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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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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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Bennie Benjamin
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Claude A. Bennie Benjamin was a Virgin Islands-born American songwriter. What It Seemed to Be and Wheel of Fortune, most of his songs were in the traditional pop idiom. Benjamin was born in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix, then part of the Danish West Indies, and later within the United States Virgin Islands. As his family did not have sufficient funds to him to train as a minister, he trained as a tailor. He studied banjo and guitar at Hy Smiths School of Music, developing a distinctive playing style and he played guitar and banjo with various orchestras at the Savoy Ballroom and the Cotton Club, and elsewhere, and toured with Olsen and Johnson. The song won Billboards Top Songwriters Award for 1941, Benjamin, Marcus and Seiler then wrote a second number 1 hit, When the Lights Go On Again, recorded by Vaughn Monroe and associated in Britain with Vera Lynn. In 1942, Benjamin enlisted in the US Army, and performed in, after returning to civilian life, he joined with lyricist George David Weiss, and established a second successful songwriting partnership with him. The pair wrote some twenty hit songs over the next decade and they also wrote together for the Disney films Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time. Later hits written by Benjamin and Weiss included I Dont See Me In Your Eyes Any More, Ill Never Be Free, Can Anyone Explain. and These Things I Offer You. In 1952, Benjamin and Weiss wrote one of their most successful songs, Wheel of Fortune, although Benjamin and Weiss continued to work together, their hits became less frequent and their working partnership ended in 1955. Benjamin then began working again with Sol Marcus, and the pair wrote Lonely Man, recorded by Elvis Presley, the song was co-credited to Benjamin, Marcus, and Gloria Caldwell, the wife of songwriter Horace Ott. It was recorded by Simone in 1964 and was later a hit for The Animals and he was actively involved in ASCAP, winning an award for Ill Never Be Free in 1979, and was on the Council of the American Guild of Authors and Composers. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984, in later life, he became an active investor in the US Virgin Islands, and became a major stockholder in the West Indies Bank and Trust. He also became known for his activities, particularly in health care in the Virgin Islands. He died in New York City on May 2,1989 and he was married to Martha Flores from 1944 until her death in 1983. Cancel the Flowers I Dont Want to Set the World on Fire Strictly Instrumental When the Lights Go On Again Forever, confess Cross Over the Bridge Echoes How Important Can It Be. I Am Blessed Of This Im Sure Our Love Dont Take All Night I Love Your Lovin Ways Why Keep On Breaking My Heart Fabulous Character Lonely Man Anyone Bennie Benjamin at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Bennie Benjamin
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Are You Lonesome Tonight? (song)
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Are You Lonesome Tonight. is a song which was written by Roy Turk and Lou Handman in 1926. It was recorded several times in 1927—first by Charles Hart, with versions by Vaughn De Leath, Henry Burr. In 1950 the Blue Barron Orchestra version reached the top twenty on the Billboards Pop Singles chart, in April 1960, after Elvis Presleys two-year service in the United States Army, he recorded the song at the suggestion of manager Colonel Tom Parker, Are You Lonesome Tonight. Was Parkers wife, Marie Motts, favorite song and its release was delayed by RCA Victor executives, who thought the song did not fit Presleys new style. Was released in November 1960 it was a success in the U. S. topping Billboards Pop Singles chart. A month after the release, it topped the UK Singles Chart. Presleys version was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1961, was later recorded by several other artists, with versions by Donny Osmond and Merle Haggard becoming top-twenty hits on the pop and country charts respectively. Billboard ranked Are You Lonesome Tonight, number 81 on its Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs list in 2008. The song was written in 1926 by vaudevillians Lou Handman and Roy Turk with three verses, followed by a spoken bridge and they based the bridge on a line in Ruggero Leoncavallos Pagliacci, and You know someone said that the worlds a stage. And each must play a part refers to All the worlds a stage from William Shakespeares As You Like It. This recitation is printed on the back cover of the original 1927 sheet music. Billboard reported in 1960 its discovery that it was written by songwriter, several versions of Are You Lonesome Tonight. The first, by Charles Hart, was recorded on May 9, on June 13, Vaughn De Leath recorded the song as the B-side of Its a Million to One Youre in Love for Edison Records. De Leath had the first hit version of the song, which peaked at four in November. On July 10,1927, the Newport Society Orchestra recorded the song with Irving Kaufman the vocalist, a version by the duet of Jerry Macy and John Ryan was released on Okeh Records as the B-side of Carolina Mine. Henry Burrs version peaked at ten, and Little Jack Little had a hit with the song for Columbia Records. The Carter Family recorded it in 1936, changing several elements of the original version, although Gene Austin included the song in his shows during the 1930s, he never recorded it. In March 1950, the Blue Barron Orchestra released Are You Lonesome Tonight, with Penny Wise and Love Foolish on the B-side, and it peaked at number nineteen on Billboards Top Pop Singles chart
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"Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
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US single sleeve
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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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Theatrical release poster
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Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4
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It is a compilation of hit singles released between 1961 and 1967, peaking at number 33 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Gold on March 27,1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Singles were no longer reaching the Top 40 automatically, and while his recent single Big Boss Man sold 350,000, that fell short of the needed 500,000 to qualify for gold status in US singles sales. Usually a guaranteed seller, this sold only 400,000 copies, better than his recent soundtrack albums. The future of Presleys career was certainly in question, Elvis Gold Records Volume 4 comprises five Top 40 A-sides along with seven b-sides, five of which also made the Top 40. The first three Gold Records volumes covered two to three years of releases, but there was a five-year gap between this and the previous volume. This would be the last of the series issued during Presleys lifetime, Elvis Gold Records Volume 5, which included singles from 1969 to 1977, was released posthumously in 1984. The July 15,1997 reissue of Elvis Gold Records Volume 4 added six tracks, rock-A-Hula Baby dated from the 1961 soundtrack to Blue Hawaii, pulled off that album as the flip to accompany Cant Help Falling In Love as a single. Three tracks were the singles for their respective soundtracks, Bossa Nova Baby for Fun in Acapulco, Kissin Cousins for its album. The gospel song Crying in the Chapel had been recorded during the sessions for His Hand in Mine, by 1968, the practice of releasing LPs in mono was being discontinued. As a result, RCA issued very few copies of Gold Records Vol.4 and are considered collectors items. Original recordings were produced by Steve Sholes, Joseph Lilley, Chet Atkins, Urban Thielmann, George Stoll, chart positions for singles taken from Billboard Pop Singles chart
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Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Logo used as of 2013
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Entrance to 20th Century Fox studio lot.
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Carmen Miranda in The Gang's All Here. In 1946, she was the highest-paid actress in the United States.
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Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda in That Night in Rio, produced by Fox in 1941.
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar code
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International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form of the ISSN code can be expressed as follows, NNNN-NNNC where N is in the set, a digit character. The ISSN of the journal Hearing Research, for example, is 0378-5955, where the final 5 is the check digit, for calculations, an upper case X in the check digit position indicates a check digit of 10. To confirm the check digit, calculate the sum of all eight digits of the ISSN multiplied by its position in the number, the modulus 11 of the sum must be 0. There is an online ISSN checker that can validate an ISSN, ISSN codes are assigned by a network of ISSN National Centres, usually located at national libraries and coordinated by the ISSN International Centre based in Paris. The International Centre is an organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government. The International Centre maintains a database of all ISSNs assigned worldwide, at the end of 2016, the ISSN Register contained records for 1,943,572 items. ISSN and ISBN codes are similar in concept, where ISBNs are assigned to individual books, an ISBN might be assigned for particular issues of a serial, in addition to the ISSN code for the serial as a whole. An ISSN, unlike the ISBN code, is an identifier associated with a serial title. For this reason a new ISSN is assigned to a serial each time it undergoes a major title change, separate ISSNs are needed for serials in different media. Thus, the print and electronic versions of a serial need separate ISSNs. Also, a CD-ROM version and a web version of a serial require different ISSNs since two different media are involved, however, the same ISSN can be used for different file formats of the same online serial
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ISSN encoded in an EAN-13 barcode with sequence variant 0 and issue number 5
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Elvis Presley albums discography
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The Recording Industry Association of America first began tracking sales of Elvis Presley in 1958, who didnt receive his first Gold Album award until 1958. In August 1992, he was awarded with 110 gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums and singles, according to the latest data from the RIAA website, Elvis has a total of 90 gold,53 platinum and 25 multi-platinum album awards by the organization. According to Presleys record label, RCA, their estimation is the best selling artist of all time, notes A^ Half soundtrack album/half compilation of previously issued non-movie recordings. There is also the Movie Soundtrack Series usually released as a single CD, list of songs recorded by Elvis Presley Guralnick, Peter and Jorgensen, Ernst. Elvis, Day By Day - The Definitive Record of His Life, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music - The Complete Recording Sessions. ISBN 0-312-18572-3 Elvis Presley discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs Elvis The Music official music label site ElvisRecords. us The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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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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1970 Camden release.
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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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Presley (left) in May 1960, soon after the album release
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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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Love Letters from Elvis
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Love Letters from Elvis is the twelfth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1971. The album was made up of leftovers from Elvis marathon June 1970 recording sessions in Nashville, most of the other 35 songs recorded during those sessions had been used in Elvis 1970 albums Thats the Way It Is and Elvis Country. Wanting to squeeze out an album from the sessions, RCA records had producer Felton Jarvis mix, overdub. The songs title track was an instance of Presley re-recording a past hit in the studio. Got My Mojo Working is edited down from a jam session, Presleys version incorporates lyrics from Hands Off. Three songs from album were released on singles. The single Life / Only Believe was released in March 1971 and it was Elviss lowest chart position for a single since Almost in Love had reached #95 in late 1968. Heart Of Rome was placed on the B-side of the non-album track Im Leavin released as a single in August 1971 it reached #23 in the UK and #83 in Australia
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Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas
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Elvis sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas is a 1971 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, and Elvis second and final Christmas album. The album was released in October 1971, followed by the single from the album Merry Christmas Baby / O Come All Ye Faithful released in November 1971. This album was a top seller and topped the Billboard Holiday Albums Chart and it did not have the commercial appeal of Elvis’ first Christmas album. Over the years, it has become a perennial favorite and it was certified Gold on November 4,1977, Platinum on December 1,1977, 2x Platinum on May 20,1988 and 3x Platinum on July 15,1999 by the RIAA. Presley is accompanied on most of the songs by The Imperials Quartet, on later pressings, the song Blue Christmas, which was recorded on June 27,1968, was added to the track listing. The song had previously released on the 1968 album, Elvis. Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas at Discogs
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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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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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Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis
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Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis is a live album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records in July 1974. It was recorded on March 20 of the year at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee. The cover features of a photograph of Presleys home, Graceland, the album was recorded on the same day as his Good Times album was released. Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis was Presleys fifth live album in less than five years and he earned his third Grammy Award for this albums performance of How Great Thou Art. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 15,1999, in the United States, Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis topped Billboards Country chart and reached the top 40 of the Top LPs & Tape listings. It was Presleys last album to reach the top 40 until Moody Blue in 1977, although the live album was not a major commercial success, it did produce the singers third and final Grammy Award winner, How Great Thou Art, which won for best inspirational performance. Two other gospel songs, Why Me Lord and Help Me, are given an inspired performance. Another highlight is the Sun years classic Trying to Get to You, a favorite choice of Presleys. The live recording of Let Me Be There from this album was used as filler on Presleys final studio album. It was also issued as a single in 1974, with the same song on both sides. On March 17,2014, close to the 40th anniversary of the concert, disc one corresponds with the FTD version, in that it features the complete show from the Mid-South Coliseum. Disc two also includes several recently rediscovered studio rehearsal recordings from August 1974, on release, the two-CD set re-entered the UK Albums Chart at number 74
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Elvis in Concert (album)
