bluray. Elvis Presley, bored with his existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21. He winds up in California and is convinced by an Anti-war activist that he is responsible for the counterculture through his influence on The Beatles. This prompts Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a Federal Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Rick Peters as Elvis Presley Bob Gunton as Richard M. Angered by their confrontation, Presley left Graceland and made his way to the airport, after checking in at the Hotel Washington, Presley flew to Los Angeles to meet his friend, Jerry Schilling. Due to an allergic reaction Presley experienced from a medication for an eye infection, aggravated by chocolate that he ate on the plane, a rash had developed on his face and neck. After seeing a doctor and getting some sleep, Presley informed Schilling that he wanted to return to Washington D. C. and arranged for another friend, Sonny West, on the flight Presley met California senator George Murphy. Presley wrote a letter on the plane and hand delivered it to the White House at 6. 30am on December 21, a few hours later Presley visited the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs headquarters in Washington D. C. meeting with Deputy Director John Finlator. He was unsuccessful in persuading Finlator to give him a BNDD badge, Schilling received a call at the hotel from Egil Krogh, President Nixons deputy counsel, to arrange a meeting between Presley and Nixon. After picking up Schilling and West from the hotel, Presley made his way to the White House, all three met with Nixon and received gifts. Presley persuaded Nixon to give him a BNDD badge, and after a photograph was taken. On December 30, Presley returned to Washington D. C. with a few friends to visit the National Sheriffs Association head office, the next day they were given a tour of FBI headquarters, where Presley offered his services as an undercover agent. Despite never getting to meet FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Presley did receive a letter from him on January 4,1971, Elvis & Nixon Elvis Meets Nixon at the Internet Movie Database When Nixon Met Elvis
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Nixon and Presley actually meet on December 21, 1970 as shown by these photos. However the meeting was kept secret until Jan. 27, 1972, when the Washington Post broke the story. Copies of this photo are requested from the National Archives more than any other image.
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The New Gladiators (film)
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The New Gladiators is a documentary movie by Elvis Presley and Ed Parker centered on the fights of the United States Karate team in London, England and Brussels, Belgium. Narrated by Chuck Sullivan, it was filmed between 1973 and 1974 but finally remastered and later released in 2002, the movie was financed by American singer and actor Elvis Presley, who began to practice karate during his duty years in the United States Army. In 1974, George Waite presented the idea of the film to Ed Parker, in the film, Presley was playing the main role, introducing Karate arts divided in narration and demonstrations. Parker presented the idea to Presley, who liked the idea. There was a meeting organized at Graceland, but no details were arranged due the fact that Presley had to leave for travel to Las Vegas to perform on a show. The next morning Presley called Waite and sent his plane to fly Waite. During the show, Presley extended a $50,000 check for beginning the production of the film, in 1977, after Presleys death, the movie was stored in a garage in West Hollywood inside the bed of a truck, along with other memorabilia objects. In 2001, the footage was found, restored, and later released on August 17,2002, on August 16,2009, Elvis Presley Enterprises released a new version of the film with extra footage of Presley in Karate training sessions. List of American films of 1974 Official Web Site New Gladiators at the Internet Movie Database
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All Shook Up (musical)
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All Shook Up is a 2004 American jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music and with a book by Joe DiPietro. The story is based on William Shakespeares 1602 play Twelfth Night, the musical had a developmental staging at the Goodspeed Musicals May 13-June 6,2004, with most of the Broadway cast, except for Manley Pope in the lead role of Chad. Christopher Ashley directed, with choreography by Jody Moccia, the musical had a tryout in Chicago from December 19,2004, through January 24,2005. After the tryout, changes were made to the finale and to add a specific instrumental and vocal voice for Chad. Broadway The musical premiered on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on March 2,2005, directed by Christopher Ashley, with choreography by Ken Roberson, the original Broadway cast included Cheyenne Jackson, Jenn Gambatese, and Jonathan Hadary. It has been performed in the USA at regional theatres, colleges, Love Me Tender -2015 UK Tour In 2015, a UK tour of the show commenced at Manchester Opera House in June 2015 with the show being retitled Love Me Tender. The procession stars Mica Paris as Sylvia, Sian Reeves as ‘Mayor Matilda Hyde’, Shaun Williamson as ‘Jim’ and Ben Lewis as ‘Chad. This synopsis is based on the current licensed version Act One Somewhere in the midwest in the 1950s, Chad, sitting in Sylvias, the local honky tonk, the whole town sings the blues. Natalies widowed father Jim enters and joins in, until interrupted by the roar of a motorcycle. Chad is in need of a mechanic and hes introduced to Natalie, Chad inquires about excitement in the town, and soon discovers the Mamie Eisenhower Decency Act, outlawing Loud music, public necking, and tight pants. Chad then seeks to incite some rebelliousness in the citizens, while Natalie fixes Chads motorbike, Chad seeks to inspire her to take to the open road. After Chad exits, Natalie, in an attempt to more attractive to Chad. Chad asks Dennis to become his sidekick and Dennis accepts, soon, glamorous Sandra appears, and Chad is instantly in love with the museum owner. Chad tries to smooth-talk her, but she resists, later that day, at Sylvias Honky Tonk, Natalie enters in her greasy dress, and Lorraine has her change into one of her dresses—it is clean and cute and Natalie looks lovely. She rushes off in pursuit of Chad, when Sandra enters, and Jim also falls for her, even after having just agreed upon the benefits of being alone in life with Sylvia. Dean, the son of Mayor Matilda, enters to tell Lorraine that he thinks shes beautiful, Chad then convinces them that they would be a sweet little couple. But Sylvia interrupts, and Dean rushes out, later that evening, Dean tells her the terrible news, theyre about to be separated, his mother having just told him hes being sent back to military academy. Hopelessly in love, Dean and Lorraine decide to run off together, Chad, Dennis and Natalie later meet at her garage, but Chad is soon distracted by the appearance of Sandra, trying to sing to her, but it doesnt work
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27,1956 and it was written by Tommy Durden, Mae Boren Axton, and Elvis Presley. A newspaper article about the suicide of a man who jumped from a hotel window inspired the lyrics. Axton presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a music convention in Nashville. Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10,1956, in a session with his band, the Blue Moon Boys, the guitarist Chet Atkins, and the pianist Floyd Cramer. Heartbreak Hotel comprises an eight-bar blues progression, with heavy reverberation throughout the track, Heartbreak Hotel achieved unheard of feats as it reached the top 5 of Country and Western, pop, and Rhythm n Blues charts simultaneously. It would eventually be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It became a staple of Presleys repertoire in live appearances, last performed by him on May 29,1977, at the Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1995 Heartbreak Hotel was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and that year it was also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was written in 1955, by Mae Boren Axton, a school teacher with a background in musical promotion. Kroliks story was published in media, and received further publicity after he was shot and killed in an attempted robbery in El Paso. On August 25,1955, the El Paso Times reported Kroliks death under the headline Story Of Person Who Walked Lonely Street, Axton and Durden give different accounts of how the song was written. Durdens account is that he had written the song and performed it with his band the Swing Billys before he presented it to Axton. Axtons account is that Durden had only written a few lines of the song and she says that the report of the suicide stunned her, and she told Durden, Everybody in the world has someone who cares. Lets put a Heartbreak Hotel at the end of this lonely street and they were interrupted by the arrival of Glenn Reeves, a local performer who had previously worked with Axton. The duo asked Reeves to help with the song, but after hearing the title he remarked that it was the silliest thing Ive ever heard, the song was written within an hour, and Durden recorded it onto Axtons tape recorder. Reeves returned, and after hearing the song he was asked to provide a demo for Axton in the style of Elvis Presley. Reeves obliged, but once again turned down the offer of a credit for his input
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I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
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I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a popular song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff. It is known best for being Elvis Presleys seventh RCA Victor single release, before the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during 1958, there were a number of charts including Jukebox plays, Store charts, and Airplay charts. The song scored No.1 on the Billboard Top Sellers in Stores chart, during April 1956, Variety Magazine reported that Presleys sixth RCA Victor single, Heartbreak Hotel, had sold one million copies. RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes wanted a single to be the next release. Due to Presleys busy touring schedule, Sholes needed to get him into the studio as soon as possible, Presley and his band chartered a small propeller airplane to Nashville for one day of recording between shows. En route from Amarillo, the developed engine trouble and fell through the sky several times. Upon arrival in Nashville on the morning of April 14, all four were disconcerted. Presley arrived at the RCA Victor Studios without ideas for the session and therefore had no choice but to use Sholes suggestions, one of which was I Want You, I Need You. Being used to working hours, coupled with his traumatic experience during his overnight flight. Take after take was ruined for one reason or another and the band was not relaxed, Presley, usually a very quick study with a song, couldnt get the lyrics right. After 17 takes during three hours, Sholes decided Presley and the band werent able to properly and sent them home. After the session, Sholes listened to the takes again and he wasnt happy with the results of what he considered to be an unprofessional and wasted session. He knew that with Presleys busy touring schedule it could be months before RCA Victor got him back into a studio. Performing what was a rare and generally unsuccessful procedure for the 1950s. His cuts were so seamless, nobody at RCA Victor could tell it wasnt from a single take, I Want You, I Need You, I Love You was backed with My Baby Left Me and was released on May 4,1956. Pre-orders of over 300,000 were the biggest ever in the history of the company. At the time of its release, Presley had three songs in the Top 20, Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One, My Baby Left Me, and I Want You, I Need You, I Love You. On June 5,1956, Presley performed the song on The Milton Berle Show, as well as an early version of Hound Dog that resulted in both overwhelmingly favorable audience reaction and outrage
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Don't Be Cruel
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Dont Be Cruel is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley in 1956. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002, in 2004, it was listed #197 in Rolling Stones list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is ranked as the 173rd greatest song of all time, as well as the sixth best song of 1956. Dont Be Cruel was the first song that Presleys song publishers, Hill and Range, Blackwell was more than happy to give up 50% of the royalties and a co-writing credit to Presley to ensure that the hottest new singer around covered it. Freddy Bienstock, Elvis Music Publisher, gave the explanation for why Elvis received co-writing credit for songs like Dont Be Cruel. In the early days Elvis would show dissatisfaction with some lines and he would make alterations and his name did not appear after the first year. But if Elvis liked the song, the writers would be offered a guarantee of a million records, Presley recorded the song on July 2,1956 during an exhaustive recording session at RCA studios in New York City. During this session he also recorded Hound Dog, and Any Way You Want Me, the song featured Presleys regular band of Scotty Moore on lead guitar, Bill Black on bass, D. J. Fontana on drums, and backing vocals from the Jordanaires. The producing credit was given to RCAs Stephen H and he also ran through 31 takes of Hound Dog. The single was released on July 13,1956 backed with Hound Dog, within a few weeks Hound Dog had risen to #2 on the Pop charts with sales of over one million. Soon after it was overtaken by Dont Be Cruel which took #1 on all three charts, Pop, Country, and R n B. By the end of 1956 it had sold in excess of four million copies, Billboard ranked it as the No.2 song for 1956. Presley performed Dont Be Cruel during all three of his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in September 1956 and January 1957, Dont Be Cruel went on to become Presleys biggest selling single recorded in 1956, with sales over six million by 1961. It became a feature of his live sets until his death in 1977. According to author Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicles The Beatles performed it live from at least 1959 till 1961 if not later, No recording from then is known to survive. They finally recorded a version during the massive 1969 Get Back sessions which has never been released. However ex-Beatles John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, Presley was said to be so impressed with Wilsons version that he would later incorporate many of Wilsons mannerisms into future performances. Debbie Harry recorded the song for the Otis Blackwell tribute album Brace Yourself, a cover by American country music duo The Judds peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1987
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Love Me Tender (song)
