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As a follow up to the hugely popular Viva Las Vegas book, JAT Productions will release 'Elvis Presley And Nancy Sinatra On The Speedway'. The Viva Las Vegas! hardcover book features unreleased world premiere photographs of Elvis and Ann-Margret on the set and on the town. View the cover art.
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FTD will release the soundboard of the November 10, 1971 Boston Garden Show (no official title, 5" CD, Sep 14 2010) as this is the only available show from the early tours of the seventies. We believe that this is of such historical importance, that it should be available to everyone. This will be a 5" digipack with a photo booklet. On the same date, FTD will also release a 2-CD set of Elvis: Fool (2CD 7" CD, Sep 14 2010) in the Classic Album series. This will feature a 7" digi-pack with an 8-page booklet. Both are due out September 14.
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The Complete Elvis Presley Masters, a 30 CD limited edition box set (1000 sets) is now officially announced. As we first told you in September 2008, the set will include every Elvis Presley master recording released during his lifetime, presented in chronological order for the first time (711 original masters) plus an extra 103 rarities. The set will include a 240-page hardcover book with complete discography produced exclusively for this collection. Ernst Jorgensen will reveal the full details of this project in Memphis on August 14.
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Roger Ebert wrote in 1968 that 'Speedway is the late show of 20 years from now'. While Ebert meant it in a derogatory way, he did at least hit on one key thing about the films of Elvis Presley, and that is that they have indeed survived. More than survived, they have prospered and despite the suspect quality of some of them, for millions of people all over the world they continue to resonate far more than most 'great' movies you care to name. I would argue though that there are some really good movies ...
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Elvis Presley's self-titled first LP is unarguably one of the most important albums in rock history. Not only is it the first album by the genre's most successful and influential figure, but it is also the first genuine smash LP of the rock era. Its success in the spring and summer of 1956 would signal that it would be the long player and not the single that would come to dominate the sixties and onwards.
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Return Of The King is a well written and researched effort by Gaar, that also contains just enough new information to qualify as a welcome addition to any Elvis fan's library. It is also one of the more engrossing reads about Elvis' 'comeback years' to come down the pike in awhile.
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FTD have announced the upcoming releases for 2010. Last week, some of the new releases were already announced, prior to the official message from FTD. The releases that are planned at this stage are ...
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Janelle McComb of Tupelo, Mississippi was a good friend to Elvis and his family for many years. On several occasions Elvis asked her to lend her unique talents to record his feelings in verse. The Priceless Gift, a birthday poem for his daughter Lisa, was one of those occasions. Lisa's copy is displayed at Graceland.
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King Creole, The Music (book + CD, Aug 8 2010) is a 200-page book with images exclusively designed to complement the music from the film. It consists of two main sections; the recording sessions on January 16, 1958 and song scenes from the filming of the movie (including behind-the scenes shots). The images are classic and well-known shots with the majority being previously unpublished and taken by the original still photographers on the set (no freeze-frames). The set will be released in August 8.
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Good Times: The Outtakes 2-disc 180-gram vinyl set. Following on from the previous strictly Limited Edition series, FTD is pleased to announce the release of a special 2-disc 180-gram vinyl set of Good Times: The Outtakes in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, it features the superb original draft artwork design that was superseded prior to release. Unique! The set will be released in August 8. View cover art & tracklisting.
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Warner Home Video will release, Elvis On Tour on August 3 in both Blu-ray and DVD versions. The Blu-ray release will be packaged as a Blu-ray book filled with Elvis photos, quotes, trivia, a tour itinerary, set lists, costumes, and background information about the filming techniques used. The Bu-ray is newly Restored & Remastered in High Definition (16 x 9 2.0 Letterbox) as seen in the theatrical release with DTS HD Master Audio (5.1 Souround). The DVD is newly Restored & Remastered (16 x 9 2.0 Letterbox) as seen in the theatrical release and with Dolby Digital Audio (5.1 Souround).
View the 'Blu-ray book' layout.
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Perhaps the best part of FTD's 'Elvis Now' is that every song sounds better than it ever has before. If you love Elvis in the 1969 - 1971 era represented by this album and care about audio quality, you will be thrilled with these sound upgrades - particularly on the master takes. Kudos to FTD for much improvement in this area over the years. 'Elvis Now' is a different kind of listening experience than that of From Elvis In Memphis or That's The Way It Is. While those two albums are monumental, their greatness should not take away from the understated achievement that Elvis Now represents. Buy Elvis Now. Now!
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FTD's version of Good Times turns out to be a fine upgrade of the original album, truly capturing the spirit of a collectors label by bringing the original cuts together in pristine sound quality along with tons of additional takes. Ten years in, FTD seems to have hit its stride, and its Classic Album series has become essential.