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Videotaped and recorded in June 1977, both the special and album were broadcast and released on October 3, six weeks after Presleys death. The album peaked at No.5 on the Billboard chart in late 1977 and it was certified Gold and Platinum on October 14 and 3x Platinum on August 1,2002, by the RIAA. The show was recorded two days at concerts in Omaha on June 19 and Rapid City, South Dakota on the 21st. Longtime RCA/Elvis producer Felton Jarvis produced the recordings, which were done to 4-track multitrack, after his death, they write, it was decided to go ahead with the special as a tribute. Elvis last concert was in fact on Sunday, June 26,1977 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, No professional recording of this last performance has ever been issued, but bootlegs of amateur recordings have. During the special, Presley performs a selection of his hits, although it was a regular part of his repertoire for years, Presley requires a lyric sheet when he performs Paul Ankas My Way. He also loses his train of thought during Are You Lonesome Tonight, indeed, a concert recording of Presley similarly joking around during the monologue section of Are You Lonesome Tonight. Dating from 1969 has been reissued by RCA several times, nonetheless, the documentary This is Elvis uses this performance to illustrate Presleys poor condition at the time. The soundtrack album was issued as a 2-LP package, including a disc of performances that were not included in the TV special. It was also released on 8-track, on May 22,1992, the special saw its first release on a single-disc CD. Unfortunately the CD barely improved on the poor sound quality of the original album. Elvis Fans Comments /Opening Riff Also Sprach Zarathustra See See Rider Thats All Right Are You Lonesome Tonight, goode And I Love You So About. com gave the album a positive review, but conceded that this album is not a standout Elvis concert. What it is, however, is an important piece of Elvis lore. Their review went on to say that the record is Elvis Presleys least effort, as well as his last
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Jailhouse Rock (EP)
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Jailhouse Rock is an extended-play, seven-inch 45 RPM record released on RCA Victor, catalogue EPA4114, during November 1957. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on April 30 and May 3,1957 and it peaked at #1 on the newly inaugurated Billboard EP chart. Unlike Loving You but like Love Me Tender, a full long-playing album soundtrack was not devised for Jailhouse Rock, the title song Jailhouse Rock had already been released as a single on September 24,1957, and went to #1 on the singles chart. The writing and production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller played prominent roles in the making of the soundtrack, writing four of its songs and working with Presley closely in the studio. Dont Leave Me Now had also appeared on the Loving You album, additional original music for the film was composed by producer Jeff Alexander, and the song sung by the Hunk Houghton character, One Day, was by Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper. The songs from the EP are available on the 1950s box set from 1992, three tracks were previously unreleased alternate takes, along with two newly mixed stereo versions of Love Me Tender and Poor Boy. Elvis Presley – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric bass Scotty Moore – electric guitar Dudley Brooks – piano Bill Black – double bass, fontana – drums The Jordanaires – background vocals
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King Creole (album)
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King Creole is the sixth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor, LPM1884 in mono in September 1958, recorded in four days at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. It contains songs written and recorded expressly for the 1958 film of the same name starring Presley and it followed the films release by over ten weeks. It was certified Gold on July 15,1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America, presleys performance of Trouble in the film alludes to Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley, he would return to the song for his tremendously successful 1968 television comeback special. The songs Hard Headed Woman and Dont Ask Me Why appeared as two sides of a single on July 10,1958, to coincide with the release of the film. Hard Headed Woman, the A-side, and Dont Ask Me Why both made the pop chart, peaking at number one and number 25 respectively. RCA first issued the original 11-track album on disc in 1988. Track 3 was originally issued on the LP Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 3 in December,1978, lPM-1884 King Creole Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-1884 King Creole Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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G.I. Blues (album)
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Blues is the eleventh album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2256, in October 1960. It is the soundtrack to the 1960 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place on April 27 and 28, and May 6,1960, at RCA Victor Studio C and Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. The album topped the Billboard Top Pop Album chart and it was certified Gold on March 13,1963 and Platinum on March 27,1992 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Music on this album comprised songs that had appeared in the film of the same name, the song Wooden Heart was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it was number one for six weeks. In the United States, Joe Dowell recorded a version of Wooden Heart that topped the Billboard Hot 100. Four songs from this album appear on the 1995 soundtrack compilation Command Performances, The Essential 60s Masters II, blues, Wooden Heart, Shoppin Around, and Doin the Best I Can. Interestingly, the melody for Tonight Is So Right for Love was taken directly from a barcarolle composed by Jacques Offenbach, an American release of Tonights All Right for Love did not occur until it appeared on the compilation album Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 1 in 1974. On April 27,1997, RCA remastered the album for compact disc, blues was released on the Follow That Dream label in a 7-inch digi-pack edition featuring a booklet and two CDs containing the original album tracks and numerous alternate takes. A follow-up album, Café Europa, which contained a booklet. This album featured more alternate takes of the G. I, fontana, Frank Bode, Bernie Mattinson – drums LPM-2256 G. I. Blues Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-2256 G. I, blues Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley album)
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Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2426, on October 20,1961. It is the soundtrack to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21,22, and 23,1961. In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboards Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on December 21,1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27,1992, on the US Top Pop Albums chart Blue Hawaii is second only to the soundtrack of West Side Story as the most successful album of the 1960s. RCA and Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had planned a schedule of one soundtrack and one popular music release per year for Presley. To coincide with the location of the film, touches of Hawaiian music were included, the title song was taken from the 1937 Bing Crosby film Waikiki Wedding, and Hawaiian Wedding Song dates from a 1926 operetta. The songs Cant Help Falling in Love and Rock-A-Hula Baby were pulled off the album for two sides of a released on November 21,1961. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 in the category of Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television, the success of this soundtrack and its predecessor G. I. Blues, both of which sold in greater quantity than Presleys two regular releases of the time, Elvis Is Back. and Something for Everybody, set the pace for the rest of the decade. Blue Hawaii was reissued on disc in 1997 and again in 2008. The latter edition was a deluxe 2-disc release on the Follow That Dream label that featured numerous alternate takes and it also corrected the error with the 1997 issue that incorrectly reversed the stereo channels. On April 29,1997, RCA released a remastered and expanded version for compact disc, tracks 1-7 were the seven songs from side one of the original LP and tracks 8-14 were from side two. J
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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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Girl Happy (album)
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Girl Happy is the twenty-second album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3338, in March 1965 – the March 1 date is disputed. It is the soundtrack to the 1965 film of the same name starring Presley, Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, on June 10,11,12, and vocal overdubs by Presley on June 15,1964. It peaked at eight on the Top LPs chart. It was certified Gold on July 15,1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America, excluding the singles compilation Elvis Golden Records Volume 3, this was the sixth original Presley album in a row that was a soundtrack to a feature film. An error in mastering resulted in Presleys voice being sped up on several of the recordings, RCA finally released a corrected version of the title track in its 1991 compilation Collectors Gold from the Movie Years. Eventually, the proper speed version was issued, do the Clam was released approximately a month ahead of the album as a single, peaking at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remaining on the chart for eight weeks. A variant on the Cole Porter standard, Begin the Beguine, not appearing in the film, it was added to the Girl Happy soundtrack album. At the end of 1965, RCA released Harum Scarum the soundtrack album for Elviss third movie of the year. Due to the fact none of the songs included in that album had any single potential. Although Puppet on a String had already been available on the Girl Happy soundtrack album for months, in 2003 Girl Happy 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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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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Elvis (NBC TV Special)
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Elvis is the thirty-fourth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in December 1968. Recording sessions took place in Burbank, California at Western Recorders on June 20,21,22 and 23,1968 and it peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Gold on July 22,1969 and Platinum on July 15,1999 by the RIAA, unlike the drudgery of the feature film soundtrack recordings, Presley was genuinely excited by the project. The two ballad tracks from album were issued as singles. If I Can Dream being released earlier in the month, backed on the B-side with a song from his movie in theaters at the time, Live a Little, Love a Little and it peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest charting single since 1965. Memories was released two months after the broadcast, backed with the title song to his next film, Charro. By making it to the top ten on the chart after his previous album had charted at a dismal #82. Presley insisted the mono mixes for these songs were retained for the album, several hours of music were recorded for the special, and the unused material has been reissued in many different formats over the years. On August 27,1991, RCA released a version for compact disc. On August 5,2008, Legacy released a 4-CD compilation of the recording sessions for the special. Elvis Presley A Life in Music, The Complete Recording Sessions, new York, St. Martins Press,1998, LPM-4088 Elvis at the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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That's the Way It Is (Elvis Presley album)
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Elvis, Thats the Way It Is is an album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP4445, in November 1970. It consists of eight tracks recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville. It accompanied the release of the documentary film of the same name. It was certified Gold on June 28,1973 by the Recording Industry Association of America, the track You Dont Have to Say You Love Me had been released as the advance single on October 6, its b-side, Patch It Up, appears in a live version here. The Next Step Is Love had previously released as a b-side in July 1970. Its b-side How the Web Was Woven was also taken from this album, a rehearsal version of the latter song was featured in the 1970 documentary Elvis, Thats the Way It Is. On June 11,2000, a three-disc Special Edition was released and it contained the full album remastered, along with added bonus studio tracks recorded around the same time. The set also includes the full August 12,1970 midnight show from The International Hotel, in 2008, the collectors label Follow That Dream released a two-disc special edition of the album, with a 20-page booklet. This edition contains the original album plus bonus tracks and outtakes. In 2009, the Follow That Dream label released The Wonder of You which contains the concert from August 13,1970. Some concert footage from that date was used in the documentary, on July 6,2012, Follow That Dream released a two-disc LP special edition of the album. This edition offers highlights from the 2-CD Follow That Dream release and it contains 21 tracks and features different takes of the songs
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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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Elvis Sings Flaming Star
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Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others is the thirty-third album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in stereo, PRS279, in October 1968. It was reissued for normal retail channels as Elvis Sings Flaming Star in March 1969, becoming the first Elvis Presley budget album on the RCA Camden subsidiary label, the 1969 release peaked at number 96 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was certified Gold on July 15,1999, and Platinum on January 6,2004, All tracks were compiled from sessions for Presley film soundtracks, with the exception of Tiger Man from the Singer Christmas Special. The cover of Chuck Berrys Too Much Monkey Business was a warm-up at a session for film songs to Stay Away, Joe. The Texas medley and All I Needed Was the Rain appeared in Viva Las Vegas and Stay Away, Joe, respectively, while Wonderful World appeared over the credits to Live A Little. Flaming Star had been one of two songs performed in that film. This track has the distinction of being the first live recording by Elvis ever commercially released, the remaining songs were not actually used in their respective films. It was reissued in 1975 by Pickwick Records, and again for compact disc by Sony Music Entertainment in 2006, note RCA originally released Flaming Star on the extended play single Elvis By Request – Flaming Star, which peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Elvis for Everyone 1965 album Lets Be Friends 1970 album PRS-279 Singer Presents Elvis Singing Flaming Star and Others Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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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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Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1
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Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 1 is a greatest hits collection by American singer and musician Elvis Presley issued in 1974 by RCA Records. It features 14 tracks, which includes songs and two interviews with Presley. It was certified Gold on January 8,1975 and Platinum, the album opens with his first recording from 1954, Thats All Right, the song that started his recording career at Sun Records. Each successive volume contained increasing amounts of previously unissued material. I, the two interview recordings were originally released by RCA Victor in 1958 as the EP, Elvis Sails
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Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 2
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Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 2 is a compilation album featuring recordings by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. As with the first volume of the series, issued in 1974, in this volume, RCA Records released for the first time Harbor Lights, a ballad Presley recorded during his first session for Sun Records in July 1954. This marked the first time since the 1965 album Elvis for Everyone, in which the Sun recording Tomorrow Night was included, also included were a pair of previously unreleased interview recordings. It was certified Gold on October 25,1977 and Platinum, the Legendary Performer series would continue with Elvis, A Legendary Performer Volume 3, which was released in 1979, two years after Presleys death