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Love Me Tender is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music from the eponymous 20th Century Fox film. The words and music are credited to Ken Darby under the pseudonym Vera Matson, the name of his wife, the RCA Victor recording by Elvis Presley was no.1 on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1956. The song was adapted from the tune of Aura Lee, a sentimental Civil War ballad, the 1956 song Love Me Tender puts new words to a new musical adaptation of the Civil War song Aura Lee, published in 1861. Aura Lee had music by George R. Poulton and words by W. W. Fosdick and it later became popular with college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. It was also sung at the U. S, military Academy at West Point, New York. The principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby, who also adapted Poultons Civil War tune, the song was published by Elvis Presley Music. and credited to Presley and Darbys wife Vera Matson. As with nearly all his early RCA recordings, Presley took control in the studio not being credited as producer. He would regularly change arrangements and lyrics to the point that the song was barely recognizable. Ken Darby described Elvis Presleys role in the creation of the song, He adjusted the music, Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to, All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own. He has perfect judgment of what is right for him and he exercised that judgment when he chose Love Me Tender as his theme song. Elvis Presley performed Love Me Tender on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9,1956, shortly before the release and about a month before the movie. On the following day, RCA received 1 million advance orders, the studio, 20th Century Fox, originally wanted to call the movie The Reno Brothers but instead re-titled it Love Me Tender to capitalize on the songs popularity. Movie producer David Weisbart would not allow Presleys regular band to play on the soundtrack, the single debuted at #2 on the Best Sellers in Stores pop singles chart, the first time a single made its first appearance at the #2 position. The song hit #1 on the Billboard charts the week ending November 3,1956, remaining in the position for 5 weeks, Love Me Tender also reached number three for three weeks on the R&B chart. It was also an achievement as Love Me Tender succeeded another Presley single and this occurrence marked two important events in Billboard history. This version was ranked #437 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, in 1968, Presley recorded a 52-second track entitled Violet for the soundtrack of the film The Trouble with Girls. Unreleased until after Presleys death, the song was Presleys second adaptation of Aura Lee, the song was also performed in the Golden Globe-winning concert film Elvis on Tour
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All Shook Up
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All Shook Up is a song recorded by Elvis Presley, published by Elvis Presley Music, and composed by Otis Blackwell. The single topped the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 on April 13,1957 and it also topped the Billboard R&B chart for four weeks, becoming Presleys second single to do so, and peaked at No.3 on the country chart. It is certified 2X Platinum by the RIAA and it was ranked #352 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. According to Peter Guralnick the song has a different origin, in his book Last Train To Memphis he wrote that Elvis thought All Shook Up was a good phrase for a refrain. For this he received a credit, his last. Elvis himself, during an interview on October 28,1957, said, I went to bed one night, had quite a dream, and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it, by morning, he had a new song, All Shook Up. Future Last House on the Left actor David Hess, using the stage name David Hill, was the first to record the song and release it a few weeks before Elvis on Aladdin Records, titled Im All Shook Up. Vicki Young recorded a different song with the title, All Shook Up, on Capitol Records with Big Dave and His Orchestra, written by Bill Bellman. On January 12,1957, Presley recorded the song at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, the duet vocal on the record is by the Jordanaires first tenor Gordon Stoker. Take 10 was selected for release, and in March the song entered Billboards Top 100 chart at #25, within three weeks it had knocked Perry Comos Round and Round off the top spot, and stayed there for eight consecutive weeks. The song also became Presleys first No. hit on the UK Singles Chart, sales of the single exceeded two million, and the song was named Billboards Year End number one song for 1957. According to biographer Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles regularly performed the song, sadly, there is no known recorded version from that time. However Quarryman Len Garry states that it was one of the songs the group played on July 6,1957, the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney, author Doug Sulpy adds that on Jan. That version of the song remains officially unreleased, in 1999 Paul McCartney cut a hard-rocking version on the album Run Devil Run, while his surviving former bandmates of The Quarrymen recorded it in 2004 on Songs We Remember. In 1991, Billy Joel recorded the song for the movie Honeymoon in Vegas and it was released as a single and peaked at No.92 in the US and No.27 in the UK. Suzi Quatro recorded the song for her solo album Suzi Quatro in 1973. Her recording of the song was released as a single in 1974, Presley invited Quatro to Graceland, commenting that her version was the best since the original
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"All Shook Up" single
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Jailhouse Rock (song)
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Jailhouse Rock is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. The song was released as an RCA Victor 45rpm single on September 24,1957, to coincide with the release of Presleys motion picture, Jailhouse Rock. The song as recorded by Presley is #67 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, it finished at #21 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, on 27 November 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs. The film version differs from the version of the song, featuring backing instrumentation. Some of the named in the song are real people. Shifty Henry was a well-known LA musician, not a criminal, the Purple Gang was a real mob. Sad Sack was a U. S. Army nickname in World War II for a loser, according to Rolling Stone, Leiber and Stollers theme song for Presleys third movie was decidedly silly, the kind of tongue-in-cheek goof they had come up with for The Coasters. The King, however, sang it as straight rock & roll, overlooking the jokes in the lyrics and then introducing Scotty Moores guitar solo with a cry so intense that the take almost collapses. Gender studies scholars cite the song for its famous reference to homoerotics behind bars, while music critic Garry Mulholland writes, Jailhouse Rock was always a queer lyric, douglas Brode writes of the filmed production number that its amazing that the sequence passed by the censors. The single, with its B-side Treat Me Nice was a US #1 hit for seven weeks in the fall of 1957, and it was the first record to enter the UK charts at No.1. In addition, Jailhouse Rock spent one week at the top of the US country charts, and reached the No.2 position on the R&B chart. Also in 1957, Jailhouse Rock was the song in an EP, together with other songs from the film, namely Young and Beautiful, I Want to be Free, Dont Leave Me Now. It topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling two million copies and earning a double-platinum RIAA certification. In 2005, the song was re-released in the UK and reached No.1 for a week, when it became the lowest-selling number 1 in UK history. The Beatles regularly performed Jailhouse Rock starting in 1958 and continuing all the way through 1960 with John Lennon on lead vocal, quarryman Len Garry states that the group actually started performing the song in 1957. It is the last song in the motion picture The Blues Brothers, the song is featured in the 1995 film Casper and the 2006 animated television film Leroy & Stitch. American Idol Season 5 contestant Taylor Hicks performed it on May 9,2006, in an episode of Full House, Jesse and Becky sing this song at their wedding reception
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Don't (Elvis Presley song)
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Dont is a song performed by Elvis Presley, which was released in 1958. Written and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, it was Presleys eleventh number-one hit in the United States, dont also peaked at number four on the R&B charts. Billboard ranked it as the No.3 song for 1958, the song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joes Cafe, as a medley with Love Me. Elvis Presley – lead vocals Scotty Moore – electric guitar Bill Black – double bass D. J
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Hard Headed Woman
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Hard Headed Woman is a number 1 rock and roll song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Presleys publishing company, in 1958. It is an American 12-bar blues written by African American songwriter Claude Demetrius and it was most notably recorded as a rock and roll song by Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1958 motion picture King Creole, and was included on the record album of the same name. The song was released as a single in both 78 RPM and 45 RPM formats. In 1958 it went to No.1 on the Billboard charts and it became the first rock and roll single to earn the RIAA designation of Gold Record. The song has also recorded by Wanda Jackson, among others. Cat Stevens recorded a different song of the name, on his album Tea for the Tillerman. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Stuck on You (Elvis Presley song)
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Stuck on You is Elvis Presleys first hit single after his two-year stint in the US Army. Stuck on You peaked at six on the R&B chart. The song knocked Percy Faiths Theme from A Summer Place from the top spot, the record reached number three in the UK. The song was written by Aaron Schroeder and J. Leslie McFarland and published by Gladys Music, in New Zealand, the single had a special paper sleeve with the usual RCA logo top left and 45 R. P. M. Bottom left and included, in letters, ELVIS top right and bottom left. List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1960 List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1960s Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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It's Now or Never (song)
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Its Now or Never is a ballad recorded by Elvis Presley in 1960. It is one of two songs based on the Italian song O Sole mio, the other being Theres No Tomorrow, recorded by U. S. singer Tony Martin in 1949. The lyrics were written by Aaron Schroeder and Wally Gold, the single is the second best-selling single by Presley, and one of the best-selling singles of all time. In the late 1950s, while stationed in Germany with the U. S. Army, according to The New York Times, quoting from the 1986 book Behind The Hits, he told the idea to his music publisher, Freddy Bienstock, who was visiting him in Germany. Mr. Bienstock, who many times found songwriters for Presley, returned to his New York office, where he found songwriters, Mr. Schroeder and Wally Gold, the two wrote lyrics in half an hour. Selling more than 20 million records, the song number one in countries all around and was Presleys best selling single ever. A song finished in 20 minutes to an hour was the biggest song of career. In 1960, Its Now or Never was a record in the U. S. Its Now or Never peaked at seven on the R&B charts. A live version featuring O Sole mio is available on the 1977 live album Elvis in Concert, O Sole mio is sung by tenor Sherrill Nielson. In early 2005, the song was re-released along with the other Presley singles in the UK, the song also appears in the TV mini-series Elvis. American country music singer and actor John Schneider released in 1981 a cover of the song as his first single, schneiders version was a top five hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Presleys version appears in a 2017 TV commercial for Jose Cuervo
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? (song)
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Are You Lonesome Tonight. is a song which was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926. It was recorded several times in 1927—first by Charles Hart, with versions by Vaughn De Leath, Henry Burr. In 1950 the Blue Barron Orchestra version reached the top twenty on the Billboards Pop Singles chart, in April 1960, after Elvis Presleys two-year service in the United States Army, he recorded the song at the suggestion of manager Colonel Tom Parker, Are You Lonesome Tonight. Was Parkers wife, Marie Motts, favorite song and its release was delayed by RCA Victor executives, who thought the song did not fit Presleys new style. Was released in November 1960 it was a success in the U. S. topping Billboards Pop Singles chart. A month after the release, it topped the UK Singles Chart. Presleys version was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1961, was later recorded by several other artists, with versions by Donny Osmond and Merle Haggard becoming top-twenty hits on the pop and country charts respectively. Billboard ranked Are You Lonesome Tonight, number 81 on its Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs list in 2008. The song was written in 1926 by vaudevillians Lou Handman and Roy Turk with three verses, followed by a spoken bridge and they based the bridge on a line in Ruggero Leoncavallos Pagliacci, and You know someone said that the worlds a stage. And each must play a part refers to All the worlds a stage from William Shakespeares As You Like It. This recitation is printed on the back cover of the original 1927 sheet music. Billboard reported in 1960 its discovery that it was written by songwriter, several versions of Are You Lonesome Tonight. The first, by Charles Hart, was recorded on May 9, on June 13, Vaughn De Leath recorded the song as the B-side of Its a Million to One Youre in Love for Edison Records. De Leath had the first hit version of the song, which peaked at four in November. On July 10,1927, the Newport Society Orchestra recorded the song with Irving Kaufman the vocalist, a version by the duet of Jerry Macy and John Ryan was released on Okeh Records as the B-side of Carolina Mine. Henry Burrs version peaked at ten, and Little Jack Little had a hit with the song for Columbia Records. The Carter Family recorded it in 1936, changing several elements of the original version, although Gene Austin included the song in his shows during the 1930s, he never recorded it. In March 1950, the Blue Barron Orchestra released Are You Lonesome Tonight, with Penny Wise and Love Foolish on the B-side, and it peaked at number nineteen on Billboards Top Pop Singles chart
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Surrender (Elvis Presley song)
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Surrender is a #1 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1961. It is an adaptation by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman of the music of a 1902 Neapolitan ballad by Giambattista and it hit number one in the US and UK in 1961 and eventually became one of the best selling singles of all time. This was one of 25 songs Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman wrote for Presley and it has been recorded by many other artists. Elvis Presley - vocals The Jordanaires - backing vocals Scotty Moore - electric guitar Hank Garland - acoustic guitar Bob Moore - double bass D. J
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Little Sister (Elvis Presley song)
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Little Sister is a rock and roll song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was originally released as a single in 1961 by American singer Elvis Presley, the single also reached No.1 in the UK Singles Chart. Lead guitar was played by Hank Garland, with backing vocals by the Jordanaires featuring the bass voice of Ray Walker. Presley performs the song as part of a medley with Get Back in the 1970 rockumentary film Elvis, the song would later be covered by such artists as Dwight Yoakam, Robert Plant, The Nighthawks, The Staggers, Pearl Jam, Ry Cooder and Jesse and the Rippers. The song lyric makes mention of Jim Dandy which was the title of a 1956 song Jim Dandy by LaVern Baker. An answer song to Little Sister, with the melody but different lyrics, was recorded and released under the title Hey. Recorded in RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, June 25,1961, christian parody band ApologetiX recorded a parody of the song, called Little Esther, for their 1993 debut album Isnt Wasnt Aint. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Little Sister"
