We have been contacted by Richard Congelosi who worked for Jules Meyers Pontiac, Inc. Richard was hired in Dec, '69 and had an 'orientation' period to serve, in order to get an automobile sales license, officially he worked at the dealership from January 1970 to June 1974. Richard has provided some new information and pictures, including Elvis' car at the car show in 1970, following our story on Elvis' Stutz Blackhawks.
Elvis Articles October 10, 2008 - 1:56:51 PM Read more

Interview with Elvis Presley - The 1969 Press Conference.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews October 3, 2008 - 2:51:44 PM Read more

Elvis Presley had a life-long love affair with motor cars. Beginning in the '50s with Cadillacs, including the Pink Cadillac that he eventually gave to his mother, to a second hand Volkswagen and two BMW 507s in Germany. In the '60s there where more Cadillacs, Ford Lincoln's and a Rolls Royce among many others. In the '70s, again Elvis purchased Cadillacs, a Mercedes-Benz 600, even a Ford T-Bird - but his most prized cars of the 1970s were his Stutz Blackhawk's. Elvis was the first person to own a Stutz Blackhawk, and there can be no doubt his favourite car of the 1970s was his 1973 Stutz Blackhawk III.
Elvis Articles September 26, 2008 - 4:19:29 PM Read more

Elvis Presley had the ability to touch others' lives as few human beings ever could. Just as people were magnetically drawn to him, so too, he had an almost fan-like devotion to those he admired. Among that group was Hawaii 5-0's Jack Lord and his wife, Marie.
Elvis Articles September 24, 2008 - 10:47:00 AM Read more

Elvis' purchased this 1971 yellow De Tomaso Pantera sports car in 1974 for $2,400 as a gift to then girlfriend Linda Thompson. This is the car Elvis shot - on more than one occasion! George Klein, Myrna Smith and Sheila Ryan all tell rather amazing stories about Elvis and this De Tomaso Pantera sports car.
Elvis Articles September 21, 2008 - 1:58:34 PM Read more

A look at Elvis' Guitar Man and U.S. Male Sessions with Jerry Reed. For 'Guitar Man', the song Elvis had picked up on the radio in LA, Felton Jarvis told Elvis that if he wanted that distinctive guitar sound he loved so much on the record they'd have to get Jerry Reed himself for the session (September 10, 1967).
Elvis Articles September 5, 2008 - 1:14:18 PM Read more

Interview with Lance LeGault. I had tried to get Harley bikes for Elvis. I called Harley Davidson up in Milwaukee and they did not even return my calls. So he ended up riding the little Honda 350, which was not Elvis. Elvis rode Harley Davidson motorcycles. And I rode motorcycles with Elvis a great deal.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews September 2, 2008 - 7:22:16 PM Read more

In Hollywood, there is a genre of film called the exploitation movie, an umbrella term describing a movie where quality is sacrificed for cost and the moviemaker appeals to his audience by bizarre themes (drug use, wanton violence, kinky sex), adherence to a formula (as in beach party or zombie films) or the exploitation of a popular act, character or personality – for example Tarzan, the Norwegian ice skating queen Sonya Henje or, for that matter, Elvis Presley ... These films exist primarily to make a profit.
Elvis Articles, By Paul Simpson August 15, 2008 - 6:04:04 PM Read more

Wanda Jackson: My daddy said, 'I wonder if there's a fire or something. Let me go look'. I started getting my things, and he came back and said, 'No, relax. But you've got to see this for yourself'. He took me to the wings, and there was Elvis singing and moving and gyrating, and all these girls standing at the foot of the stage, screaming and reaching for him. It was quite an unusual sight for those days. And when the rest of the nation started giving him havoc, it really upset him.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, By Alanna Nash August 12, 2008 - 5:04:48 PM Read more

Elvis Presley has mysteriously disappeared from the upper echelons of a new list that ranks the artists with the most No. 1 hits on the U.S. pop singles chart.
Elvis News, Elvis Articles August 10, 2008 - 5:42:30 PM Read more

Elvis and I felt a common bond, coming from Mississippi. He thought I understood him. He didn't have to put on airs with me, and I wasn't after anything. This is an odd thing to say about Elvis Presley, but it was like I was working with my brother. We never dated. We were just two people from the same state.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, By Alanna Nash August 7, 2008 - 5:14:05 PM Read more

