Elvis Presley

One day in 1975, he took me to his son, Sean's playroom, where he kept one of his prized possessions, a vintage jukebox. Plugging it in, he punched one Elvis Presley record after another and bopped around playfully. As Elvis sang Don't Be Cruel in the background, John recalled his first and on...

In May 2009, Elvis Presley Enterprises and John Deere announced that the John Deere tractor often used by Elvis on his ranch and at Graceland had been fully restored and was going on display at Graceland. Visitors to Graceland are now able to see the tractor as part of their tour of the Elvis P...

By ANI Melbourne, October 29 (ANI): Britney Spears has revealed that she prefers rocking to the tunes of the Beatles rather than those of Elvis Presley. The pop princess was asked in an interview via email who would she choose between the two music legends. “Beatles, they are just so iconic,” the H...

It is reported that 'Shout! Factory' is preparing to release the 1979 TV movie Elvis, starring Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley on DVD. The film co-stars Shelly Winters as Elvis' mother and Pat Hingle as Col. Tom Parker. The movie is named to be the best biopic of Elvis ever made. Hopfully this time...

This new issue of Elvis Unlimited is jam packed with EXCLUSIVES! We bring you an in depth interview with Elvis' pianist Shane Keister who toured with Elvis in 76 when Glen D Hardin left the band. Pop Tunes in Memphis(where Elvis shopped for music) recently closed it's doors and Elvis Unlimi...

On Saturday, June 6, Morgan Freeman, Oscar-winning film star and Mid-South native, hosted "Zero to 60" at the Hard Rock Café on Beale Street in Memphis. The event raised more than $60,000 for The MED's Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center, which is celebrating its 25th birthday this year....

By Phil Arnold Bowie’s manager – Tony DeFries – was a big fan of Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker and would quote from Parker’s book to anyone who would listen.  This is another pretty weak connection between Elvis and Bowie.  If it is true, I wonder if DeFries took a 50% cut of Bowie’s earnings, like the Col...

By letters@memphisflyer.com (Chris Herrington) Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc.Elvis Presley: BadassThe show will go on: Indie Memphis' double-feature of Elvis Presley's famous 1968 "comeback" NBC special (co-sponsored by Elvis Presley Enterprises) and the Coen brothers' shaggy cult comedy The Big Lebowski (co-sponsored by th...

HILARY SWANK's new biopic about AMELIA EARHART is sure to be a fly-away success if demand for the aviator's memorabilia is an indicator - her goggles topped all celebrity items at a California auction last week (09Oct09). The eye accessories Earhart wore during her historic 1932 solo tra...

Memphis Recording Service will release a Special CD Collectors Edition titled Tupelo Welcomes Home Elvis Presley featuring two concerts and rare interviews. This release also comes with a 40 page hardback book packed with rare photographs on Elvis' homecoming concerts in September 1...

Artist: Elvis Presley Album: From Elvis In Memphis Review: After a decade of putting Hollywood glitz above his Memphis roots, Elvis Presley staged a musical comeback on TV in 1968 and then returned home for two extraordinary albums: From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The first was...

Elvis: Vegas '69 is without doubt the best book on Elvis Presley produced to-date And it is something altogether new .... It is not a photo book ... It is not an information book ... It is not an interview book. Yes it has all three elements - and in abundance - but the way it is formatted -- presented -- is com...

By Phil Arnold International Hotel, Las Vegas, During Elvis’ 1969 Run  “Elvis is very much for real.  Elvis is here to stay.” Elvis represents the finest effort by that master promoter, Col. Tom Parker." Elvis and Guitar During July 31, 1969 Performance

By Phil Arnold An old high school buddy of mine is also an Elvis fan.  He lives in Indiana and has a background in history education.  So, it was a pleasant surprise when he sent me a copy of the Spring 2008 issue of Traces, the publication of the Indiana Historical Society, with this cover story: “The King’s L...

Patrick Trevellyan, rock music critic for The Examiner offers his take on Elvis' iconic album, From Elvis In Memphis, ahead of its 40th anniversary commemmorative release. From Elvis in Memphis was released to wide critical acclaim and has since gone on to be known as one of, if not the bes...