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Elvis Presley received a golden crown - and a standing ovation at the conclusion of his unprecedented satellite live TV concert beamed to a global audience of over 1.5 billion in the wee hours of the morning yesterday. This is the original review by Wayne Harada : Honolulu Advertiser (1973).
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About two weeks after meeting The Beatles, Elvis finally decided on recording a gospel album. He wanted everyone to know that 'there's more to me than a lot of people might think'. Increasingly dissatisfied with the direction his career was taking, Elvis wanted to express himself creatively in new ways.
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'Elvis: Hot Shots and Cool Clips' Volume 5 featuring unreleased footage will be released on October 1.
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The book, 'East Tupelo & Elvis, That's the Way It Was' by Wanda Powell Heagy will be released late July or early August 2010. This is a book that contains the history of East Tupelo where Elvis was born and how it progressed during his life living here. It also contains information about Elvis, his family, and over 150 photos.
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Warner Australia have announced that they will release both Elvis On Tour on standard Blu-ray and (PAL format) DVD formats on September 29. So we would expect to have stock on the following Monday Oct 2.
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Praytome Publishing have advised us that the Dixieland Delight : Multimedia-Box-Set (Praytome Publishing & Bud Glass Productions) is still a project they are working on and planning to release. 'It's just a huge project which is a lot of work and it's one of the many products we are working on at the moment'.
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Elvis, The Beauty Queen & Me Volume II originally announced in May is still in production but expected to be completed 'soon'. This second volume with Jeanne LeMay is now almost complete. The majority of this DVD was filmed during Jeanne's trip to the UK in 2008. She was captured talking candidly about her time with Elvis at Graceland, on tour and in Vegas. She openly discusses how she was able to enjoy a close relationship with Elvis through her friendship with Linda Thompson, how she became a secretary at Graceland and what went on during those years. Her memories of those times are funny, fascinating and extremely riveting.
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The FTD release of Elvis' Grammy Award winning album How Great Thou Art is a 2-disc set in the Classic Album series. Originally released in 1967, the original album featured a collection of thirteen sacred songs including the hit single 'Crying In The Chapel'. In addition to the masters, it features many great outtakes. The 7" inch digi-pack format features a 12-page booklet with great photographs and rare memorabilia.
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Elvis made television and entertainment history with his 'Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii - Via Satellite' concert.
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Elvis is Johnny Cash, for a young teenage girl in 1957 he was. She came down the aisle and stopped next to Elvis, her eyes wide with disbelief. 'Johnny Cash!' she said in an excited whisper. We started laughing, but Elvis quickly hushed us and started talking to the girl. She told him how much she loved his records, and how she'd been to one of his shows. Finally, she asked. 'Johnny, would you sing me one of your songs?' ...
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Bill Porter, sound engineer on many of Elvis' recordings died on July 7, 2010. Bill recorded nearly all of Elvis' number one hits upon his return from the Army and mixed the sound for Elvis' concerts from 1970 to 1977.
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Radio ad for Elvis Presley Concerts, June 3, 1956
(1:53) Radio ad for the two Elvis Presley Concerts on June 3, 1956. Elvis performs two concerts on this day in Oakland California. Don't you dare miss it!!!
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Connie Francis: The first time I saw Elvis in person was shortly after his mother died. He was in the audience front row center at the Sahara in Las Vegas. Knowing that, I was just dying to meet him after the show.
I sang 'Mama' and he started to cry and left the showroom. That was it that night.
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Elvis On Tour - MGM 1972 combines performance footage with tapes of television shows, clips from early Presley films, other memorabilia of the great Elvis, and finally, a clear glimpse of the superstar at work.
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Every day is a discovery at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, and never has that been more true than when the negatives for three never before seen photos of Elvis were uncovered this summer in a collection of papers found in the Graceland office of Elvis' father, Vernon Presley. Or have they? ...
The Elvis Files author Erik Lorentzen advises that he was a little bit suprised with this news, since he has these pictures in his collection for over 20 years. And they will be published in his next release, The Elvis Files Volume 2.
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Interview with Richard Davis a longtime member of Elvis' Memphis Mafia. Richard started working for Elvis after Elvis returned from the Army and continued to work for him until 1971 as a body guard, a stand-in in 23 movies and eventually a wardrobe manager. He remained friends with Elvis until the end. Known among the other Memphis Mafia members for his quick wit and for being a bit of a prankster he once dropped a water balloon on Elvis' head as he walked out of his trailer in fresh makeup for a movie shoot.
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