Elvis Presley

By Phil Arnold I'm not terribly sad about the prospects of no Elvis Presley Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas.  As I told Holly, I would be quite happy if some smaller Elvis attractions opened up.  My complete answer was: It certainly would have been the destination of choice for fans coming to Las Vegas intending...

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 rolled into Las Vegas in July 1969 on top of his game.  The ’68 Comeback Special had recharged his career, as did “In The Ghetto,” his huge Top 10 hit in early 1969.  But, the Sun’s reviewers still wanted to cut Elvis down a bit.

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

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...

Ah the wonders of modern technology! The RCA label has released another Elvis Presley Christmas album but rather than just repackaging some of his holiday hits, they decided to get a little creative. They gathered together a number of country music's biggest female stars to sing duets wi...

By Lou Novacheck It’s hard to believe Orbison died nearly 20 years ago. In less than 60 days, an entire generation will have passed. Far, far too many people who never knew his voice. Roy Orbison was the personification of a Baby Boomer’s epitome of rock and roll. Not one of the bad boys, and probably not a saint, b...

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...

 OH - In the late 1950s and early 1960s there was Elvis Presley and then there was Ricky Nelson. Elvis was a musical and cultural phenomenon but Ricky Nelson ...

Elvis Presley performed before a worldwide television audience of over one billion people on January 14, 1973. Elvis looked good, performed, well and sang superbly. Aloha From Hawaii remains one of the essential releases by Elvis ...

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...

NORM: Elvis fan club will have star its way Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - A local Elvis fan club isn't feeling a whole lot of love from the Elvis Presley Estate. The cold shoulder includes efforts to obtain a donation for Elvis' ...

Elvis Presley released his second long playing album, Elvis, on October 9, 1956. Elvis was then a star. His first album, Elvis Presley, and the single Heartbreak Hotel had sold millions of copies. Elvis has a good feel to it and shows some musical movement and an increasing maturity. This seco...

By NewsFeed Essential Elvis: Chapter 3. So what does a young, charismatic, and good looking singer, who is the most successful musical artist in the country do for an encore? He heads to Hollywood to star in a movie of course. ...

 OH - Jun 26, 2008 Interestingly the number one single, “Heartbreak Hotel,” was left off the album because RCA did not want the LP to interfere with its sales. Elvis Presley ...

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...

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...