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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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Elvis Presley
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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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A-side and 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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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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Dennis Linde
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Dennis Linde was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country music. He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, Presley performed the song live a few times, but often had trouble with the lyrics and soon pulled it from his playlist, although he did perform it during his famous show Aloha from Hawaii. Dennis Linde wrote numerous hit songs for country music singers, beginning with hits for Roger Miller. In 2000, his song for the Dixie Chicks, Goodbye Earl, Linde also wrote tunes that were recorded by Tanya Tucker, Gary Morris, Don Williams, The Judds, Alan Jackson, Mark Chesnutt and Garth Brooks, among several other acts. He also wrote two songs for the film Grease 2, Cool Rider and Reproduction, although Linde was the sole writer of most of his songs, he occasionally collaborated with the likes of country artist Mel McDaniel and Nashville songwriter Bob DiPiero. He was known as one of the more reclusive figures on the Nashville scene, rarely attending industry events, Nashville manager Scott Siman described him as a mystery man, explaining, If you ever saw Dennis Linde it was amazing, because you didnt get that opportunity very often. In 2001, Linde was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Linde died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at Vanderbilt University Medical Center at the age of 63. 1970 – Linde Manor 1971 – Surface Noise 1973 – Dennis Linde 1974 – Trapped in the Suburbs 1977 – Under the Eye Dennis Linde at the Internet Broadway Database
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Dennis Linde, circa 2000
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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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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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The Billboard logo
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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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Mother's Finest
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Their music is a blend of funky rhythms, heavy rock guitars and expressive soul/R&B-style vocals. The group charted with the singles Fire, Baby Love, Dont Wanna Come Back, Love Changes, and Piece of the Rock in the mid- to late 1970s. Mothers Finest issued its debut album Mothers Finest in 1972 on RCA, the group signed a new contract with Epic Records and released its sophomore effort, also titled Mothers Finest, in 1976, stirring up controversy with the ironic Niggizz Cant Sang Rock n Roll. In 1978, the set out for Europe and took part in the Rockpalast concert series at the Grugahalle in Essen, produced by Germanys WDR television. With only one concert Mothers Finest put themselves on the map all over Europe where the still has a dedicated following. The legendary 1978 show was released on CD and DVD in 2012 as Mothers Finest - Live At Rockpalast 1978 &2003 which also includes the bands 2003 Rockpalast appearance at Satzvey Castle. After four albums for Epic/CBS in the 70s, the signed with Atlantic Records for its heaviest album to date. That same year Joyce Kennedy guested with Molly Hatchet on the song Respect Me in the Morning from the Take No Prisoners album. Mothers Finest went on hiatus after 1983s One Mother to Another, with vocalist Joyce Kennedy pursuing a solo career and she scored a Billboard Top 40 hit with The First Time I Made Love, a duet with Jeffrey Osborne. A year later, Joyce recorded the song Didnt I Tell You. for the soundtrack of the film The Breakfast Club, Borden would later join The Outlaws for a pair of albums and has been a member of The Marshall Tucker Band since the late 1990s. Meanwhile, bassist Wyzard toured with Fleetwood Macs Stevie Nicks behind her 1983 album The Wild Heart, Mothers Finest re-formed for 1989s Looks Could Kill on Capitol/EMI Records, with only drummer Barry Borden missing from the classic line-up. He was replaced by Joyce Kennedy and Glenn Murdocks son, Dion Derek Murdock, in 1990, the band released its second live album, Subluxation, on RCA/BMG, albeit only in Europe. It was the first album to feature guitarist John Red Devil Hayes, formerly of Atlantas PG-13, the band continued to tour heavily, especially in Europe, but did not release another studio CD until 2004s Meta-Funkn-Physical, an experimental, hip hop- and electronic beats-oriented effort. In 1999, Wyzard, Moses Mo and longtime Mothers Finest touring keyboardist Pascal Kravetz joined multi-national band Carl Carlton & The Songdogs, in 2008, Wyzard released his solo album, Primal Incantation, featuring brother Harold Seay on drums. Beginning in 2004, Joyce Kennedy was seen on the international Daughters of Soul tour along with Sandra St. Victor, Nona Hendryx, Lalah Hathaway, Indira Khan, and Simone. Nona Hendryx would cover Mothers Finests Truthll Set You Free off Another Mother Further with her group Labelle on their 2008 album Back to Now, in 2010, fellow Georgia rockers Jackyl, featuring Darryl McDaniels from Run-D. M. C. Paid homage to Mothers Finest with a cover of Like a Negro from Black Radio Wont Play This Record and also shot a video. Jackyl frontman Jesse James Dupree had previously been in PG-13 with John Hayes in the late 1980s, Dupree, Hayes, Dion Derek Murdock, the band recorded an album for Sony Music, which was ultimately shelved by the label and remains unreleased
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Joyce Kennedy
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Glenn Murdock
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Doctor & The Medics
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Doctor and the Medics are an English glam rock band formed in London in 1981. The group received their great success during the 1980s and are best known for their cover of Norman Greenbaums Spirit in the Sky, the band currently performs, with a different line-up, as a tribute act to various artists. The groups musical style includes neo-psychedelia, glam rock, new wave, the Doctor, a former London-based DJ, formed the group with guitarist Steve McGuire, drummer Vom, and bassist Richard Searle and female dancers and singers The Anadin Brothers in 1981. The group adopted a look inspired by both 1960s psychedelia and kabuki make-up similar to that of Kiss and their first single was The Druids Are Here which was released on Whaam Records in 1982. They released no records until 1985, although a four track EP recorded live at Alice in Wonderland. The bands female backing singers were known collectively as The Anadin Brothers, originally there were three Anadin Brothers, but this was soon whittled down to Wendi West and Colette Appleby. In 1985, they signed to IRS Records and released Happy but Twisted and this reached number 2 on the indie charts. This was followed by The Miracle of the Age, produced by Andy Partridge of XTC, around this time the band performed a concert in a television studio in Limehouse, London which was recorded for television broadcast, although it was not shown at the time. At this concert the line-up was augmented by Roman Jugg of The Damned on keyboards and they scored an international hit in 1986 with their next single, a cover of Norman Greenbaums Spirit in the Sky. The single reached number one in the UK and they fared less well with subsequent singles, Burn and Waterloo. Burn reached No.29 in the UK Singles Chart and Waterloo peaked at No.45, the band released their final studio album Instant Heaven, in 1996 on their own Madman record label. In June 2006, the band appeared on Channel 4s Bring Back One Hit Wonders with a new line-up, around this time they released an EP called Timewarped. Gareth Thomas replaced Searle in 1990, Searle went on to form the acid jazz band Corduroy, with former members of Sire Records act Boys Wonder. Since leaving the Medics, drummer Ritchie has played with Last of the Teenage Idols, Stiv Bators, B-Bang Cider, The Boys, Wet Dog and now plays with Die Toten Hosen. 2003 reunion line-up The Doctor Adrian Hill Carl Axon James Hartley Jon Randle Melissa Weekes Colette Anadin Carl Axon left to business interests. Let It Be / Let It Be - Ferry Aid - AID1 The Sun Reading and Leeds Festivals line-ups Doctor and the Medics official website
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Melissa Weekes and The Doctor performing in June 2014. Photo by Andrew D. Hurley
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Doctor and the Medics in 1986
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Dr. Demento
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Barret Eugene Barry Hansen, better known as Dr. Hansen created the Demento persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. After Hansen played Transfusion by Nervous Norvus on the radio, DJ The Obscene Steven Clean said that Hansen had to be demented to play that and his weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and from 1978 to 1992 was syndicated by the Westwood One Radio Network. Broadcast syndication of the ended on June 6,2010. Hansen has a degree in ethnomusicology, and has written magazine articles, Hansen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of an amateur pianist. He claims to have started his vast record collection as early as age 12 and he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he was promoted to Program Director of KRRC in 1960 and General Manager in 1961. He wrote his thesis on Alban Bergs opera Wozzeck and Claude Debussys opera Pelléas et Mélisande. He graduated in 1963, and later studied at UCLA, from which he earned a degree in folklore. After earning his masters degree, he lived for two years in a big house on a hill in Topanga Canyon with members of the rock band Spirit. He also served briefly as a roadie for Spirit, and for Canned Heat, before being hired as an A&R man, or talent scout, the Doctor began his weekly radio show while working for Specialty, and he later worked for Warner Bros. Hansen created the persona of Dr. Demento in 1970 while working at Pasadena station KPPC-FM, the positive listener response to the offbeat novelties that Hansen included in his rock oldies show led to his eventually turning it into an all-novelty show. At the end of 1971, he moved to KMET in Los Angeles, from 1972 to 1983, he performed a four-hour live show on KMET. From about 1974 on, the local Los Angeles market was the full 4 hours, the Westwood One period marked the height of the shows national popularity, it was carried in most major radio markets, airing mainly on FM rock stations, usually late on Sunday evenings. The producer Westwood One assigned to work with Hansen from 1978 to 1982 was Lynnsey Guererro, in 1982, he handed off the show to a new producer from San Diego, professional journalist Robert Young. Young accompanied Dr. Demento to Portland, Ore and he left the radio network in 1990 during a business downturn. In January 2014 Young released an e-book titled Producing Demento, about his memories of working on the show, from 1992 to 2000, the show was syndicated by On the Radio Broadcasting. Hansen, under the name Talonian Productions, handled syndication himself from 2000 until discontinuing syndication in 2010, between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, Hansen continued to do live broadcasts on KMET and other Los Angeles area stations, in addition to his weekly taped syndicated show. He also made television appearances, on such shows as The Gong Show, Bobbys World and The Simpsons. The syndicated radio show started with an hour of randomly chosen records
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American radio personality Dr. Demento
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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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Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his work with the E Street Band, Springsteens recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful albums, Born to Run and Born in the U. S. A. find pleasures in the struggles of daily American life. He has sold more 120 million records worldwide and more than 64 million records in the United States, in 2009, Springsteen was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, in 2013 was named MusiCares person of the year and in 2016 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He married Patti Scialfa in 1991, and the couple have had three children – Evan James, Jessica Rae and Sam Ryan, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born on September 23,1949, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was brought home from the hospital to Freehold Borough where he spent his childhood and he lived on South Street and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry, Springsteen said his mother, Adele Ann, a legal secretary and of Italian ancestry, was the main breadwinner. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a town near Naples and he has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full-time, she took photos for his Human Touch, Lucky Town. The Springsteens are among the early Dutch families who settled in the colony of New Netherland in the 1600s, raised a Roman Catholic, Springsteen attended the St. In a 2012 interview, he explained that it was his Catholic upbringing rather than political ideology that most influenced his music and he noted in the interview that his faith had given him a very active spiritual life, although he joked that this made it very difficult sexually. He added, Once a Catholic, always a Catholic, in the ninth grade, Springsteen transferred to the public Freehold High School, but did not fit in there either. Former teachers have said he was a loner, who wanted nothing more than to play his guitar and he completed high school, but felt so uncomfortable that he skipped his own graduation ceremony. He briefly attended Ocean County College, but dropped out, Springsteen grew up hearing fellow New Jersey singer Frank Sinatra on the radio. He became interested in being involved in music himself when, in 1956 at the age of seven, in 1964, Springsteens mother bought him his first guitar for $18. 1964 was also an important year for Springsteen, having seen The Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, thereafter he started playing for audiences with a band called the Rogues at local venues such as the Elks Lodge in Freehold. In 1965, Springsteens mother took out a loan to buy her 16-year-old son a $60 Kent guitar, in the same year, he went to the house of Tex and Marion Vinyard, who sponsored young bands in town. They helped him become the lead guitarist and subsequently one of the singers of the Castiles
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Bruce Springsteen performing at the Roskilde Festival 2012.
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New Jersey beach towns such as Asbury Park inspired the themes of ordinary life in Bruce Springsteen's music.
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Springsteen and the E Street Band, 1977
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Springsteen at Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport in Ivory Coast during Amnesty International 's 1988 Human Rights Now! Tour
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Wynonna Judd
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Wynonna Ellen Judd is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the single name Wynonna, Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds. The duo released seven albums on Curb Records in addition to charting 26 singles, after The Judds disbanded in 1991, Wynonna began a solo career, also on Curb. In her solo career, she has released eight albums, a live album. Three of her albums are certified platinum or higher by the RIAA and her most recent recording, Sing, Chapter 1, was released on February 3,2009 and she released a new song, Something You Cant Live Without, in March 2013. Wynonna is most recognized for her work, although starting in the 2000s she has also pursued other interests, including writing, acting. Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30,1964. She was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man her mother married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Judds biological father, Charles Jordan. Her younger sister is actress Ashley Judd, Naomi and Ciminella moved with the girls to Los Angeles in 1968 but were divorced by 1972. By 1976, Wynonna and Naomi were living in Kentucky, where Wynonna took inspiration from the music that her mother listened to. The two of them moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1979 in pursuit of a musical career, Wynonna and Naomi were signed to RCA Records in 1983 as the duo The Judds. Between 1983 and 1991, The Judds charted 23 hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts and they also recorded eight studio albums, one Christmas album and two Greatest Hits compilations. At the time, they were the duo in country music. A chronic bout of hepatitis C forced Naomi into retirement following a 1991 farewell tour, after the duo broke up, Wynonna signed to MCA Records in association with Curb Records as a solo artist. Wynonna reunited with her mother for a 1999 New Years Eve concert to ring in the year 2000 sponsored by K-mart and they embarked on a full-fledged tour together in 2000, and four new Judds songs were released on an exclusive bonus disc with Wynonnas album, New Day Dawning. The Judds again reunited in 2010 for The Last Encore, an 18-city tour, the album was released on April 5,2011. On June 1,2013 the duo celebrated their 30th anniversary, on January 27,1992, Wynonna performed solo on television for the first time at the American Music Awards. She unveiled She Is His Only Need, the first single from her solo debut album
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Judd in May 2006
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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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The 69 Eyes
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The 69 Eyes are a multi-platinum selling Finnish rock band. They are currently signed to EMI Finland, the bands albums are now distributed worldwide. The End Records acts as the bands official North American distributor, Australia will be handled by AmpHead Music. All Asian and Latin American releases are handled by EMI affiliates, initially, the 69 Eyes music style was of glam metal influenced by acts such as Mötley Crüe and Hanoi Rocks. However, they began to incorporate more influence from rock bands such as The Mission, The Cult, The Sisters of Mercy. Their sound was described as a mix of the gloominess of gothic rock with guitar-powered rocknroll and their music continued to show further influence from other rock artists such as The Doors, Elvis Presley, and Billy Idol as well as vampire films and literature. The term goth n roll is used by fans to describe their style and they are often described as a dark rock band, a term which the band has embraced. In recent times, with the release of Back in Blood The 69 Eyes have moved back to a guitar based sound, although gothic imagery. The bands lineup has stayed the same since 1992 when drummer Jussi 69 replaced original drummer Lotto who had played on the bands first two 7 inch vinyl singles. The band released their first 7 inch EP, Sugarman, in 1990, followed by another 7 inch and these are the only two releases that do not feature Jussi. These releases paved the way for the bands first album Bump n Grind released in 1992 which contained some re-recorded versions of songs from the first two EPs and this same year, the band released their final two 7 inch EPs, titled Juicy Lucy and High Times Low Lives. The bands second CD Motor City Resurrection was released in 1994 via Japanese Label 1+2 Records and it has since been re-released with 8 bonus tracks worldwide. Though not a release, but rather a compilation album, it collected the majority of the bands early material. It was followed in 1995 by Savage Garden which featured Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy on the track Wild Talk. Also released during this time were 2 VHS tapes Motor City Resurrection and Savage Tales available only through the bands fan club which are seen rarely. 1997 saw the release of Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, which generally mark as the last 69 Eyes glam-era album. The title track of album was re-recorded for the Angels album 10 years later. The goth rock infused Wasting the Dawn was released in 1999 and was considered a success for the band
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From left to right: Archzie (bass), Jussi69 (drums), Jyrki69 (vocals), Timo-Timo (guitar), Bazie (guitar).