 TN A reader from Lowell, Massachusetts, recently sent me a letter and wondered if I could solve a "mini-mystery" involving Elvis Presley. Here's a portion of his query: "It is 1956 and Elvis travels to New York to tape The Steve Allen Show. ...

HANSEN: Elvis Presley was paid to be on, right? Mr. ILSON: Well, Elvis Presley actually got the biggest salary because he had a wonderful negotiator in the colonel. And he got $50000 to be on the show. HANSEN: Colonel Tom Parker really was a great ...

By Phil Arnold “black midget Elvis”:  Apparently there is no such thing.  Many sites, including ElvisBlog, made reference to both Black Elvis and Midget Elvis, but apparently no enterprising black midget has tried to become an Elvis Tribute Artist.  Will someone please step forward and fill this gapi...

 OH By Terry Morris | Friday, April 17, 2009, 05:22 PM The Victoria Theatre Association has replaced the musical “All Shook Up” on its 2009-10 Broadway series because producers have cancelled the tour of the show based on Elvis Presley songs. ...

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 OH This time, he comes by way of the national touring ELVIS PRESLEY tribute “ONE NIGHT WITH YOU!” set for the Norwalk High School Performing Arts Center at 8 pm tomorrow. “Elvis” is actually Walt Sanders, backed up by The Cadillac Band and the Cadillettes ...

If you want to celebrate some of the best music in history and the roots of rock 'n' roll, this box set Elvis: The King Of Rock 'N' Roll – The Complete 50's Masters is the place to start.

 TN Vanderbilt writer in residence Peter Guralnick will speak about the life and career of Elvis Presley’s manager on April 18 at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Guralnick, author of the definitive two-volume biography of Presley, will speak at 1:30 pm in ...

During the 1960's Elvis Presley produced a lot of good material, but some not so good as well. From Nashville To Memphis: The Essential 60's Masters, which covers 5 CD's and 130 tracks, gathers most of his superior material and fortunately ignores a great deal of the inferior. His best album...

By Phil Arnold Presley was among the first Hall of Fame inductees in 1986. Scotty Moore was in the first class of so-called “sidemen” inducted.  In that light, DJ’s and Bill’s current status is simply unjust… These specific exclusions will not be satisfactorily addressed until time as DJ Fontana and Bil...

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 AL The Hound Dog, nicknamed after the 1956 Elvis Presley song, weighed 5 tons when launched and had a maximum range of 700 miles. It included a W-28 thermonuclear warhead with a bang equivalent to a million tons of dynamite.

By rss@youtube.com (marco310768) New clip. Elvis as recorded live in El Paso, Texas. June 2, 1976. 8:30 P.M. Civic Center Coliseum (attendance 7050). It's a soundboard recording unreleased officially but available on "EL GOES EL PASO" 2005' bootleg CD released by "Madison" label. Here is the tracklist: Also Sprach Zarathustr...

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By rss@youtube.com (politicsreign) Elvis Presley would have loved fried twinkies so try this at home Twinkies fried in the pan with a bit of oil, and then eat them. Twinkies are fantastic! Author: politicsreign Keywords: Elvis twinkies treat food cooking dessert how to make Added: January 4, 2009

By Destiny But maybe Elvis had already gotten the ultimate revenge in 1971. Five years before his death, Elvis gathered his posse into his den, according to a gossip item Guralnick quotes in Careless Love. Each hanger-on remembered the previous year, when Elvis had given out several new Mercedes — an...

By Brody Vercher It’s been ten years since Elvis Presley appeared on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, but he logged his second entry in two weeks with the No. 43 debut of Martina McBride’s duet on “Blue Christmas.” That follows last week’s No. 60 bow of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” with Carrie Underwood. It...

By noreply@blogger.com (homercat) Imagine what a world it would be like If Elvis Presley hadn't died, weaned himself of drugs, got back in shape and went on to keep recording. Well, Jimmy the King is one Elvis Imitator that dares to dream of this scenario and make it come true as well.