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Can't Help Falling in Love
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Cant Help Falling in Love is a pop ballad originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presleys publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss, the melody is based on Plaisir damour, a popular romance by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. It was featured in Elvis Presleys 1961 film, Blue Hawaii, Other films that feature the song include Overboard, Honeymoon in Vegas, The Thing Called Love, Was It Something I Said. Fools Rush In, Love Stinks and Happily Ever After, the single is certified by the RIAA as a Platinum record, for US sales in excess of one million copies. In the United States, the Elvis Presley version of the peaked at number two on the pop chart and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart for six weeks. During Presleys late 1960s and 1970s live performances, the song was performed as the shows finale, most notably, it was also sung in the live segment of his 1968 NBC television special, and as the closer for his 1973 Global telecast, Aloha from Hawaii. A version with an arrangement was used as the closing for Presleys final TV special. The song was released in May 1993, in the majority of countries worldwide. It eventually climbed to one on the Billboard Hot 100 after debuting at number 100 and appears in the soundtrack of the movie Sliver, the trailer for Fools Rush In. It remained at one in the United States for seven weeks. It was also one in the United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia. The single version of the song has a different backing rhythm. In the US, and on the Sliver soundtrack, the title was listed as Cant Help Falling in Love. As well as for the Lilo & Stitch movie soundtrack, which was scheduled to include several Presley tracks. It was later featured as a bonus track on their third studio album. The video had thus tremendous exposure on television channels, with the A-Teens eventually including the song in their third album. As a result, the song had two videos, one to promote the Disney movie, the other for the album. It is also shown in the teen pop album, Disney Girlz Rock
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Good Luck Charm
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Good luck charm is a charm that is believed to bring good luck. An example of this is a blessing that a minister or a priest gives at the end of a ceremony, later on, people assumed that spoken words were temporary whereas a solid object is more permanent. Objects that have extraordinary significance such as the believed to be from the cross of Jesus Christ were substituted for the original spoken or sung charms. Almost any object can be used as a charm, coins and buttons are good examples. Little things that are given to you very good lucky charms. It is because of the associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of items that may be used as good luck charms. Good luck charms are usually worn on the body there are exceptions. The “lucky rabbit charm” was passed on and incorporated into American culture by African slaves that were brought to the Americas, the lucky bag or the “Mojo” is another borrowed idea from African culture. It is used in ceremonies to carry several lucky objects or spells. The concept is that objects placed in the bag and charged will create a supernatural effect for the bearer. Even today, mojo bags are still used, europe also contributed to the concept of lucky charms. Adherents of St. Patrick, adopted the Four leaf clover as a symbol of Irish luck because clovers are abundant in the hills of Ireland, a four-leaf clover was consistently believed to be a lucky charm. This very old Irish verse describes why, One leaf is for fame, And one leaf is for wealth, And one is for a lover, And one to bring you glorious health
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Crying in the Chapel
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Crying in the Chapel is a song written by Artie Glenn for his son Darrell to sing. Darrell recorded it while still in school in 1953, along with Arties band the Rhythm Riders. The song was rejected by Hill and Range Songs and Acuff-Rose Music, the song was eventually published by Valley Publishers which also released the single featuring Darrell Glenn. It became a hit and then it went nationwide. The original version of the song was issued in May 1953, the song became one of the most covered of 1953. Darrell Glenns original recording reached number one on the Cash Box charts, a recording by June Valli with orchestra directed by Joe Reisman was made in New York City on June 11,1953. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog umber 20-5368 and by EMI on the His Masters Voice label as catalog numbers HR10007, N14105 and CS14. This was the most successful pop version on the Billboard charts, on October 30,1960, Elvis Presley recorded a version of the song during the sessions for his RCA Records gospel album, His Hand in Mine. The single reached number one on the British charts in 1965 where it stayed for two weeks and it was later included as a bonus track on Presleys 1967 gospel album, How Great Thou Art. The single was eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US, a vinyl single was also released by JAD in 2002. They feature a duet between Bob Marley and Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in medley style. This duet version single hit number one in the UK Echoes magazine in April 1998, a dub version entitled War/Selassie in Dub was released on the flip side. A later Jamaican DJ version by Joseph Cotton entitled Conflicts was released on the Rastafari label in 2009, more than 50 artists have released a version of Crying in the Chapel. The black R&B group, The Orioles, recorded a version of the song which became a major success in 1953. The Orioles version went to one on the R&B chart. It was included on the album for the film American Graffiti. Arne Alm wrote the Swedish lyrics, raya Avellan and Yngve Stoors Hawaiiorkester recorded Klockorna i dalen in Stockholm on October 10,1953. The song was released on the 78 rpm record Cupol 4780, ken Griffin recorded a version in 1953
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1953 sheet music cover featuring Darrell Glenn on the cover, Valley Publishers, Inc., New York.
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In the Ghetto
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In the Ghetto is a song written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley, who had a major comeback hit with it in 1969. It was released in 1969 as a 45 rpm single with Any Day Now as the flip side and it is a narrative of generational poverty, a boy is born to a mother who already has more children than she can feed in the ghetto of Chicago. The boy grows up hungry, steals and fights, purchases a gun and steals a car, attempts to run, the song implies that the newborn will meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence. In the Ghetto was recorded during Presleys session in the American Sound Studio in Memphis and it was Presleys first creative recording session since the 68 Comeback. Other hits recorded at this session were Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, the song was Presleys first Top 10 hit in the US in four years, peaking at number 3, and his first UK Top 10 hit in three years, peaking at No.2. It was a hit in West Germany, Ireland, Norway, Australia. As a major hit, Presley included it in his setlist during his return to live performances at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969. This version started without pause at the end of another hit from 1969 – Dont Cry Daddy, the song was recorded in 2007 by Lisa Marie Presley as a duet with her father to raise money for the Presley Foundation. The song was released on iTunes, after Elvis Presley, the song has been performed by many other artists. Among them were, most notably, Sammy Davis Jr, the Voice, Natalie Merchant, Bad Lieutenant, Fair Warning, Beats International, Eleanor Shanley, Chris Clark and Hecchi & Kethmer. The KLF used a sample of the Elvis recording in their ambient DJ album Chill Out, Mac Davis recorded a version of the song for a greatest hits album released in 1979. In 2011, Chris de Burgh covered the song on his album Footsteps 2, dancehall singer Sister Nancy used some of the songs lyrics in the song Coward of the Country, which appeared on her 1982 album One, Two. In 2014, cricketer Andrew Flintoff was asked to sing Elvis and he proceeded to sing In The Ghetto whilst the game was going on. In the Ghetto was covered by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and was their debut single and it was recorded at the Trident Studios in London and released as a 7 on June 18,1984 with the B-side The Moon Is in the Gutter. It reached 84 on the UK Singles Chart, while originally not present on any album, it was later included on the CD reissue of the bands first album, From Her to Eternity. In the Comedy Central show South Park, Eric Cartman sings In the Ghetto on two occasions, once in Chickenpox, then again when Kennys soul is trapped in Cartmans body in A Ladder to Heaven. Paul Shanklin recorded a parody called In a Yugo for Rush Limbaugh, in which an environmentally conscious family buys a Yugo to save gas, only to get killed by a truck after swerving to miss a duck. Later, Shanklin updated his parody for a new generation too young to remember the Yugo, replacing it with its perceived equivalent, el Vez recorded a version titled En el Barrio that mixed humor with details about Chicano struggles
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Don't Cry Daddy
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Dont Cry Daddy is a song written by Mac Davis, recorded by Elvis Presley in 1969. The song was written by Scott Davis and recorded by Elvis Presley on January 15 and 21,1969, the rhythm track was laid down on 15 January and Elvis vocal overdub on the 21st. Some speculate that it is a song, considering that Elviss father became a widower upon the death of his wife in 1958. The song reached #6 in the U. S. and #8 in the U. K, live recordings were made during his second season in Las Vegas during February 1970 and several of these have been released. However, during the show on 13 August 1970 at the International Hotel he recorded a version that led seamlessly into In the Ghetto. In 1997 Lisa Marie Presley made a video of Dont Cry Daddy and this video was presented on August 16,1997, at the tribute concert that marked the 20th anniversary of Elvis death. The video has Elvis original vocal, to which new instrumentation, the recording was not for commercial use. The song created a renewed interest in her as a recording artist, the song takes place in the mind of the husband of the wife and mother who is no longer present. The characters are the father, one of his children. The unnamed child begs the father not to cry, saying they will find a new mommy, Elvis fans comments and feelings about Dont Cry Daddy song Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Jordanaires
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The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are known for providing vocals for Elvis Presley, in live appearances. The group has worked in the recording studio, on stage. In 1948, Matt and Jack left to become full-time preachers and were replaced by Bob Hubbard, also a minister, and bass singer Culley Holt, after three years Money was replaced as pianist by Gordon Stoker. At that time, they formed the new group as the Melodizing Matthews, in Springfield, Missouri and this starting lineup lasted until 1949, at that time, Bob Hubbard was drafted and was replaced by Hoyt Hawkins. Later that year, Monty and Bill Matthews left, Hawkins switched to baritone, and new lead Neal Matthews was recruited. Don Bruce came in as a new first tenor, however, the group narrowed to a quartet, with Stoker taking over as first tenor. They became members of the Grand Ole Opry in 1949 and they recorded for Capitol Records in the early 1950s, and began providing vocal accompaniment behind solo singers in Nashville, Tennessee. The lineup changed again in 1954, with Culley Holt leaving, the quartet became well known in the southern gospel realm, and what made them stand out from other quartets of that time was how they would bring spirituals to a predominantly white audience. While continuing to turn out albums of their own, the group become better known for the signature background harmonies they have provided on dozens of secular records. Jarrett remained until 1958, at time, he was replaced by Ray Walker. October 31954 a teenage Elvis Presley made the drive from Memphis to Nashville to make his one, debuting his high-energy brand of rockabilly with Blue Moon of Kentucky it was his first live performance on national radio broadcast. He had just recorded his first record at Sun studios, Thats All Right just a few weeks prior, an afternoon in 1955, the Jordanaires played a show in Memphis with Eddy Arnold to publicize their new syndicated TV series, Eddy Arnold Time. He was on Sun Records at that time, on January 10,1956, Presley recorded his first session for RCA with guitarist Scotty Moore, bassist Bill Black, and drummer D. J. Fontana. I Got a Woman, Heartbreak Hotel, and Money Honey were recorded, Presley asked his new label RCA Victor if the Jordanaires could appear on the recordings. The next day Gordon Stoker was called by Chet Atkins to do a session with a new singer named Elvis. RCA had also just signed the Speer Family, Atkins asked Stoker to sing with Ben and Brock Speer so he could use them. The recording session for Im Counting on You and I Was the One was the first session Presley did with vocal background, by April 1956, Heartbreak Hotel was No.1
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The Jordanaires with Elvis, 1957
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The Imperials
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The Imperials are an American Christian music group that has been active for over 50 years. Originating as a gospel quartet, the innovative group would become pioneers of contemporary Christian music in the 1960s. There have been many changes for the band in membership and musical styles over the years and they would go on to win four Grammys, and be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The band had its genesis when long-time Statesmen Quartet member Jake Hess retired from that group on December 7,1963, Hess wanted to start a new group recognized as king of the Southern gospel field and thought the Imperials would be a good moniker. After signing with Benson Records in 1964, the recorded their first of many albums on the Heart Warming Records label. The following year, the organization moved from Atlanta to Nashville. After 2 years with the group, tenor Nielsen was first to go, murrays past included stints with the Stamps Trio, Inspirationals, and Orrell Quartet. About this time, Slaughter also departed with Joe Moscheo of the Harmoneers replacing him at the keyboard, health issues also forced Hess to retire and McSpadden chose to leave as well. In 1966, Hess turned the reins of the group over to Morales, Moscheo, with new members, Roger Wiles and ex-Stamps Quartet member Terry Blackwood, a new name, along came a new, more contemporary sound on the 1967 album New Dimensions. It also brought them their first of many awards, Male Quartet of the Year in 1969 from the Gospel Music Association, Elvis Presley had long harbored a love for gospel and Jake Hess in particular. The group recorded with Elvis in sessions from May 1966 to June 1971 and this included his last two Grammy Award-producing albums, How Great Thou Art and He Touched Me. At the same time the Imperials appeared with Jimmy Dean, live, in 1972, because of scheduling conflicts, they decided to stop performing with Elvis. The following year the group performing in concert with Jimmy Dean. The Imperials surprised gospel music fans in February 1972 by hiring Sherman Andrus, a member of Andrae Crouch. This made them the first interracial Christian group America had ever seen, the lineup of the group stayed stable with Andrus and Terry Blackwood sharing lead vocals through 1975 when Joe Moscheo left just after recording of Follow the Man with the Music. The following year, the pair left to form contemporary Christian music act Andrus. In Early 1976, the group hired baritone David Will, who would stay on for 23 years with the group, and soulful belter Russ Taff as their new lead vocalist. The Taff-led outfit is heard on the albums Sail On, Imperials Live, Heed the Call, One More Song for You, Christmas With the Imperials and it was during this era that the group found their biggest success, both with awards and on the charts