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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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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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Tiger Man (album)
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Tiger Man is a compilation from American singer and musician Elvis Presley consisting of tracks from his second comeback concert in 1968. Personnel includes, Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, D. J, Presleys friend Alan Fortas also provides percussion on a guitar case, with hands. Lance LeGault is on tambourine, just off the stage, near Presley, compilation producers, Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon. Engineers, Al Pachucki, Mike Moran, Dick Baxter. Recorded at NBC Studio 4, Burbank, California on June 27,1968, includes liner notes by Colin Escott. Out of two small concerts Elvis Presley recorded for his comeback TV special on June 27,1968, TIGER MAN is the second show. During the most captivating segment of Elvis Presleys phenomenal 1968 television comeback special, Presley reunited with original band members Scotty Moore, to film that segment, Presley and the group performed two sets before a small, but rapt studio audience. Surely, most rock and blues music aficionados who have ever seen One Night With You will not need much convincing to buy TIGER MAN and these performances quite simply capture Presley at his best, singing with a joy and fire absent from much of his 1960s output. At the same time, Presley is clearly giving it his all, as if trying to undo in one set all the damage that years of safe. An unusual and stunning aspect is that Presley swaps axes - the electric guitar - with Moore early in the set, instead of Moores groundbreaking country-blues fusion guitar licks, we hear something completely new and unexpected. Presleys wild, thrashing, and incendiary rhythmic lead guitar playing reveals a side of Elvis Presleys musicianship previously unheard on disc and it is not something serious music fans want to miss, and it is displayed very well on this album. He had played the guitar live before, on a very few occasions. And he played it on both before and after the special. But there is no recorded evidence of THIS kind of playing. Moore is generous, giving his friend and bandmate room to shine, while he either gently fingerpicks or strums along with Presley, and Presleys strumming friend Charlie Hodge
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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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Cover to the standard edition of the album
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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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Elvis the King
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Elvis the King is a box set comprising 18 singles of the recorded work of American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 2007 by RCA Records. The box set is available in both CD and 10 vinyl formats, the first release was Monday, August 13,2007, marking 30 years—to the week—since the death of Elvis Presley. The second single was released on Thursday, August 16, which is the anniversary of Presleys death. From then on, the singles were released every Monday until December 2,2007, note, original chart positions are in brackets August 20 also saw the release of the HMV-exclusive single My Baby Left Me, which is also available on CD and 10 vinyl format. This reached #19 in the UK, as well as the box set, a 2 CD compilation album of Presleys work was also released. The album reached #1 in the UK and in Germany, in Germany it was his very first #1 album
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Elvis The King
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Elvis (1968 TV program)
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Elvis, starring Elvis Presley, is a United States television special that aired on December 3,1968 on the NBC television network. The special is commonly referred to as the 68 Comeback Special and it was directed by Steve Binder and produced by Binder and Bones Howe. Music from the special was released before the broadcast, on the album Elvis, Presleys informal jamming in front of a small audience in the special is regarded as a forerunner of the unplugged concept, later popularized by MTV. Despite huge success in both his music and acting careers following his release from the army in 1960, Presley never toured in the United States from 1962 to 1968. Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys manager, had found it difficult to secure the usual $1,000,000 fee for a Presley film. Parker negotiated a deal with NBC for $1,250,000 to finance both a special and a film. Parker wanted the show, which was scheduled as a Christmas season broadcast and he believed the special could simply be a TV-version of the Christmas radio show Presley had contributed to the year before. Binder argued that the special was an opportunity to re-establish the singers reputation after years of formulaic movies and he and Howe hired writers to script a show with specific themes, large set designs, dance sequences and big productions of Presleys hits. However, Binder was open to any variations on this that would showcase the singers talent, the special ends with Presley appealing for world peace and tolerance with the song If I Can Dream. Other musicians included drummer Hal Blaine, pianist Don Randi, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, bass player Larry Knechtel and it was after rehearsals at Western Recorders that Binder took special note of how Presley and the other musicians would spontaneously unwind by improvising old blues and rock n roll numbers. Binder commented. and thats when I really got the idea, Wouldnt it be great if I had a camera in here, Presley is said to have been very apprehensive about the idea of performing live. His last live concert had been at the Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Binder offered a lot of support and reassurance to stop the singer from rejecting the idea of any live segments. He realized some songs already re-recorded or scheduled would need to be cut and he also brought in Presleys friends Alan Fortas, Lance LeGault and Charlie Hodge to encourage Presley and make him feel at ease. Two sessions took place, each two hours in length, the first on June 24 and the second on the 25th. Both took place in the surroundings of the dressing room at NBC. They were recorded by Presleys friend Joe Esposito using the singers own tape recorder, many songs were tried, including Danny Boy, Blue Moon, Thats My Desire and I Got A Woman, before the final repertoire was decided for the actual TV recording. Subsequently, at 6. 00pm, June 27, Presley took to the stage for the first time in seven years. Clad in black leather, Presley sat down and jammed with band mates for two shows, each show having a different audience, there was a one-hour break between them
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Elvis Presley in his '68 Comeback Special
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King Creole
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King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. Wallis and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins, Presley later indicated that of all the characters he portrayed throughout his acting career, the role of Danny Fisher in King Creole was his favorite. To make the film, Presley was granted a 60-day deferment from January to March 1958 for beginning his military service, location shooting in New Orleans was delayed several times by crowds of fans attracted by the stars, particularly Presley. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on July 2,1958, the critics were unanimous in their praise of Presleys performance. King Creole peaked at five on the Variety box office earnings charts. Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher works before and after school to support his surviving family, after Dannys mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans. At work one morning, Danny rescues Ronnie from her abusive date, after a taxi ride to Dannys high school, Ronnie kisses him. Danny responds to witnessing schoolmates teasing by kissing Ronnie back and then punching one of them in the face when he makes a teasing remark. Dannys reaction summons him to the office, where Miss Pearson, his teacher. Mr. Evans is sympathetic, but powerless to help, so Danny decides to out of school to find work, against the wishes of his father. When Danny leaves the grounds, three young men lure him into an alley. Their leader, Shark, wants revenge for Danny hitting the student at school. Danny defends himself so well that it impresses Shark, so Shark invites Danny to join his gang, Shark then has Danny to help the gang shoplift at a five-and-dime by singing Lover Doll to distract the customers and staff. Only Nellie, who works the bar, notices Dannys complicity in the theft. Later that night, Danny meets Ronnie again at The Blue Shade nightclub, at first, she pretends not to know him, as she is accompanied by her boyfriend and the clubs owner, Maxie Fields, aka The Pig. When Maxie does not believe her, she claims she heard Danny sing once, Maxie insists that Danny prove he can sing. That situation makes it easier for Danny to go against his fathers wishes, Danny does, and when he becomes a hit at the King Creole, Maxie tries to hire him. Danny declines his offer out of loyalty to Charlie, Shark, now working for Maxie, suggests to Danny they beat up Primont to help his father
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Danny protects Ronnie from one of Maxie Field's customers
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Nellie confesses to Danny that she is willing to see him again
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Walter Matthau, Vic Morrow, and Elvis Presley in the nightclub scene
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Flaming Star
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Flaming Star is a 1960 Western film starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Eden, based on the book Flaming Lance by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the mixed-blood Pacer Burton, the film was directed by Don Siegel and had a working title of Black Star. The movie reached No.12 on the box office charts, Elvis Presley plays Pacer Burton, the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads. Pacer soon finds himself caught between the two worlds, part of both but belonging to neither, Elvis Presley as Pacer Burton Barbara Eden as Roslyn Pierce Steve Forrest as Clint Burton Dolores del Río as Neddy Burton John McIntire as Sam Pa Burton L. Q. Originally Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando were lined up to play the brothers, blues, had been a success at the box office and had led to one of his best selling albums to that point. However, determined to be taken seriously as an actor, Presley asked for roles with fewer songs. Flaming Star was initially to include four songs, but after Presley demanded two of the songs be removed, it ended up only the title song and a short number at the opening birthday party scene. Barbara Steele, a British actress originally signed to play the love interest, was replaced during filming by Barbara Eden after studio executives decided that Steeles accent was too pronounced, the film was released only one month after G. I. Blues but did not achieve the degree of box office success. Presleys next film, Wild in the Country, also failed to impress fans or critics and this led to musical-comedies such as Blue Hawaii and Kid Galahad, which set the precedent for most of his roles for the rest of his career. No longer would Presley be considered a serious actor, Movie reviews Movie review by For Elvis Fans Only Review by Rachel Sanders at Apollo Movie Guide. DVD reviews Review by Jon Danziger at digitallyOBSESSED
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Blue Hawaii
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Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical, the film won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the category of Top Musical of 1961. Chadwick Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, girls. in 1962 and Paradise, Hawaiian Style in 1965. Wallis was keen to put Presley into a film that showed how the army affected a man, actress Juliet Prowse, who had starred with Presley in GI Blues, was approached to be his love interest again. However, after her demands were put forward, Paramount decided to drop her as a candidate for the role. Presley was apparently so pale before shooting that Wallis personally recommended a brand of tanning lamp to darken his skin, the film was announced in the fall of 1960 as Hawaii Beach Boy. At the time, film producer Walter Mirisch had a similar titled film in production, Hawaii, Presley arrived in Hawaii on March 18,1961, to prepare for a charity concert that he was performing on March 25 to raise funds for the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. He arrived at the studio on March 21 to start the recording of the films soundtrack. Following location filming, the returned to the Paramount lot to finish other scenes for the film. Presley would relax during filming by giving karate demonstrations with his friend and employee, Red West, Wallis warned the female stars of the film to avoid parties hosted by Presley because they were turning up for shooting looking tired. Producer Hal Wallis would use the box office returns from Blue Hawaii to finance an upcoming Wallis film, 1964s Becket, starring Richard Burton, Presley was 26 at the time this film was released, and a not yet 36-year-old Angela Lansbury played his characters mother. Lansbury would later comment that her appearance here was one of the worst in her career, nancy Walters, who was cast as the older school teacher was, in reality, only 18 months older than Presley. Much of the film was shot on location at the Coco Palms Resort on the east coast of Kauai, the resort has been abandoned since Hurricane Iniki in 1992. In actuality, Kahala is located on the side of Diamond Head from Waikiki. There were several scenes filmed in and around the famous Waikiki Beach, including the driving scenes. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack album was on the Billboard Pop Albums chart for 79 weeks and it has been certified by the RIAA for sales of three million copies in the U. S. The Blue Hawaii soundtrack album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961 in the category of Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast from a Motion Picture or Television
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Follow That Dream
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Follow That Dream is a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley made by Mirisch Productions. The movie was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home, producer Walter Mirisch liked the song Follow that Dream and retitled the picture. The movie reached #5 on the Variety weekly Box Office Survey, when the car runs out of gas, Holly persuades Toby to persuade Pop to take up residence on the land next to the road. A chance encounter with an avid fisherman gives Holly an idea and they build a thriving business catering to sports fishermen. Toby rejects the advances of amorous social worker Alisha Claypoole, who goes to court to have the children away in revenge. Also, her government official boyfriend considers the squatters home to be an eyesore, finally, since the area is outside the jurisdiction of any law enforcement, two gamblers soon set up a casino in a trailer, and Toby has to deal with their armed thugs. In the end, Tobys earthy wits win over the judge, Holly also gets Toby to recognize that she is a grown woman. Elvis Presley as Toby Anne Helm as Holly Arthur OConnell as Pop Joanna Moore as Alisha Jack Kruschen as Carmine Simon Oakland as Nick Roland Winters as Judge Alan Hewitt as H. At first, Powell was unhappy that Presley had been chosen for the role, filming began July 6,1961 in the summer heat of Florida. It was filmed in Citrus, Marion, and Levy Counties, specifically Inverness, Ocala, Inglis, the courtroom scene took place in the 1912 Citrus County Old Courthouse in Inverness which has been restored and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Part of the courtroom restoration can be attributed to the film in that it was the only record of the original courtroom configuration. Yankeetown memorializes his stay in the form of a major highway, the parkway was so named because of the efforts of four Elvis fans. After months of meetings, the parkway had an opening under its new name, Follow That Dream Parkway. The dedication and celebration was held in Inglis, the bank scene was filmed in Ocala at a bank on Silver Springs Boulevard. During filming, Elvis met Tom Petty, who was only 11 years old at the time, pettys uncle was involved in the production of the movie. Shortly afterwards, Petty swapped his slingshot for a collection of Elvis records. Review by Stuart Galbraith IV at DVD Talk, May 25,2004