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Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2013
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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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The King & Eye
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The King & Eye is an album by the American avant-garde band The Residents, released in 1989. It consists of a series of Elvis Presley songs strung together with a narration exploring what motivated him throughout his career, most of the album showed up in the Cube-E tour. This album was the last full-length album The Residents released before entering their Multimedia Era, the album incisively portrays Elviss life and work as a misguided abandonment of innocence in favor of a sad yet comedic Oedipal journey, writes Jim Green. p
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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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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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Elvis (1979 film)
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Elvis is a 1979 American made-for-television biographical film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley, originally aired on ABC. It marks the last role on television for Russell, and the first collaboration between him and Carpenter, Kurt Russells real-life wife and father, Season Hubley and Bing Russell, co-star as Presleys own wife and father. After its success on television in the United States, Elvis was released theatrically throughout Europe. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Made for Television, the story follows the life and career of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. It ends in 1970, and does not depict the last few years of Presleys career leading to his death in 1977 and it runs for about two hours including commercials. Bill Black Russell worked with and met Elvis in the film It Happened at the Worlds Fair, in the film, Elvis wants to meet the fairgrounds nurse and he pays a young boy, played by the twelve-year-old Russell, to kick him in the shins. Later in the film, he sees Elvis and the nurse together on a date, Russell also dubbed the voice of a young Elvis in Forrest Gump, and played an Elvis impersonator in the film 3000 Miles to Graceland. Country singer Ronnie McDowell provided the vocals for a number of songs Russell performed in the film, McDowell recorded 36 songs for the soundtrack, of which 25 were used. According to several reports, Priscilla Presley was paid $50,000 to check the script for accuracy before shooting commenced, Elvis originally aired on ABC opposite two blockbuster films, Gone with the Wind on CBS, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest on NBC. Despite this, Elvis beat both in the Nielsen ratings, receiving a 27.3 rating compared to 24.3 and 22.5 respectively, Elvis was ranked the sixth most watched program of the week. After its success on television, the film was released theatrically throughout Europe, the film debuted on DVD in early 2010 and on Blu-ray in 2016 via Shout. Elvis is notable in Carpenters career for two reasons and it was made after Halloween had wrapped, so it offered him an avenue to try his hand at a film away from the horror genre. It was also the first time Carpenter had worked with Kurt Russell, who became a frequent collaborator of Carpenters. Russell subsequently starred in Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from L. A. Russell married co-star Season Hubley on March 17,1979, Bing Russell, who played Vernon Presley, is Kurt Russells real father. For several years Bing played Deputy Clem Poster in the TV series Bonanza, Elvis Elvis at the Internet Movie Database Elvis at AllMovie
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The Who
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The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and holding a reputation for their live shows. The Who developed from a group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying guitars. Their first single as the Who, I Cant Explain, reached the UK top ten, followed by a string of singles including My Generation, Substitute and Happy Jack. In 1967, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and released the US top ten single I Can See for Miles, the groups fourth album, 1969s rock opera Tommy, included the single Pinball Wizard and was a critical and commercial success. Live appearances at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival, along with the live album Live at Leeds, with their success came increased pressure on lead songwriter and visionary Townshend, and the follow-up to Tommy, Lifehouse, was abandoned. Songs from the project made up 1971s Whos Next, which included the hit Wont Get Fooled Again, the group released the album Quadrophenia in 1973 as a celebration of their mod roots, and oversaw the film adaptation of Tommy in 1975. They continued to tour to large audiences before semi-retiring from live performances at the end of 1976, the release of Who Are You in 1978 was overshadowed by the death of Moon shortly after. Kenney Jones replaced Moon and the group resumed activity, releasing a film adaptation of Quadrophenia, after Townshend became weary of touring, the group split in 1982. The Who occasionally re-formed for live appearances such as Live Aid in 1985, a 25th anniversary tour in 1989 and they resumed regular touring in 1999, with drummer Zak Starkey. After Entwistles death in 2002, plans for a new album were delayed, Townshend and Daltrey continued as the Who, releasing Endless Wire in 2006, and continued to play live regularly. They are cited as an influence by rock, punk rock and mod bands. The founding members of the Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and went to Acton County Grammar School. Townshend and Entwistle became friends in their year of Acton County. Both were interested in rock, and Townshend particularly admired Cliff Richards début single, Entwistle moved to guitar, but struggled with it due to his large fingers, and moved to bass on hearing the guitar work of Duane Eddy. He was unable to afford a bass and built one at home, after Acton County, Townshend attended Ealing Art College, a move he later described as profoundly influential on the course of the Who. Daltrey, who was in the year above, had moved to Acton from Shepherds Bush and he had trouble fitting in at the school, and discovered gangs and rock and roll
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The Who in 1975 Left to right: Roger Daltrey (vocals), John Entwistle (bass), Keith Moon (drums), Pete Townshend (guitar)
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Pete Townshend attended Ealing Art College (pictured in 2010), and his experience there contributed to the Who's career.
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Roger Daltrey (left) and Keith Moon, 1967
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John Entwistle backstage in 1967
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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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Zooey Deschanel
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Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She made her debut in Mumford, followed by her supporting role in Cameron Crowes semi-autobiographical picture Almost Famous. Deschanel soon became known for her comedy roles in films such as The Good Girl, The New Guy, Elf, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Failure to Launch, Yes Man. She also did dramatic turns in the films Manic, All the Real Girls, Winter Passing, since 2011, she has played Jessica Day on the Fox sitcom New Girl, for which she has received an Emmy Award nomination and three Golden Globe Award nominations. For a few years starting in 2001, Deschanel performed in the cabaret act If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies with fellow actress Samantha Shelton. Besides singing, she plays keyboards, percussion, banjo, in 2006, Deschanel teamed up with M. Ward to release a debut album, Volume One, under the name She & Him in March 2008. They released an album, Volume Two, in March 2010, with their Christmas album A Very She & Him Christmas being released in 2011, Volume 3 in 2013. She also received Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media nomination for her song So Long, Deschanel is also a co-founder of the female-focused website HelloGiggles, which was acquired by Time, Inc. in 2015. Deschanel was born January 17,1980, in Los Angeles and she is the younger daughter of cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel. Her paternal grandfather was French, from Oullins, Rhône, her roots also include Swiss, Dutch, English, Irish and she was named after Zooey Glass, the male protagonist of J. D. Salingers 1961 novella Franny and Zooey. Her older sister is actress Emily Deschanel, who stars in the Fox crime comedy-drama series Bones, Deschanel lived in Los Angeles, but spent much of her childhood traveling because her father shot films on location, she later said that she hated all the traveling. She attended Crossroads, a preparatory school in Santa Monica. She sang throughout high school, planning to pursue a career in musical theatre and she attended Northwestern University for nine months before dropping out to pursue acting. Also in 1999, she appeared in the video for The Offsprings single Shes Got Issues. Deschanel co-starred in Cameron Crowes semi-autobiographical Almost Famous, where she played Anita Miller, despite a modest box office response, the film received critical praise, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy. Deschanel appeared in the independent drama Manic, as the love interest of a troubled teen, the film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release. The New York Times found Deschanel to be spontaneous, unaffected. In 2002, Deschanel appeared in four feature films, in the comedy Big Trouble, with Tim Allen and Rene Russo, she played the daughter of Russos character, and she starred in the teen comedy The New Guy as a guitar player in a band
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Deschanel at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards
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Deschanel at the 57th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival in May 2014
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Deschanel at the 2012 PaleyFest talking about New Girl
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Deschanel and M. Ward performing as She & Him on a Wurlitzer electric piano at the Newport Folk Festival on August 2, 2008
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A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
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A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love is the fourth episode of The Simpsons’ thirteenth season. It first aired on the Fox network on December 2,2001, in the episode, Mr. Burns falls in love with Gloria, a woman who is much younger than he is and who turns out to be Snake Jailbirds ex-girlfriend. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder, directed by Lance Kramer, the episode featured, along with George Takei as a waiter and Karl Wiedergott as a delivery boy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who appeared as Mr Burns love interest Gloria. The episode received positive reviews from critics following the seasons release on DVD. The Simpsons visit a Chinese restaurant, where Homer is hired to write Chinese fortune cookies after complaining that the current fortunes are unimaginative, one of his fortunes says You will find true love on Flag Day. This cookie makes its way to Mr. Burns on, coincidentally, eager for true love at last, Burns and a reluctant Smithers spend the evening womanising at a wealthy social gathering and a strip club. With mere minutes left in the day, Burns finds a cop ticketing his car, after discovering the cop is a beautiful woman named Gloria, Burns asks her out on a date. Gloria warily accepts, much to Burns delight and Smithers chagrin, after a pleasant first date at the carnival, Burns asks about another date but Gloria is about to turn him down when Homer runs by. Burns asks Homer to vouch for him to Gloria, so Homer regales her by listing Burns many exploits, in these cases, Burns overcomes his weakness and extreme age by means of a powerful aphrodisiac. Eventually, during a date at the alley, Burns decides to ask Gloria to marry him. As Burns goes off to get some champagne to celebrate, Snake comes to rob the alley, and is surprised to see Gloria. Despite Glorias protests, Snake kidnaps her and Homer, when Burns finds Glorias ring, dropped in the commotion, he assumes she ran off with Homer. Snake takes Gloria and Homer to his hideout, though Gloria says she loves Burns, Snake vows he can change. The police arrive and confront Snake, Homer tries to escape but instead sets Snakes house on fire. Snake and Homer get out and Burns runs in to save Gloria, however he is overcome by the smoke. Although initially grateful, Gloria begins to reminisce about Snake, causing her to break up with Burns, a Hunka Hunka Burns in Love was written by John Swartzwelder while Lance Kramer served as director. It first aired in the United States on December 2,2001 on the Fox network, in the episodes first draft, Gloria worked as a food truck driver, however, this was later changed so that she instead worked as a police lady. In the episode, Snake Jailbirds mailbox reads Snake which is a reference to a debate that the writers had over whether Snakes mailbox would read Snake or Jailbird
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John Swartzwelder wrote the episode.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus guest-starred as Gloria in the episode.