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(l to r) Evans, Smith, Will, and Morales
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The Sweet Inspirations
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The Sweet Inspirations were an American R&B girl group founded by Emily Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick. The line-up included Judy Guions, Marie Epps, Larry Drinkard, Nicholas Drinkard, Ann Moss, Lee, at that time, Sylvia Shemwell replaced Doris, while Cissy Houston took over from Dionne, with Dee Dee Warwick as the group’s official leader. The group sang backup for many stars, including Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Dee Dee left in 1965, when her solo career began to take off. She was replaced by Myrna Smith, Estelle Brown joined the team soon after, and the line-up that was to become an Atlantic recording group was set. In a recording session on March 28,1967, The Sweet Inspirations provided the back up vocals for Van Morrison on his classic hit Brown Eyed Girl and it was released in June 1967 and rose to No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In October 2007, Morrison was awarded a Million-Air certificate by BMI for 8 million air plays of Brown Eyed Girl, the Sweet Inspirations recorded by themselves for the first time in April 1967 for Atlantic Records. Within a month of their climb, the group began work on their second album - a gospel record entitled Songs Of Faith & Inspiration. It was released in 1968 under the name Cissy Drinkard & The Sweet Inspirations, on March 30,1968, the group scored their first and only top forty hit on the Billboard Top 40 Pop Chart with the song Sweet Inspiration on Atlantic Records. The record was on the chart for ten weeks and peaked at number 18, the group at this point was composed of Houston, Brown, Shernwell and Smith. In 1967, the group did backing vocals for the Jimi Hendrix single Burning of the Midnight Lamp which was featured on the album Electric Ladyland in 1968. They also backed Dusty Springfield on her album Dusty in Memphis, in 1969, the group recorded their fourth album, Sweets for my Sweet. The Sweet Inspirations also began recording and touring with Elvis Presley as both singers and his warm-up act, as well as doing occasional ‘live’ dates with Aretha Franklin. The association with Presley became well-publicized as he introduced the Sweet Inspirations on his telecast concerts. Houstons last recording session with The Sweet Inspirations was in October 1969, since she wanted to pursue a solo career, the session produced the group’s biggest R&B hit in some time. A Gamble & Huff composition, Gotta Find Me A Brand New Lover appeared on the fifth album Sweet Sweet Soul. Also included from that set are That’s The Way My Baby Is, Ann disappeared during a tour with Elvis Presley and did not return to the group. A final Atlantic session in June 1970 brought the group its last two singles for the label, This World, and Evidence, in 1973, Estelle, Myrna, and Sylvia recorded an album for Stax Records. They group broke up shortly thereafter, in 1978, the group sang backing vocals on Frankie Vallis No.1 hit Grease from the film of the same name
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The Sweet Inspirations in 1967
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Ginger Alden
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock
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Presley's birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi
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Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954
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The "iconic cover" of Presley's 1956 debut album featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida
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Elvis impersonator
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An Elvis impersonator is someone who impersonates or copies the look and sound of musician Elvis Presley. There are even a number of stations that exclusively feature Elvis impersonator material. While some of the impersonators perform a range of Presley music, the raw 1950s Elvis. Contrary to popular belief, Elvis impersonators have existed since the mid-1950s, Nelson even performed alongside Presley when they first met, also in 1954. The friendship between Nelson and Presley is documented in the book Elvis in Texas, the second known impersonator was a 16-year-old boy named Jim Smith. In 1956, shortly after Elvis began to rise in popularity, Smith began jumping on stage, dave Ehlert from Waukegan, IL began performing as Elvis in 1967 a full 10 years before Elvis died. Some of his contemporaries included Rick Saucedo of Chicago and Johnny Hara, Ehlert performed throughout the Chicago Metro Area until Elvis died, then traveled the country with his act. He was on hand for the 1 year anniversary of Elvis death at the Prince William County Fair in Manassas, VA on August 16,1978. He has continuously performed his Elvis Tribute for almost 50 years including performances in Las Vegas and headlining an Elvis Tribute Show in Branson, only after Elvis untimely death on August 16,1977 that impersonating Elvis started to become popular in the mainstream. The large growth in Elvis impersonators seems tightly linked with his iconic status. American protest singer Phil Ochs appeared in concert in March 1970 at Carnegie Hall wearing a 1950s Elvis-style gold lamé suit and his performance may be considered the first significant Elvis impersonation. Jeremy Spencer of British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac became known for his high-energy Elvis tribute performances during his tenure with the band. Spencer would perform as Elvis as the part of a mini-set in which he also did other impersonations of figures such as Buddy Holly. In the mid-1970s, Andy Kaufman made an Elvis impersonation part of his act and he is considered to be one of the first notable Elvis impersonators and Elvis himself said that Kaufman was his favorite impersonator. In his act, Kaufman would precede with several failed impersonations before unexpectedly launching into a skilled impersonation of Elvis Presley, as Kaufman gained fame, the impersonation was used less and less. According to a joke, Elvis himself entered an Elvis lookalike contest at a local restaurant shortly before his death. There are many different types of Elvis impersonator, most fall under the following categories, Look-alikes who concentrate more on visual elements of Elvis fashion and style using accessories such as wigs, costumes and jewelry. Sound-alikes who concentrate on changing their voice to sing or talk like Elvis, notable examples of this type include country artist Ronnie McDowell and rock n roll artist Ral Donner
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Example of the "fun/comedy"-level Elvis impersonator, seen here "walking in Memphis."
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Elvis and Gladys
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Elvis and Gladys is a biography of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley by author and film industry insider, Elaine Dundy. The book recounts Presleys early life, the role his mother Gladys played in his formative years, hardcover edition published in the United States in 1985 by MacMillan Publishing Company, New York. It was reissued in paperback in 2004 by the University Press of Mississippi, widely acclaimed, the Boston Globe called it Nothing less than the best Elvis book yet and Kirkus Reviews, The most fine-grained Elvis bio ever. The biopic which depicted Elvis relationship with Gladys is featured in the TV series Elvis, books University Press of Mississippi Elaine Dundy website
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Book Elvis and Gladys
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Elvis and Me
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Elvis and Me is a 1985 biography written by Priscilla Presley. In the book, Priscilla talks about meeting Elvis Presley, their marriage, Priscilla wrote that Elvis did not approve of his father Vernons relationship with divorcee Dee Stanley and did not attend their wedding. After the marriage Elvis bought a home on Dolan Drive in Memphis where Vernon, on the rare occasions Dee Stanley-Presley came to Graceland, Elvis did his best to at least be civil towards his stepmother. Priscilla describes how her father allowed her to live in Memphis. The initial arrangement was that Priscilla would live with Vernon and Dee while attending a Memphis Catholic school, contrary to this arrangement, Priscilla gradually moved in with Elvis. Priscillas descriptions of the nights she spent with Elvis before their marriage suggest that the star was not overtly sexual towards her, the couple kissed and engaged in petting, but Elvis always stopped the make-out sessions before it led to actual intercourse. According to her account, Elvis told Priscilla that they had to wait until they were married before having sex and he said, Im not saying we cant do other things. Priscilla adds, Fearful of not pleasing him—of destroying my image as his little girl—I resigned myself to the long wait, instead of consummating our love in the usual way, he began teaching me other means of pleasing him. We had a connection, much of it sexual. The two of us created some exciting and wild times, Priscilla notes that prescription drugs were present from the first time she visited Elvis in America. He took placidyls to get to sleep in ever-increasing doses, Elvis would wake up at his normal time around 4,00 in the afternoon, but would be groggy and irritable for a few hours from the heavy dose of pills. He then began taking Dexedrine in order to wake up, conversely, she writes about Presleys double standard for his own behavior. His promiscuity with women led to several confrontations. When he asked Priscilla to move to Memphis he told her the relationship with Wood was over, however, according to Elviss own words, he did not make love to Anita Wood the whole four years he was with her. Just to a point, he said, then I stopped and it was difficult for her too, but thats just how I feel. Presley admitted he had a number of affairs with some of the women who co-starred in his films, nevertheless, she understood these affairs were going on while he was professing love to Anita Wood. Priscilla also writes of other times she became suspicious of Elvis faithfulness, one such time was when Elvis released His Latest Flame, Priscilla wondered at that time if Elvis was dating a girl named Marie. In her book, Priscilla devotes four pages to the subject, there was a lot of publicity about a romance between Elvis and Ann-Margret during the 1963 filming, and in the following weeks when Elvis returned to record music and prepare for his next film
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First edition (publ. Putnam)
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Elvis-A-Rama Museum
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The Elvis-A-Rama Museum in Paradise, Nevada was a large private collection of Elvis memorabilia owned by Chris Davidson which featured an 85-foot-long mural about Elvis life and career. The museum opened on November 5,1999, and showcased more than $5,000,000 worth of Elvis vehicles, jumpsuits, guitars, the museum was housed in an 8,200 sq ft building that contained the museum,100 person showroom and extensive gift shop. All the showcases of Elviss belongings were enhanced with murals by renowned artist Robert Emerald Shappy. Over thirty paintings were created by Shappy for both the museums in Nevada, the artwork was valued by Davison at $250,000. A break-in occurred at the museum on March 17,2004 with almost $300,000 worth of memorabilia stolen including Elvis jewelry, the museum was located at 3401 Industrial Road. Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc acquired the assets and trademark to the museum, CKX, Inc. granted Mr. Davidson the right to open a museum in Hawaii
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Elvis Radio
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Elvis Radio is an all-Elvis Presley station on Sirius XM Radio channel 19 and Dish Network channel 6019. The station began broadcasting from Graceland in Memphis in 2004 from a small, the very first voice ever heard on Elvis radio was Bill Rock. It includes many hundreds of songs from the years, the classics. With the contacts made by staff, some recordings have been unearthed that have rarely been heard anywhere else. Bill Rock remains the longest running DJ on the station on Saturday nights, list of Sirius Satellite Radio stations SiriusXMs Elvis Radio The worlds only all ELVIS radio station is closed by Broadcasters Hall Of Fame inductee Rod Williams
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Elvis Presley's Army career
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American singer Elvis Presley served in the United States Army between March 1958 and March 1960. At the time of his draft he was one of the most well-known names in the world of entertainment, before entering the U. S. Army, Presley had caused national outrage with his sexually charged performances and rock and roll music. Many parents, religious leaders, and teachers groups saw his draft, removing him from public view, despite being offered the chance to enlist in Special Services to entertain the troops and live in priority housing, Presley decided to serve as a regular soldier. This earned him the respect of many of his fellow soldiers, during his service, Presleys life was affected in many ways, beginning with the death of his mother. Not long before he was to be stationed in Germany, Gladys Presley died of an attack brought on by Acute Hepatitis and Cirrhosis at age 46. When he was stationed in West Germany, he met his future wife Priscilla Beaulieu and became dependent on stimulants and this unhealthy addiction eventually led to his divorce, and ultimately his death at age 42 in 1977. After his release from service, Presley found a new fan base among an older age group, thanks in part to his army career and releases of ballads over rock. In January 1956, Presley turned twenty-one years old, like most American men of that age, he was now eligible to be drafted. Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys manager, was aware of his clients draft status. In the summer of 1956, Parker wrote to the Pentagon requesting that Presley be considered for Special Services, Special Services would allow Presley to do only six weeks basic training and then resume life as normal with the exception of performing several times a year for the armed forces. However, Parker had no intentions of allowing his client to sign up for Special Services. Special Services would require Presley to perform for free, with performance being recorded and filmed for sale to television stations throughout the world. Only the armed forces would profit from these recordings, and Parker was in no way willing to allow anyone, even Uncle Sam, over the course of the next twelve months Parker led Presley to believe that it was still possible to avoid the draft completely. Unknown to Presley, Parker had no intentions of avoiding the draft, in his eyes, after a year of some negative publicity about Presley, this was the perfect opportunity to change the view that older America had of him. Parker explained to Presley that this was a situation, one that neither of them could refuse. Parker promised Presley that if he worked hard, kept his nose clean, on January 4,1957, Presley attended Kennedy Veterans Hospital in Memphis for a pre-induction Army medical. On January 8, Presleys twenty-second birthday, he was declared 1-A by the Memphis Draft Board, physically fit and it was on December 16 that it was officially announced that Presley would be receiving his draft notice. While fans around the country were upset about the news, parents, Presley had been, in their opinion, a menace to society