Among many of Elvis Presley's prized cars was his Stutz Blackhawk's. Elvis was the first in America to own a Stutz, and probably his favouite car of the '70s was his 1973 Stutz Blackhawk III.
Elvis Articles July 28, 2008 - 8:47:52 PM Read more

Sam Thompson has worked as a deputy sheriff in a Memphis, Tennessee., jail, as a bodyguard for Elvis Presley, whom he met when his sister, Linda Thompson, a former Miss Tennessee, was dating the singer, a judge, a record label executive, a member of the Nevada Transmission Authority.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews July 22, 2008 - 10:44:46 PM Read more

Australian Elvis Presley Fan Clubs were advised in mid 1967 that Elvis' Gold Cadillac would be coming to Australia. The General Manager of the record division for RCA Australia, Mr Walsh, finalised all the arrangements with Elvis and Colonel Tom Parker, and so the Cadillac departed the States on the 8th of December 1967, arriving in Australia in early January 1968.
Elvis Presley Pictures, Elvis Articles, By Bob Hayden July 18, 2008 - 7:02:42 PM Read more

On July 7, 1955 Elvis purchased his second Pink Cadillac, a new 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 in blue with black roof, to replace the Cadillac that was burned. He had the car repainted by a neighbor who designed a pink color for Elvis and named the color 'Elvis Rose'. This is the one that he gave to his mother, probably the most famous car in the world. Gladys would always proudly point to it as 'her' car.
Elvis Presley Pictures, Elvis Articles July 18, 2008 - 7:01:06 PM Read more

Top 5 Aircraft of the rich and famous by Business.com.
Elvis Articles July 16, 2008 - 10:22:10 PM Read more

Besides Sam Phillips, Chips Moman was the only man to effectively produce Elvis Presley -- helping midwife The King's creative rebirth in 1969. And it was Moman who helped build and shape American Sound Studios and its house band -- generating the most prolific run of chart hits ever.
Elvis Articles July 16, 2008 - 2:36:14 PM Read more

In the spring of 1960, a Dutch housewife named Nel Dankers-van Kuijk visited her hairdresser in Eindhoven, and thumbed through the new issue of Rosita, a Belgian women's magazine. There she saw a photograph that stopped her heart. A young American singing star, Elvis Presley, just home from the army in his handsome dress blues, waved to his fans from the doorway of a train. But it was the big man standing behind him who caught her eye. He looked so much like her younger brother Jan?
Elvis Articles, By Alanna Nash July 10, 2008 - 3:00:54 PM Read more

Elvis was a genius. He didn't express himself the way the middle classes do, which is with word play and being able to explain his actions and reactions. He acted on gut instinct and expressed himself by the way he held the microphone, by the way he moved his hips, by the way that he sang down the microphone. That was his genius ... I believe the essence of any performer is gut instinct ... Because it's all in you, it's instinct.
Elvis Articles July 10, 2008 - 9:01:42 AM Read more

The unique association between Elvis Presley and Graceland, his home in Memphis, Tennessee, for more than 20 years (1957-1977), is so powerful that Elvis and Graceland are essentially interchangeable.
Elvis Presley Biography, Elvis Articles July 7, 2008 - 7:29:00 PM Read more

Wink Martindale was the morning DJ at WHBQ in Memphis. The evening DJ, Dewey Phillips, was known for playing what was then called 'race music', and it was one evening that a record brought in by Sam Phillips featuring an artist by the name of Elvis Presley was played. 'You could tell that something exciting was going on when the record was played', says Wink. Ironically, Wink's future wife Sandy had dated Elvis for six years.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews July 4, 2008 - 11:38:41 AM Read more

At the 25th Annual 'William S. Paley Television Festival' in the USA on March 14, 2008, at the historic Cinerama Dome at the ArcLight in Hollywood, California; Priscilla Presley, Steve Binder and Bones Howe were guests to talk about the 40th anniversary of the '68 Comeback Special .... View video (2:46).
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews June 29, 2008 - 12:02:27 PM Read more

Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber helped give birth to rock and roll when they wrote Hound Dog in 1952. Their list of hits sounds like the very history of rock and roll almost from the moment of its birth, with classic songs recorded by everybody from Elvis Presley to the Drifters to John Lennon.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, By Ken Sharp June 29, 2008 - 12:01:34 PM Read more