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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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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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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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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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Elvis Presley singles discography
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The discography of Elvis Presley starts on July 19,1954, with the release of his first commercial single, and ends in February 1978. All other releases are included in the sections, and obviously all compact disc box sets were also released after Presleys death. In August 1992, he was awarded with 110 gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums and singles, according to Presleys record label, RCA, he is the best selling artist of all time, with sales over 1 billion records worldwide in all formats. Both of these claims were disputed by music historian Joel Whitburn, Whitburn lists Elvis as having 18 number 1 hits and 38 top ten hits. Elvis Presley Enterprises claims Elvis had 40 top ten hits, the differences depend on whether a double-sided hit single is counted as one hit single, or two hit songs. Before the age of compact discs and digital downloads, singles were released on vinyl 45 RPM records. Both songs of many Elvis singles became hits and were listed on the charts, Hound Dog / Dont Be Cruel was a double sided hit single that topped the Billboard Sales chart for 11 weeks in 1956. At the time, Hound Dog was listed as the number 1 A-side for the first five weeks, now Billboard lists it as a single double sided hit. This article lists Elvis Presley’s hits, both A-sides and B-sides, on the Billboard singles charts, as well as rival music publications, Cash Box, another measure of an artist’s popular impact is sales. Elvis Presley Enterprises has disputed the RIAA’s claim, pointing out several omissions in the RIAA’s figures. The RIAA bases its claim on album sales only, and does not include sales in determining the highest selling solo artist. While Elvis’ album sales are significant, his sales were also significant as can be seen in the tables below. During much of Elvis’ career in the 1950s and 1960s, single sales were considered the market for the industry. It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s that albums became the market for the industry. RIAA does not certify sales of less than 500,000 units for albums, Elvis has had numerous albums and singles which have sold hundreds of thousands of units each but have not reached the 500,000 threshold. Taken together, these could add up to millions in sales that are not recognized by the RIAA. RIAA sales certifications are not automatic, the record company must pay a fee and request an audit from the RIAA in order to certify sales. During Elvis’ life, RCA submitted few of Elvis’ recordings for RIAA certification, instead of paying for RIAA certification, RCA and other companies would simply award their own “Gold Record” to artists based on their internal sales figures
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Publicity photo for Jailhouse Rock (1957)
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Elvis Presley (album)
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Elvis Presley is the debut studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. It was released on RCA Victor, in mono, catalogue number LPM1254, in March 1956. The recording sessions took place on January 10 and January 11 at the RCA Victor recording studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and on January 30 and January 31 at the RCA Victor studios in New York. Additional material originated from sessions at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 5, August 19 and September 10 of 1954, in 2003, it was ranked number 56 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Elvis Presley was also one of three Presley albums to receive accolades in the reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and it was certified Gold on November 1,1966 and Platinum on August 8,2011 by the Recording Industry Association of America. The original 1956 UK release called Rock n Roll on HMV Catalogue Number, at the urging of Parker, on November 21,1955, Sholes bought Presleys contract from Sam Phillips, the head of Sun Records and Studio, for the unprecedented sum of $35,000. Presley made appearances in four weeks on the Dorsey Brothers television program Stage Show in early 1956, on January 28, February 4, February 11. At the same time, there had only two series of Presley recording sessions for RCA Victor by the end of the Dorsey stint, after which Presley. Those two sessions yielded an additional eleven tracks, almost enough to fill an entire LP, although some tracks had singles potential. Phillips produced the sessions at Sun, and no producer was officially listed for the RCA Victor sessions, as the Sun tracks were mostly country-styled, Elvis and RCA leavened the selections with covers of recent rhythm and blues songs. Two of these, Money Honey by Jesse Stone, known to Elvis from a version by Clyde McPhatter, a third was the frenetic announcement to the world of the existence of Little Richard in 1955, Tutti Frutti. Instead, it was diverted into being the track on the album. RCA first issued the original 12 track album in reprocessed stereo on compact disc in 1984 and this issue was quickly withdrawn and the album was reissued in original monophonic sound. In 1999, it was reissued with a running order, adding on six bonus tracks from three non-album singles, including the chart-toppers Heartbreak Hotel and I Want You, I Need You. In 2005, the album was reissued again, remastered using DSD technology with the six bonus tracks appended in standard fashion, a two-disc set was released on the Follow That Dream collectors label on August 15,2006, with bonus tracks and numerous alternate takes. The cover is ranked number 40 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest album covers, the photograph was taken at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida, on July 31,1955. Initially it was thought that Popsie Randolph took the iconic image featured on the front cover, however, in August,2002, Joseph A. Tunzi documented that the actual photographer was William V. Red Robertson of Robertson & Fresch, Tunzi was quoted in the Tampa Tribune as saying, Forget about Popsie
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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' Christmas Album
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It has been reissued in numerous different formats since its first release. The publication Music Vendor listed Elvis Christmas Album on their singles charts for two weeks in December 1957 – January 1958, with a position of #49. According to the latest certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America and it is the first Presley title to attain Diamond certification by the RIAA, and is also the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of all time in the United States. The album has sold 15 million copies worldwide, the two album sides divided into a program of secular Christmas songs on side one, with two traditional Christmas carols and the gospel numbers on side two. Those included two spirituals by innovator Thomas A. Dorsey, Peace in the Valley and Take My Hand, coincidentally, A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra released the previous month by that other 1950s singing icon, also divided into a secular and a traditional side. While most of the songs selected were traditional Christmas fare, such as White Christmas and Silent Night, two new songs by regular suppliers of material for Presley were commissioned. One was Santa Bring My Baby Back and the other, was a rock and roll number, Santa Claus Is Back in Town, written by Jerry Leiber. Elvis had asked the pair to come up with another Christmas song during sessions for the album, within a few minutes, they had the song written, Silent Night and O Little Town of Bethlehem were arranged by Elvis Presley. While most US radio stations ignored Berlins request, at least one disc jockey was fired for playing a song from the album, unlike Elvis recording, however, their version attracted virtually no adverse reaction, and certainly no reported opposition from Irving Berlin. Part of the reason that The Drifters version of White Christmas was less controversial was because that version was played only on radio stations. Elvis Presleys version brought greater attention to The Drifters version which gained prominence with its inclusion in the 1990 movie Home Alone, original 1957 copies of Elvis Christmas Album were issued with a red booklet-like album cover featuring promotional photos from Elvis third movie Jailhouse Rock. Original copies with the gold sticker intact on the shrink wrap have proven to be among the most valuable of Elvis albums, adding to its already high value are limited red vinyl albums and album covers with gold print down the spine. Record labels for all original 1957 pressings are black with all-silver print, the famous His Masters Voice dog logo at the top of label, and LONG 33 1⁄3 PLAY at the bottom. The other new composition on the album, Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me was paired with Santa Claus Is Back In Town, the single reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957. Santa Claus Is Back In Town/Blue Christmas was a 1965 single release for the US market, Blue Christmas would re-enter the Christmas or Holiday Singles chart many times in the years that follow. Two different EPs, Elvis Sings Christmas Songs, EPA4108 in December 1957, the former topped the newly established Billboard EP Chart, while the latter failed to chart. Elvis Christmas Album was reissued two years after its first release, replacing the cover of the original with a close-up of Elvis as he posed against an outdoor. The album continued to reach the charts each year until 1962
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For LP Fans Only
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For LP Fans Only is the seventh album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor in February 1959. The album reached number 19 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, a recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more single sides, singles being the commercial focus for rock and roll in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service, Presley, however, also did well in the albums market. Each of his previous six LPs charted no lower than three, and RCA wished to continue to release albums by their hot commodity given his sales record. Much of Presleys material had been issued on records, not on LP. For this album, RCA Victor collected nine tracks previously available in form only. Four of the tracks had been issued on Sun Records with limited release, however all 5 Sun singles were reissued by RCA in November 1955 and remained in print through the 1970s. This album was the release of Elvis first commercial recording Thats All Right in the United Kingdom. It was never issued as a single there during Presleys lifetime, RCA reissued For LP Fans Only on compact disc in 1989. Audiophile CD recordings are available on import in the United States, the album is included in a 25 disc package, The Perfect Blues Collection, released by Sony in 2011. Elvis Presley – vocals, guitar Scotty Moore – guitar Chet Atkins – guitar Floyd Cramer – piano Shorty Long – piano Gordon Stoker – piano, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music - The Complete Recording Sessions. ISBN 0-312-18572-3 LPM-1990 For LP Fans Only Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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A Date with Elvis
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A Date with Elvis is the eighth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor Records in July 1959. It is a selection of unreleased material from an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One. The album reached #32 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, a recording session was arranged for two days in June, which yielded enough items for five more single sides, singles being the commercial focus for rock and roll in the 1950s. Four of those tracks would be issued on 45s in 1958 and 1959 during his absence while doing military service, much of Presleys material had not been released on LP, and for this album RCA collected material previously unavailable on album. Like its predecessor For LP Fans Only, this album featured tracks that had issued on Sun Records with limited release. However all 5 Sun singles were reissued by RCA in November 1955, the remaining five tracks derived from three different EPs issued in 1956 and 1957. RCA would squeeze one more album in 1959 out of previously issued material, the singles collection. Presley would return from overseas in 1960 to commence proper recording again and this album also folds out to be a calendar for the year 1960. A different version of the album, duplicating six tracks from the American release, RCA issued the original 10-track album on compact disc in 1989. Audiophile CD recordings are available on import in the United States, in 1986, The Cramps released an otherwise unrelated album also entitled A Date with Elvis. Elvis Presley – vocals, guitar Scotty Moore – guitar Dudley Brooks – piano Mike Stoller – piano, backing vocals Bill Black – bass D
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Elvis Is Back!
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Elvis Is Back. is the tenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. It was released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo in April 1960, recorded over two sessions in March and April, the album marked Presleys return to recording after his discharge from the U. S. Army. In 1957, as Presleys fame was soaring, he received a notice from the Memphis Draft Board. During Presleys two-year military service in Germany, RCA Victor and Paramount Pictures progressively released material he had completed prior to enlistment, during his last months in the Army, Presley experimented with new sounds and worked on further improving his performance. He also prepared material for his first session in Nashville, which was scheduled to take place upon his return, Presley returned to the United States on March 2,1960. The singer reunited with his original band The Blue Moon Boys, the first session was held on March 20–21 and the second session was held on April 3–4, completing the album. Topped the UK Albums Chart and reached two in Billboards Top LPs. Initially, the release received mixed reviews, but over subsequent years its critical reception became more positive. The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1999, following his third and last appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, Presley received a notice from the Memphis draft board on January 8,1957. The board announced his 1A classification and his draft before the end of the year. During the first half of 1957, Presley had three number one hits with Too Much, All Shook Up, and Teddy Bear and his second film, Loving You, opened on July 30 to box office success. His Christmas album was released on October 15 and his film, Jailhouse Rock. On December 20, Presley received his draft notice and he was granted a deferment so he could finish the forthcoming film King Creole, which had already received an investment of $350,000 from Paramount Pictures and producer Hal Wallis. At the beginning of 1958, Presleys single Dont topped the charts, Presley was inducted into the Army on March 24,1958. Soon after starting basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, he received a visit from Eddie Fadal, according to Fadal, Presley firmly believed his career was finished. After completing training, he joined the 3rd Armored Division in Friedberg, Germany, media reports echoed Presleys concerns about his career, but RCA producer Steve Sholes and Freddy Bienstock of Hill and Range had carefully prepared for his two-year absence. Prepared with unreleased material, they kept up a stream of regular, RCA also released four albums compiling old material during this period, most successfully Elvis Golden Records and 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Cant Be Wrong. During his final months in the Army, Presley started to experiment with new material and thinking ahead to his anticipated return to recording
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Something for Everybody
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Something for Everybody is the thirteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2370, in June 1961. Recording sessions took place on November 8,1960, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, in the United States, it peaked at number 1 on Billboards Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on July 15,1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America, after his military discharge from the army in March 1960, any doubts about Presleys ability to recapture the momentum of his career in the 1950s had been laid to rest. During that year his three singles had all topped the charts, and his first album, Elvis Is Back, had gone to number 2 on the albums chart. Blues had been successful, its soundtrack album also going to number 1. Pressing on, he entered the familiar Studio B in Nashville and recorded eleven of the tracks for this album in one twelve-hour session, in addition to the single I Feel So Bad. Another track that had appeared in the film but not released commercially on records, I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell, became the final track for the album. The July 13,1999, compact disc reissue included six tracks, four singles and two b-sides recorded over the span of a year and issued in 1961 and 1962. All of the made the Top 40 at a time when Billboard charted B-sides as well. Surrender had been recorded at the sessions for Presleys gospel album of 1960, His Hand in Mine, the entirety of the 1999 reissue appeared on the Legacy Edition reissue of Elvis Is Back. Bonus tracks were all recorded at Studio B in Nashville, in 2006 Something for Everybody was reissued on the Follow That Dream label as a special 2-disc CD collection containing the original tracks along with numerous alternate takes
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Pot Luck (Elvis Presley album)
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Pot Luck with Elvis is the fifteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2523, in June 1962. Recording sessions took place on March 22,1961, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and on June 25 and October 15,1961 and it peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. The album is dominated by the team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, who had written the chart-topping Surrender. The tracks Kiss Me Quick and Suspicion would be pulled off for a Top 40 single almost two years later in April 1964, following a hit version of the latter song by Terry Stafford. Thats Someone You Never Forget, with concept and title by Presley, was written in conjunction with Red West and possibly in memory of Elvis deceased mother, Gladys Presley. The song would go to number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1967 as the B-side to the single Long Legged Girl. Another song from sessions, Youll Be Gone, written by Presley and West. The song Steppin Out of Line is a track from the sessions for Blue Hawaii. Blues and Blue Hawaii, a pattern that would continue to hold for Presley through the mid-1960s, as a result, Presley would concentrate on his movie career, and not make another non-soundtrack, non-gospel studio album for another seven years, until From Elvis in Memphis. The three single sides had been recorded at the sessions that yielded the balance of the album on March 18 and 19,1962, one single had both sides written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, while Youll Be Gone had been issued as a b-side in 1965. The bonus tracks were all recorded at Studio B in Nashville, pot Luck was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in 2007 in a deluxe 2-disc CD collection containing the original album along with numerous alternate takes from the original recording sessions
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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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Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
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Elvis Country is the eleventh studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records (LSP4460 in January 1971. Recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, it reached number 12 on the Billboard 200 and it peaked at number six in the United Kingdom, selling over one million copies worldwide. It was certified Gold on December 1,1977 by the Recording Industry Association of America, the bulk of the album came from five days of recording sessions in June 1970 which yielded 35 usable tracks. Presley performed every track live, recording his part in the same take as the band. Eight tracks from the session were released two months earlier in November 1970 on the Thats the Way It Is album. During the sessions, Presley and producer Felton Jarvis realized they had several songs in hand. Needing two more tracks, Elvis returned to the same studio in September where he recorded Snowbird. Nearly every style of music is represented, bluegrass, honky tonk, Western swing, rockabilly, countrypolitan. Snippets of the song I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago act as a bridge between each track. After this album, Presley would return to his practice of recording a seemingly random batch of songs on each trip to the recording studio. The June 14,2004, compact disc reissue included six tracks from the same sessions. Three of them had previously released on the LP Love Letters from Elvis. The others were the B-side Where Did They Go, Lord, and the unabridged version of I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago later released on Elvis Now. In late 2011, RCA Legacy announced a 2-CD Legacy Edition set of the Elvis Country album, however, both albums originated from the same recording sessions