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Kid Galahad
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Kid Galahad is a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer. It was released by United Artists, the film opened at #9 at the box office when released in the United States in August 1962. Variety ranked it #37 on the list of the films of 1962. Kid Galahad was shot on location in Idyllwild, California and its supporting cast included Gig Young, Lola Albright and Charles Bronson. Some critics rate it as one of Elvis Presleys best performances, the film is a remake of the 1937 original version starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart and directed by Michael Curtiz, who also directed the Presley 1958 film King Creole. Willy Grogan is a boxing promoter based in the Catskills resort region of Cream Valley. He owns the Grogans Gaelic Gardens inn and he is a contemptible man and is in debt and pays little attention to the woman who loves him, Dolly, a chain-smoking, love-starved woman residing at the camp. Into their midst comes Walter Gulick, a man recently discharged from the Army who loves the peaceful setting almost as much as he loves working on old cars. Walters simple goal is to go into business as a mechanic at a nearby garage, Willys younger sister, Rose, shows up unexpectedly. She and Walter immediately hit it off, the obsessively protective Willy doesnt want his kid sister falling for some grease monkey mechanic and two-bit boxer. Dolly is envious of the couples romance and resents Willys interference. One day, Walter, in need of work, accepts an offer of five dollars to be a sparring partner, Willy is persuaded to let this Galahad take a shot in a legitimate ring. Both men are reluctant, but each has a need for the money, Walter begins working out under the watchful eye of Willys top trainer, Lew. After several successes in the ring, Walter is readied for his biggest fight, gangsters want him to take a dive so that Willy can pay off his debts to them, but Galahad throws his muscle behind Willy and emerges victorious. He wins the big fight against Ramon Sugar Boy Romero as well as Willys approval, retiring undefeated to his vintage car, reigning welterweight champion Orlando De La Fuente also appeared as Ramon Sugar Boy Romero. Shooting began in early November 1961 in Hidden Lodge, Idyllwild, California, list of American films of 1962 Elvis Presley on film and television Elvis Presley discography Behind the Scenes look at Kid Galahad at Elvis Presley News
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Charles Bronson and Elvis Presley on a 1962 United Artists 11" x 14" lobby card
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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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Fun in Acapulco
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Fun in Acapulco is a 1963 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress. Mike Windgren works on a boat in Acapulco, Mexico, when Janie Harkins, the bratty daughter of the boat owner, gets him fired, Mike must find new work. A Mexican boy named Raoul helps him get a job as a lifeguard, clashes abound when Mike runs into a rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico. He is angry at Mike for taking some of his hours, Mike dives off the cliff, and successfully lands in the water, earning the lifeguards respect. As the crowd and the lifeguard applaud, Mike performs one song and leaves with Margarita. Blues, which opened under the title Cafe Europa, in the summer of 1961 and which resulted in all future Presley movies being banned from Mexican theatres. The movie featured the Top 10 Billboard hit Bossa Nova Baby, the film would be Presleys last release before the arrival of Beatlemania and was the top-grossing movie musical of 1963. List of American films of 19632, see writers biography in Wikipedias Spanish language page. Fun in Acapulco at the Internet Movie Database Fun in Acapulco at the TCM Movie Database Fun in Acapulco at AllMovie Review by Kevin Laforest at Apollo Movie Guide Review of the collection Lights. Collection by Paul Mavis at DVD Talk, August 6,2007 Review by Mark Zimmer at digitallyOBSESSED
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Kissin' Cousins
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Kissin Cousins is a 1964 American musical Panavision Metrocolor comedy film directed by Gene Nelson and starring Elvis Presley. His mission is complicated when he meets his cousin and two beautiful country cousins who compete to win his affections. Presley played two roles in the film, the Army officer, with hair, and his look-alike cousin. Kissin Cousins was produced by Dick Fitzwell for Four-Leaf Productions, and was distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was released in the United States on March 6,1964. The film reached #11 on the Variety National Box Office Chart, earned $3 million at the box office, the title single from the soundtrack reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. The screenplay was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in the category of Best Written American Musical, in 1988, Kissin Cousins made its home video debut, released on VHS. When it was reissued on VHS in 1997, the song Smokey Mountain Boy was deleted and it was later restored to the film when it made its DVD debut in 2007. Elvis plays the role of look-alike cousins Josh Morgan, a dark-haired U. S. Air Force second lieutenant, and Jodie Tatum. The film is set in the hills of Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, when he encounters the Tatums, Josh meets his double as well as two beautiful country cousins, Azalea and Selena, who compete to win Joshs affections. Josh eventually chooses Azalea and pairs off Selena with his friend Master Sergeant William Bailey, Jodie, on the other hand, falls for PFC Midge Riley, a beautiful but fiery WAC. There are also a group of thirteen man-crazy mountain women called the Kittyhawks who create havoc, the movie closes with a celebration song-and-dance featuring Josh, Jodie, Azalea and Selena. William George Bailey Screenwriters Gene Nelson and Gerald Drayson Adams were nominated by the Writers Guild of America in the category of best written musical for their screenplay
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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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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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Double Trouble (1967 film)
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Double Trouble is a 1967 American musical film starring Elvis Presley. The comedic plot concerns an American singer who crosses paths with criminals in Europe, the movie was #58 on the year-end list of the top-grossing films of 1967. Elvis was paid $750,000 plus 40% of the profits, review by Jon Danziger at *digitallyOBSESSED
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The Trouble with Girls (film)
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The Trouble with Girls, the full title of which is The Trouble with Girls, is a 1969 film starring Elvis Presley. It was one of his acting roles, along with the same years Change of Habit. It is based on the 1960 novel Chautauqua by Day Keene, in a small Iowa town in 1927, a traveling Chautauqua company arrives, with internal squabbles dividing the troupe. The new manager, Walter Hale, is trying to prevent Charlene, meanwhile, the town has a scandal following the murder of the local pharmacist Wilby. Although a shady gambler is arrested, Walter realizes that the killer is Nita. Walter successfully gets Nita to confess during a Chautauqua performance, where she makes public the sexual harassment that Wilby directed at her. Nitas self-defense plea frees the wrongly jailed man, but Charlene is outraged that Walter used the crime to financially enrich the Chautauqua, and attempts to quit. Walter attempts to reason with Charlene, but when she refuses to give in, he deceives her, cast notes Anissa Jones, best known for playing Buffy on the television program Family Affair, made her only film appearance in The Trouble with Girls. In June 1959 it was announced that Don Mankiewicz would write a screenplay of a story by Mauri Grashin, Day Keene. By December 1960, with the project titled Chautauqua, MGM was ready to make the film with Glenn Ford. Rumours circulating in Hollywood at the stated that Presley would co-star with Ford, Hope Lange, and Arthur OConnell, but nothing came of it. In 1964, Dick Van Dyke had been signed up to star in a film titled Chautauqua based on a book called Morally We Roll Along by Gay MacLaren, after several years of failed screenplays and cast changes, MGM sold the rights to Columbia Pictures in May 1965. Columbia also struggled to get the project off the ground, and this time MGM lined up Presley to star and production began in the fall of 1968. Chautauqua was the title, but it was later changed to The Trouble with Girls when the producers worried that audiences would not understand the title or be able to pronounce it. Elvis Presley was paid $850,000 plus 50% of the profits, colonel Tom Parker, Presleys manager, originally wanted actress Jean Hale for the female lead, but Marlyn Mason was cast at the insistence of director Peter Tewksbury. The Trouble with Girls was released as the half of a double feature. The Trouble With Girls performed poorly in cinemas but strongly on the drive-in circuit, the soundtrack contained some minor songs, its only distinctive track by Billy Strange, the producer of the session, and Mac Davis. The recording session took place at United Artists Recorders in Hollywood, almost would appear in 1970 on the budget album Lets Be Friends, the only other track from the film to be released during Presleys lifetime
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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 (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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Elvis (TV miniseries)
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Elvis is a 2005 biographical CBS mini-series written by Patrick Sheane Duncan and directed by James Steven Sadwith. It chronicles the rise of American music icon Elvis Presley from his school years to his international superstardom. Meyers won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his performance as Elvis Presley, jill Jane Clements as Marion Keisker The mini-series is available on a region-free DVD and was made available August 14,2007. Quotes Official website with limited information Elvis at the Internet Movie Database
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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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This Is Elvis
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This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film written and directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo, based on the life of Elvis Presley. It combined archival footage with reenactments, and voice-over narration by pop singer Ral Donner and it was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. The film grossed $2 million at the box office in the U. S. and Canada, Presleys former road manager Joe Esposito and girlfriend Linda Thompson provided their own narrations. Presley receives credit only in the version prepared for cable. The soundtrack was certified Gold on August 6,2002 by the RIAA, a two-disc DVD set of the film was released on August 7,2007 commemorating the 30th anniversary of Presleys death. Disc 1 features the version shown in theaters, Disc 2 includes the extended version with 45 extra minutes of footage. This Is Elvis is the only Presley movie produced and released by Warner Brothers, Warner Bros. also currently owns other titles with Presley via purchasing Turner Entertainment, including Presleys Metro Goldwyn Mayer films and National General Pictures Charro. Though he criticized the reenactment scenes, Ian Jane of DVD Talk called it a pretty essential release for fans and this Is Elvis 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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Viva Elvis
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Viva Elvis was the seventh resident Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip. It resided at the Aria Resort & Casino and premiered on February 19,2010, the show closed on August 31,2012. Cirque du Soleil partnered with Elvis Presley Enterprises to produce this show, CKX, Inc. the company that owns the rights to Elvis Presleys name, likeness, and music publishing, signed an agreement to have Cirque du Soleil create the Elvis-themed residency show. The gala premiere was scheduled for January 2010 on what would have been Elvis 75th birthday. CKX and Cirque du Soleil eventually intended to develop additional touring shows, due to low attendance records for Viva Elvis, MGM Resorts asked Cirque du Soleil to replace the show. The show had its performance on August 31,2012. On March 7,2012, Cirque du Soleil announced that following its second Radio City Music Hall engagement, the Elvis Theater was designed with a conventional proscenium layout reminiscent of an opera house. The stage had 16 platforms, divided into 12 sections which could rise 10 feet, the shows opening scene contained a jukebox made of chrome and gloss black which is 70 feet wide by 22 feet high. It also incorporated a 50-foot-tall video screen, also seen during the opening, a 29-foot-long, blue suede shoe weighed 7,000 pounds and was made of steel and fiberglass. During Got a Lot of Livin to Do, seven trampolines were utilized, the entire structure took up the entire width of the stage and weighed 30 tonnes. The set for the Jailhouse Rock scene was based on the requirements for a circus art called marche inversée. It had ten tracks that allowed acrobats to walk upside down, attached by their feet, while dancers performed right side up on other levels, the acts for Viva Elvis were staged to the music of Elvis Presley. The wardrobe collection as a whole contained nearly 400 costumes and around 1,500 costume components, part of this total came from more than 450 pairs of shoes and 150 custom wigs. Cirque du Soleil, for the first time, used flocking to create some of the accessories, some of the several wigs used for the show were created using urethane foam, which gave them the appearance of Japanese manga. The music for Viva Elvis was created in partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the soundtrack album, which was released on November 5,2010, was released under Sony Legacy Recordings and was produced by Erich van Tourneau. Official Cirque du Soleil site Official site for Viva Elvis Album
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27,1956 and it was written by Tommy Durden, Mae Boren Axton, and Elvis Presley. A newspaper article about the suicide of a man who jumped from a hotel window inspired the lyrics. Axton presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a music convention in Nashville. Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10,1956, in a session with his band, the Blue Moon Boys, the guitarist Chet Atkins, and the pianist Floyd Cramer. Heartbreak Hotel comprises an eight-bar blues progression, with heavy reverberation throughout the track, Heartbreak Hotel achieved unheard of feats as it reached the top 5 of Country and Western, pop, and Rhythm n Blues charts simultaneously. It would eventually be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It became a staple of Presleys repertoire in live appearances, last performed by him on May 29,1977, at the Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1995 Heartbreak Hotel was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and that year it was also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was written in 1955, by Mae Boren Axton, a school teacher with a background in musical promotion. Kroliks story was published in media, and received further publicity after he was shot and killed in an attempted robbery in El Paso. On August 25,1955, the El Paso Times reported Kroliks death under the headline Story Of Person Who Walked Lonely Street, Axton and Durden give different accounts of how the song was written. Durdens account is that he had written the song and performed it with his band the Swing Billys before he presented it to Axton. Axtons account is that Durden had only written a few lines of the song and she says that the report of the suicide stunned her, and she told Durden, Everybody in the world has someone who cares. Lets put a Heartbreak Hotel at the end of this lonely street and they were interrupted by the arrival of Glenn Reeves, a local performer who had previously worked with Axton. The duo asked Reeves to help with the song, but after hearing the title he remarked that it was the silliest thing Ive ever heard, the song was written within an hour, and Durden recorded it onto Axtons tape recorder. Reeves returned, and after hearing the song he was asked to provide a demo for Axton in the style of Elvis Presley. Reeves obliged, but once again turned down the offer of a credit for his input