'Daddy-O' Dewey Phillips was born on May 13, 1926 - Dewey was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys, along the lines of Cleveland's Alan Freed, before Alan Freed. Starting his radio career in 1949 on WHBQ-AM in Memphis, he was the city's leading radio personality for nine years and was the first to simulcast his 'Red, Hot & Blue' show on radio and television. In July 1954, he was the first DJ to broadcast the young Elvis Presley's debut record, That's All Right / Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Sun 209).
Elvis Articles June 28, 2008 - 7:03:20 PM Read more

Although Freddy Bienstock is not a household name, he is famous to many as the music publisher and plugger for Elvis Presley. But still, even to Elvis fans, he is something of a mystery figure. He is an essential component in the Elvis story. Just how important becomes clear when he said, quite matter of factly, 'For the first 12 years of Elvis' career with RCA, he wouldn't look at a song unless I had seen it first'.
Elvis Articles June 25, 2008 - 9:01:48 PM Read more

Alfred Wertheimer talks about photographing Elvis at 21 in 1956.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews June 25, 2008 - 5:03:23 PM Read more

Oh to be a kid today! Just take a look at the quality animation in the forthcomming Disney movie 'Bolt'. Why do we mention this? Well Elvis Vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation is included on the soundtrack.
Elvis Articles June 25, 2008 - 11:46:27 AM Read more

Bones Howe. Recognize the name? You should. For more than 40 years, Bones Howe has been producing hit records and putting music in the movies. He's made records with Elvis Presley and movies with Steven Spielberg without getting wrapped up in the Hollywood tinsel.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews June 24, 2008 - 5:20:19 PM Read more

Pouring through celebrity images this week, as I usually do in this job, my eyes were immediately drawn to pictures of Riley Keough, granddaughter of Presley, at a Hollywood event (see right). For some reason I couldn't quite take my eyes off her, and I wasn't exactly sure why. Until it hit me - just like her grandfather before her, Keough possesses that extra something, a definite je nes sais quoi. For all the non-believers out there, Elvis does live on... in the spirit of this 19-year-old girl.
Elvis Articles, Danielle Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley June 23, 2008 - 6:49:08 PM Read more

Elvis was a very tender soul. He had such a good heart. We literally bought out a pet shop one night. About three o'clock one morning, Get- Low was acting really strange, so we had a doctor come over. He said, 'I don't think the dog will make it through the night'. So Elvis leased a Learjet and flew Get Lo, my girlfriend and me, and the doctor up to Boston to a special clinic for kidney dialysis. We left him up there for about three months. But he didn't live long after that. He was only about a year old. We were on tour when he died, and we were coming home on his plane when they told us. Elvis just cried.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, By Alanna Nash June 20, 2008 - 4:49:09 PM Read more

Elvis Presley was more curiosity than singing sensation when the Hillbilly Cat and his pink-and-white Cadillac arrived in Ocala on Tuesday, May 10, 1955. No one — not even Elvis — dreamed the skinny, 20-year-old kid with the bedroom eyes and long sideburns would one day be viewed as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll'. Elvis was eight months away from exploding on the national consciousness with the release of 'Heartbreak Hotel', which would sell 300,000 copies within a week of its release.
Elvis Articles June 17, 2008 - 11:01:34 AM Read more

June Juanico: Elvis was the love of my life. I met him in the summer of '55, when he was just a regional star. I was 17 and he was 20. He had been in my hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi, several times before, and people said, 'You need to see him', and I went on this one night. I thought he was the most gorgeous thing: big, dreamy eyes. Girls were screaming over him, and I'm just not that kind. I was passing by him, not even looking at him, and he reached through the crowd and grabbed my arm. He said, 'Where are you going?'
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, By Alanna Nash June 14, 2008 - 3:29:07 PM Read more

Sid Tepper wrote 45 songs for Elvis, and hundreds more for other artists. Unless you're talking about Irving Berlin or Rodgers and Hammerstein, songwriters generally don't have household names.
Elvis Articles June 14, 2008 - 1:15:42 PM Read more