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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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Promised Land (Elvis Presley album)
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Promised Land is a 1975 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Records. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis, the material was the second pick from the December 1973 session, as the songs considered strongest had been issued on Good Times. The title track, a cover of the 1965 hit by Chuck Berry, was issued earlier as a single on September 27,1974, and hit number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and its flip side, Its Midnight, reached 9 on the Country Charts. Another hit single from the album was If You Talk in Your Sleep reaching 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, in the US the album only reached number 47 on the Billboard Top 200 chart but reached 1 in Billboards Top Country LPs chart. The album also reached 1 in the Country Cashbox albums chart, in the UK the album reached #21. In 2011, the FTD collectors label released an expanded, 48-track version of the album including outtakes
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Today (Elvis Presley album)
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Today is a studio album by American singer Elvis Presley, released on May 7,1975 by RCA Records. The Today sessions were held in RCAs Studio C, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, March 10–12,1975 and he last recorded at Studio C, Hollywood in 1972 where he recorded the gold records Burning Love and Separate Ways. At this time, Elvis was 40 years old and he was accompanied by his then-current girlfriend, Sheila Ryan. In the 2005 FTD TODAY release from these sessions, Presley asked her to step up here Sheila and he continued to make And I Love You So and Fairytale a part of his live concerts until his death. On stage, he referred to Fairytale as the story of his life. Today featured a new song, T-R-O-U-B-L-E, which was released as its first single. Bringin It Back was its second single in the US, the album also features covers of songs by Perry Como, Tom Jones, The Pointer Sisters, Billy Swan, Faye Adams, The Statler Brothers and Charlie Rich. Green, Green Grass of Home was released as a single in the UK, where it went Top 30, and also received US airplay. Presley first heard the song in 1967 while driving his bus back to Memphis after making another movie and he had the Memphis Mafia call the local AM station to make them replay it over and over again. Eight years later, he cut his own version
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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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On Stage (Elvis Presley album)
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On Stage is an Elvis Presley live album mostly recorded between February 17 and 19,1970 at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, and released on RCA Records LSP-4362. It was a follow up to From Memphis to Vegas/From Vegas to Memphis. Unlike the previous release, however, this focused on songs that were not, at the time. This album was released in June 1970 and reached number 13 on both the Billboard 200 and country music charts and it was certified Gold on February 23,1971, and Platinum on July 15,1999, by the Recording Industry Association of America. It features the number one single The Wonder of You. Other selections include See See Rider, Yesterday, Tony Joe Whites Polk Salad Annie, Del Shannons Runaway, the album is notable for not showing Elvis name anywhere on the cover. The album has remained in print since its date and has sold more than ten million copies globally. On January 8,2010, it was announced that a Legacy Edition would be released, on March 23,2010, the album was released in a two-disc Legacy Edition. All tracks on disc two were recorded August 23–26,1969, the album was arranged by Bergen White, Glen D. Hardin and Glen Spreen
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As Recorded at Madison Square Garden
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Elvis, As Recorded at Madison Square Garden is a live musical album recorded by American singer and musician Elvis Presley and released in June 1972 by RCA Records peaking on the charts in July 1972. It was certified Gold on August 4,1972, Platinum on May 20,1988, 2x Platinum on March 27,1992, along with Aloha from Hawaii, Via Satellite it ranked as the top 1970s RCA live album by Elvis Presley. Despite the lengthy track listing, the release was only a disc. Elvis very next album would also be a recording featuring many of the same songs, Aloha from Hawaii. The concert included on album was the evening show. Tutts account has never been proven as factual, in 2013, RCA/Legacy, through HDTracks. com, released a high-resolution remastering of the concert in 24-bit/96 kHz
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite (album)
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Despite the satellite innovation, the US did not air the concert until April 4. Aloha from Hawaii went to #1 on the Billboard album chart, the album dominated the charts, reaching #1 in both the pop and country charts in the US. Aloha from Hawaii was a two-disc set—only the second release of Presleys career. It was initially released only in sound, becoming the first album in the format to top the Billboard album chart. The album also omits Presleys brief announcement concerning the concert being presented for the benefit of the Kui Lee Cancer Fund and this is the penultimate live album that Presley released during his lifetime. The last being Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis the following year, the following tracks were recorded by Presley after the concert and inserted into the broadcast with the exception of No More, which remained unheard until 1978s Mahalo from Elvis. They were not included in the soundtrack album, but they appear on the 1998 CD reissue. Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite VPSX-6089 Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite at Discogs
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Loving You (album)
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Loving You is the third studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor Records in mono, LPM1515, in July 1957. Recording sessions took place on January 15,16,17, and 18,1957, at the Paramount Pictures Scoring Stage, and on January 12,13,19 and these are the first sessions where Steve Sholes is officially listed as producer. It spent ten weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart and it was certified Gold on April 9,1968 by the Recording Industry Association of America. An eighth song intended for but not appearing in the movie, Dont Leave Me Now, was included on the album, and a new recording would appear on the soundtrack for his next film, Jailhouse Rock. The previously released material comprises both sides of the single taken from the soundtrack, Presleys number one hit Teddy Bear backed with the title track. Wallis liked Teddy Bear so much that he insisted it be included in the movie, songs were added to bring up the running time of the album, including the swing-era favorite Blueberry Hill, which had been a big hit for Fats Domino in 1956. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, had been done previously by the Sons of the Pioneers, as well as Bing Crosby with The Andrews Sisters. RCA reissued the original 12-track album on disc in 1988. The album was reissued in an expanded CD edition on April 15,1997, on January 11,2005, Sony BMG reissued the album again, remastered using DSD technology with the six bonus tracks appended in standard fashion. A two-disc set was released on the Follow That Dream collectors label on January 12,2006, with the bonus tracks, Loving You was issued on CD with the originally albums 12 songs plus the following bonus tracks, Disc 1 Disc 2 The February 14 Session 1-12. Loving You Loving You Special Edition FTD CD Information, http, //shop. elvis. com. au/prod1295. htm LPM-1515 Loving You 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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Follow That Dream (EP)
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Follow That Dream is a mini-album by Elvis Presley, containing songs from the motion picture of the same name. The album was released by RCA in May 1962 and it was simultaneously certified Gold and Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 27,1992. Recording sessions took place on July 5,1961, at RCA Studio B in Nashville, six songs were recorded for the film, and a distressed Presley insisted that the worst song, Sound Advice, be omitted from release when it came time to assemble a soundtrack. Presley sang a few lines of On Top of Old Smokey in the film, the issue of quality would continue to be a sore point in his soundtrack material for the remainder of his film career. Issued as an extended record, the Follow That Dream soundtrack EP was released in April 1962 to coincide with the films premiere. The record sold well, especially for an EP in the Sixties. The title song received Top 40 radio air-play and reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the extended play record was the number-one EP in the UK for 20 weeks. Fontana, Buddy Harman - drums Profile at AllMusic
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (album)
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Girls. is the sixteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2426, in November 1962. It is the soundtrack to the 1962 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 26,27, and 28,1962. It peaked at three on the Top LPs chart. It was certified Gold on August 13,1963 by the Recording Industry Association of America, as soundtrack album sales far outstripped his regular album sales Presley found himself firmly entrenched in songs designed for a light-entertainment formula of beautiful scenery and girls galore. With this discrepancy in sales, the formula of the music became the focus. Sixteen songs were recorded at the sessions in March, of thirteen were used for the soundtrack album. This song and two others, Return to Sender and Because of Love, appear on the 1995 soundtrack compilation Command Performances, The Essential 60s Masters II. The tracks Return to Sender and Where Do You Come From were issued as sides of a single in October 1962, one month before the release of the soundtrack LP. Return to Sender became a hit for Presley, peaking at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Presley fan-club label Follow That Dream released a version of the album in 2007, including alternate takes and songs recorded. The outtake Plantation Rock saw a performance by actor Rob Schneider on Late Night with Conan OBrien in 1996. J, fontana – drums Hal Blaine – drums Bernie Mattinson – drums LPM-2621 Girls. Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-2621 Girls, guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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It Happened at the World's Fair (album)
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It Happened at the Worlds Fair is the seventeenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2697, in April 1963. It is the soundtrack to the 1963 film of the same name starring Presley, recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on August 30 and September 22,1962. It peaked at four on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. Initially booked for August 28 and 29, sessions were delayed as Presley had taken ill, One Broken Heart for Sale and They Remind Me Too Much of You would be released ahead of time on January 29 as a single to promote both the album and the film. Broken Heart just missed the top ten, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, originally a deluxe - priced gatefold sleeve album was planned, but with 20 minutes of music and the relative failure of One Broken Heart For Sale the idea was abandoned. In 2003 It Happened at the Worlds Fair was reissued on the Follow That Dream edition that contained the album along with numerous alternate takes
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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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Harum Scarum (album)
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Harum Scarum is the twenty-fourth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3468, in November 1965. It is the soundtrack to the 1965 film of the same name starring Presley, recording sessions took place at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 24,25, and 26,1965. It peaked at eight on the Top LPs chart. In reality, almost any song could have been squeezed into the story lines, but as long as sales continued, the formula required guaranteed control of publishing and new songs by the same songwriters. However, Presleys sales were plunging in music stores as well as sales at the box office. Eleven songs were recorded for Harum Scarum, and all were used and issued on the soundtrack with two of the tracks omitted in the film, as with Roustabout, no singles were issued in conjunction with the album. A single was issued a month later, using the leftover 1957 track Tell Me Why backed with Blue River from the aborted May 1963 album sessions. In an onimous sign of things to come, it made it to number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Elvis recorded Wisdom of the Ages on February 24,1965 at RCA studios and it featured as a bonus track on the soundtrack album, along with Animal Instinct, but did not feature in the film itself. The film and its soundtrack are widely considered one of the lowest points of Presleys career, the song progresses from F major to B flat major, to D minor to E flat major to F major. In 2003 Harum Scarum was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in an edition that contained the original album tracks along with numerous alternate takes
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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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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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Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3
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Elvis Golden Records Volume 3 is a greatest hits album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor as LPM/LSP-2765 on August 11,1963. The album was the volume of an eventual five volume collection. It is a compilation of hit singles released in 1960,1961, the album was originally released as a mono and stereo LP record and was reissued several times including a Compact Disc edition in 1997 that included six bonus tracks. It was certified Gold on November 1,1966, and Platinum on March 27,1992, Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, envisioned a marketing strategy of alternating soundtrack albums with independent studio recordings, accompanied by singles. By mid-1963, Presleys studio albums had struggled while the albums had all done brisk business. Sessions in late May had failed to produce material cohesive enough for an album, those tracks surfacing on singles and pell-mell on soundtracks. The immediate solution was another compilation of hit singles, the sales numbers proving the success of this interim strategy. Golden Records Volume 3 comprises eight Top Five A-sides along with four b-sides which also made the Top 40, Fame and Fortune, I Gotta Know, Little Sister, Five A-Sides, Stuck on You, Its Now or Never, Are You Lonesome Tonight. Surrender, and Good Luck Charm went to #1 and its Now or Never had been adapted from the 1898 Neapolitan song O Sole Mio, and Are You Lonesome Tonight, a ballad from 1926, had been a rare request from Parker to Presley for Parkers wife. As with the titles in the series, all singles in this compilation are certified by the RIAA as attaining gold status with sales of at least 500,000 copies. The original 12-track album was first issued on disc by RCA in 1989. The Girl of My Best Friend was taken from the album Elvis Is Back. and Wooden Heart from the soundtrack to G. I. Wooden Heart would be reissued as a b-side twice, once in 1964 and again in 1965, and the b-side Wild in the Country is the title track to the film of the same name. The remaining pair of songs, Follow That Dream and King of the Whole Wide World, are respectively from the EP soundtracks to the Presley movies Follow That Dream. The album was reissued again with the tracks removed and the original running order restored. Original recordings produced by Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley, Chet Atkins, Urban Thielmann, Jeff Alexander, chart positions for singles taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart where noted. Elvis Golden Records Volume 3 at Discogs
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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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Almost in Love
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Almost in Love is the 39th album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in November 1970 on budget label RCA Camden. It was the first of several albums on the RCA Camden subsidiary to make available in LP format tracks that had previously been only on 45 rpm singles or EPs. The song would later be remixed by Paul Oakenfold in 2003, the title track of the album is a song from Presleys 1968 film, Live a Little, Love a Little. The album was re-released by Pickwick Records with different cover art in 1975 and was issued on disc in 2006. It was certified Gold and Platinum on January 6,2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America. The final track was replaced by the following on the 1973 LP re-release and the 2006 compact disc release, CAS-2440 Almost in Love Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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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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Command Performances: The Essential 60s Masters II
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It also includes a booklet with session details and an essay by Susan M. Doll. The set comprises a selection of recordings made by Presley during the decade specifically at a session for the soundtrack of a feature film, the two discs present the studio masters in rough chronological session order. Puppet on a String appeared as a seven months after the release of the Girl Happy soundtrack. Blues, and peaked at #14 on the singles chart, Wooden Heart had also been released as the flipside to a reissue of Blue Christmas eleven months earlier. Generally, Presleys 1960s soundtrack recordings command the least regard among the recorded work. The most successful commercially, such as G. I, blues and Blue Hawaii, fell in the tradition of the film musical as it had developed through the 1950s, that of the integrated musical where the songs are integral to the story line. As stated by Susan Doll in the notes, the songs from the soundtracks are often judged by inappropriate criteria. this type of musical was standard fare in Hollywood for decades. However, those who criticize Elvis musical vehicles generally overlook this, discographical information below taken from Elvis Presley A Life in Music, The Complete Recording Sessions, by Ernst Jorgensen, St. Martins Press, New York,1998. Chart positions for LPs from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, positions for singles, by late 1968, Billboard discontinued charting B-sides. Titles listed without corresponding LP/EP designation were initially released as singles only, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York, St. Martins Press,1998, ISBN 0-312-18572-3
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Elvis 56
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Elvis 56 is a compilation album of studio master recordings by American singer and musician Elvis Presley made during 1956, released by RCA Records in 1996. The original sessions took place at RCA Studios in Nashville and New York, the disc presents five singles with five B-sides, five tracks from his debut album, and six tracks from his second long-player, Elvis. All were both recorded and released in the year of the disc,1956, except for Too Much. An alternate and earlier take of Heartbreak Hotel included is previously unreleased, chart positions for LPs and EPs from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, positions for singles from Billboard Pop Singles chart. Elvis Presley – vocal, guitar Scotty Moore – guitar Chet Atkins – guitar Floyd Cramer – piano Shorty Long – piano Gordon Stoker – piano, fontana – drums The Jordanaires – backing vocals Ben Speer – backing vocals Brock Speer – backing vocals
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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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2nd to None