By adfundum 1. Elvis - A Little Less Conversation 2. Gadjo - So Many Times 3. De La Soul - Say No Go 4. Jackson 5 - I Want You Back 5. LL Cool J - Phenomenon 6. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life 7. Mariah Carey - Last Night A DJ Saved My life 8. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight 9. Cypress Hill - When The Shit Goes Down

A special $15 ticket for Scouts, siblings and adults includes a Graceland mansion tour, Elvis Presley Car Museum tour, Lisa Marie Airplane tour and more. A collectible “Scouts Rock at Graceland” patch will also be available for $3 each. ...

By Phil Arnold The Doghaus Collection / The Hillbilly Cat and Me:  This was actually two websites, but neither exists today.  The Washington Post article summarized them as “Fun stuff for collectors.  Everything from the Elvis Presley Board Game to Love Me Tender Conditioning Shampoo.”  Oh well, you ca...

By Phil Arnold One thing about the Amory/Armory Elvis poster caught my eye.  It showed that the concert also included a special guest -- Carl Perkins.  I wondered how many times these three rockabilly icons had appeared together on stage.  I went to one of my favorite sources, "ELVIS -- Day By Day," written...

By Phil Arnold All these new categories require a format change.  ElvisBlog will be going to 3-column in a few weeks.  In the right column will be links to ElvisBlog News, Elvis Commentary Mini-Nuggets, Odd Elvis websites, and, someday, “Elvis Claus, the Book.” Phil Arnold Original Elvis Blogmeister

By Phil Arnold I like that – Scotty Moore:  ground zero for rockabilly music. Watching Women Fight:  One of the less inflammatory “revelations” in that horrible Albert Goldman book titled “Elvis” is that Elvis liked to watch videos of women fighting.  Goldman wrote:

By Phil Arnold I'm a huge Elvis fan, so I'm not sure why it took me so long to figure out why the race seemed so familiar. It didn't hit me until I was watching 1964's Viva Las Vegas, Elvis' fifteenth movie, one day last year. Though some of these connections are admittedly a stretch, several of the similaritie...

Some call it perverse, but to fans of this genre, I guess you could say......... we don't give a damn! It's always nice to have someone to identify with, and Elvis Presley was indeed a lover of females in combat. My source comes from a Rolling Stone article dubbed: The Party Years (You can read this excel...

Ultimate Gospel; Elvis Presley, Music from the King-to-the-Lord, Enjoyed by an Elvis-fan and Believer. It's just a couple of months ago that I purchased another album of his again. It was Elvis Ultimate Gospel. This was released in 2004. It's said that 'To sing once is to pray twice'. Elvis did...

If you're the winning bidder for Lot 284 at a Beverly Hills, California, auction on Saturday, you could spend the rest of the weekend partying like the King. The item up for auction during Julien's Summer Sale at the Beverly Hilton hotel is an undated bottle for the antihistamine drug Nalde...

By Ken Emerson Heinz met its match in Ben Weisman, who wrote with a variety of lyricists an astounding 57 songs recorded by Elvis Presley and died on May 20 at the age of 85. Although "Clambake," "Rock-A-Hula Baby" and "He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad" can't hold a candle to the quality of Jerry Leiber and Mike...

By Big Geez He grew up in rural Oregon, but as an aspiring young singer his path led him to Detroit, where he began working in R&B clubs -- sometimes as the only white singer. He began to get noticed, and his distinctive style that foreshadowed rock and roll helped him get a recording contract with R&...

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) Listen to Peter Guralnick, the 2007 Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer at Vanderbilt and author of definitive biographies of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke, as he lectures on the origins and impact of Ray Charles' record "I Got a Woman" at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Muse...

By Patrick Walsh Walk Hard, a mock biopic spoofing the likes of Walk The Line and Ray, has John C. Reilly playing Dewey Cox, a fictional musician with shades of Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. Over the course of Cox's life, he crosses a lot of real-life music legends, and now we know who will be playing the role of th...

By Brandon Daviet These days it’s often contested, especially by the hip-hop community, if Presley deserves his long-standing title of “The King,” but there is no denying that in the late '50s Presley’s popularity made the success of American Idol look like boring reruns of C-SPAN Senate hearings.Music...

Believing that he met Elvis Presley in a UFO above the Bristol Channel, Clive Tagish AKA “Minehead Elvis” contacts ‘The Paranormalists’ with an intriguing proposition.