Elvis' Flaming Star, co-star Barbara Eden talks to Alanna Nash about Elvis Presley. The original interview from August 2007 was the very first time Barbara Eden had been interviewed in-depth by anyone about Elvis. God, what a talent he was! I remember the first time I saw him. It was on television. I had a job dancing, and one of the girls took me home to rehearse, and her sister came running in the room and said, 'Look! Look! Quick! Stop!' It was the Ed Sullivan Show. And he was just electric. You'd never forget him after that.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, By Alanna Nash June 6, 2008 - 11:07:49 AM Read more

It's said, as legend has it, that you rescued Elvis from being beaten up at Humes High when a group of boys wanted to cut his hair. What's the real story, and was that what happened? Red West: That is the real story.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews May 29, 2008 - 4:32:00 PM Read more

Scotty Moore recalls the day Elvis recorded 'That's All Right' He could have been a Starlite Wrangler. If history had played out differently, Elvis Presley might have been just a singer in a local country & western group. That's how Wrangler guitarist Scotty Moore pictured him when he first heard the unproven vocalist.
Elvis Articles May 18, 2008 - 7:17:45 PM Read more

Elvis said, 'Mr Curtis, I want you to know what a fan I am. I used to watch your movies in Tennessee'. And I said, 'Please, don't call me Mr Curtis'. And this handsome kid looks at me and said, 'So what do you want me to call you?' And I said, 'Just call me Tony'. And I said, 'So what do I call you?' And he said, 'Mr Presley'. 
Elvis Articles May 18, 2008 - 3:56:35 PM Read more

In this interview, Barbara speaks candidly about her time with Elvis. As an actress, Barbara has appeared in numerous TV series and on the big screen with major stars including Rock Hudson and Steve McQueen. In 1970 Barbara was introduced to Elvis and that meeting began a torrid, two year affair.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews May 15, 2008 - 9:06:14 AM Read more

This is the review of Elvis' first concert at the International Hotel on July 31, 1969. It was written by Ray Connelly and originally published in the London Evening Standard August 2, 1969. Included with the review is an exciting interview with The King, again by Ray Connelly.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews, Elvis Reviews May 15, 2008 - 9:05:12 AM Read more

Elvis Presley was a generous man. Not only to those who worked for him, his family and friends, but often to strangers and regular gifts to charities, both national and local. Christmas time every year Elvis would donate around $100,000 to organized charities.
Elvis Articles May 12, 2008 - 12:32:30 AM Read more

For reasons I cannot entirely fathom, I have been increasingly drawn, in the past year, to The Trouble With Girls on DVD. One of Elvis' late, neglected movies - released in the U.S. on a double bill with a cheesy horror flick called The Green Slime - it was shot when his hopes of being the next James Dean had been virtually extinguished. Yet the King seems more animated than usual on celluloid - certainly more engaged than he is, in, say Paradise Hawaiian Style - and utterly at home in this small town period piece.
Elvis Articles, By Paul Simpson May 10, 2008 - 11:39:43 AM Read more

Interview with Donna Butterworth who played Jan Kohana in Paradise Hawaiian Style. Donna appeared in the 1965 film 'The Family Jewels' with Jerry Lewis and received Golden Globe nomination for her role. She made only three films before leaving the movie business.
Elvis Articles, Elvis Interviews May 1, 2008 - 12:27:28 PM Read more

How many records has Elvis actually sold? Did he really sell One Billion records as has been claimed. Nick Keene has researched this subject in depth with help from Ernst Jorgensen and Sony BMG and has compiled the following report. This is a work in progress and will continue to be until the full facts finally emerge. Like a jigsaw puzzle the pieces are slowly coming together and beginning to make sense. Updated April, 2008.
Elvis Articles, By Nick Keene April 15, 2008 - 11:12:00 PM Read more

This week it has been reported that Mariah Carey has surpassed Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most No. 1 singles on Billboard's U.S Top 100 chart. EPE (and Elvis Australia) claim that Elvis had, in fact, 18 No. 1 singles, meaning Carey would have simply tied with Elvis. The confusion lies with the 1956 chart-toppers Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog. EPE (correctly) lists the two songs as separate No. 1 singles. In the 1950's and 1960's Billboard counted record sales and Jukebox plays of both sides of a single. Also in the case of Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel there were two different covers issued allowing for which ever was asked for at the counter. One had Hound Dog / Don't Be Cruel the other the reverse Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog.
Elvis Articles April 8, 2008 - 11:04:00 AM Read more