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2nd to None is a collection of songs by American rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. The album was released by on October 7,2003 by RCA Records as the sequel to the years highly successful ELV1S,30 #1 Hits. Although not as successful as its predecessor, 2nd to None made the top 10 in at least nine countries, 2nd to None was produced by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen and Ray Bardani. The releases primary artwork consists of a picture of Elvis head, the releases art direction and design was handled by Mike Jurkovac. The artwork and design for the European release of the album was different, being similar to ELV1S and having the art direction and design by the same person. To promote the album in the United Kingdom, an album titled Before Anyone Did Anything
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Elvis at Sun
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Elvis at Sun is a compact disc compilation of Elvis Presleys studio recordings at Sun Studio from 1954 to 1955, released in June 2004, BMG Heritage 61205. This set features master recordings made by Presley and his accompanists, Scotty Moore and Bill Black, occasionally augmented by other musicians, prior to his arrival on RCA Records in 1956. Tapes for at least two songs have been lost, Sun versions of I Got A Woman and Satisfied, the former would be recorded for 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 and it still presents all eighteen Sun titles from the singers stay at the label. Elvis At Sun also was released in the vinyl LP configuration, 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. In 2001, VH1 named its parent album the 21st greatest album of all time, in 2003, the album was ranked number 11 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Two tracks from the Presleys Sun sessions were included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, Mystery Train, for more detailed information on the recording sessions, see Elvis Presleys Sun recordings
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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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Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol. 1
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Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol.1 is a compilation box set by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. The four-album set was released in August,1970, as his 38th album, the set peaked at number 45 on the Billboard 200 and at number 25 on the country chart. It was certified Gold on February 13,1973, Platinum on March 27,1992, of the 51 tracks featured, four make their album debut in this collection, Viva Las Vegas, Suspicious Minds, Dont Cry Daddy, and Kentucky Rain. Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits Vol.1 - Sergent. com. au
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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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Elvis' Greatest Shit
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Elvis Greatest Shit is a bootleg recording of Elvis Presley, released in July 1982. It assembles a number of recordings, a large number of film scores. This poor taste concept did not merely extend to the contents, but continued on the cover. The photograph was taken by Presleys cousin and subsequently sold to the National Enquirer. Most of these tracks are diegetic music from the feature films,1960, Flaming Star 1961, Blue Hawaii 1962. It is truly Elvis greatest shit, one critic agrees at least that five of the songs are among Presleys worst. On the occasion of Presleys 75th birthday, another suggested that recording these songs should have made Presley self-destructive. There have been four pressings of the album, the album covers vary in detail as do the disks—different color, design and words, one version has a white cover, and the photo is relegated to the interior. The bootleg vinyl album has since been reissued as a CD, richard followed up Elvis Greatest Shit with another bootleg featuring a black humoured theme—The Beatles vs. Elvis Greatest Shit at Discogs
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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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Loving You (1957 film)
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Directed by Hal Kanter, the cast is completed by Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, and Dolores Hart in her movie debut. Kanter expanded the script after being inspired by Presleys last appearance on the Louisiana Hayride, a box office success, Loving You opened nationwide on July 9,1957. Paramount Pictures chose to ignore the first-run theater system, opting instead to release the film in sub-run neighborhood theaters, composed by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Presleys single Teddy Bear backed with Loving You was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Walter Tex Warner, a country and western bandleader past his prime. During a campaign stop in the town of Delville, Deke Rivers, while they are unloading, the workmate talks to Glenda about Dekes singing ability, which Glenda jumps on to revive the sagging interest in the event by using local talent. She convinces Deke to sing a song with the backing of Texs Rough Ridin Ramblers, seeing the positive reception by the female audience, Glenda tries to convince Deke to join the Tex Warner Show. Driving in Dekes hotrod, she tells him about his potential, not willing to leave his first steady job in a year, he rejects the offer, but Glenda asks him to think about it. Upon returning to town, Glenda calls the Highway Beverage Company, after which she, later that night, Deke is provoked at a restaurant by the boyfriend of one of his fans, who wants to hear him sing a song. After singing to a tune from the jukebox, he starts a fight with him and he is later exonerated by the police. The following morning, as the group is leaving town, Deke accepts Glendas offer, after being fired because of a complaint by a customer regarding a late delivery, Glenda just happens to have prepared a contract, which grants her half of his income. With Tex headlining, they start touring throughout Texas, along two other acts, Susan Susie Jessup and a singing trio, as Dekes popularity grows, Glenda devises publicity stunts to leverage it. At one show, she pays two aged woman to criticize him, when they start to argue with young fans, Glenda has a press photographer document the incident. As the tour progresses, Deke and Susan become interested in one another, after playing small venues, the group is hired to play in a large Amarillo theater on a four-day run. Convinced that it is his ticket to fame, Tex accepts Glendas suggestion to share the bill with Deke. After the end of the four day engagement, Dekes management is offered a show in Freegate, Texas. Due to the terms of the contract, Tex fires Susan, before he has to begin his new tour, Deke drives Susan to her familys farm. Meanwhile, in another publicity move, Glenda convinces Tex to buy a Cadillac against his life insurance for Deke, inventing a story to tell Deke that it was a gift from the widow of an oil magnate. Back on the farm, Deke and Susan talk, where she tells him about being fired, after which they are about to kiss, when they are interrupted by her parents, who ask him to sing the song he promised
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Jailhouse Rock (film)
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Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy. After his release from jail, while looking for a job as a club singer, as he develops his musical abilities and becomes a star, his self-centered personality begins to affect his relationships. The wife of producer Pandro S. Berman convinced him to create a film with Presley in the last role, Berman delegated the casting to Benny Thau, head of the studio and Abraham Lastfogel, the then president of William Morris Agency. Berman hired Richard Thorpe, who was known for shooting productions quickly, the production of Jailhouse Rock began on May 13,1957, and concluded on June 17 of that year. The dance sequence to the title song Jailhouse Rock is often cited as Presleys greatest moment on screen. Before pre-production began, songwriters Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber were commissioned to integrate the films soundtrack, in April, Leiber and Stoller were called for a meeting in New York City to show the progress of the repertoire. Presley recorded the soundtrack at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on April 30 and May 3, during post-production, the songs were dubbed into the films scenes, in which Presley mimed the lyrics. Jailhouse Rock premiered on October 17,1957 in Memphis, Tennessee and was released nationwide on November 8,1957 and it peaked at number 3 on the Variety box office chart, and reached number 14 in the years box office totals, grossing $4 million. Jailhouse Rock earned mixed reviews, with most of the negative reception directed towards Presleys persona, in 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Construction worker Vince Everett accidentally kills a drunken and belligerent man in a barroom brawl and he is sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary for manslaughter. His cellmate, washed-up country singer Hunk Houghton who was jailed for robbery, starts teaching Vince to play the guitar after hearing Vince sing. Hunk then convinces Vince to participate in an upcoming inmate show, Vince receives numerous fan letters as a result, but out of apparent jealousy, Hunk ensures they are not delivered to Vince. Hunk then convinces Vince to sign a contract to become partners in his act. Meanwhile, during a riot in the mess hall, a guard shoves Vince. As a result, the warden orders Vince to be lashed with a whip, afterwards, it was discovered that Hunk attempted to bribe the guards to drop the punishment, but to no avail. Upon Vinces release 20 months later, the warden gives Vince his fan mail, Hunk then promises Vince a singing job at a nightclub owned by a friend, where Vince meets Peggy Van Alden, a promoter for pop singer Mickey Alba. Vince is surprised when the club owner denies him a job as a singer, undeterred, Vince takes the stage when the house band takes a break and starts singing Young and Beautiful. But one of the customers laughs obnoxiously throughout the performance, enraging Vince, Peggy follows Vince and persuades him to record a demo so that he can listen to himself sing
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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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Wild in the Country
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Wild in the Country is a 1961 American drama film directed by Philip Dunne and starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, and Millie Perkins. Based on the 1958 novel The Lost Country by J. R. Salamanca, the screenplay was written by playwright Clifford Odets. The movie starts off with Glenn Tyler getting into a fight with, a court releases him on probation into the care of his uncle in a small town, appointing Irene Sperry to give him psychological counselling. Marked as a trouble-maker, he is suspected of various misdemeanors including an affair with Irene. Eventually shown to be innocent, he leaves to go to college, wald always intended to cast Elvis Presley in the lead and originally wanted Simone Signoret to appear opposite him. They eventually cast Hope Lange, even though they felt she was too young for the part, the studio then refused to keep paying Odets, firing him two weeks before filming. Wild in the Country was filmed on location in Napa Valley and in Hollywood Studios, the cast and crew created a public sensation in Napa for over two months of filming. Now a top-rated inn in Napa Valley and known as The Ink House, other Napa Valley locations featured in the movie. The opening scene was filmed along portions of the Napa River and this section of the river is located at what is now the Casa Nuestra Winery, between Calistoga and St. Helena. Calistogas downtown main street was used as the hometown of Glenn Tylers uncle, in one scene, Betty Lee slaps Glenn. Millie Perkins suffered an arm while doing the scene, and before the film was released. Philip Dunne says that 20th Century Fox insisted on the insertion of four songs for Elvis Presley and this was Elvis last dramatic lead role until Charro. as his next film, Blue Hawaii, was his first big budget musical and was a box office sensation. Phil Dunne later wrote that the fell between two stools. On both factions his fine performance was tragically wasted, in the original script and rough cut of the film, Hope Langes character Irene Sperry succeeds in her suicide attempt. However, preview audiences reacted negatively to it and the scene was redone in which Irene survives and sees Glenn off to college. Elvis and Hope Lange also were taken with each other. Other notable members in the cast included Jason Robards, Sr. Christina Crawford, Pat Buttram, recording sessions took place on November 7 and 8,1960, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, under the supervision of producer Urban Thielmann. Five songs were recorded for the film, all ballads with Lonely Man, since Wild in the Country showcased Presley the actor rather than the singing star, RCA elected to release neither a long-playing album nor an EP as the soundtrack for a Presley film
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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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It Happened at the World's Fair
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It Happened at the Worlds Fair is a 1963 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a cropdusting pilot. It was filmed in Seattle, Washington, site of the Century 21 Exposition, the governor of Washington at the time, Albert Rosellini, suggested the setting to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives. The film made $2.25 million at the box office, pilot Mike Edwards finds himself in a dilemma, his partner and friend Danny, gambles away the money Mike had set aside to pay their debts. Since they lost their money and a $1,200 debt, the sheriff takes possession of their plane, Bessie. If they cannot come up with the money in twelve days, Mike and Danny become reluctant hitchhikers, looking for a lift to anywhere. They are picked up by apple farmer Walter Ling and his niece Sue-Lin and they end up in Seattle, Washington, location of the 1962 Worlds Fair. When the uncle is called away on business, Danny persuades Mike to take Sue-Lin to tour the local Worlds Fair and it is during a visit to the doctor at the fair that Mike falls for Diane Warren, an attractive but stubborn nurse who resists Mikes advances. He gives a quarter to a boy who kicks him in the shin, dianes supervisor then convinces her to give Mike a ride back to his apartment, convinced his leg is injured. Mike and Diane dine at the top of the fairs Space Needle, however, he also courts Dorothy Johnson. Walter inexplicably fails to back the next day to get Sue-Lin. Sue-Lin feigns illness so that nurse Diane will come to their apartment and examine her, when Diane discovers that Mike has no kinship to Sue-Lin, she wants to inform the Welfare Board so that Sue-Lin can be removed from Mike and Dannys apartment. There is a mysterious nightfall plane delivery for Mikes and Dannys friend Vince, the film ends with Mike and Diane in love. The hitchhiking scene with Elvis and Gary Lockwood was filmed near Camarillo, California, while The Elvis Encyclopedia believes that the Wilburton Trestle was shown in the movie, further evidence points to a different location. It is actually a trestle over the White River between Enumclaw and Buckley, now demolished, the view in the movie was taken at the intersection of Mud Mountain Road and Highway 410, looking southeasterly. You can see Mount Rainier in the background, which you cant see at this angle from the Wilburton Trestle, the Wilburton Trestle is actually bigger than the White River Trestle, at six sections high. The trestle pictured in the movie is only four sections high at the road crossing, the film was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on August 7,2007 as a Region 1 Widescreen DVD. It marked Kurt Russells film debut, vicky Tiu, sister of entertainer Ginny, later grew up to be the first lady of Hawaii when she married Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano. List of American films of 1963 Guralnick, Peter, and Ernst Jorgensen, Elvis Day by Day, The Definitive Record of His Life and Music
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Roustabout (film)
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Roustabout is a 1964 American musical feature film starring Elvis Presley as a singer who takes a job working with a struggling carnival. The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence, the screenplay was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for best written American musical although Roustabout received a lukewarm review in Variety. The films soundtrack album was one of Elvis Presleys most successful, musician Charlie Rogers is fired from a gig at a teahouse run by Lou after brawling with several college students in the parking lot. After a night in jail, Charlie hits the road on his Honda 305 Superhawk motorcycle and he spots Cathy Lean driving with her father Joe and their employer, Maggie Morgan. When Charlie tries to become friendly with Cathy, Joe forces him off the road, Maggie offers him a place to stay and a job with her struggling traveling carnival while the bike is being repaired. Charlie becomes a carnie, a roustabout, Maggie recognizes his musical talents and promotes him to feature attraction. His act soon draws large crowds, off stage, Charlie romances Cathy, which creates animosity with Joe. Once again, he is a great success, however, when Charlie learns that Maggie is facing bankruptcy, he returns to her carnival. In the musical finale, he is reunited with Cathy. Garr can also be seen as a dancer during several musical numbers. Joy Harmon as College Girl Richard Kiel as Strongman, bennett Its a Wonderful World by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Roustabout reached #8 nationally at the box office in 1964 based on the Variety survey, the film finished as #28 on the year-end list of the top-grossing movies of 1964 and earned $3 million at the box office. The films screenwriters, Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss, were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical, the film generated a best-selling soundtrack album that went #1 on the Billboard charts. The soundtrack album would be Presleys final #1 soundtrack and last #1 album until 1969s From Elvis in Memphis, list of American films of 1964 Roustabout at the Internet Movie Database Roustabout at AllMovie Roustabout at the TCM Movie Database Roustabout at Rotten Tomatoes
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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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Clambake
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Clambake is a 1967 American musical film directed by Arthur H. Nadel and starring Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby. Clambake was the last of Presleys four films for United Artists, the movie reached number 15 on the national weekly box-office charts. Scott Heyward rebels against the plans and expectations of his father, Scott abandons his family, driving to Florida in his shiny red 1959 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Racer to find himself. When Scott stops for gas and refreshments, he encounters Tom Wilson, Tom has fun staying at the same hotel and pretending he is rich. Shortly after, hotel guest Dianne Carter insists on taking a lesson minutes after Scott checks in with his new employer. However, once they are out on the water, Dianne proves herself to be an expert skier, later, Dianne confesses to Scott that she is a gold digger, assuming that he is one, too. Scott agrees to help Dianne land Jamison, but ends up falling for her himself. Scott persuades boat builder Sam Burton to allow him to rebuild the Rawhide, a damaged boat, and drive it in the annual Orange Bowl Race. Scott sends for some goop, an experimental coating his father spent a lot of money trying to perfect, between his day job and moonlighting as a chemist, Scott is run ragged, but he manages to fix goops major flaw, losing its strength in water. With no time for testing before the race, he applies it to the boats hull, Duster learns where his son is and comes to see what he is doing. To Scotts surprise, his father is proud of what he has accomplished. Scott barges into the suite before she can give Jamison an answer, in the race, Jamison takes the lead in his boat, the Scarlet Lady, but Scott passes him at the finish line. Dianne decides to give up her scheme and return home, Scott then offers to give Dianne a lift. On the drive, he gives her an engagement ring he bought with the winnings from the race, Dianne insists that Scott take it back, but agrees to marry him. This prompts Scott to confess to Dianne who he really is and she does not believe him at first, but when he shows her his drivers license as proof, she faints. Elvis Presley as Scott Heyward/Tom Wilson Shelley Fabares as Dianne Carter Will Hutchins as Tom Wilson/Scott Heyward Bill Bixby as James J, water Ski and Corvette double for Elvis, Artie Warren. After numerous delays, principal photography on Clambake began on March 22,1967, as Presley began the last decade of his life, Clambake was the last film for which he was able to demand and receive a $1,000,000 salary. A movie studio ordered him to lose the weight in a hurry