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I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
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I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a popular song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff. It is known best for being Elvis Presleys seventh RCA Victor single release, before the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during 1958, there were a number of charts including Jukebox plays, Store charts, and Airplay charts. The song scored No.1 on the Billboard Top Sellers in Stores chart, during April 1956, Variety Magazine reported that Presleys sixth RCA Victor single, Heartbreak Hotel, had sold one million copies. RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes wanted a single to be the next release. Due to Presleys busy touring schedule, Sholes needed to get him into the studio as soon as possible, Presley and his band chartered a small propeller airplane to Nashville for one day of recording between shows. En route from Amarillo, the developed engine trouble and fell through the sky several times. Upon arrival in Nashville on the morning of April 14, all four were disconcerted. Presley arrived at the RCA Victor Studios without ideas for the session and therefore had no choice but to use Sholes suggestions, one of which was I Want You, I Need You. Being used to working hours, coupled with his traumatic experience during his overnight flight. Take after take was ruined for one reason or another and the band was not relaxed, Presley, usually a very quick study with a song, couldnt get the lyrics right. After 17 takes during three hours, Sholes decided Presley and the band werent able to properly and sent them home. After the session, Sholes listened to the takes again and he wasnt happy with the results of what he considered to be an unprofessional and wasted session. He knew that with Presleys busy touring schedule it could be months before RCA Victor got him back into a studio. Performing what was a rare and generally unsuccessful procedure for the 1950s. His cuts were so seamless, nobody at RCA Victor could tell it wasnt from a single take, I Want You, I Need You, I Love You was backed with My Baby Left Me and was released on May 4,1956. Pre-orders of over 300,000 were the biggest ever in the history of the company. At the time of its release, Presley had three songs in the Top 20, Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One, My Baby Left Me, and I Want You, I Need You, I Love You. On June 5,1956, Presley performed the song on The Milton Berle Show, as well as an early version of Hound Dog that resulted in both overwhelmingly favorable audience reaction and outrage
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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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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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All Shook Up
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All Shook Up is a song recorded by Elvis Presley, published by Elvis Presley Music, and composed by Otis Blackwell. The single topped the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 on April 13,1957 and it also topped the Billboard R&B chart for four weeks, becoming Presleys second single to do so, and peaked at No.3 on the country chart. It is certified 2X Platinum by the RIAA and it was ranked #352 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. According to Peter Guralnick the song has a different origin, in his book Last Train To Memphis he wrote that Elvis thought All Shook Up was a good phrase for a refrain. For this he received a credit, his last. Elvis himself, during an interview on October 28,1957, said, I went to bed one night, had quite a dream, and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it, by morning, he had a new song, All Shook Up. Future Last House on the Left actor David Hess, using the stage name David Hill, was the first to record the song and release it a few weeks before Elvis on Aladdin Records, titled Im All Shook Up. Vicki Young recorded a different song with the title, All Shook Up, on Capitol Records with Big Dave and His Orchestra, written by Bill Bellman. On January 12,1957, Presley recorded the song at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, the duet vocal on the record is by the Jordanaires first tenor Gordon Stoker. Take 10 was selected for release, and in March the song entered Billboards Top 100 chart at #25, within three weeks it had knocked Perry Comos Round and Round off the top spot, and stayed there for eight consecutive weeks. The song also became Presleys first No. hit on the UK Singles Chart, sales of the single exceeded two million, and the song was named Billboards Year End number one song for 1957. According to biographer Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles regularly performed the song, sadly, there is no known recorded version from that time. However Quarryman Len Garry states that it was one of the songs the group played on July 6,1957, the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney, author Doug Sulpy adds that on Jan. That version of the song remains officially unreleased, in 1999 Paul McCartney cut a hard-rocking version on the album Run Devil Run, while his surviving former bandmates of The Quarrymen recorded it in 2004 on Songs We Remember. In 1991, Billy Joel recorded the song for the movie Honeymoon in Vegas and it was released as a single and peaked at No.92 in the US and No.27 in the UK. Suzi Quatro recorded the song for her solo album Suzi Quatro in 1973. Her recording of the song was released as a single in 1974, Presley invited Quatro to Graceland, commenting that her version was the best since the original
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(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
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Teddy Bear is a popular song first recorded by Elvis Presley in 1957 for the soundtrack of his second motion picture, Loving You, during which Presley performs the song on screen. It was written by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe and published in 1957 by Gladys Music, clear melodic roots of this tune can be heard in the many early recordings of Boll Weevil, a traditional blues song. The song was a US number-one hit for Elvis Presley during the summer of 1957, staying at number-one for seven weeks, teddy Bear would also hit number one on the R&B Best Sellers List, becoming his fourth number one on that chart. In addition the song would hit one on the country charts for a single week. Elvis Presley – lead vocal, acoustic guitar Dudley Brooks – piano Bill Black – double bass D. J, fontana – drums The Jordanaires – backing vocals Walter Scharf – producer Thorne Nogar – engineer Pat Boone on his LP Pat Boone Sings Guess Who. Also, during episodes of Full House, the three main adult characters would often sing the song as a lullaby for Michelle Tanner. Disney featured a video in the special DTV Romancin, set entirely to clips featuring the bear characters from the companys animated films
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Jailhouse Rock (song)
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Jailhouse Rock is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. The song was released as an RCA Victor 45rpm single on September 24,1957, to coincide with the release of Presleys motion picture, Jailhouse Rock. The song as recorded by Presley is #67 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, it finished at #21 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, on 27 November 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs. The film version differs from the version of the song, featuring backing instrumentation. Some of the named in the song are real people. Shifty Henry was a well-known LA musician, not a criminal, the Purple Gang was a real mob. Sad Sack was a U. S. Army nickname in World War II for a loser, according to Rolling Stone, Leiber and Stollers theme song for Presleys third movie was decidedly silly, the kind of tongue-in-cheek goof they had come up with for The Coasters. The King, however, sang it as straight rock & roll, overlooking the jokes in the lyrics and then introducing Scotty Moores guitar solo with a cry so intense that the take almost collapses. Gender studies scholars cite the song for its famous reference to homoerotics behind bars, while music critic Garry Mulholland writes, Jailhouse Rock was always a queer lyric, douglas Brode writes of the filmed production number that its amazing that the sequence passed by the censors. The single, with its B-side Treat Me Nice was a US #1 hit for seven weeks in the fall of 1957, and it was the first record to enter the UK charts at No.1. In addition, Jailhouse Rock spent one week at the top of the US country charts, and reached the No.2 position on the R&B chart. Also in 1957, Jailhouse Rock was the song in an EP, together with other songs from the film, namely Young and Beautiful, I Want to be Free, Dont Leave Me Now. It topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling two million copies and earning a double-platinum RIAA certification. In 2005, the song was re-released in the UK and reached No.1 for a week, when it became the lowest-selling number 1 in UK history. The Beatles regularly performed Jailhouse Rock starting in 1958 and continuing all the way through 1960 with John Lennon on lead vocal, quarryman Len Garry states that the group actually started performing the song in 1957. It is the last song in the motion picture The Blues Brothers, the song is featured in the 1995 film Casper and the 2006 animated television film Leroy & Stitch. American Idol Season 5 contestant Taylor Hicks performed it on May 9,2006, in an episode of Full House, Jesse and Becky sing this song at their wedding reception
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Don't (Elvis Presley song)
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Dont is a song performed by Elvis Presley, which was released in 1958. Written and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, it was Presleys eleventh number-one hit in the United States, dont also peaked at number four on the R&B charts. Billboard ranked it as the No.3 song for 1958, the song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joes Cafe, as a medley with Love Me. Elvis Presley – lead vocals Scotty Moore – electric guitar Bill Black – double bass D. J
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Hard Headed Woman
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Hard Headed Woman is a number 1 rock and roll song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Presleys publishing company, in 1958. It is an American 12-bar blues written by African American songwriter Claude Demetrius and it was most notably recorded as a rock and roll song by Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1958 motion picture King Creole, and was included on the record album of the same name. The song was released as a single in both 78 RPM and 45 RPM formats. In 1958 it went to No.1 on the Billboard charts and it became the first rock and roll single to earn the RIAA designation of Gold Record. The song has also recorded by Wanda Jackson, among others. Cat Stevens recorded a different song of the name, on his album Tea for the Tillerman. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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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Stuck on You (Elvis Presley song)
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Stuck on You is Elvis Presleys first hit single after his two-year stint in the US Army. Stuck on You peaked at six on the R&B chart. The song knocked Percy Faiths Theme from A Summer Place from the top spot, the record reached number three in the UK. The song was written by Aaron Schroeder and J. Leslie McFarland and published by Gladys Music, in New Zealand, the single had a special paper sleeve with the usual RCA logo top left and 45 R. P. M. Bottom left and included, in letters, ELVIS top right and bottom left. List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1960 List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1960s Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame
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His Latest Flame is a song recorded in a hit version by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1961. It was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and originally recorded by Del Shannon on the album Runaway With Del Shannon, the more famous and successful recording by Presley was released in August 1961. However, the singles Hot 100 chart run was atypical of a Top Ten hit, in the autumn of 1961 it shot from 22 to 4, then dropped to 10, then 26, all within the space of four weeks. The single spent four weeks at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart — one of Presleys nine UK chart-toppers between 1960 and 1962 and it was also covered by home-recording artist R. Stevie Moore on his 1984 album Everything, in 1987 Marco T released a Spanish version of the song in Colombia. Also covered by underground L. A. Country/Americana artist JD Myers recorded a version featuring James Burton on guitar in 1997, the album never was officially released, but the song appears on the compilation album JD Myers, only available on the artists website. DJ and promo copies of the album featuring Burton can also be found on that website. The closest cover to Elvis version of song was recorded in England on The Embassy Records label in Nov of 1961 by Ray Pilgrim. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Little Sister (Elvis Presley song)
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Little Sister is a rock and roll song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was originally released as a single in 1961 by American singer Elvis Presley, the single also reached No.1 in the UK Singles Chart. Lead guitar was played by Hank Garland, with backing vocals by the Jordanaires featuring the bass voice of Ray Walker. Presley performs the song as part of a medley with Get Back in the 1970 rockumentary film Elvis, the song would later be covered by such artists as Dwight Yoakam, Robert Plant, The Nighthawks, The Staggers, Pearl Jam, Ry Cooder and Jesse and the Rippers. The song lyric makes mention of Jim Dandy which was the title of a 1956 song Jim Dandy by LaVern Baker. An answer song to Little Sister, with the melody but different lyrics, was recorded and released under the title Hey. Recorded in RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, June 25,1961, christian parody band ApologetiX recorded a parody of the song, called Little Esther, for their 1993 debut album Isnt Wasnt Aint. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Can't Help Falling in Love
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Cant Help Falling in Love is a pop ballad originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presleys publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss, the melody is based on Plaisir damour, a popular romance by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. It was featured in Elvis Presleys 1961 film, Blue Hawaii, Other films that feature the song include Overboard, Honeymoon in Vegas, The Thing Called Love, Was It Something I Said. Fools Rush In, Love Stinks and Happily Ever After, the single is certified by the RIAA as a Platinum record, for US sales in excess of one million copies. In the United States, the Elvis Presley version of the peaked at number two on the pop chart and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart for six weeks. During Presleys late 1960s and 1970s live performances, the song was performed as the shows finale, most notably, it was also sung in the live segment of his 1968 NBC television special, and as the closer for his 1973 Global telecast, Aloha from Hawaii. A version with an arrangement was used as the closing for Presleys final TV special. The song was released in May 1993, in the majority of countries worldwide. It eventually climbed to one on the Billboard Hot 100 after debuting at number 100 and appears in the soundtrack of the movie Sliver, the trailer for Fools Rush In. It remained at one in the United States for seven weeks. It was also one in the United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia. The single version of the song has a different backing rhythm. In the US, and on the Sliver soundtrack, the title was listed as Cant Help Falling in Love. As well as for the Lilo & Stitch movie soundtrack, which was scheduled to include several Presley tracks. It was later featured as a bonus track on their third studio album. The video had thus tremendous exposure on television channels, with the A-Teens eventually including the song in their third album. As a result, the song had two videos, one to promote the Disney movie, the other for the album. It is also shown in the teen pop album, Disney Girlz Rock