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Bad Nauheim Villa Grunewald
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Plaque at Prestwick Airport recording the only occasion when Elvis Presley set foot in the UK
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Eight Elvises
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Eight Elvises is a 1963 silkscreen painting by American pop artist Andy Warhol of Elvis Presley. In 2008 it was sold by Annibale Berlingieri for $100 million to a private buyer, the current owner and location of the painting, which has not been seen publicly since the 1960s, are unknown. Eight Elvises is composed of eight identical, overlapping images of Elvis Presley in cowboy attire, the painting was originally a portion of a 37-foot long piece, containing sixteen copies of Elvis, that was showcased in a 1963 exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, Warhols second at the Ferus, contained several other pieces using the image of Elvis. The images of Elvis were taken from a publicity still from the movie Flaming Star, when the gallery was dismantled, the section with eight images of Elvis became a distinct piece, measuring 6 1⁄2 by 12 feet. While Warhol created 22 versions of the painting with two Elvises on it, known as Double Elvis, only one piece titled Eight Elvises was created. In 2008 Eight Elvises was sold by Annibale Berlingieri, who had owned it for 40 years, news of the sale, which was not announced publicly at the time, was broken by art writer Sarah Thornton and published in The Economist in late 2009. The deal was brokered by Philippe Ségalot, a New York-based art dealer, the current location of the painting is unknown. Another painting from 1963, Silver Car Crash, broke the record for a Warhol work set by Eight Elvises when it sold for $105 million at auction in November 2013. Triple Elvis List of most expensive paintings McCarthy, David, Andy Warhols Silver Elvises, Meaning through Context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963
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Elvis Presley's Pink Cadillac
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The 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood is now preserved in the Graceland museum, in Memphis, Tennessee. In early 1955, Elvis bought his first Cadillac, a 1954 Fleetwood Series 60, which was the color pink. The car provided transport for Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys, on July 5,1955, Elvis purchased a new Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 in blue with a black roof. Art designed a pink color for Elvis which he named Elvis Rose. Once the car was finished Elvis gave it to his mother Gladys as a gift, mrs. Gladys Presley never had a drivers license, and Elvis drove the car with the members of his band for most of 1955–1956. On September 2,1955, Scotty Moore drove the car into a vehicle which was passing a pick-up truck in Texarkana, Texas, having signed his contract with RCA in November 1955, in March 1956 Elvis had the upholstery replaced, the body retouched and roof painted white. On his return from service in Germany in 1960, Presley lent the car to his US Army buddy Joe Esposito. The original pink Cadillac remains on permanent display at Graceland, formerly under a carport for many years, and now resident in the auto museum. The car was again brought to the front drive entrance of Graceland in June 2006, during the visit of President George W. Bush. At the time, Ford Motor Co. was the manufacturer to offer pink as a standard color. After the public attention to Elvis car many individual car owners in the 1950s began to paint their cars various shades of pink, Pink Cadillacs have also been the automobiles of recognition for their top sales people by Mary Kay Cosmetics. Elvis Presley appears in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams—he is depicted as driving a pink spaceship, Elvis Pink Cadillac was the inspiration for Robert Dunns musical novel Pink Cadillac. In the novel Elvis makes a appearance, giving the heroine, Daisy Holliday. Elvis Pink Cadillac was featured in the CBS miniseries Elvis, where it shows him first buying the car for his mother, pantone color swatches were used to match the pink and white exterior and interior paint. It has been estimated that close to 200,000 photos have been taken with this re-creation at breast cancer fund raising events, on occasion Diamond Joe Esposito, Elvis road manager has appeared with the Krentzman car. The Krentzman car made its first appearance at Susan G. Komens mother and daughter Color Me Pink Event in New York City in April 2007. It has since appeared at many Susan G. Komen, Avon and Revlon Walks in addition to being used by many grassroots breast cancer organizations across the United States
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Blue Moon of Kentucky
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Blue Moon of Kentucky is a waltz written in 1946 by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and recorded by his band, the Blue Grass Boys. The song has since recorded by many artists, including Elvis Presley. In 2003 the song was chosen to be added to the United States Library of Congress National Recording Registry, Blue Moon is the official bluegrass song of Kentucky. In 2002, Monroes version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, in 2003, CMT ranked Blue Moon number 11 in its list of 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. Bill Monroe wrote the song in 1946, recording it for Columbia Records on September 16 and it was released in early 1947. At the time, the Bluegrass Boys included vocalist and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs, who would form their own bluegrass band. Both Flatt and Scruggs performed on the recording, although Bill Monroe supplied the vocals on this song, the song, described as a bluegrass waltz, had become a United States wide hit by 1947 and also became enormously popular with other bluegrass, country and early rockabilly acts. The song was revered by the Grand Ole Opry and others, the search for another song to release along with Thats All Right at Sun Records in July 1954 led to Blue Moon of Kentucky via Bill Black. According to Scotty Moore, We all of us knew we needed something. Elvis joins in with him, starts playing and singing along with him. Presley, Moore and Black, with the encouragement of Sam Phillips, transformed Monroes slow waltz, in 3/4 time, into an upbeat, after an early rendition of the song, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips exclaimed, BOY, thats fine, thats fine. As with all of the Presley records issued by Sun, the artists were listed and stylized as ELVIS PRESLEY SCOTTY and BILL. The same night that Dewey Phillips first played the flip side of this first release of Presleys music on WHBQ, Thats All Right, bob Neal of WMPS played the record too. The pop jockeys, entranced by something new, began slipping Thats All Right and Blue Moon of Kentucky in amongst the easy listening pop of Teresa Brewer, Nat Cole, Tony Bennett and others. With Presleys version of Monroes song consistently rated higher, both began to chart across the Southern United States. Billboard has the song listed only in Memphis, and as number 6 with Thats All Right at number 7 on October 9 in the C&W Territorial Best Sellers. By October 23, Blue Moon was in the top 10 in Memphis, Nashville, fellow Sun Records artist Charlie Feathers has often claimed that he came up with the arrangement of the song used by Presley. The song was used in a scene of the 2005 TV miniseries Elvis. In 1954, the Stanley Brothers recorded a version of the song using Presleys 4/4 arrangement with bluegrass instrumentation, neatly bridging the stylistic gap between Monroes and Presleys approaches
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Good Rocking Tonight
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Good Rocking Tonight was originally a jump blues song released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown and was covered by many other recording artists. The song includes the refrain, Well I heard the news. The song anticipated elements of rock and roll music, Brown had first offered his song to Wynonie Harris, who turned it down. He then approached Cecil Gant later that night, but after hearing Brown sing, Gant made a 2,30 AM phone call to Jules Braun, after Roy Brown sang his song over the phone, Braun asked Brown to sing it a second time. He then told Gant, Give him fifty dollars and dont let him out of your sight, five weeks later, Brown recorded the song for DeLuxe Records. Only after Browns record had gained traction in New Orleans did Harris decide to cover it, harriss version was even more energetic than Browns original version, featuring black gospel style handclapping. This may have contributed to the greater success on the national R&B chart. Browns original recording hit #13 of the Billboard R&B chart, but Harris record became a #1 R&B hit, Browns single would re-enter the chart in 1949, peaking at #11. Harris had a reputation for carousing, and sometimes forgot lyrics, the song is a primer of sorts on the popular black music of the era, making lyrical reference to Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue, Sweet Georgia Brown, Caldonia, Elder Brown, and Deacon Jones. All of these characters had figured prominently in previous hit songs, while Brown missed out on the biggest hit version of his song, its success kicked off his own career, which included two #1 R&B hits. In 1949, he released Rockin at Midnight, a sequel to Good Rockin Tonight and it reached #2 on the R&B chart, where it remained for a month. In 1954, Good Rockin Tonight was the second Sun Records release by Elvis Presley, along with I Dont Care if the Sun Dont Shine on the flip side. Presley and his bandmates hewed closer to the original Roy Brown version, described as a flat-out rocker country radio programmers blanched, and older audiences were somewhat mystified. A live show broadcast from Houston DJ Bill Collies club documented that the crowd responded to the song. Blue Moon of Kentucky, the version of the Bill Monroe classic, has the fans go stark raving nuts with joy. Both sides of this second record featuring Elvis Presley, Scotty, the song was used for the biopic Elvis, which starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Presley, it was used for a montage sequence where he is performing at the Louisiana Hayride in 1954. Carl Perkins in 1958 on his album Whole Lotta Shakin, link Wray in 1965 under the name Good Rockin Tonight. Paul McCartney recorded the song for the Unplugged album, montrose recorded the song for their 1973 self-titled debut album
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I Forgot to Remember to Forget
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I Forgot to Remember to Forget is a country song written by Stan Kesler and Charlie Feathers. It was recorded at Sun Studio on July 11,1955, by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and Johnny Bernero on drums and it was rereleased by RCA Victor in December 1955. Moores guitar had a Nashville steel guitar sound, and Black played a clip-clop rhythm and this is the closest the trio came to a traditional country song while at Sun. The record reached #4 on the Billboard Most Played by Jockeys chart and it was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a national known country music star. The song remained on the charts for 39 weeks. The flip side of this release, Mystery Train, peaked at the #11 position on the national Billboard Country Chart, the Beatles covered this song once for the BBC radio show, From Us To You, on 1 May 1964, with George Harrison on lead vocals. The song is notable for being the last time the Beatles performed a song for the BBC that wasnt recorded for EMI, the song is also notable for its double-time rhythmic changes during the bridge. The band was becoming more experimental at the time, after they recorded I Call Your Name, the song wasnt officially released until 1994, when it was included on Live at the BBC. George Harrison – vocals, lead guitar John Lennon – rhythm guitar Paul McCartney – bass Ringo Starr – drums Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song in 1957, composer Charlie Feathers has also recorded it. Johnny Cash covered and released song in 1959 on the Sun LP Greatest. B. J. Thomas included this song on his 1972 album, chuck Jackson, Ral Donner, Robert Gordon, Johnny Hallyday, The Deighton Family, Hicksville Bombers, and Wanda Jackson recorded this song as well. Chris Isaak also covered this song on his 2011 album, Beyond the Sun, bob Dylan and The Band recorded this song in 1967, it was released on the 2014 album, The Bootleg Series Vol.11, The Basement Tapes Complete. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Mystery Train
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Mystery Train is a song written and recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Junior Parker, billed as Little Juniors Blue Flames, recorded the song, considered a blues standard, the song was released on the Sun label. The song was written by Junior Parker, with a credit later given to Phillips, One commentator noted One of the mysteries about Mystery Train was where the title came from, it was mentioned nowhere in the song. Accompanying Parker is his band the Blue Flames, whose members at the time are believed to have included, Floyd Murphy, William Johnson, Kenneth Banks, John Bowers. Elvis Presleys version of Mystery Train was first released on August 20,1955 as the B-side of I Forgot to Remember to Forget, Presleys version would be ranked #77 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2003. It was again produced by Sam Phillips at Sun Studios, and featured Presley on vocals and rhythm guitar, Scotty Moore on lead guitar, Moore used a country lead break, and toward the end of the record is an echo of the 1946 Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis. For Presleys version of Mystery Train, Scotty Moore also borrowed the riff from Junior Parkers Love My Baby. Victor released a pop version of the song by The Turtles with backing by Hugo Winterhalter and these Turtles are unlikely to have been the 1960s pop group of the same name, since the lead singers of that group were eight years old at the time. Paired with I Forgot to Remember to Forget, the record was in the Top 10 in Billboards C&W listings, RCA Victor rereleased this recording in December 1955 after acquiring it as part of a contract with Presley. This issue of the peaked at #11 on the national Billboard Country Chart. Mystery Train is now considered to be an enduring classic and it was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a nationally known country music star. Black, who had success with the Bill Black Combo, once said to a visitor to his house in Memphis, as he pointed to a framed 78rpm Sun Record of Mystery Train on the wall, Now there was a record. Presleys version was ranked the third most acclaimed song of 1955, Presleys version also appeared in Jim Jarmuschs film of the same title. In 1973, with the approval of Sam Phillips, Robbie Robertson of The Band wrote additional lyrics for Mystery Train, and they later performed the song with Paul Butterfield for their 1976 farewell concert The Last Waltz. A variety of musicians have recorded Mystery Train, including,1965 – Sam the Sham,1965 – Vince Melouney did a cover of this song with Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb on backing vocals. The song was on his album, Punkville,1965 – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 1967 – Ricky Nelson from Country Fever. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Blue Suede Shoes