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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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Change of Habit
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Change of Habit is a 1969 American musical drama film directed by William A. Graham and starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore and their lives become complicated by the realities they face in the inner city, and by the doctor who falls in love with one of the nuns. The film was produced by Joe Connelly for NBC Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures, filmed on location in the Los Angeles area and at the Universal Studios during March and April 1969, Change of Habit was released in the United States on November 10,1969. It spent four weeks on the Variety Box Office Survey, peaking at #17, Change of Habit was Presleys 31st and final film acting role, his remaining film appearances were in concert documentaries. The film was Moores fourth and final film under her brief Universal Pictures contract, Moore and Edward Asner, who also appears in the film, would go on to star in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, one of the most popular television shows in the 1970s. Dr. John Carpenter is a physician in a ghetto clinic who falls for a co-worker, Michelle Gallagher, Elvis stars as a professional man for the first and only time in his career. Dr. Carpenter heads a clinic serving a community in a major metropolis. He is surprised to be offered assistance by three women, unknown to him, the three are nuns in street clothing who want to aid the community but are afraid the local residents might be reluctant to seek help if their true identities were known. The nuns are also facing opposition from the rude and arrogant priest from the local parish, Carpenter falls for Sister Michelle Gallagher, played by wholesome Mary Tyler Moore, but Sister Michelles true vocation remains unknown to Dr. Carpenter. She also has feelings for the doctor but is reluctant to leave the order, the film concludes with Sister Michelle and Sister Irene entering a church where Dr. Carpenter is singing to pray for guidance to make her choice. Uncredited Cast, By 1969, Presleys future in Hollywood was under threat, although still financially successful, mainly due to the make em quick, make em cheap attitude of Presleys manager Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys films had been making less profit in recent years. When Parker had struggled to find any willing to pay Presleys usual $1 million fee, he struck a deal with NBC to produce one feature film. NBC would pay Presley $1.25 million for both features, and Parker was happy in the knowledge that he was able to earn $1 million for his client. The film Change of Habit had been announced in 1967, with Mary Tyler Moore signing up in October 1968 and it was considered a Moore vehicle until January 1969 when Presley signed on to take the lead role. Although set in New York City, the film was shot in the Los Angeles area and at the Universal Studios lot during March and April 1969. It was released nationwide in the United States on November 10,1969 and spent four weeks on the Variety Box Office Survey, Mary Tyler Moore and Edward Asner would soon become co-stars of her self-named The Mary Tyler Moore Show, one of televisions enduring hits from 1970-77. In Change of Habit, however, they shared no scenes and he had a month-long engagement at the International Hotel in Paradise, Nevada lined up in August, his first live performances in eight years, and clearly now had turned his career around. A song recorded at American, Rubberneckin, would be used in the film, four songs would be recorded at the soundtrack sessions, of which Lets Be Friends would not be used in the film
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Elvis: That's the Way It Is
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Elvis, Thats the Way It Is is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Denis Sanders. The film documents American singer Elvis Presleys Summer Festival in Las Vegas during August 1970 and it was his first non-dramatic film since the beginning of his film career in 1956, and the film gives a clear view of Presleys return to live performances after years of making films. The original concept as devised by technical advisor Colonel Tom Parker was in view of Elviss triumphant return to live performances was a closed circuit television presentation of one show and this was the first show of Elvis first tour in 13 years. Elvis and his band are seen rehearsing for the Las Vegas engagement at MGM Studios in Culver City, California. There are scenes of Elvis running through such tunes as I Just Cant Help Believing, Whatd I Say, Little Sister, Words, Thats All Right Mama, the rehearsal sequences were filmed during late July 1970. There is also a session of rehearsals that takes place in the Showroom Internationale of the International Hotel in Las Vegas, together, Elvis and the entire group run through songs from Mary In the Morning to Polk Salad Annie. These rehearsals took place on August 7,1970, footage of an Elvis Appreciation Society convention in Luxembourg was shot on September 5,1970. Radio Luxembourg DJs Tony Prince and Peter Aldersley are on hand to lead the festivities, a tandem bicycle owned by Elvis is raffled off to a lucky fan in the audience. Additionally, various musicians are seen performing their own versions of Elvis songs and he sings many well-known songs, including several of those that he had been seen rehearsing earlier in the film. The movie is intercut with footage of fans offering commentary about what Elvis means to them, officials at the International Hotel. A soundtrack album was released in conjunction with the film and it was Presleys first full-length film soundtrack album since 1968s Speedway, and the last as his final film, 1972s Elvis on Tour, did not have a soundtrack release. It was only a soundtrack release, as it did not include all of the live performances. A Special Edition was released in 2001 in conjunction with the Special Edition of the movie, the new version eliminated much of the documentary and non-Elvis content of the original in favor of adding additional performances of Elvis rehearsing and in concert. The final film runs 12 minutes shorter than the original, but contains more music, the special edition was released on January 19,2001, when this new version made its worldwide debut on the cable network, Turner Classic Movies and produced by award-winning producer Rick Schmidlin. In August 2007 a two-disc DVD special edition was released by Warner/Turner that has both the reworked version plus the original cut, the original, however, has only a mono soundtrack. The DVD also includes approximately 35 minutes of performances and other footage that was not included in either edition. A Two Disc Special Edition Premium Digibook was announced for release in August 12,2014, academy Award® nominated Lucien Ballard was the cinematographer
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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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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite is a concert that was headlined by Elvis Presley, and was broadcast live via satellite on January 14,1973. The concert took place at the Honolulu International Center in Honolulu and aired in over 40 countries across Asia, despite the satellite innovation, the United States did not air the concert until April 4,1973. Viewing figures have been estimated to be between 1 and 1.5 billion viewers worldwide, the show was the most expensive entertainment special at the time, costing $2.5 million. On July 8,1972, inspired by a recent visit made by U. S, as the show had already been planned prior to this upset, the original shows, now set for November, would still go ahead but without being filmed. Parker held another conference on September 4,1972, in Las Vegas to confirm that the concert, now titled Aloha From Hawaii. Two weeks after the Las Vegas press conference Parker received a letter from Honolulu Advertiser columnist Eddie Sherman, Sherman had read in news accounts that there was to be no charge for admittance to the concerts, instead a donation for charity was required. Seeing the chance to publicize Presleys charitable nature once again, Parker eagerly agreed, producer-director Marty Pasetta had attended one of Presleys concerts at Long Beach in mid-November, and he had found it to be boring and lacking in any physical excitement. He approached Parker with ideas about the broadcast, including a runway that led out from the stage so Presley could get closer to his audience, Parker insisted that the ideas were useless, and that Presley would agree that they were useless. Pasetta, however, decided to approach Presley about the ideas anyway and was surprised to find that he would be happy to do whatever Pasetta felt was best for the show. This was another example of the rift between Presley and his manager. He also announced officially that it would now be in aid of the Kui Lee Cancer Fund, Presley arrived in Hawaii again on January 9, a day after his 38th birthday, to begin rehearsals. He had lost twenty-five pounds for the show and was confident after news that his sales were increasing. Rehearsals were held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village while the set was being constructed. Although there were technical problems, the rehearsals were an overall success. Presley taped a January 12 rehearsal concert as a fail-safe in case anything went wrong with the satellite during the actual broadcast, for both shows, Presley was dressed in a white American Eagle jumpsuit designed by Bill Belew. The broadcast was directed by Marty Pasetta, who was then in charge of directing the Oscar ceremonies, audience tickets for the January 14 concert and its January 12 pre-broadcast rehearsal show carried no price. Each audience member was asked to pay whatever he or she could afford, the performance and concert merchandise sales raised $75,000 for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in Hawaii. According to Elvis Presley Enterprises, between 1 and 1.5 billion people watched the one-hour broadcast live, the album containing the music from the concert was a blockbuster hit, becoming Presleys first chart-topping album in the US since the soundtrack to Roustabout in 1965
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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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Promotional poster for original Broadway production of All Shook Up
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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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Hound Dog (song)
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Hound Dog is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Thorntons recording of Hound Dog is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Hound Dog has been recorded more than 250 times. Presleys version, which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and an emblem of the rock n roll revolution. It was simultaneously No.1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presleys 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, on August 12,1952, R&B bandleader Johnny Otis asked 19-year-old songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to his home to meet blues singer Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton. Thornton had been signed by Diamond Don Robeys Houston-based Peacock Records the year before, after hearing Thornton rehearse several songs, Leiber and Stoller forged a tune to suit her personality—brusque and badass. In an interview in Rolling Stone in April 1990, Stoller said, She was a blues singer. But it was as much her appearance as her blues style influenced the writing of Hound Dog. Leiber recalled, We saw Big Mama and she knocked me cold and she looked like the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see. And she was mean, a bear, as they used to call em. She must have been 350 pounds, and she had all these all over her face conveying words which could not be sung. But how to do it without saying it. And how to do it telling a story, I couldnt just have a song full of expletives. In 1999, Leiber said, I was trying to get something like the Furry Lewis phrase Dirty Mother Furya. I was looking for something closer to that but I couldnt find it, because everything I went for was too coarse, R&B expert George A. Moonoogian concurs, calling it a biting and scathing satire in the double-entendre genre of 1950s rhythm and blues. Said Leiber, Hound Dog took like twelve minutes, thats not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult, also the metric structure of the music was not easy. According to Leiber, as soon as they reached the parking lot and Stollers 1937 Plymouth and we got to Johnny Otiss house and Mike went right to the piano…didnt even bother to sit down
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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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Too Much (Elvis Presley song)
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Too Much is a #1 song recorded in a hit version by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1956. It was written by Bernard Weinman and Lee Rosenberg and it was first recorded in 1954 by Bernard Hardison on Republic Records. Elvis Presley recorded the song in September 1956 and first performed it on January 6,1957 on CBS-TVs The Ed Sullivan Show. Released as a single, Presleys Too Much reached number one on both the Cashbox and Billboard sales charts and went to three on the R&B chart. The single peaked at two on the then-named Top 100 chart, the main Billboard pop chart. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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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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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One Night (song)
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One Night is a song written by Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, and Anita Steinman. It was an R&B hit for Smiley Lewis in 1956, before being recorded with greater success by Elvis Presley in 1959. The original recording of the song by Smiley Lewis, for Imperial Records, is sometimes titled One Night of Sin, in line with the original lyrics, the single reached No.11 on the Billboard R&B chart in early 1956. Presley recorded a version of the song with its lyrics on January 18,1957. Both Elvis manager and record company had reservations about the suggestive lyrics, Elvis did not give up on the song. Presleys recording credited Anita Steinman as an additional co-writer, with Bartholomew, on February 23,1957, at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, he showed up with his new lyrics, feeling sure they would meet his labels approval. It was issued as a single in October 1958 and peaked at No.4 on Billboards singles chart, the song was published by Elvis Presley Music. Presleys recording was issued as a double A-side with I Got Stung, One Night, reached number four on the pop singles chart and number ten on the R&B chart. The song became the UKs 1000th number-one single upon its release in January 2005. It was also his last single to be issued on 78 RPM records in the United States, on 12 February 1959, it became the first song to reach No.1 on the Irish Music Charts Top 10, when they were being printed in the Evening Herald. It spent one week at the top spot, rock critic Pete Johnson observed that the song contains a triple negative with the lyrics I aint never did no wrong
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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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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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She's Not You
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Shes Not You is a 1962 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presleys publishing company. Shes Not You reached No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100, in the UK, the single reached No.1 where it stayed for three weeks. It was written by Doc Pomus in collaboration with Leiber and Stoller and it was released by Presley in the key of F major. Episode 1 of the 2004 BBC miniseries Blackpool featured the Presley recording, accompanied on screen by the singing and dancing of the characters, chris Isaak covered this song on his 2011 album, Beyond the Sun. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Return to Sender (song)
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Return to Sender is a 1962 hit single recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music. The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, recorded on March 27,1962, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, it is about a man mailing a letter to his girlfriend after an argument. She continually writes return to sender and he keeps receiving the letter with various reasons for returning to sender, including address unknown and he keeps mailing letters, refusing to believe the relationship is over. Presley performed Return to Sender in the film Girls, featuring Presleys longtime cohorts Barney Kessel on electric guitar, Tiny Timbrell on acoustic guitar, Ray Siegal on double bass, D. J. Another saxophonist, Bobby Keys, claimed he performed the solo at the instigation of pianist Glen D. Hardin, in his 2012 memoir Every Nights A Saturday Night, however, Hardin did not meet Presley until February 1970, when he joined his touring band. In addition, his claim is not supported by RCA, Ernst Jorgensen, the song peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, and was even the UK Christmas number one of 1962. It also reached #2 on the American Billboard singles chart, but reached number 1 on the rival Cash Box, Return to Sender also went to #5 on the R&B charts. It was the first Christmas number one in Ireland, as the Irish Charts had been founded in October 1962, the single was certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US. Gerri Granger later recorded a song, Dont Want Your Letters. The song was arranged and conducted by Bert Keyes and it was released on the single Big Top 45-3128. The phrase no such zone in the song refers to U. S. postal zones, a postal zone was a one- or two-digit number written between the city and state, whereas a ZIP Code is a five- or nine-digit number written after the state. On January 8,1993, the U. S. Postal Service issued a postage stamp honoring Presley. Lyrics Elvis Presley Studio Recording Sessions, March 27,1962
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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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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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Sam Phillips
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He was a producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the 1940s and 1950s. He was the founder of both Sun Studio and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, through Sun, Phillips discovered such recording talent as Howlin Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash. The height of his success culminated in his launching of Elvis Presleys career in 1954 and he is also associated with several other noteworthy rhythm and blues, country, and rock and roll musicians of the period. Phillips sold Sun in 1969 to Shelby Singleton and he was an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. He also advocated racial equality and helped break down barriers in the music industry. Phillips was the youngest of eight children, born on a farm near Florence, Alabama, to tenant farmers, Madge Ella. As a child, he picked cotton in the fields with his parents alongside black laborers, the experience of hearing workers singing in the fields left a big impression on the young Phillips. Traveling through Memphis with his family in 1939 on the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, I just fell totally in love, he later recalled. Phillips attended the former Coffee High School in Florence and he conducted the school band and had ambitions to be a criminal defense attorney. However, his father was bankrupted by the Great Depression and died in 1941, forcing Phillips to leave school to look after his mother. To support the family Phillips worked in a store and then a funeral parlor. In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ and radio engineer for Muscle Shoals radio station WLAY, according to Phillips, this radio stations open format would later inspire his work in Memphis. Beginning in 1945, he worked for four years as an announcer, on January 3,1950, Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis Recording Service let amateurs perform, which drew performers such as B. B. King, Junior Parker, Phillips then would sell their performances to larger record labels. In addition to performances, Phillips recorded events such as weddings and funerals. The Memphis Recording Service also served as the studio for Phillipss own label, Phillips combined different styles of music. He was interested in the blues and said, The blues, it got people—black and white—to think about life, how difficult and they would sing about it, they would pray about it, they would preach about it. This is how they relieved the burden of what existed day in, the recording was released on the Chess/Checker record label in Chicago, in 1951