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Good Luck Charm
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Good luck charm is a charm that is believed to bring good luck. An example of this is a blessing that a minister or a priest gives at the end of a ceremony, later on, people assumed that spoken words were temporary whereas a solid object is more permanent. Objects that have extraordinary significance such as the believed to be from the cross of Jesus Christ were substituted for the original spoken or sung charms. Almost any object can be used as a charm, coins and buttons are good examples. Little things that are given to you very good lucky charms. It is because of the associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of items that may be used as good luck charms. Good luck charms are usually worn on the body there are exceptions. The “lucky rabbit charm” was passed on and incorporated into American culture by African slaves that were brought to the Americas, the lucky bag or the “Mojo” is another borrowed idea from African culture. It is used in ceremonies to carry several lucky objects or spells. The concept is that objects placed in the bag and charged will create a supernatural effect for the bearer. Even today, mojo bags are still used, europe also contributed to the concept of lucky charms. Adherents of St. Patrick, adopted the Four leaf clover as a symbol of Irish luck because clovers are abundant in the hills of Ireland, a four-leaf clover was consistently believed to be a lucky charm. This very old Irish verse describes why, One leaf is for fame, And one leaf is for wealth, And one is for a lover, And one to bring you glorious health
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Crying in the Chapel
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Crying in the Chapel is a song written by Artie Glenn for his son Darrell to sing. Darrell recorded it while still in school in 1953, along with Arties band the Rhythm Riders. The song was rejected by Hill and Range Songs and Acuff-Rose Music, the song was eventually published by Valley Publishers which also released the single featuring Darrell Glenn. It became a hit and then it went nationwide. The original version of the song was issued in May 1953, the song became one of the most covered of 1953. Darrell Glenns original recording reached number one on the Cash Box charts, a recording by June Valli with orchestra directed by Joe Reisman was made in New York City on June 11,1953. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog umber 20-5368 and by EMI on the His Masters Voice label as catalog numbers HR10007, N14105 and CS14. This was the most successful pop version on the Billboard charts, on October 30,1960, Elvis Presley recorded a version of the song during the sessions for his RCA Records gospel album, His Hand in Mine. The single reached number one on the British charts in 1965 where it stayed for two weeks and it was later included as a bonus track on Presleys 1967 gospel album, How Great Thou Art. The single was eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US, a vinyl single was also released by JAD in 2002. They feature a duet between Bob Marley and Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in medley style. This duet version single hit number one in the UK Echoes magazine in April 1998, a dub version entitled War/Selassie in Dub was released on the flip side. A later Jamaican DJ version by Joseph Cotton entitled Conflicts was released on the Rastafari label in 2009, more than 50 artists have released a version of Crying in the Chapel. The black R&B group, The Orioles, recorded a version of the song which became a major success in 1953. The Orioles version went to one on the R&B chart. It was included on the album for the film American Graffiti. Arne Alm wrote the Swedish lyrics, raya Avellan and Yngve Stoors Hawaiiorkester recorded Klockorna i dalen in Stockholm on October 10,1953. The song was released on the 78 rpm record Cupol 4780, ken Griffin recorded a version in 1953
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In the Ghetto
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In the Ghetto is a song written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley, who had a major comeback hit with it in 1969. It was released in 1969 as a 45 rpm single with Any Day Now as the flip side and it is a narrative of generational poverty, a boy is born to a mother who already has more children than she can feed in the ghetto of Chicago. The boy grows up hungry, steals and fights, purchases a gun and steals a car, attempts to run, the song implies that the newborn will meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence. In the Ghetto was recorded during Presleys session in the American Sound Studio in Memphis and it was Presleys first creative recording session since the 68 Comeback. Other hits recorded at this session were Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, the song was Presleys first Top 10 hit in the US in four years, peaking at number 3, and his first UK Top 10 hit in three years, peaking at No.2. It was a hit in West Germany, Ireland, Norway, Australia. As a major hit, Presley included it in his setlist during his return to live performances at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969. This version started without pause at the end of another hit from 1969 – Dont Cry Daddy, the song was recorded in 2007 by Lisa Marie Presley as a duet with her father to raise money for the Presley Foundation. The song was released on iTunes, after Elvis Presley, the song has been performed by many other artists. Among them were, most notably, Sammy Davis Jr, the Voice, Natalie Merchant, Bad Lieutenant, Fair Warning, Beats International, Eleanor Shanley, Chris Clark and Hecchi & Kethmer. The KLF used a sample of the Elvis recording in their ambient DJ album Chill Out, Mac Davis recorded a version of the song for a greatest hits album released in 1979. In 2011, Chris de Burgh covered the song on his album Footsteps 2, dancehall singer Sister Nancy used some of the songs lyrics in the song Coward of the Country, which appeared on her 1982 album One, Two. In 2014, cricketer Andrew Flintoff was asked to sing Elvis and he proceeded to sing In The Ghetto whilst the game was going on. In the Ghetto was covered by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and was their debut single and it was recorded at the Trident Studios in London and released as a 7 on June 18,1984 with the B-side The Moon Is in the Gutter. It reached 84 on the UK Singles Chart, while originally not present on any album, it was later included on the CD reissue of the bands first album, From Her to Eternity. In the Comedy Central show South Park, Eric Cartman sings In the Ghetto on two occasions, once in Chickenpox, then again when Kennys soul is trapped in Cartmans body in A Ladder to Heaven. Paul Shanklin recorded a parody called In a Yugo for Rush Limbaugh, in which an environmentally conscious family buys a Yugo to save gas, only to get killed by a truck after swerving to miss a duck. Later, Shanklin updated his parody for a new generation too young to remember the Yugo, replacing it with its perceived equivalent, el Vez recorded a version titled En el Barrio that mixed humor with details about Chicano struggles
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Suspicious Minds
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Suspicious Minds is an American song written and first recorded by American songwriter Mark James. After James recording failed commercially, the song was handed to Elvis Presley by producer Chips Moman, becoming a one song in 1969. Suspicious Minds was widely regarded as the single that returned Presleys career success and it was his eighteenth and last number-one single in the United States. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it No.91 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, session guitarist Reggie Young played on both the James and Presley versions. The song is about a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship, and the need of the characters to overcome their issues in order to maintain it. Written in 1968 by Mark James, who was also co-writer of Always on My Mind, Chips Moman had asked James to come to Memphis to write songs for American Sound Studio. At the time, James was residing in Houston, James had written three songs that became number one hits in the Southern United States. American Sound Studio was gaining a reputation in the industry as the Box Tops had just recorded The Letter there so James relocated to Memphis. James said that one night, he was fooling around on his Fender guitar and using his Hammond organ pedals for a bass line. James at the time was married to his first wife, but still had feelings for his childhood sweetheart, Jamess wife had suspicions of his feelings. James felt it was a time for him and that all three were caught in this trap that they could not walk out of. At the recording session, James sang the vocals. The horns, strings and vocals of the Holladay Sisters were later overdubbed, after the tape was mixed, James and Moman flew to New York, where Jamess manager had contacts with Scepter Records. The label loved the song and put it out, but Scepter did not have the money to new artists. Later that year, Don Crews, Momans partner, told James that Presley had booked their studio to record what would become the From Elvis in Memphis album, Crews kept asking James if he had any songs that would be right for Presley. James felt Presley needed a mature rock n roll song to bring him back as Tom Jones was a hot artist at the time, Crews and James thought of Suspicious Minds and James began urging others to get Presley to hear it. Even though Jamess recording had not been successful, upon reviewing the song Presley decided he could turn it into a hit. Marty Lacker, a friend of Elvis, suggested he record at the studio
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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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Sun Studio, at junction of Sam Phillips Avenue, Memphis
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The Sweet Inspirations
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The Sweet Inspirations were an American R&B girl group founded by Emily Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick. The line-up included Judy Guions, Marie Epps, Larry Drinkard, Nicholas Drinkard, Ann Moss, Lee, at that time, Sylvia Shemwell replaced Doris, while Cissy Houston took over from Dionne, with Dee Dee Warwick as the group’s official leader. The group sang backup for many stars, including Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Dee Dee left in 1965, when her solo career began to take off. She was replaced by Myrna Smith, Estelle Brown joined the team soon after, and the line-up that was to become an Atlantic recording group was set. In a recording session on March 28,1967, The Sweet Inspirations provided the back up vocals for Van Morrison on his classic hit Brown Eyed Girl and it was released in June 1967 and rose to No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In October 2007, Morrison was awarded a Million-Air certificate by BMI for 8 million air plays of Brown Eyed Girl, the Sweet Inspirations recorded by themselves for the first time in April 1967 for Atlantic Records. Within a month of their climb, the group began work on their second album - a gospel record entitled Songs Of Faith & Inspiration. It was released in 1968 under the name Cissy Drinkard & The Sweet Inspirations, on March 30,1968, the group scored their first and only top forty hit on the Billboard Top 40 Pop Chart with the song Sweet Inspiration on Atlantic Records. The record was on the chart for ten weeks and peaked at number 18, the group at this point was composed of Houston, Brown, Shernwell and Smith. In 1967, the group did backing vocals for the Jimi Hendrix single Burning of the Midnight Lamp which was featured on the album Electric Ladyland in 1968. They also backed Dusty Springfield on her album Dusty in Memphis, in 1969, the group recorded their fourth album, Sweets for my Sweet. The Sweet Inspirations also began recording and touring with Elvis Presley as both singers and his warm-up act, as well as doing occasional ‘live’ dates with Aretha Franklin. The association with Presley became well-publicized as he introduced the Sweet Inspirations on his telecast concerts. Houstons last recording session with The Sweet Inspirations was in October 1969, since she wanted to pursue a solo career, the session produced the group’s biggest R&B hit in some time. A Gamble & Huff composition, Gotta Find Me A Brand New Lover appeared on the fifth album Sweet Sweet Soul. Also included from that set are That’s The Way My Baby Is, Ann disappeared during a tour with Elvis Presley and did not return to the group. A final Atlantic session in June 1970 brought the group its last two singles for the label, This World, and Evidence, in 1973, Estelle, Myrna, and Sylvia recorded an album for Stax Records. They group broke up shortly thereafter, in 1978, the group sang backing vocals on Frankie Vallis No.1 hit Grease from the film of the same name
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The Sweet Inspirations in 1967
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Memphis Mafia
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Several members filled practical roles in the singers life. For instance, they were employed to work for him as bodyguards or on tour logistics, in these cases Elvis paid salaries, but most lived off fringe benefits such as gifts, cars, houses and bonuses. Over the years, the number of members grew and changed, Elvis preferred men around him who were loyal, trustworthy and deferential. Thus family members and friends of his youth were very important to him, for the first time in his life, he had a group of male friends to pal around with, and he relished being the leader of the pack. The group began with Elvis first cousins Junior and Gene Smith who accompanied Elvis everywhere, along with Elvis high school friend Red West, at that time Judy Spreckels seems to have been the only woman. She describes herself as having been like a sister to Elvis, Elvis was surrounded by the first wave of what would become known as the Memphis Mafia. She says that she was with him and the all the time. They drove bumper cars in Las Vegas Valley, rode horses in California, there wasnt a crowd then, just a few guys, and she emphasizes that she had nothing to do with being a yes man for him and obviously he trusted me. Over the years they were joined on the payroll by the Stanley brothers – Ricky, Billy and David, Jerry Schilling, Larry Geller, Marty Lacker, Dave Hebler, around 1960, the media dubbed these people the Memphis Mafia. This first referred to their image, as they cruised the city in black mohair suits. According to one account, a crowd of people in front of the Riviera Hotel watched as two big black limousines arrived. Elvis and his friends got out of the two cars and someone in the crowd yelled, Who are they, the Mafia. the Memphis Mafia members themselves say on their website that Elvis liked the name and it stuck. Presley and his friends and employees also adopted the acronym TCB which meant Taking Care of Business, Presley had the tail of his private jet painted with the initials TCB and a lightning bolt and gave away TCB & TLC on gold chain necklaces as gifts. Elvis wife at the time, Priscilla, helped with the creation of this logo on a flight through stormy conditions, a lightning bolt flashed across the sky in front of them, and Elvis took inspiration from it. Priscilla sketched out the design on paper, positioning the letters. William Otterburn-Hall describes the men as close around the star like a football scrum after a loose ball. He relates that they were a friendly bunch who, when Elvis began to sing just for fun during his interview, followed suit, singing, clowning, according to Patrick Humphries, they acted as Elvis bodyguards, babysitters, drug procurers, girl-getters, mates and car buyers. The author also mentions other functions of the guys, various members of the Memphis Mafia had, played vital roles in keeping Elvis numerous dirty secrets out of the public eye
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Elvis Presley in 1970
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Joe Esposito (2013)
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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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Parker in 1993.