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Blue Suede Shoes is a rock-and-roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. It is considered one of the first rockabilly records, incorporating elements of blues, country, Perkinss original version of the song was on the Cashbox Best Selling Singles list for 16 weeks and spent two weeks in the number 2 position. Elvis Presley performed his version of the three different times on national television. It was also recorded by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, among many others, Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, and other Louisiana Hayride acts toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of an airman, C. V. White, who he had met when serving in the military in Germany. Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes, Carl replied, I dont know anything about shoes. How can I write a song about shoes, when Perkins played a dance on December 4,1955, he noticed a couple dancing near the stage. Between songs, Carl heard a stern, forceful voice say, Uh-uh, Carl looked down and noted that the boy was wearing blue suede shoes and one had a scuff mark. Good gracious, a pretty little thing like that and all he can think about is his blue suede shoes and that night Perkins began working on a song based on the incident. His first thought was to frame it with a nursery rhyme and he considered, and quickly discarded Little Jack Horner. and See a spider going up the wall. Then settled on One for the money, leaving his bed and working with his Les Paul guitar, he started with an A chord. After playing five chords while singing Well, its one for the money and he broke into a boogie rhythm. He quickly grabbed a brown paper potato sack and wrote the song down, writing the title out as Blue Swade, S-W-A-D-E – I couldnt even spell it right, according to Perkins, On December 17,1955, I wrote Blue Suede Shoes. I recorded it on December 19, for Sun Records, which released the second take of the song, suns producer, Sam Phillips, suggested that the lyric go cat go be changed to go man go, but the suggestion was not taken. Perkinss recording of Blue Suede Shoes was released on January 1,1956, two copies of the song on 78-rpm records were sent to Perkins but arrived broken. He soon discovered that the song was available in the newer 7 microgrooved 45-rpm format and was disappointed that he didnt have a copy in the older, in Jackson, where Perkins lived, and Memphis, radio stations were playing the flip side of the record, Honey Dont. Shoes became the side of choice throughout the South and Southwest, on February 11 it was the number 2 single on Memphis charts, it was number one the next week and remained there for the next three months. Perkins made four appearances on the radio program Big D Jamboree on station KRLD in Dallas, the Jamboree was broadcast from the Dallas Sportatorium, with about four thousand seats, and it sold out for each of Perkins performances
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Shoes in Elvis exhibit similar to those that inspired the song
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Tutti Frutti (song)
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Tutti Frutti is a song written by Little Richard along with Dorothy LaBostrie that was recorded in 1955 and became his first major hit record. The song introduced several of rock musics most characteristic features, including its loud volume and vocal style emphasizing power. In 2007, a panel of renowned recording artists voted Tutti Frutti No.1 on Mojos The Top 100 Records That Changed The World, hailing the recording as the sound of the birth of rock. Library of Congress National Recording Registry added the recording to its registry, in April 2012, Rolling Stone magazine declared that the song still contains what has to be considered the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded, A wop bop alu bop, a wop bam boom. In February 1955, he sent a tape to Specialty Records. The band included Lee Allen and Alvin Red Tyler on saxophones, Huey Smith on piano, Frank Fields on double bass, Justin Adams on guitar, however, as the session wore on, Little Richards anarchic performance style was not being fully captured on tape. In frustration during a break, he started pounding a piano and singing a ribald song that he had written and composed. According to some accounts, he first wrote and performed the song while working as a janitor in a bus station, the song that he sang was a piece of music that he “had polished in clubs across the South. Blackwell contacted local songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie to revise the lyrics, with Little Richard still playing in his characteristic style, according to Blackwell, LaBostrie didnt understand melody, but she was definitely a “prolific writer. Aw rooty was an expression meaning All right. Some sources considered this a pseudonym used by Specialty label owner Art Rupe to claim royalties on some of his labels songs, songwriter LaBostrie was quoted as saying, Little Richard didnt write none of Tutti Frutti. She was still receiving royalty checks on the average of $5,000 every three to six months from the song in the 1980s. Blackwell said time constraints prevented the development of a new arrangement, the song was recorded on September 14,1955. Released on Specialty 561, the record entered the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart at the end of December 1955 and it also reached No.17 on the Billboard pop chart. In the UK, it only scraped into the top 30 in 1957, the song, with its twelve-bar blues chord progression, provided the foundation of Little Richards career. It was seen as an aggressive song that contained more features of African American vernacular music than any other past recordings in this style. Richards contract with Peacock had been purchased by Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, specialtys deal with Richard was typical of most record companiess dealings with their artists. Tutti Frutti provided the title for one of the earliest books about the development of rock and roll and pop music from the 1950s, Nik Cohns Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
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Shake, Rattle and Roll
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Shake, Rattle and Roll is a twelve bar blues-form song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name, Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets, the song as sung by Big Joe Turner is ranked #127 on the Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Stone played around with various phrases before coming up with shake, rattle, however, the phrase had been used in earlier songs. In 1919, Al Bernard recorded a song about gambling with dice with the same title, the phrase is also heard in Roll The Bones by the Excelsior Quartette in 1922. Turners version was recorded in New York on February 15,1954, the shouting chorus on his version consisted of Jesse Stone, and record label executives Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegün. The saxophone solo was by Sam The Man Taylor, other players included McHouston Mickey Baker on guitar and drummer Connie Kay. The song, in its incarnation, is highly sexual. Perhaps its most salacious lyric, which was absent from the later Bill Haley rendition, is Ive been holdin it in, way down underneath / You make me roll my eyes, baby, make me grit my teeth. On the recording, Turner slurred the lyric holdin it in, Bill Haley & His Comets cover version of the song, recorded on June 7,1954, featured the following members of the Comets, Johnny Grande, Billy Williamson, Marshall Lytle, and Joey Ambrose. It is known that Danny Cedrone, a musician who frequently worked for Haley, played lead guitar. Bill Haleys own stage drummer, Dick Richards, did not play on record but may have provided backing vocals since he participated in the recording of the songs B-side. This was Cedrones final recording session as he died ten days later. Haleys version was released in August and reached #7 on the Billboard pop chart, Gabler has explained that he would clean up lyrics because, I didnt want any censor with the radio station to bar the record from being played on the air. With NBC a lot of race records wouldnt get played because of the lyrics, so I had to watch that closely Both recordings are considered classics. Haleys version is peppier and brighter and it fits the definition of rock and roll as a merger of country music and rhythm and blues. Haley had started his career in music while Turner was a blues shouter. Comparing the two versions illustrates the differences between blues and rock n roll, a simple, stark instrumental backing is heard on the Turner version. Where Turners version uses a bass line, the Comets version, produced by Milt Gabler of Decca Records
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Paralyzed (Elvis Presley song)
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Paralyzed is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley for his album Elvis. The song was recorded on September 2,1956, and has well received by modern music critics. The song was written by Otis Blackwell, with Elvis receiving partial song-writing credit, Paralyzed reached #59 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1956. The song was off of the Elvis album, the song was released as an EP by RCA Victor in the U. S. Elvis Volume 1, RCA EPA-992, which was released on October 19,1956. In the UK, Paralyzed reached no.8 in August,1957 in a 10-week chart run, Elvis Presley performed the song on the 1956 Million Dollar Quartet sessions and live in concert in 1956. A live version is featured on the 5-CD box set The Young Man with the Big Beat, the song also appears on the 1990 BMG collection The Million Dollar Quartet and The Complete Million Dollar Quartet. The song is also on the box set The King of Rock and Roll, the song was also performed on the December 16,1956 Louisiana Hayride. The song was recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, produced by Steve Sholes, warwick, Neil, Kutner, Jon, Brown, Tony. The Complete Book of the British Charts, Singles & Albums, come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say, Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley, and Robert Christgau. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, ISBN 0-8230-7499-4 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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What'd I Say
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Whatd I Say is an American rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles, released in 1959. As single divided into two parts, it was one of the first soul songs, the gospel and rhumba influences combined with the sexual innuendo in the song made it not only widely popular but very controversial to both white and black audiences. It earned Ray Charles his first gold record and has one of the most influential songs in R&B and rock. For the rest of his career, Charles closed every concert with the song and it was added to the National Recording Registry in 2002 and ranked at number 10 in Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Charles signed with Atlantic Records in 1954 where producers Ahmet Ertegun, Wexler would later remember that Atlantic Records success came not from the artists experience, but the enthusiasm for the music, We didnt know shit about making records, but we were having fun. Ertegun and Wexler found that an approach was the best way of encouraging Charles. Wexler later said, I realized the best thing I could do with Ray was leave him alone, from 1954 into the 1960s Charles toured for 300 days a year with a seven-piece orchestra. He employed another Atlantic singing trio named the Cookies and renamed them the Raelettes when they backed him up on the road, in 1954 Charles began merging gospel sounds and instruments with lyrics that addressed more secular issues. His first attempt was in the song I Got a Woman, since 1956 Charles had also included a Wurlitzer electric piano on tour because he did not trust the tuning and quality of the pianos provided him at every venue. On the occasions he would play it, he was derided by other musicians, according to Charles autobiography, Whatd I Say was accidental when he improvised it to fill time at the end of a concert in December 1958. He asserts that he never tested songs on audiences before recording them, Charles himself does not recall where the concert took place, but Mike Evans in Ray Charles, The Birth of Soul places the show in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Shows were played at meal dances which typically ran four hours with a half-hour break, Charles and his orchestra had exhausted their set list after midnight, but had 12 minutes left to fill. He told the Raelettes, Listen, Im going to fool around, starting on the electric piano, Charles played what felt right, a series of riffs, switching then to a regular piano for four choruses backed up by a unique Latin conga tumbao rhythm on drums. The song changed when Charles began singing simple, improvised unconnected verses, Charles used gospel elements in a twelve-bar blues structure. The audience reacted immediately, Charles could feel the room shaking and bouncing as the crowd was dancing, many audience members approached Charles at the end of the show to ask where they could purchase the record. Charles and the orchestra performed it again several nights in a row with the reaction at each show. He called Jerry Wexler to say he had something new to record, later writing, I dont believe in giving myself advance notices, the Atlantic Records studio had just purchased an 8-track recorder, and recording engineer Tom Dowd was familiarizing himself with how it worked. In February 1959 Charles and his orchestra finally recorded Whatd I Say at Atlantics small studio, Dowd recalled that it did not seem special at the time of recording
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Viva Las Vegas (song)