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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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Colonel Tom Parker
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Thomas Andrew Colonel Tom Parker was a Dutch-born American talent manager, best known as the manager of Elvis Presley. His management of Presley defined the role of masterminding talent management, Parkers healthy compensation has led some to question whether it came at the detriment of his client. While other managers took compensation in the range of 10–15 percent of earnings, Presley said of Parker, I dont think Id have ever been very big if it wasnt for him. For many years, Parker falsely claimed to have born in the United States. Parker was born in Breda, Netherlands, the seventh of 11 children in a Catholic family, as a boy, he worked as a barker at carnivals in his hometown, learning many of the skills that he would require in later life while working in the entertainment industry. At age 15, Parker moved to Rotterdam, gaining employment on the boats in the port town, at age 17, he first displayed signs of wanting to run away to America to make his fortune. A year later, with money to sustain him for a short period. During his first visit there, he traveled with a Chautauqua educative tent show, before returning briefly to the Netherlands. Alanna Nash would later write in The Colonel, her biography of him, Parker returned to America at age 20, finding work with carnivals due to his previous experience in the Netherlands. He enlisted in the United States Army, taking the name Tom Parker from the officer who interviewed him and he served two years in the 64th Coast Artillery, at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, and shortly afterwards re-enlisted at Fort Barrancas, Florida. Although Parker had served honorably before, he went AWOL this time and was charged with desertion. He was punished with solitary confinement, from which he emerged with a psychosis that led to two months in a hospital, and he was discharged from the Army due to his mental condition. Following his discharge, Parker worked at a number of jobs, including food concessions and he began to build up a list of contacts that would prove valuable in later years. In 1935, Parker married 27-year-old Marie Francis Mott and they struggled to survive through the Great Depression, working short cons and traveling the country seeking work. Parker would later claim that at times they had had to live on as little as $1 a week, Parker first became involved in the music industry as a music promoter in 1938, working with popular singer Gene Austin. Despite having sold over 86 million records since 1924 and earning over $17 million and he had wasted much of his fortune on partying, cars, mansions, and women, and his popularity had been eclipsed by new singers such as Bing Crosby. Parker, charged with the task of promoting the star, found the transition to be a smooth one, using much of his carny experience to sell tickets. He was a good promoter, but he had his sights set on management
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Lisa Marie Presley
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Lisa Marie Presley is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of musician-actor Elvis Presley and actress and business magnate Priscilla Presley, sole heir to her fathers estate, she has developed a career in the music business and has issued three albums. Presley has been married four times, including to singer Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage, before marrying music producer Michael Lockwood, father of her twin girls. Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1,1968, to Elvis and Priscilla Presley at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, nine months to the day after her parents May 1,1967, after her parents divorced, she lived with her mother. When her father died, 9-year-old Lisa Marie became joint heir to his estate with her grandfather Vernon Presley, following the deaths of Vernon in 1979 and Minnie Mae in 1980, Lisa became the sole heir and inherited Graceland. In 1993, on her 25th birthday, she inherited the estate and it is reported that Lisa sold 75% of her fathers estate. On April 8,2003, Presley released her debut album and it reached No.5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold in June 2003. Presley wrote all the lyrics and co-wrote every melody, to promote it, she presented a concert in the UK. The albums first single, Lights Out, reached No.18 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 chart, Presley collaborated with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins for a co-written track called Savior, which was included as the B-side. Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed Presleys debut album and he said, The music on her new album has a stark, uncompromising tone and Presleys gutsy blues-edged voice has a distinctive flair. Her second album, released April 5,2005, Now What, Presley co-wrote 10 songs and recorded covers of Don Henleys Dirty Laundry, and the Ramones Here Today and Gone Tomorrow. The song Idiot is a jab towards different men in her life, unlike her first album, Now What included a Parental Advisory sticker. Presley covers Blue Öyster Cults Burnin for You as a B-side, pink makes a guest appearance on the track Shine. Her third album, Storm & Grace, was released on May 15,2012 and she said, Its much more of a rootsy record, organic record, than my previous work. It is produced by Oscar and Grammy winner T Bone Burnett, nearly ten years into a recording career she may or may not have wanted, Presley is finally developing a musical personality that truly suits her. Spinner. com observed, Presley has made the strongest album of her career in the upcoming Storm & Grace and its a moody masterpiece, exploring the demons and angels of her life to the tune of country-spiced downbeat pop. Entertainment Weekly praised the smoky, spooky single You Aint Seen Nothing Yet. Pat Benatar and Lisa Marie Presley performed at the VH1 Divas Duets, together they sang Benatars hit Heartbreaker, which Presley frequently performed at her own concerts on tours afterward
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Presley at the Daytona International Speedway in July 2005
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Priscilla Presley
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Priscilla Ann Presley is an American actress and business magnate. In her acting career, Presley starred with Leslie Nielsen in the three successful Naked Gun films, and played the role of Jenna Wade on the television series Dallas. Priscillas maternal grandfather, Albert Henry Iversen, was born in 1899 in Egersund and he emigrated to the United States, where he married Lorraine, who was of Scots-Irish and English descent. Their only daughter, Anna Lillian Iversen, was born in March 1926, later she was called – or her name was changed to – Ann. At the age of 19, she gave birth to Priscilla, Priscilla has a square named after her in Egersund – Priscilla Presleys plass. The area is in the street passes the house where her grandfather was born. The opening ceremony took place August 23,2008, Priscillas biological father was US Navy pilot James Wagner. His parents were Kathryn and Harold Wagner, on August 10,1944, at the age of 23, he married Priscillas mother, they had been dating for more than three years. He was killed in a crash while returning home on leave when Priscilla was six months old. In 1948, her mother met a United States Air Force officer named Paul Beaulieu, from Quebec, the couple were married within a year. Beaulieu took over the raising of Priscilla, and was the father she would ever know. She took his surname and over the few years she grew up quickly. In her own words, she described herself during this period as a shy, pretty little girl unhappily accustomed to moving from base to base every two or three years. Priscilla later recalled that she felt uncomfortable moving so often because she never knew if she could make friends for life, in 1956, the Beaulieus moved to and settled in Austin, Texas, but soon her stepfather was transferred to Wiesbaden, Germany. Priscilla was crushed by this news, and after finishing junior high her fears of leaving her friends behind and making new ones were once again at the forefront of her mind. Initially the Beaulieus stayed at the Helene Hotel when they arrived in Germany, the family settled in a large apartment in a vintage building constructed long before World War I. Soon after moving in, the Beaulieus realized that it was a brothel, Elvis and Priscilla met on September 13,1959, during a party at Elvis home in Bad Nauheim, Germany, while he was serving in the Army. Despite her being 14 years old, she made an impression on Elvis with her much older appearance
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Presley at The O2 Gala Night at the O2 in London, December 2014
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Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley has inspired artistic and cultural works since he entered the national consciousness. From that point, interest in his personal and public life has never stopped, some scholars have even studied many aspects of his profound cultural influence. Billboard historian Joel Whitburn declared Presley the #1 act of the Rock era, the following lists cover various media which include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. Only people and works with Wikipedia articles are included, for purposes of classification, popular culture music is a separate section from operas and oratorios. Television covers live action series, TV movies, miniseries, and North American animation but not Japanese anime, another 21 copies are said to exist. V) Double Elvis,1963, sold at Sothebys in May 2012 for US$37.1 million above, vi) Triple Elvis,1963, sold at Christiess in November 2014 for US$81.9 million. Vii) Eight Elvises,1963, sold privately, in December 2008, taylor, St. Hugh Jackman, who provides the speaking and singing voice of the character, did his own Elvis impersonation for the films soundtrack. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis is kidnapped by a fans son Independence Day, upon escaping the Mother Ship, all three sequel films in the franchise have also featured Presleys songs and/or images. Stitch also regularly impersonates Elvis in the TV series of the same name, nick performs Are You Lonesome Tonight. The Golden Girls, The Presidents Coming, the Colonel gets furious when he finds out Richie was going behind his back has Elvis point a gun at him. Bill & Teds Excellent Video Game Adventures, Elvis is one of sixteen historical dudes who can be rescued, the SNES game Waynes World Elvis appears as a level boss. Elvis died three days before Groucho Marx, Groucho fans blamed Elviss death for Grouchos death not getting as much publicity, Elvis and Groucho were next door neighbors in Beverly Hills, California. In 2006, Elviss teddy bear Mabel, made in 1909 by Steiff, was on display at a museum near Wookey Hole Caves when an Doberman destroyed it. The insurance company had insisted that the teddy bears be protected by guard dogs, other than Presley, no musician merited a separate episode, which comprised four women among a list of political leaders, thinkers, heads of state and actors. In 2006, the Atlantic Magazine ranked him the 66th most influential American ever, no other individual involved in entertainment, other than Walt Disney, ranked higher. In 2008, the MIT-launched Pantheon programme, which maps cultural production, only the Reverend Martin Luther King, a Nobel Peace prize winner, outranks him among all persons born in the United States of America. In 2010, LIFE Magazine ranked him #96 in their list of the 100 people who changed the world, only Charles Chaplin and Louis Armstrong ranked higher among entertainers. In 2014, the Smithsonian Magazine issued a listing of the 100 most significant Americans of all time, no other entertainer is listed separately
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Wackel-Elvis dashboard figure from a 2001 Audi TV commercial
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Cultural impact of Elvis Presley
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Since the beginning of his career, Elvis Presley has had an extensive cultural impact. According to Rolling Stone, it was Elvis who made rock n roll the international language of pop, Rolling Stone encyclopedia of Rock and Roll describes Presley as an American music giant of the 20th century who single-handedly changed the course of music and culture in the mid-1950s. His recordings, dance moves, attitude and clothing came to be seen as embodiments of rock and his music was heavily influenced by African-American blues, Christian gospel, and Southern country. In a list of the greatest English language singers, as compiled by Q Magazine, Presley was ranked first, Presley sang both hard driving rockabilly, rock and roll dance songs and ballads, laying a commercial foundation upon which other rock musicians would build their careers. African-American performers like Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris and Fats Domino came to prominence after Presleys acceptance among mass audiences of White American adults. Singers like Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, john Lennon later observed, Before Elvis, there was nothing. During the 1940s bobby soxers had idolized Frank Sinatra, but the buyers of his records were mostly between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two, Presley triggered a lot of demand for his records by near-teens and early teens aged ten and up. Meanwhile, American teenagers began buying newly available transistor radios. Teens were asserting more independence and Presley became a symbol of their parents consternation. Half a century later, historian Ian Brailsford commented, The phenomenal success of Elvis Presley in 1956 convinced many doubters of the financial opportunities existing in the youth market, Presley would nevertheless publicly cite his debt to African American music, pointing to artists such as B. B. King, Arthur Big Boy Crudup, Ivory Joe Hunter, the reporter who conducted Presleys first interview in New York City in 1956 noted that he named blues singers who obviously meant a lot to him. Was very surprised to hear him talk about the black performers down there and about how he tried to carry on their music. Later that year in Charlotte, North Carolina, Presley was quoted as saying, The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in their shanties and in their juke joints, Little Richard said of Presley, He was an integrator. They wouldnt let black music through and he opened the door for black music. Up to the black artists had sold minuscule amounts of their recorded music relative to the national market potential. Black songwriters had mostly limited horizons and could only eke out a living, but after Presley purchased the music of African American Otis Blackwell and had his Gladys Music company hire talented black songwriter Claude Demetrius, the industry underwent a dramatic change. In the spring of 1957 Presley invited African American performer Ivory Joe Hunter to visit Graceland, of Presley, Hunter commented, He showed me every courtesy, and I think hes one of the greatest
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Folk rock musician Amy Ray wearing an Elvis shirt onstage
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Presley in a promotional photo for Jailhouse Rock released by MGM on November 8, 1957.
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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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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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Elvis: What Happened?
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Elvis, What Happened. is a book about the personal life of legendary singer Elvis Presley. The book, which is based on the accounts of three of Elvis former bodyguards, went into detail on the singer’s dangerous drug-dependence. His death, only two weeks after the publication in July 1977, made it highly topical and helped boost its sales to over 3 million. With help from reporter Steve Dunleavy, they produced the tell-all memoir which they claimed to be a friendly warning, since the singer’s death, most of its claims have been proved accurate. In July 1976, Red and Sonny West, together with Dave Hebler, were fired by Presleys father, Vernon, Red had known Presley since they had attended high school together, and had become a very close friend to him. He became a part of Presleys inner circle in 1955, acting as a driver, bodyguard, and friend. Sonny, Reds cousin, had first met Presley in early 1958, Hebler, who had first met Presley in 1972, was later hired as a member of the security team. Reasons for their dismissal differ depending on who is being asked about the situation, a third theory is that their security techniques had led to several injuries amongst fans and lawsuits brought against Presley, a practice that the singer could no longer risk. It was not uncommon for Presley to fire members of his circle from time to time. Following their firing, the three men decided to write a tell all book about the life of Presley. Dunleavy, then a gossip columnist with the National Star and later a correspondent for the syndicated program A Current Affair, was approached to help with its writing. When Presley first heard about the book he was furious and he hoped that they would see sense, or that his manager, Colonel Thomas Parker, would be able to stop its publication. According to some of those closest to Presley at the time, the book tells the story of Presleys personal life as seen through the eyes of Red, Sonny, and Hebler. It tells of incidents relating to his sex life, drug use, musical career, however, according to Alan Hanson, The drug-related death of Presley gave Elvis, What Happened. The book’s very title seemed to echo the question all of America was asking, and, as a steady flow of Presley confidants began speaking out in the succeeding years, many of the allegations first mentioned in the book have been confirmed. Originally serialized in the UK in May 1977, the book was released in the United States in July 1977. Although the book was successful upon release, most loyal followers of Presley did not buy the book until after his death. This interest led to the book selling in excess of three copies, making it one of the most successful Presley books of all time
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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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FBI files on Elvis Presley
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The FBI Files on Elvis Presley consist of records kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning Elvis Presley. As rock singer Elvis Presley was a popular star, J. Edgar Hoovers FBI had many files on him copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D. C. According to Thomas Fensch, the texts from the FBI reports dating from 1956 to 1981 represent a microcosm behind-the-scenes life, the files do not collect anything investigational toward Elvis Presley. The files deal with the drives of the American youth aroused beyond normality by Elvis Presley. The letter says that Elviss actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth, one eye-witness described his actions as sexual self-gratification on stage, – another as a strip-tease with clothes on. The author further criticizes Elviss motions and gestures, like those of masturbation or riding a microphone, were two high school girls whose abdomen and thigh had Presleys autograph. There is also gossip of the Presley Fan Clubs that degenerate into sex orgies, from eye-witness reports about Presley, I would judge that he may possibly be a drug addict and a sexual pervert. Ten days after Presley met with President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1970, however, unlike Nixon, Hoover refused to meet with Presley, who he described as wearing of all sorts of exotic dress. On 27 November 1959 Griessel-Landau was hired by Presley in Bad Nauheim, Germany, according to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau is alleged to have admitted to Presley that he is bisexual. His first homosexual experiences took place early in his life in the orphanage in which he was brought up, on 24 December 1959 Presley decided to discontinue the skin treatments. At the time that he told Griessel-Landau of this decision he also thoroughly censured Griessel-Landau for embarrassing him and this drove Griessel-Landau into rage and he decided to extort sums of money from the singer or to ruin his career. The case was referred to the FBI, Elvis was interviewed on 28 December 1959 concerning his complaint that he was the victim of blackmail. According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau threatened to expose Presley by photographs, an investigation determined that Griessel Landau was not a medical doctor. Presley didnt take the matter to court, according to the FBI files, Information concerning the subject was furnished to this office by the Provost Marshal Division, Hqs. The FBI files say that finally, By negotiation, Presley agreed to pay Griessel-Landau $200.00 for treatments received and also to him with a $315.00 plane fare to London. Griessel-Landau agreed to depart to England on 25 December 1959 at 19.30 hours from Frankfurt, Griessel-Landau did not leave as agreed, rather returned and demanded an additional $250.00, which Presley paid. A day later Griessel-Landau made a demand for 2,000 £ for the loss of his practice which he closed in Johannesburg. Then the blackmailer departed Rhein-Main Air Field, Frankfurt, Germany at 16.00 hours,6 January 1960 on Flight 491 and he is alleged to be seeking entry into the United States