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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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Elvis' plane named after his daughter
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Million Dollar Quartet
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An article about the session was published in the Memphis Press-Scimitar under the title Million Dollar Quartet. The recording was first released in Europe in 1981 as The Million Dollar Quartet with 17 tracks, a few years later more tracks were discovered and released as The Complete Million Dollar Session. In 1990, the recordings were released in the United States as Elvis Presley - The Million Dollar Quartet and this session is considered a seminal moment in rock and roll history. The jam session seems to have happened by pure chance, lewiss first Sun single would be released a few days later. Sometime in the afternoon, 21-year-old Elvis Presley, a former Sun artist now with RCA Victor, arrived to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend. After chatting with Phillips in the room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins’ session. Then he went into the studio and some later, the jam session began. At some point during the session, Sun artist Johnny Cash, jack Clement was engineering that day and remembers saying to himself I think Id be remiss not to record this, and so he did. After running through a number of songs, Elvis and girlfriend Evans slipped out as Jerry Lee pounded away on the piano, Cash wrote in Cash that no one wanted to follow Jerry Lee, not even Elvis. During the session, Phillips called a newspaper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar. Bob Johnson, the entertainment editor, came over to the studios with UPI representative Leo Sora with photographer George Pierce. Johnson wrote an article about the session, which appeared the day in the Press-Scimitar under the headline Million Dollar Quartet. The article contained the now-famous photograph of Presley seated at the piano surrounded by Lewis, Perkins, in 1969, Shelby Singleton bought Sun Records. He began a search of the Sun catalogue, browsing through more than 10,000 hours of tape. At the same time, Singleton licensed much, if not all, as a result of Singleton’s and Charlys searches, a portion of the session came to light. This was issued in Europe in 1981 as Charly/Sun LP #1006 The Million Dollar Quartet, several years later, additional material was discovered. This resulted in the release of the 1987 Charly/Sun 2-LP set #CDX20 The Complete Million Dollar Session, a 2006 50th-anniversary issue of the session was released on RCA, containing approximately twelve minutes of previously unavailable material and placing the titles in the original recorded sequence. The source of the recording was a copy of the owned by Elvis Presley
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The million Dollar Quartet. L to R: Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash
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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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Field offices
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Elvis Presley's Army career
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American singer Elvis Presley served in the United States Army between March 1958 and March 1960. At the time of his draft he was one of the most well-known names in the world of entertainment, before entering the U. S. Army, Presley had caused national outrage with his sexually charged performances and rock and roll music. Many parents, religious leaders, and teachers groups saw his draft, removing him from public view, despite being offered the chance to enlist in Special Services to entertain the troops and live in priority housing, Presley decided to serve as a regular soldier. This earned him the respect of many of his fellow soldiers, during his service, Presleys life was affected in many ways, beginning with the death of his mother. Not long before he was to be stationed in Germany, Gladys Presley died of an attack brought on by Acute Hepatitis and Cirrhosis at age 46. When he was stationed in West Germany, he met his future wife Priscilla Beaulieu and became dependent on stimulants and this unhealthy addiction eventually led to his divorce, and ultimately his death at age 42 in 1977. After his release from service, Presley found a new fan base among an older age group, thanks in part to his army career and releases of ballads over rock. In January 1956, Presley turned twenty-one years old, like most American men of that age, he was now eligible to be drafted. Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys manager, was aware of his clients draft status. In the summer of 1956, Parker wrote to the Pentagon requesting that Presley be considered for Special Services, Special Services would allow Presley to do only six weeks basic training and then resume life as normal with the exception of performing several times a year for the armed forces. However, Parker had no intentions of allowing his client to sign up for Special Services. Special Services would require Presley to perform for free, with performance being recorded and filmed for sale to television stations throughout the world. Only the armed forces would profit from these recordings, and Parker was in no way willing to allow anyone, even Uncle Sam, over the course of the next twelve months Parker led Presley to believe that it was still possible to avoid the draft completely. Unknown to Presley, Parker had no intentions of avoiding the draft, in his eyes, after a year of some negative publicity about Presley, this was the perfect opportunity to change the view that older America had of him. Parker explained to Presley that this was a situation, one that neither of them could refuse. Parker promised Presley that if he worked hard, kept his nose clean, on January 4,1957, Presley attended Kennedy Veterans Hospital in Memphis for a pre-induction Army medical. On January 8, Presleys twenty-second birthday, he was declared 1-A by the Memphis Draft Board, physically fit and it was on December 16 that it was officially announced that Presley would be receiving his draft notice. While fans around the country were upset about the news, parents, Presley had been, in their opinion, a menace to society
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Bad Nauheim Villa Grunewald
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Plaque at Prestwick Airport recording the only occasion when Elvis Presley set foot in the UK
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Elvis Presley Forever stamp
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The Elvis Presley Forever postage stamp is a part of the Music Icons series issued by the United States Postal Service. It features Presley in a 1955 black and white photography taken by William Speer, the design created by Antonio Alcalá and Leslie Badani also features a golden crown and the signature of Presley on the side. The stamp was dedicated on August 12,2015 during a ceremony in Graceland, attended by Priscilla Presley, the release of the stamp was accompanied by a hit compilation album, Elvis Forever, sold through post offices around the United States and on the internet. Other than the Rev. Martin Luther King and several US Presidents, the first was issued in 1993. The first stamps, and earliest known use, were purchased August 10,2015 at the Mason, Tennessee post office by stamp collector David Saks
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Elvis Presley Forever stamp
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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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"My Baby Left Me"
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Blue Suede Shoes
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Blue Suede Shoes is a rock-and-roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. It is considered one of the first rockabilly records, incorporating elements of blues, country, Perkinss original version of the song was on the Cashbox Best Selling Singles list for 16 weeks and spent two weeks in the number 2 position. Elvis Presley performed his version of the three different times on national television. It was also recorded by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, among many others, Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, and other Louisiana Hayride acts toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of an airman, C. V. White, who he had met when serving in the military in Germany. Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes, Carl replied, I dont know anything about shoes. How can I write a song about shoes, when Perkins played a dance on December 4,1955, he noticed a couple dancing near the stage. Between songs, Carl heard a stern, forceful voice say, Uh-uh, Carl looked down and noted that the boy was wearing blue suede shoes and one had a scuff mark. Good gracious, a pretty little thing like that and all he can think about is his blue suede shoes and that night Perkins began working on a song based on the incident. His first thought was to frame it with a nursery rhyme and he considered, and quickly discarded Little Jack Horner. and See a spider going up the wall. Then settled on One for the money, leaving his bed and working with his Les Paul guitar, he started with an A chord. After playing five chords while singing Well, its one for the money and he broke into a boogie rhythm. He quickly grabbed a brown paper potato sack and wrote the song down, writing the title out as Blue Swade, S-W-A-D-E – I couldnt even spell it right, according to Perkins, On December 17,1955, I wrote Blue Suede Shoes. I recorded it on December 19, for Sun Records, which released the second take of the song, suns producer, Sam Phillips, suggested that the lyric go cat go be changed to go man go, but the suggestion was not taken. Perkinss recording of Blue Suede Shoes was released on January 1,1956, two copies of the song on 78-rpm records were sent to Perkins but arrived broken. He soon discovered that the song was available in the newer 7 microgrooved 45-rpm format and was disappointed that he didnt have a copy in the older, in Jackson, where Perkins lived, and Memphis, radio stations were playing the flip side of the record, Honey Dont. Shoes became the side of choice throughout the South and Southwest, on February 11 it was the number 2 single on Memphis charts, it was number one the next week and remained there for the next three months. Perkins made four appearances on the radio program Big D Jamboree on station KRLD in Dallas, the Jamboree was broadcast from the Dallas Sportatorium, with about four thousand seats, and it sold out for each of Perkins performances
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"Blue Suede Shoes"
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Shoes in Elvis exhibit similar to those that inspired the song
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Shake, Rattle and Roll
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Shake, Rattle and Roll is a twelve bar blues-form song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name, Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets, the song as sung by Big Joe Turner is ranked #127 on the Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Stone played around with various phrases before coming up with shake, rattle, however, the phrase had been used in earlier songs. In 1919, Al Bernard recorded a song about gambling with dice with the same title, the phrase is also heard in Roll The Bones by the Excelsior Quartette in 1922. Turners version was recorded in New York on February 15,1954, the shouting chorus on his version consisted of Jesse Stone, and record label executives Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegün. The saxophone solo was by Sam The Man Taylor, other players included McHouston Mickey Baker on guitar and drummer Connie Kay. The song, in its incarnation, is highly sexual. Perhaps its most salacious lyric, which was absent from the later Bill Haley rendition, is Ive been holdin it in, way down underneath / You make me roll my eyes, baby, make me grit my teeth. On the recording, Turner slurred the lyric holdin it in, Bill Haley & His Comets cover version of the song, recorded on June 7,1954, featured the following members of the Comets, Johnny Grande, Billy Williamson, Marshall Lytle, and Joey Ambrose. It is known that Danny Cedrone, a musician who frequently worked for Haley, played lead guitar. Bill Haleys own stage drummer, Dick Richards, did not play on record but may have provided backing vocals since he participated in the recording of the songs B-side. This was Cedrones final recording session as he died ten days later. Haleys version was released in August and reached #7 on the Billboard pop chart, Gabler has explained that he would clean up lyrics because, I didnt want any censor with the radio station to bar the record from being played on the air. With NBC a lot of race records wouldnt get played because of the lyrics, so I had to watch that closely Both recordings are considered classics. Haleys version is peppier and brighter and it fits the definition of rock and roll as a merger of country music and rhythm and blues. Haley had started his career in music while Turner was a blues shouter. Comparing the two versions illustrates the differences between blues and rock n roll, a simple, stark instrumental backing is heard on the Turner version. Where Turners version uses a bass line, the Comets version, produced by Milt Gabler of Decca Records
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"Shake, Rattle and Roll"
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1954 release by Bill Haley and His Comets on Decca Records.
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy is a rhythm and blues song by New Orleans singer/songwriter Lloyd Price that grandly introduced The New Orleans Sound. It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe, the song became one of the biggest selling R&B records of 1952 and crossed over to other audiences. Lawdy Miss Clawdy inspired many songs and has been recorded by a variety of artists, while still in high school, Lloyd Price was working for New Orleans radio station WBOK. He provided jingles for products, including those hawked by disc jockey James Okey Dokey Smith. One of Smiths catch phrases was Lawdy Miss Clawdy, which he used in ad slogans such as Lawdy Miss Clawdy, eat Mothers Homemade Pies, Prices accompanying tune proved popular with the radio audience and he developed it into a full-length song. In 1952, Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records in Los Angeles, local recording studio owner Cosimo Matassa introduced him to Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote and produced many of Fats Dominos early hit records. Bartholomew invited nineteen-year-old Lloyd Price to audition for Rupe at Matassas J&M Studio, the accounts differ on what happened next. Lawdy Miss Clawdy was recorded March 13,1952 at Cosimo Matassas J&M Studios in New Orleans, the first attempts at performing the song were not successful, reportedly because Bartholomew was dissatisfied with Doucettes piano part. When Fats Domino arrived at the studio, he was persuaded by Bartholomew to sit in on the recording, after one run through, Bartholomew announced OK, thats it and Matassa started the tape recorder. Lawdy Miss Clawdy opens with Fat Dominos rolling trills. in a cascading, although Domino had recorded several songs using his trade-mark piano triplets style, Prices hit provided it with its greatest exposure up to that time. Domino repeats his intro for the piano solo, another key element of the song is Earl Palmers drumming, described as loping, midtempo shuffle beats with their busy ride cymbal. This is anchored by Palmers emphasis on the snare of the second and fourth beats of each bar, in characteristic New Orleans-style, the rest of the backing instrumentation also contributes to the songs rhythmic drive by providing different elements of rhythm, in several different patterns. This complex, layered beat might also be compared to African polyrhythms, Lawdy Miss Clawdy follows an eight-bar blues progression and has been notated in 12/8 time in the key of A♭. The songs melody is derived from Fats Dominos 1950 hit The Fat Man, Prices song also features most of the same backing musicians as Dominos song. Prices vocals have been described as heartbroken wails, expressive, wailing and his lyrics deal with teenage angst over a relationship. Specialty Records released Lawdy Miss Clawdy in April 1952 and on May 17,1952 it entered Billboards R&B chart, the song reached number one, where it spent seven weeks. Lawdy Miss Clawdy was also one of the top records for 1952, Lawdy Miss Clawdy became R&B Record of the Year for 1952 in both Billboard and Cashbox magazines, it also earned Price Cashboxs Best New R&B Singer of 1952 designation. In 1995, it was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock, authors Dawson and Propes discussed Lawdy Miss Clawdy among the first rock and roll songs
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"Lawdy Miss Clawdy"
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Paralyzed (Elvis Presley song)
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Paralyzed is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley for his album Elvis. The song was recorded on September 2,1956, and has well received by modern music critics. The song was written by Otis Blackwell, with Elvis receiving partial song-writing credit, Paralyzed reached #59 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1956. The song was off of the Elvis album, the song was released as an EP by RCA Victor in the U. S. Elvis Volume 1, RCA EPA-992, which was released on October 19,1956. In the UK, Paralyzed reached no.8 in August,1957 in a 10-week chart run, Elvis Presley performed the song on the 1956 Million Dollar Quartet sessions and live in concert in 1956. A live version is featured on the 5-CD box set The Young Man with the Big Beat, the song also appears on the 1990 BMG collection The Million Dollar Quartet and The Complete Million Dollar Quartet. The song is also on the box set The King of Rock and Roll, the song was also performed on the December 16,1956 Louisiana Hayride. The song was recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, produced by Steve Sholes, warwick, Neil, Kutner, Jon, Brown, Tony. The Complete Book of the British Charts, Singles & Albums, come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say, Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley, and Robert Christgau. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, ISBN 0-8230-7499-4 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Paralyzed" cover
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1956 UK sheet music, Aberbach, London.
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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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"King Creole"
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One Broken Heart for Sale
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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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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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"What'd I Say"
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You'll Be Gone
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Youll Be Gone is a song co-written by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music and released in 1965 on the Girl Happy soundtrack album and as a 45 single. The song was recorded in 1962 and is significant because it was co-written by Elvis Presley, with his bodyguard Red West and Charlie Hodge. The other song that Elvis Presley composed was Thats Someone You Never Forget in 1961 with Red West, the song was recorded on Sunday, March 18,1962 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. Youll Be Gone was released as an RCA Victor 45 picture sleeve single on February 9,1965 as the B side with Do the Clam, Youll Be Gone charted at no.121 on Billboard. Do the Clam reached no.21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, in Canada, Youll Be Gone reached no.16 on the singles chart as a double A side with Do the Clam in February,1965 in a six-week chart run. The song was released as a 745 single by RCA, 47-9686. The single was released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Japan, Egypt. In France, the single was released as a picture sleeve 45 as RCA Victor 49801 in 1971, in Egypt, the single was released by Sono Cairo. He said I like the song Begin the Beguine, I like the melody but Id like to put new lyrics on it. When Cole Porter denied permission to alter the lyrics, Elvis, West, the song was replete with Latin rhythms and classical guitar passages. The beguine had been a popular in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the 1930s. One of these was Youll Be Gone, a song that he had himself with his good friends Red West. To his deep frustration, Priscilla remarked that she liked his rock n roll recordings better, Elvis had a fit, Priscilla was devastated, and Elvis never tried to write a song again. Elvis Presleys wife Priscilla noted in the notes to the CD Elvis by the Presleys. She recalled that he played her the song. J, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York, St. Martins Press,1998, ISBN 0-312-18572-3 Jorgensen, Ernst
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1965 U.S. RCA Victor 45 picture sleeve, 47-8500, "Elvis sings You'll Be Gone".