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Although Presley never sang the song live, it has since become widely known and often performed by others. The RIAA, on their part, credits the song as having sold 500,000 copies in the United States alone, as per their Gold Award certification, issued on March 27,1992. Released as the b-side of the Whatd I Say single from the film, Viva Las Vegas charted separately from its A-side. The Elvis version of Whatd I Say peaked at #21, the two sides having equivalent appeal in the marketplace, Viva Las Vegas reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart, improving to #15 after a reissue in 2007. In the years since its first release, the song has one of Presleys most recognized numbers. The song is featured in Looney Tunes, Back in Action where Bugs Bunny sings the song, punk band Dead Kennedys recorded a version of Viva Las Vegas on their debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. The song had been a part of their live set almost since the bands inception and their version strips the musical arrangement down to guitar, bass and drums, and uses a slightly faster tempo, yet maintains the songs melodic structure. It also features satirical lyric changes by lead singer Jello Biafra in the second and third verses, referencing a gambler using speed and this version can also be found in Terry Gilliams film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompsons Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Nina Hagen recorded a version of Viva Las Vegas on her album Nina Hagen, ZZ Top recorded a version of Viva Las Vegas as one of two new tracks on their Greatest Hits album. The Killers, who are from Las Vegas, often perform the song live, Polish street punk, Oi. band The Analogs covered the song in Polish, without changing its name. The bluegrass act The Grascals did a version of the song on their debut album and those Darn Accordions recorded an all-accordion instrumental version on their album Vongole Fisarmonica. Chilean punk band Fiskales Ad-Hok covered the song in Spanish, changing its name to Viva Santiago, the song is featured in the film The Big Lebowski. Shawn Colvin performs it as a folk ballad during the closing credits, a rock version in the film is credited to a band called Big Johnson, and is styled after the ZZ Top version. The Colvin version was recorded originally for the Rhino/Forward release, Til the Night is Gone, the Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a reference to the song. The Scooby-Doo movie Scooby-Doo. and the Monster of Mexico featured a variation of the song entitled Viva Mexico, done in a Latin beat. The song is a part of Bruce Springsteens live act, and was included in The Last Temptation of Elvis, an album of renditions by singers. Springsteens studio version of Viva Las Vegas was also included in the soundtrack of the film Honeymoon in Vegas, the Thrills performed Viva Las Vegas with James Burton at Elvis induction to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. The song was recorded live and later released as a B-side to The Irish Keep Gate-crashing, the Dread Zeppelin version of Viva Las Vegas was used as the theme to the Travel Channel reality series American Casino
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Blue Christmas (song)
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Blue Christmas is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously performed by Elvis Presley. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a staple of Christmas music. Both Morgans and Winterhalters versions featured a shorter pop edit of the original lyrics, Elvis Presley cemented the status of Blue Christmas as a rock-and-roll holiday classic by recording it for his 1957 LP Elvis Christmas Album. In addition to contributing to the tone of the song. Presleys original 1957 version was released as a commercially available single for the first time in 1964 and this single was also a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No.11 on the British singles chart during the week of 26 December 1964. A track on The Beach Boys Christmas Album, the Beach Boys version reached No.3 on the US Christmas charts, but did not chart in the UK. Following the success of Presleys version, the song has been recorded by a host of rock and country artists,1960, The Browns version peaked at No.97 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in December 1960. 2016, The Lumineers did a cover,2016, Black Stone Cherry did a cover
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You'll Be Gone
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Youll Be Gone is a song co-written by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music and released in 1965 on the Girl Happy soundtrack album and as a 45 single. The song was recorded in 1962 and is significant because it was co-written by Elvis Presley, with his bodyguard Red West and Charlie Hodge. The other song that Elvis Presley composed was Thats Someone You Never Forget in 1961 with Red West, the song was recorded on Sunday, March 18,1962 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. Youll Be Gone was released as an RCA Victor 45 picture sleeve single on February 9,1965 as the B side with Do the Clam, Youll Be Gone charted at no.121 on Billboard. Do the Clam reached no.21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, in Canada, Youll Be Gone reached no.16 on the singles chart as a double A side with Do the Clam in February,1965 in a six-week chart run. The song was released as a 745 single by RCA, 47-9686. The single was released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Japan, Egypt. In France, the single was released as a picture sleeve 45 as RCA Victor 49801 in 1971, in Egypt, the single was released by Sono Cairo. He said I like the song Begin the Beguine, I like the melody but Id like to put new lyrics on it. When Cole Porter denied permission to alter the lyrics, Elvis, West, the song was replete with Latin rhythms and classical guitar passages. The beguine had been a popular in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the 1930s. One of these was Youll Be Gone, a song that he had himself with his good friends Red West. To his deep frustration, Priscilla remarked that she liked his rock n roll recordings better, Elvis had a fit, Priscilla was devastated, and Elvis never tried to write a song again. Elvis Presleys wife Priscilla noted in the notes to the CD Elvis by the Presleys. She recalled that he played her the song. J, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York, St. Martins Press,1998, ISBN 0-312-18572-3 Jorgensen, Ernst
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1965 U.S. RCA Victor 45 picture sleeve, 47-8500, "Elvis sings You'll Be Gone".
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1965 U.S. RCA Victor 45 single release, 47-8500.
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Tell Me Why (1956 song)
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Tell Me Why is a popular song, written by Titus Turner in 1956. It is a slow, strong rhythm and blues ballad, and has a reminiscent of Just a Closer Walk With Thee. The first hit version was by Marie Knight, a black R&B singer, on the Mercurys subsidiary label and it was a local hit in the New Orleans and Texas. When it attracted attention, it went on to become a hit for Gale Storm and The Crew-Cuts in 1956. Presley recorded the track in 1957, but it was not released at that time and it reached #33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a gold record
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If Every Day Was Like Christmas
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The song was recorded on June 10,1966 at RCA Studio B in Nashville and featured The Jordanaires and The Imperials Quartet on backing vocals. The song was written by Red West, the single reached No.2 on Billboards Best Bets For Christmas survey in 1966, and returned to the chart in 1967, spending a total of eight weeks in the chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1966, the song was included on the 1970 RCA Camden reissue of Elvis Christmas Album collection, which was re-released by Pickwick Records in 1975 and by RCA in 1985. The album was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2011 with sales of over 10 million copies, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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You'll Never Walk Alone
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Youll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. It is reprised in the scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise is a member. The song is sung at association football clubs around the world, where it is performed by a massed chorus of supporters on matchday. Christine Johnson, who created the role of Nettie Fowler, introduced the song in the original Broadway production, later in the show Jan Clayton, as Julie Jordan, reprised it, with the chorus joining in. In the film, it is first sung by Claramae Turner as Nettie, the weeping Julie Jordan tries to sing it but cannot, it is later reprised by Julie and those attending the graduation. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd took a recording by the Liverpool Kop choir, from 1964 through 2010, Jerry Lewis concluded the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day MDA Telethon by singing the song. Italian-American tenor Sergio Franchi sang a notable version accompanied by the Welsh Mens Choir on the June 9,1968 telecast of The Ed Sullivan Show and he also covered this song in his 1964 RCA Victor album The Exciting Voice of Sergio Franchi. American singer and songwriter Barbra Streisand sang this song in an appearance at the close of the 2001 Emmy Awards. In 1990 at the Nelson Mandela, An International Tribute for a Free South Africa concert at Wembley Stadium London, Mandela turned to Adelaide Tambo who accompanied him onto the stage and asked what the song was. Renée Fleming sang the song at the Concert for America, which marked the first anniversary of 9/11, in the second season of American Horror Story, this song was recited as a poem. It has been the song of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps song since 1954, challenged by the Rosemont Cavaliers singing Over the Rainbow in 1957, the corps responded with Youll Never Walk Alone, and it has been the official corps song ever since. Punk band Dropkick Murphys covered the song for their 2017 album 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory, as you may know, opiate overdoses are an epidemic in America now particularly in this area. Ive been to thirty wakes in two years, three week, one being my cousin, Al lost a brother in law. Its hit home close to us, I was leaving one of the wakes and this song came on and as I was listening to the lyrics it summed up exactly how I was feeling. Sad but knowing there is hope and you never have to be alone vocalist/bassist Ken Casey said in a December 2016 interview discussing the reason behind their version. Shanks was in awe of what he heard, as Liverpool fans sang You’ll Never Walk Alone at Wembley during the 1965 FA Cup Final win over Leeds, commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme referred to the song as “Liverpool’s signature tune”. Marsden told BBC Radio how, in the 1960s, the jockey at Anfield would play the top-ten commercial records in descending order, with the number one single played last. The song was adopted by Scottish team Celtic after a 1966 Cup Winners Cup semi-final against Liverpool at Anfield and it is now sung by Celtic fans prior to every home European tie
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Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby
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Speedway is the thirty-second album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3989, in May 1968 — the May 1 date is disputed. It serves as the album for the 1968 film Speedway starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at MGM Studios in Hollywood, California and it peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200. By June 1967, while Presley was toiling at the sessions for this soundtrack, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, had the music industry in thrall. The Monterey Pop Festival had taken place just the past weekend some 300 miles up the California coast from where Presley was working. He was probably aware of some of the changes being wrought in popular music around him, eight tracks were recorded at the sessions, with Suppose, the only song that held interest for Elvis, dropped from the movie. Two tracks were pulled for a single, Your Time Hasnt Come Yet Baby with Let Yourself Go on its flipside, and both sides made the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 but bombed sales-wise. There Aint Nothing Like A Song, rejected from the soundtrack for Spinout, was one of two songs feature the lead vocals of Nancy Sinatra, here in duet with Presley. All her vocals, and her Your Groovy Self, the time a track without Elvis featured on any of his releases, were recorded at a separate session on June 26. Three leftover tracks, including one from the May 1963 lost album sessions, were unearthed to round out the album, Speedway took over the new low for chart position and album sales by Presley, shifting units numbered in five figures, jeopardizing his recording career. Much to his relief, it killed the soundtrack formula, this being the final Presley dramatic feature film to have a soundtrack album. His last five movies of the decade — Stay Away, Joe, Live A Little, Love A Little, the Trouble with Girls, and Change of Habit — concentrated on Presley the actor, not Presley the singer, with minimal song requirements. LPM-3989 Speedway Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-3989 Speedway Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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A Little Less Conversation
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A Little Less Conversation is a song written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange originally performed by Elvis Presley for the 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little. The song became a hit in the United States when released as a single with Almost in Love as the A-side. A2002 remix by Junkie XL of a later re-recording of the song by Presley became a worldwide hit, the song has made numerous appearances in popular culture and has been covered by several artists. A Little Less Conversation was first recorded on 7 March 1968 at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California, the song was not released on an LP until November 1970, when it was included on the RCA Camden budget label LP Almost in Love. There are several different takes that were made of the song in the session on 7 March, the single version used take 16, which was also used for the soundtrack of the film. The version released on the Almost In Love album is take 10, the musicians on the 7 March recording session included Hal Blaine, drums, Al Casey, guitar, Larry Knechtel, bass, and Don Randi, piano. Presley re-recorded the song in June 1968 for the soundtrack of his 1968 comeback special, ultimately, it was decided not to use this recording, and the song was dropped from the planned special. The newer version transposed the key of A major recording of three months earlier into E major and featured a vocal and heavy reverb with backup vocals from The Blossoms. In the mid-1990s, Joseph A. Tunzi sold this recording to Bertelsmann Music Group and it was included on the 1998 release Memories. Tunzi had been the first to document this recording in his 1996 book Elvis Sessions II, following the songs use in the 2001 film Oceans Eleven, A Little Less Conversation was remixed by Dutch musician Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL. The electronic remix featured Elvis with a voice, and added emphasis to the 1968 guitars, horns. Holkenborg is the first artist outside the Presley organization to receive authorization from the Elvis Presley estate to remix an Elvis Presley song, the electronic version of the song became a number-one hit in the UK in 2002. The song also became a top ten hit in upwards of 17 other countries, in 2002, the TV special version of A Little Less Conversation remixed by Junkie XL was used for Nikes 2002 FIFA World Cup advertising campaign, titled Secret Tournament. A single, credited to Elvis vs. JXL, was issued, at about the same time, a compilation of Presleys U. S. number-one chart hits, titled ELV1S,30 No.1 Hits, was being prepared for release. At the last minute, A Little Less Conversation was added as the albums 31st track just before its release in October 2002. The full 6,09 version was edited slightly and extended to 6,22, and this version was featured on the US version of Junkie XLs 2004 album Radio JXL, A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin. In the United States, the peaked at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, the first Hot 100 hit for Presley since 1981. An uptempo eurodance remix was recorded by CJ Crew, appearing on the 2002 dance compilation Dancemania Speed 10, there are three very exclusive releases in Spanish, the film Live a Little, Love a Little and two mixes played by Marco T. a Colombian Rockabilly musician
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The original picture sleeve of the 1968 single.