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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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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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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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My Baby Left Me
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My Baby Left Me is a rhythm and blues song written by blues singer Arthur Crudup. It was first recorded by Crudup in Chicago on November 8,1950, with Ransom Knowling on bass and Judge Riley on drums and it was included as a bonus track on the 2004 CD version of Rock n Roll. It was also a #37 UK Singles Chart hit in 1964 for Dave Berry, elton John used a snippet of My Baby Left Me as part of a medley during his concert performance of Burn Down the Mission on his 11-17-70 live album. My Baby Left Me was covered by rock band Slade and released as a single in 1977 as a tribute to Elvis Presley, the Slade version merged another Crudup written track, Thats All Right. The single spent four weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #32 and it became Slades last charting single until their career revival in 1980. The single was rated #788 for 1977 on Rate Your Music, Jim Lea stood in for him, and appears in Hills place on the finished recording. The track was performed on a handful of UK shows including Top of the Pops, as well as German shows Disco and it was performed the same year for a mimed gig on East German television and included interviews with each band member. The music video features the band performing the song on a stage and it was voted the second of the top three Slade music videos in the Slade Fan Club Poll of 1979. Record Mirror magazine reviewed the single release, A Slade slug at a Crudup past. But I can remember a time when Slade records were vixen fearsome rather than pleasant, fearsome on their own songs, not some cruising rocker from way back. Get out while the goings bad, cos its only going to get hideous. Its a bouncy, struttin 12-bar blues number quite unlike most of the earlier hit singles. On the other hand it could be that its similarity to the treatments of old blues numbers by a certain Johnny Winter Esq is clouding my judgement. Well have to wait and see, - Chas Chandler Writers of O. H. M. S. - Noddy Holder, Jim Lea Photograph - Gered Mankowitz Design - Jo Mirowski
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King Creole (song)
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King Creole is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was and performed by Elvis Presley and recorded in 1958, the song is based on King Creole, a Cajun guitar player from New Orleans who is proficient in all different styles of rock and roll. The song was released as a single in the UK in 1958 and it reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2007 the single was re-released and spent one week in the chart at No.15, the song is about a man of Creole descent who is a freelancing street performer in New Orleans. The man in the song, who goes by the nickname of King Creole, is known for his style of guitar playing. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used a guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would light, dark, serious. In 2010, Sony Music released a version of the song in the album Viva Elvis. The song has a rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm
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Rock-A-Hula Baby
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Rock-A-Hula Baby is a song performed by Elvis Presley for the 1961 movie Blue Hawaii. Written by Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, and Dolores Fuller, it is a mix of Hawaiian folk and rock. It was the first song published by Fuller, who would eventually co-write a dozen songs for Presley. A double A-sided release with Cant Help Falling in Love, it peaked at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1962, the song has appeared on several compilation albums due to its chart success. The title song of the 1992 movie Rock-a-Doodle parodied Rock-A-Hula Baby
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It Hurts Me
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It Hurts Me is a 1964 Top 40 song recorded by Elvis Presley on RCA Victor. Credited to Joy Byers and Charles E. Daniels, It Hurts Me is a ballad that was a new song recorded by Elvis Presley on January 12,1964. Record producer and songwriter Bob Johnston revealed that he had written the songs attributed to his wife Joy Byers. This non-movie song became the B-side of an Elvis Presley movie single, Kissin Cousins, released February 10,1964. The A-side reached number 12 in the U. S. singles charts, while It Hurts Me reached number 29 but never became well-known or attained the classic stature promised by the song and the performance. The session that produced this recording marked the beginning of a month period during which Presley recorded no other non-movie songs. Elvis recorded a new version on June 20,1968 and used this song during the medley sequence of his 1968 NBC Comeback Special. There is a notable Spanish version in the Latin genre by Marco T Marco Tulio Sanchez, known as the voice of rock and roll in Colombia. It was just before Christmas,1962, as future Country Music icon Charlie Daniels was driving from El Paso, Texas, to the East Coast, that he began forming the idea that would become this song. Not very long afterwards his long-time friend Bob Johnston invited him to Nashville to co-write some songs, Daniels explained, Elvis came to town. He picked it up and held it for almost a year in what was called his portfolio and you know, theyd pick songs out for Elvis and when hed go in to record, hed review them, and if he liked it, hed do it. So anyway, he recorded it, and it was by far, said Daniels, although he never had the opportunity to shake Elvis Presleys hand, Daniels did meet his daughter, Lisa Marie, at an event in Memphis. I just got to tell her, I said, You know your dad picked one of my songs, I was a big fan, said Daniels. With her sunglasses on, she resembles her famous father so much that its spooky and she looks like a miniature Elvis with, of course, feminine features. Bob Johnston, who wrote this with Daniels, was writing under the name Joy Byers, Daniels was credited as Charles E. Daniels. Elvis Presley, A life in music
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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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Wooden Heart
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Wooden Heart is a song best known for its use in the 1960 Elvis Presley film G. I. Presley performed the song live during his Dinner Show concert at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas in 1975, a recording available on the Elvis Presley live album Dinner At Eight. A cover version by Joe Dowell made it to one in the US at the end of August 1961. Dowells version also spent three weeks at one on the Easy Listening chart. Wooden Heart features several lines from the folk song, written in the German Swabian dialect. The Elvis Presley version was published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presleys publishing company, Bobby Vinton recorded his version in 1975 with those lines translated into Polish. This part being Sei mir gut, sei mir gut, sei mir wie du wirklich sollst and this literally means Be good to me, Be good to me, Be to me how you really should, How you really should. Blue Christmas b/w Wooden Heart Released, November 1964, RCA 447-0720 Elvis News Network – G. I, blues Joe Dowell biography Muß i denn zum Städtele hinaus, lyrics and translation Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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 Don't Know Me (Eddy Arnold song)
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You Dont Know Me is a song written by Cindy Walker based on a title and storyline given to her by Eddy Arnold in 1955. You Dont Know Me was first recorded by Arnold that year, the first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at #14 on the pop chart. Arnolds version charted two months later, released as an RCA Victor single, 47-6502, backed with The Rockin Mockin Bird, which reached #10 on the Billboard country chart. Cash Box magazine, which combined all best-selling versions at one position, I went up to the Victor suite to tell Steve Sholes good-bye, she explained, and just as I was leaving, Eddy came in the door. Walker remembered him saying, I got a title for you. But I know you, teased Walker and this is serious, replied Eddy, who proceeded to outline his idea. The songwriter promised to let the idea stew in her head for a while, and soon, she remembered, the lyrics tumbled onto the page. The best-selling version of the song is by Ray Charles, who took it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962, after releasing the song on his #1 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. This version also topped the Easy listening chart for three weeks in 1962, and was used in the 1993 comedy film Groundhog Day, the song was the 12th number one country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1981. The song has performed or recorded by hundreds of artists, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan. Charles re-recorded the song with Diana Krall on his #1 album of duets, Genius Loves Company, the only song common to both of Charles two #1 albums
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If I Can Dream
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If I Can Dream is a song made famous by Elvis Presley, written by Walter Earl Brown and notable for its direct quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr. The song was published by Elvis Presleys music publishing company Gladys Music and it was recorded by Presley in June 1968, two months after Kings assassination. The recording was first released to the public as the finale of Presleys 68 Comeback Special, although the song is not technically gospel music, Presley performed the song with the intensity and intonations of southern gospel. It has since appeared on various Presley gospel and/or inspirational compilations, Brown was asked to write a song to replace Ill Be Home for Christmas as the grand finale on NBCs Elvis. He wrote If I Can Dream, and when Presley heard it he proclaimed Im never going to sing another song I dont believe in, Im never going to make another picture I dont believe in. The song was published by Elvis Presleys company Gladys Music, Inc, when Colonel Tom Parker heard the song demonstrated by Earl Brown, he said, This aint Elvis kind of song. Elvis was also there, unbeknownst to him, and he said, Id like to try it, Earl Brown said that when Elvis recorded the song, Brown saw tears rolling down the cheeks of the three back up singers. One of them whispered to him, Elvis has never sung with so much emotion before, band-related errors prevented the first take from becoming the master. It charted on Billboards Hot 100 for 13 weeks, peaking at #12, with more than one million sales, in Canada the song peaked at 6 on RPMs top singles chart, lasting more than several weeks. The song has appeared in many Presley compilations since its release, sony BMG remastered the song in 2004, for future compilations. The song is referred to as stereo mix in 68 Comeback Special releases after 2004, other compilations, such as Platinum - A Life In Music, include alternative takes on the song that are not as polished as the official takes. For instance, the vocalists are not present in most of these takes. Barry Manilow did the song on his Live on Broadway album in 1990, it was included on the subsequent box set compilation album The Complete Collection. On American Idol 6, Celine Dion sang If I Can Dream as a duet with Presley and it was later included on The Best of Celine Dion & David Foster. In the 2005 CBS miniseries Elvis, the original Comeback Special segment is re-enacted in the epilogue scene with Jonathan Rhys Meyers lip synching to the song. The Elvis Presley version is used as the title song for the new 2010 reality based television series of the same title created by Simon Fuller and produced by 19 Entertainment and CKX. CKX, Inc. owns 85% of Elvis Presley Enterprises, in 2010 Terry Venables recorded a cover of the song in association with British newspaper The Sun. The version is meshed with Bread, Freedom by Egyptian musician Ramy Essam, the song was used in the ending of the ESPN 30for30 about the Buffalo Bills
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How Great Thou Art
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How Great Thou Art is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish traditional melody and a poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in Mönsterås, Sweden in 1885. It was translated into German and then into Russian and became a hymn and it was translated into English from the Russian by English missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own. The composition was set to a Russian melody and it was popularised by George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows during the Billy Graham crusades. It was voted the United Kingdoms favourite hymn by BBCs Songs of Praise, how Great Thou Art was ranked second on a list of the favourite hymns of all time in a survey by Todays Christian magazine in 2001. Boberg wrote the poem O Store Gud in 1885 with nine verses, the inspiration for the poem came when Boberg was walking home from church near Kronobäck, Sweden, and listening to church bells. A sudden storm got Boberg’s attention, and then just as suddenly as it had made its appearance, according to J. Irving Erickson, Carl Boberg and some friends were returning home to Mönsterås from Kronobäck, where they had participated in an afternoon service. Presently a thundercloud appeared on the horizon, and soon lightning flashed across the sky, strong winds swept over the meadows and billowing fields of grain. The thunder pealed in loud claps, Then rain came in cool fresh showers. In a little while the storm was over, and a rainbow appeared and it was this series of sights, sounds, and experiences that inspired the writing of the song. It was very warm, an appeared on the horizon and soon there was thunder. We had to hurry to shelter, but the storm was soon over and the clear sky appeared. When I came home I opened my window toward the sea, there evidently had been a funeral and the bells were playing the tune of When eternitys clock calls my saved soul to its Sabbath rest. That evening, I wrote the song, O Store Gud, Boberg first published O Store Gud in the Mönsterås Tidningen on 13 March 1886. The poem became matched to an old Swedish folk tune and sung in public for the first known occasion in a church in the Swedish province of Värmland in 1888, eight verses appeared with the music in the 1890 Sions Harpan. In 1890 Boberg became the editor of Sanningsvittnet, the words and music were published for the first time in the 16 April 1891 edition of Sanningsvittnet. Instrumentation for both piano and guitar was provided by Adolph Edgren, a teacher and organist, who later migrated to the United States. Boberg later sold the rights to the Svenska Missionsförbundet, in 1891 all nine verses were published in the 1891 Covenant songbook, Sanningsvittnet. These versions were all in 3/4 time, in 1894 the Svenska Missionsförbundet sångbok published O Store Gud in 4/4 time as it has been sung ever since)
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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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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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You Dont Have to Say You Love Me was also a Top Ten hit in Ireland for Red Hurley, in Italy for Wall Street Crash, and - as En koskaan - in Finland for Kristina Hautala. 1 in Italy in March 1965, springfield obtained an acetate recording of Donaggios song, but allowed a year to go by before actively pursuing the idea of recording an English version. We wanted to go to a trendy disco so we had about an hour to write it and we wrote the chorus and then we wrote the verse in a taxi to wherever we were going. Napier-Bell was later to title his first book You Dont Have to Say You Love Me after the song, springfield recorded her vocal the next day, unhappy with the acoustics in the recording booth she eventually moved into a stairwell to record. Springfield was not satisfied with her vocal until she had recorded 47 takes, released on 25 March 1966 in the U. K. the single release of Springfields recording became a huge hit and remains one of the songs most identified with her. When Dusty died from breast cancer in March 1999, the song was featured on Now 42 as a tribute to her, the song hit No.1 in the UK, and No.4 in the US. The song proved so popular in the US that Springfields 1965 album Evrythings Coming Up Dusty was released there with a different track listing. In 2004, the made the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No.491. You Dont Have to Say You Love Me was recorded by Elvis Presley for his 1970 album release Thats the Way It Is from which it was issued as the second single 6 October 1970. In October 1965 Richard Anthony recorded a French rendering of Io che non vivo, Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi, which served as the title cut of an album release. In Quebec Anthonys version of Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi competed with a cover version by Margot Lefebvre with both tracks co-ranked at No.38 in the annual ranking of the top hits of 1966. A Catalan rendering of Io che non vivo entitled Jo no puc viure sense tu was a 1965 single release for Renata.26 on the Hot Latin Tracks in Billboard. Elvis Presley version List of number-one singles from the 1960s List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1970 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Patch It Up
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Elvis, Thats the Way It Is is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Denis Sanders. The film documents American singer Elvis Presleys Summer Festival in Las Vegas during August 1970 and it was his first non-dramatic film since the beginning of his film career in 1956, and the film gives a clear view of Presleys return to live performances after years of making films. The original concept as devised by technical advisor Colonel Tom Parker was in view of Elviss triumphant return to live performances was a closed circuit television presentation of one show and this was the first show of Elvis first tour in 13 years. Elvis and his band are seen rehearsing for the Las Vegas engagement at MGM Studios in Culver City, California. There are scenes of Elvis running through such tunes as I Just Cant Help Believing, Whatd I Say, Little Sister, Words, Thats All Right Mama, the rehearsal sequences were filmed during late July 1970. There is also a session of rehearsals that takes place in the Showroom Internationale of the International Hotel in Las Vegas, together, Elvis and the entire group run through songs from Mary In the Morning to Polk Salad Annie. These rehearsals took place on August 7,1970, footage of an Elvis Appreciation Society convention in Luxembourg was shot on September 5,1970. Radio Luxembourg DJs Tony Prince and Peter Aldersley are on hand to lead the festivities, a tandem bicycle owned by Elvis is raffled off to a lucky fan in the audience. Additionally, various musicians are seen performing their own versions of Elvis songs and he sings many well-known songs, including several of those that he had been seen rehearsing earlier in the film. The movie is intercut with footage of fans offering commentary about what Elvis means to them, officials at the International Hotel. A soundtrack album was released in conjunction with the film and it was Presleys first full-length film soundtrack album since 1968s Speedway, and the last as his final film, 1972s Elvis on Tour, did not have a soundtrack release. It was only a soundtrack release, as it did not include all of the live performances. A Special Edition was released in 2001 in conjunction with the Special Edition of the movie, the new version eliminated much of the documentary and non-Elvis content of the original in favor of adding additional performances of Elvis rehearsing and in concert. The final film runs 12 minutes shorter than the original, but contains more music, the special edition was released on January 19,2001, when this new version made its worldwide debut on the cable network, Turner Classic Movies and produced by award-winning producer Rick Schmidlin. In August 2007 a two-disc DVD special edition was released by Warner/Turner that has both the reworked version plus the original cut, the original, however, has only a mono soundtrack. The DVD also includes approximately 35 minutes of performances and other footage that was not included in either edition. A Two Disc Special Edition Premium Digibook was announced for release in August 12,2014, academy Award® nominated Lucien Ballard was the cinematographer
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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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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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