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1965 U.S. RCA Victor 45 single release, 47-8500.
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Tell Me Why (1956 song)
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Tell Me Why is a popular song, written by Titus Turner in 1956. It is a slow, strong rhythm and blues ballad, and has a reminiscent of Just a Closer Walk With Thee. The first hit version was by Marie Knight, a black R&B singer, on the Mercurys subsidiary label and it was a local hit in the New Orleans and Texas. When it attracted attention, it went on to become a hit for Gale Storm and The Crew-Cuts in 1956. Presley recorded the track in 1957, but it was not released at that time and it reached #33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a gold record
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"Tell Me Why"
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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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"If Every Day Was Like Christmas" cover
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That's Someone You Never Forget
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The song was written by Elvis Presley with his bodyguard Red West and based upon an idea and title by Presley himself. Red West recalled the songwriting collaboration with Elvis, Thats Someone You Never Forget was a title came from Elvis. He said, How about coming up with a song with the title of Thats Someone You Never Forget, West agreed to give Elvis a co-writing credit to the song because of Elvis contributions to the creation of the song. It is believed that Elvis wrote the song about his mother Gladys Love Presley, Elvis Presley gave his recording a gospel-influenced arrangement, which added to the spiritual mood of the song. Elvis also co-wrote the song Youll Be Gone with Red West and these two songs were Elvis rare song compositions. At the time, Elvis was trying his hand at songwriting and his input was mostly in providing ideas about creating new songs and choosing how they should sound. In his landmark, best-selling biography of Elvis, Elvis, A Biography, the single was also released in the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Italy. The song has appeared on several of Elvis Presleys compilations including the Artist of the Century career retrospective collection in 1999, the song is notable because it was co-written by Elvis Presley. Review of the RCA CD reissue of the expanded Pot Luck album in 1999, The 1999 remastering benefits from superior sound, the haunting, gospel-like Thats Someone You Never Forget, which was co-authored by Presley and is one of his best non-hit songs of this era. --- Bruce Eder & Neal Umphred for Allmusic, long Legged Girl /Thats Someone You Never Forget, RCA 47-9115, #92, Billboard Hot 100. RCA Victor also released the song on an EP picture sleeve 45 in 1967,86574, containing the following songs, Double Trouble/I Love Only One Girl/Long-Legged Girl/Thats Someone You Never Forget. Elvis Presley - vocals, guitar Scotty Moore - guitar Hank Garland - guitar Neal Mathews - guitar Floyd Cramer - piano, all Music Guide to Rock, The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul. Backbeat Books,2002, Thats Someone You Never Forget which was co-authored by Presley, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York, St. Martins Press,1998, ISBN 0-312-18572-3 Jorgensen, Ernst
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1967 RCA 45 picture sleeve single, 47-9115, "Elvis sings That's Someone You Never Forget".
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1967 RCA Victor promo ad for the 45 single release of the song.
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1962 sheet music cover, Elvis Presley Music, Inc.
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Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby
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Speedway is the thirty-second album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP3989, in May 1968 — the May 1 date is disputed. It serves as the album for the 1968 film Speedway starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at MGM Studios in Hollywood, California and it peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200. By June 1967, while Presley was toiling at the sessions for this soundtrack, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, had the music industry in thrall. The Monterey Pop Festival had taken place just the past weekend some 300 miles up the California coast from where Presley was working. He was probably aware of some of the changes being wrought in popular music around him, eight tracks were recorded at the sessions, with Suppose, the only song that held interest for Elvis, dropped from the movie. Two tracks were pulled for a single, Your Time Hasnt Come Yet Baby with Let Yourself Go on its flipside, and both sides made the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 but bombed sales-wise. There Aint Nothing Like A Song, rejected from the soundtrack for Spinout, was one of two songs feature the lead vocals of Nancy Sinatra, here in duet with Presley. All her vocals, and her Your Groovy Self, the time a track without Elvis featured on any of his releases, were recorded at a separate session on June 26. Three leftover tracks, including one from the May 1963 lost album sessions, were unearthed to round out the album, Speedway took over the new low for chart position and album sales by Presley, shifting units numbered in five figures, jeopardizing his recording career. Much to his relief, it killed the soundtrack formula, this being the final Presley dramatic feature film to have a soundtrack album. His last five movies of the decade — Stay Away, Joe, Live A Little, Love A Little, the Trouble with Girls, and Change of Habit — concentrated on Presley the actor, not Presley the singer, with minimal song requirements. LPM-3989 Speedway Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database LSP-3989 Speedway Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
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A Little Less Conversation
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A Little Less Conversation is a song written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange originally performed by Elvis Presley for the 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little. The song became a hit in the United States when released as a single with Almost in Love as the A-side. A2002 remix by Junkie XL of a later re-recording of the song by Presley became a worldwide hit, the song has made numerous appearances in popular culture and has been covered by several artists. A Little Less Conversation was first recorded on 7 March 1968 at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California, the song was not released on an LP until November 1970, when it was included on the RCA Camden budget label LP Almost in Love. There are several different takes that were made of the song in the session on 7 March, the single version used take 16, which was also used for the soundtrack of the film. The version released on the Almost In Love album is take 10, the musicians on the 7 March recording session included Hal Blaine, drums, Al Casey, guitar, Larry Knechtel, bass, and Don Randi, piano. Presley re-recorded the song in June 1968 for the soundtrack of his 1968 comeback special, ultimately, it was decided not to use this recording, and the song was dropped from the planned special. The newer version transposed the key of A major recording of three months earlier into E major and featured a vocal and heavy reverb with backup vocals from The Blossoms. In the mid-1990s, Joseph A. Tunzi sold this recording to Bertelsmann Music Group and it was included on the 1998 release Memories. Tunzi had been the first to document this recording in his 1996 book Elvis Sessions II, following the songs use in the 2001 film Oceans Eleven, A Little Less Conversation was remixed by Dutch musician Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL. The electronic remix featured Elvis with a voice, and added emphasis to the 1968 guitars, horns. Holkenborg is the first artist outside the Presley organization to receive authorization from the Elvis Presley estate to remix an Elvis Presley song, the electronic version of the song became a number-one hit in the UK in 2002. The song also became a top ten hit in upwards of 17 other countries, in 2002, the TV special version of A Little Less Conversation remixed by Junkie XL was used for Nikes 2002 FIFA World Cup advertising campaign, titled Secret Tournament. A single, credited to Elvis vs. JXL, was issued, at about the same time, a compilation of Presleys U. S. number-one chart hits, titled ELV1S,30 No.1 Hits, was being prepared for release. At the last minute, A Little Less Conversation was added as the albums 31st track just before its release in October 2002. The full 6,09 version was edited slightly and extended to 6,22, and this version was featured on the US version of Junkie XLs 2004 album Radio JXL, A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin. In the United States, the peaked at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, the first Hot 100 hit for Presley since 1981. An uptempo eurodance remix was recorded by CJ Crew, appearing on the 2002 dance compilation Dancemania Speed 10, there are three very exclusive releases in Spanish, the film Live a Little, Love a Little and two mixes played by Marco T. a Colombian Rockabilly musician
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The original picture sleeve of the 1968 single.
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"A Little Less Conversation"
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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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"If I Can Dream"
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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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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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"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"
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Steamroller Blues
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Steamroller Blues, is a blues parody written by James Taylor, that appeared on his 1970 album Sweet Baby James. It was intended to mock the inauthentic blues bands of the day, the song later appeared on two of Taylors compilation albums and has been recorded by a variety of other artists. Rock journalist David Browne wrote that uring the Flying Machine days in the Village, Taylor had heard one too many pretentious white blues bands, rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Coleman, said Taylors song effectively mocks the straining pomposity of then-current white bluesmen. Taylor and Danny Kortchmar, both playing guitars, laid down the track in one night at Sunset Studios, the rhythm section being added later. A tight budget and production schedule forced Taylor to record the song despite suffering from a head cold, the song was included on Taylors diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation using a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Another performance, from 1992, was included on his 1993 album, during the 1970s, Elvis Presley added Steamroller Blues to his concert repertoire and included it on his live album Aloha From Hawaii, Via Satellite. Presley also released it as a single in March 1973 with Fool as its track. It was later included on Presleys 2007 compilation The Essential Elvis Presley, a newly-orchestrated version was included on the 2015 album If I Can Dream with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Taylors song was recorded by country music singer Billy Dean and appeared on his 1994 album Fire in the Dark, isaac Hayes performed the song on an episode of The A-Team
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James Taylor's 1970/76 publicity photo
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Even the King played Steamroller Blues all the way to his last tour
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Moody Blue (song)
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Moody Blue is a song made famous by Elvis Presley. The song was written by Mark James who also penned Elvis Suspicious Minds, Moody Blue was Presleys last No.1 hit in his lifetime, topping the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in February 1977. Moody Blue also peaked at number thirty-one on the Hot 100, RCA Records also issued an extremely limited quantity of the Moody Blue single in an experimental translucent blue vinyl pressing, with She Thinks I Still Care as the B-side. Six months after Moody Blue topped the chart, Presley was dead, the song was recorded in February 1976 in the Jungle Room of Presleys Graceland home. The only time Elvis performed the song in its entirety was on February 21,1977 at a concert in Charlotte, the complete version was first released on bootleg by the Fort Baxter label in 1995
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"Moody Blue"
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America the Beautiful
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America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, at that time, the poem was titled America for publication. Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, wards music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs. In 1893, at the age of 33, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado. On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, the poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist to commemorate the Fourth of July. It quickly caught the publics fancy, amended versions were published in 1904 and 1911. Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem, a hymn tune composed by Samuel A. Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today. Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward, the tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down. Supposedly, he was so anxious to capture the tune in his head and he composed the tune for the old hymn O Mother Dear, Jerusalem, retitling the work Materna. Wards music combined with Batess poem were first published together in 1910, Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain since the music was only first applied to the song in 1904. Bates was more fortunate since the popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929. At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, some prefer America the Beautiful over The Star-Spangled Banner due to the latters war-oriented imagery. Others prefer The Star-Spangled Banner for the same reason, while that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, America the Beautiful continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans. This song was used as the music of the television broadcast of the Tiangong-1 launch. The song is included in songbooks in a wide variety of religious congregations in the United States. Three different renditions of the song have entered the Hot Country Songs charts, the first was by Charlie Rich, which went to number 22 in 1976
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Commemoration plaque atop Pikes Peak in July 1999.
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Sheet music
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Unchained Melody
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Unchained Melody is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North used the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack and it has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the songs publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of Unchained Melody have been made by more than 670 artists in multiple languages, the song and Do They Know Its Christmas are the only songs to reach number one in four different recordings in the UK. Of the hundreds of recordings made, it was the July 1965 version by the Righteous Brothers, performed as a solo by Bobby Hatfield and this version achieved a second round of great popularity when it was featured in the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost. In 2004, it finished at number 27 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, in 1954, North was contracted to compose the score for the prison film Unchained. North composed and recorded the score, and then was asked to write a song based upon the movies theme, North asked lyricist Hy Zaret to write the lyric, but Zaret initially declined, saying he was too busy painting his house. North was able to him to take the job. Zaret refused the producer’s request to include the word unchained in his lyrics, the song eventually became known as the Unchained Melody even though the song does not actually include the word unchained. Instead, Zaret chose to focus on someone who pines for a lover he has not seen in a long, the 1955 film centered around a man who contemplates either escaping from prison to live life on the run or completing his sentence and returning to his wife and family. The song has a harmonic device as the bridge ends on the tonic chord rather than the more usual dominant chord. With Todd Duncan singing the vocals, the song was nominated for an Oscar in 1955, Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. He performs a version in the film, playing one of the prisoners. Lying on a bed, he sings it accompanied by another prisoner on guitar while others listen sadly, bandleader Les Baxter released a version which reached number 1 on the US charts and number 10 in the UK. The words unchain me are sung repeatedly at the beginning and the lyrics are sung by a choir, Billboard ranked this version as the No.5 song of 1955. Al Hibbler followed close behind with a version, and it reached number 3 on the Billboard charts. He was quickly followed by Jimmy Young, whose version hit number 1 on the British charts, Jimmy Young also later re-recorded another version of his 1955 charttopper in early 1964 and that version charted at number 43 in the UK. Two weeks after Youngs version entered the top 10 of the British charts in June 1955 Liberace would score a number 20 hit, roy Hamiltons version reached number one on the R&B Best Sellers list and number 6 on the pop chart
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"Unchained Melody"
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