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Kentucky Rain
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Kentucky Rain was a 1970 hit song for Elvis Presley. Featuring pianist Ronnie Milsap and written by Eddie Rabbitt and Dick Heard and it was recorded at American Sound Studio. 1, while the track appear on the 2000 re-release of From Elvis in Memphis. During Elvis February 1970 engagement, he performed it some 16 times, Live versions are available on the box sets Elvis Aaron Presley and Live in Las Vegas. The song depicts an anxious lover in search of his love as he walks down through the Kentucky rain, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I've Lost You
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Ive Lost You is a hit song covered by Elvis Presley. It was released in July 1970, debuted at #85 on the Hot 100 on 1 August 1970, on the Cash Box chart, however, it reached as high as number 18. It also charted at number five on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song became a gold record. As a newly released single, Presley included it in his setlist during his third Las Vegas season, in Canada, Ive Lost You was a Top 10 hit. It peaked at number 10, and spent two weeks in that position, Ive Lost You was written by Alan Blaikley and Ken Howard. Matthews Southern Comfort had originally recorded it in 1969, the year before the Elvis release, the song is a rather poignant descriptor of Elvis marriage with his wife, Priscilla. Due to Elvis being away so often, constantly touring and playing in Las Vegas, as well as his ever-growing drug dependence and they separated less than a year and a half after this song became a hit. Ive Lost You closely paralleled Living in a House Divided, a Top 40 hit describing the break-up of another supercouple, Sonny, the couples were contemporary, both together approximately 10 years, with Sonny and Elvis each being 10 years older than their wives. The songs were released less than two years apart, charted similarly, and foretold the struggles that the couples were facing. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Always on My Mind
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Always on My Mind is an American country music song by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, recorded first by Gwen McCrae and Brenda Lee in 1972. AllMusic lists over 300 recorded releases of the song in versions by dozens of performers, Wayne Carson said that he wrote most of the song in 10 minutes at his kitchen table in Springfield, Illinois, and completed the song in studio with the assistance of Johnny and Mark. Carson, who had the song about a year and one day, was finishing a recording session, producer Chips Moman asked about recording that mind song, but added it would need a bridge. Wayne went upstairs to the old piano, trying to work out a bridge, when Johnny and Mark walked in the door. The trio felt that the song was finished and at first could not come up with anything to add, so between them, the two-line Tell me. The song was passed to one of Elviss bodyguards, who gave Presley the cut from the studio, Moman did not produce Presleys recording, but did record the Willie Nelson version years later. Elvis Presley recorded his version of Always on My Mind on March 29,1972, the song received immense fame and critical appreciation and is considered one of the standout songs of the 70s for Elvis. The song was released as the B-side of the Separate Ways single and it was listed as a double sided hit reaching number 16 on Billboard magazines Hot Country Singles chart in November 1972. In the UK Always on My Mind was the hit song and it was voted the #1 song of Presleys recording career in a poll conducted by ITV in 2013. In 1979, John Wesley Ryles reached number 20 on the US country charts with his rendition, entitled You Are Always on My Mind, a review in Billboard praised the brightly mixed vocals and powerful production. Willie Nelson recorded and released the song in early 1982 and it raced to number one on Billboard magazines Hot Country Singles chart that May, spending two weeks on top and total of 21 weeks on the chart. The song also did well on Top 40 radio, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and staying on this chart for 23 weeks. In the year end charts, it was Billboards biggest Country hit for 1982 and this version also charted in a number of other countries. Willie Nelson performed the number with Johnny Cash on the 1998 release of VH1 Storytellers, the song was also featured on a December 2009 ASPCA commercial. The single was certified Platinum by the RIAA signifying U. S. sales in excess of two million, in 2008, the single was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Nelsons version was featured, in its entirety, in a season two episode of the HBO television series The Newsroom. In 1987, the Pet Shop Boys performed a version of Always on My Mind on Love Me Tender. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of Presleys death, the programme featured various acts of the time performing cover versions of his hits
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Cover for the US release
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T-R-O-U-B-L-E (song)
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T-R-O-U-B-L-E is a song written by Jerry Chesnut and recorded by Elvis Presley in 1975. It is a different song than Trouble, a song Presley first recorded in 1958, Jerry Chesnut wrote the song in 1975, taking inspiration from a singer and pianist named Little David Wilkins. The male narrator is a musician who performs at nightclubs as a source of income. During a performance at one club, the narrator notices a rather attractive young female entering the club by herself. This song was recorded in 1992 by American country music singer Travis Tritt and it was the third single released from his 1992 album of the same name. It peaked at #13 in the United States, and #17 in Canada, the music video was directed by Jack Cole. It features Tritt singing the song on a stage surrounded by a huge crowd, later, he jumps into the crowd to look for a certain girl. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Moody Blue (song)
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Moody Blue is a song made famous by Elvis Presley. The song was written by Mark James who also penned Elvis Suspicious Minds, Moody Blue was Presleys last No.1 hit in his lifetime, topping the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in February 1977. Moody Blue also peaked at number thirty-one on the Hot 100, RCA Records also issued an extremely limited quantity of the Moody Blue single in an experimental translucent blue vinyl pressing, with She Thinks I Still Care as the B-side. Six months after Moody Blue topped the chart, Presley was dead, the song was recorded in February 1976 in the Jungle Room of Presleys Graceland home. The only time Elvis performed the song in its entirety was on February 21,1977 at a concert in Charlotte, the complete version was first released on bootleg by the Fort Baxter label in 1995
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America the Beautiful
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America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, at that time, the poem was titled America for publication. Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, wards music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs. In 1893, at the age of 33, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado. On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, the poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist to commemorate the Fourth of July. It quickly caught the publics fancy, amended versions were published in 1904 and 1911. Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem, a hymn tune composed by Samuel A. Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today. Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward, the tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down. Supposedly, he was so anxious to capture the tune in his head and he composed the tune for the old hymn O Mother Dear, Jerusalem, retitling the work Materna. Wards music combined with Batess poem were first published together in 1910, Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain since the music was only first applied to the song in 1904. Bates was more fortunate since the popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929. At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, some prefer America the Beautiful over The Star-Spangled Banner due to the latters war-oriented imagery. Others prefer The Star-Spangled Banner for the same reason, while that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, America the Beautiful continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans. This song was used as the music of the television broadcast of the Tiangong-1 launch. The song is included in songbooks in a wide variety of religious congregations in the United States. Three different renditions of the song have entered the Hot Country Songs charts, the first was by Charlie Rich, which went to number 22 in 1976
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Commemoration plaque atop Pikes Peak in July 1999.
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Unchained Melody
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Unchained Melody is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North used the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack and it has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the songs publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of Unchained Melody have been made by more than 670 artists in multiple languages, the song and Do They Know Its Christmas are the only songs to reach number one in four different recordings in the UK. Of the hundreds of recordings made, it was the July 1965 version by the Righteous Brothers, performed as a solo by Bobby Hatfield and this version achieved a second round of great popularity when it was featured in the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost. In 2004, it finished at number 27 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, in 1954, North was contracted to compose the score for the prison film Unchained. North composed and recorded the score, and then was asked to write a song based upon the movies theme, North asked lyricist Hy Zaret to write the lyric, but Zaret initially declined, saying he was too busy painting his house. North was able to him to take the job. Zaret refused the producer’s request to include the word unchained in his lyrics, the song eventually became known as the Unchained Melody even though the song does not actually include the word unchained. Instead, Zaret chose to focus on someone who pines for a lover he has not seen in a long, the 1955 film centered around a man who contemplates either escaping from prison to live life on the run or completing his sentence and returning to his wife and family. The song has a harmonic device as the bridge ends on the tonic chord rather than the more usual dominant chord. With Todd Duncan singing the vocals, the song was nominated for an Oscar in 1955, Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. He performs a version in the film, playing one of the prisoners. Lying on a bed, he sings it accompanied by another prisoner on guitar while others listen sadly, bandleader Les Baxter released a version which reached number 1 on the US charts and number 10 in the UK. The words unchain me are sung repeatedly at the beginning and the lyrics are sung by a choir, Billboard ranked this version as the No.5 song of 1955. Al Hibbler followed close behind with a version, and it reached number 3 on the Billboard charts. He was quickly followed by Jimmy Young, whose version hit number 1 on the British charts, Jimmy Young also later re-recorded another version of his 1955 charttopper in early 1964 and that version charted at number 43 in the UK. Two weeks after Youngs version entered the top 10 of the British charts in June 1955 Liberace would score a number 20 hit, roy Hamiltons version reached number one on the R&B Best Sellers list and number 6 on the pop chart
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Burning Love
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Burning Love is a song written by Dennis Linde and originally recorded by country soul artist Arthur Alexander, who included it on his 1972 self-titled album. Elvis had recorded it at RCAs Hollywood studios on March 28,1972, the electric guitar opening and riffs were overdubbed and played by Dennis Linde himself. For the week of October 21,1972, Burning Love rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, however, it reached #1 on Cashboxs Top 40 Charts for the week of November 11, which gave him 20 US #1 hits. The song was Elviss 40th and last Top Ten hit on the US charts. It was also one of the last real rock songs in the last years of his life, from 1972 to 1977 the majority of his songs were ballads, Burning Love was one of the few exceptions, along with Promised Land in 1974. He performed it in at least two productions, the concert film Elvis on Tour, and the later Aloha from Hawaii concert. The song was released on an album titled Burning Love and Hits from his Movies. Despite this albums subtitle, none of the songs on it were ever hits. The only actual hit on the album was the song, Burning Love. Black Grass on their very rare 1973 album, which displays a controversial blacked out logo, mothers Finest covered the song for their 1976 album, Another Mother Further. Doctor & The Medics covered the song in 1987 and it was played on Dr. Dementos Demented Top 20 Video Countdown on MTV. Travis Tritt recorded the song for Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack in 1992, melissa Etheridge covered the song in 1994 for the televised Elvis Tribute hosted by John Stamos. It was released on the album Its Now or Never, The Tribute to Elvis, bruce Springsteen used the song in his concert line-ups since the 1990s. Wynonna Judd recorded her version for the Lilo & Stitch soundtrack in 2002 and later included the song on her 2003 album, café Quijano recorded their Spanish version for the Lilo & Stitch soundtrack in 2002. The 69 Eyes recorded an upbeat version for their 1992 album Bump n Grind The Residents covered the song in 1989. Hellstomper recorded their own version on Hillbilly Motherfucker, Eric Sardinas covered the song for his 2008 album Eric Sardinas and Big Motor. Amanda Lear covered the song on her 2014 tribute album My Happiness, Burning Love was used as a wake-up song on the space shuttle mission STS-123. It was used for the end sequence of Crazy Love
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