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Lisa Marie Wants A Better Elvis Film : Interview with Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley talks with Adrian Sainz about wanting to make a better movie about her father and envisions something like 'Walk the Line', the Johnny Cash biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix. And reveals she has found time to make a new record to be titled 'Storm And Grace' her third. Set for release in May.
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Video : ABC TV Interview with Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley is celebrating her birthday today in Memphis where she also opened the new expo

'Elvis : Through His Daughters Eyes' that will be on display for the next two years. Because of this event, ABC News interviewed Lisa and she talks about her dad, her upcoming album and takes the reporter behind the scenes in the Graceland archives. Lisa Marie Presley opened the new exhibit yesterday at Elvis Presley's Graceland in Memphis as part of a yearlong commemoration the 35th anniversary year.
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Exclusive Preview : '4 days in 56 : A Moment In Time' Book from FTD

Photo preview and information on the November FTD book release,'4 days in 56 : A Moment In Time' that chronicles four days in the Spring of 1956 as Elvis barnstorms from Detroit, to Columbus, Ohio, to Dayton, Ohio and finally lands in Memphis where he gets to enjoy his new home on Audubon Drive.
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Barbara Hearn and Elvis Presley : her story

Here's an interesting read we found on the CNN website: Elvis was singing in the men's room. But I'd gotten used to that. This time, though, there was something new. And it led me, after all these years, to the legendary Barbara Hearn. A little explanation -- all right, a lot of explanation -- is in order:
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Video : Alice Cooper talks about meeting Elvis Presley

Now we finally have the true story of Alice Cooper meeting Elvis. In the

video we now have you can see and hear Alice and what he really said and compare it too how the UK's Daily Mail distorted the story ...
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Video : Whitney Houston talks about how she met Elvis back in 1969

Whitney Houston talks about how she met Elvis back in 1969.
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Video : Steve Martin talks about Meeting Elvis Presley on the David Letterman Show

Steve Martin talks about Meeting Elvis Presley while opening for Ann-Margret on the David Letterman Show. Did the King of Rock & Roll appreciate Steve's unique brand of humor?
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Interview with Hal Kanter Director of Loving You

Interview with Hal Kanter, screenwriter and director for the movie 'Loving You'.
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Bing Crosby talks about Elvis Presley

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Bing Crosby talks about Elvis Presley. Bing's comments are surprisingly perceptive: 'He's gonna be a very big star, I mean, in a lot of fields ... he sings in tune, and he's got good rhythm, he just hasn't developed enough voice just yet to handle the ballads but that'll come ...' An interesting audio document. Bing Crosby was surely an influence on Elvis, and he clearly understood Elvis Presley and his talent, way better than the idiot who was interviewing him. In fact, Elvis had great rhythm, he could sing, and with time he developed his voice and became an accomplished vocalist. Elvis received the Bing Crosby award in 1971 ...
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Video : George Klein Interviews Scotty Moore

George Klein interviews Scotty Moore on his 'Memphis Sounds' TV Show.
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Video : George Klein Interviews Gordon Stoker

George Klein interviews Gordon Stoker on his 'Memphis Sounds' TV Show. Gordon talks about Elvis coming backstage to meet The Jordanaires in 1955 and telling them he wanted them to work him if he ever got a major recording contract. And then the subsequent fun times recording with Elvis over the years.
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Norbert Putnam Reflects On The King

Elvis Presley strolled into RCA Studio B in Nashville on the evening of June 4, 1970, his attire accentuated by a black cape and matching cane. 'I was wondering', he said to his musicians, a smile creasing his lips', if you folks would like to make some phonograph records tonight?' The room erupted in cheers.
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Interview with Ernst Jørgensen

Video and new text interview with Ernst Jørgensen. Ernst talks about his becoming an Elvis fan as a teenager, discovering Elvis tapes in the RCA vaults, including songs such as 'A Hundred Years From Now' and tapes that should have been in the vaults but were not. Ernst also talks about his mastering of Elvis' songs and the challenges involved, Elvis' duets with Ann Margret and Elvis Movies including his 'greatest movie', Elvis That's The Way It Is. And finally, Meeting Priscilla for the first time and her playing him 'My Happiness', and telling Ernst 'we think this is Elvis', and then the discovery of the second acetate - and much more.
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Interview with Barbara Gray who reveals a 55 year old secret

Interview with Barbara Gray who reveals a 55 year old secret as the mystery woman in the classic Alfred Wertheimer photo titled 'the kiss'. You wont be familiar with the name Barbara Gray, but that is about to change. The video starts with the original phone call to the radio station to reveal her identity.
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Interview with Donna Butterworth

Interview with Donna Butterworth who played Jan Kohana in Paradise Hawaiian Style.
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Video : George Klein Interviews Jerry Schilling

George Klein interviews Jerry Schilling on his 'Memphis Sounds' TV Show. Gerry talks about first meeting Elvis and the visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Elvis who wrote Nixon a six-page which he asked Jerry to proof read on the plane.
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Video : Cissy Houston Remembers Elvis Presley

Video : Cissy Houston Remembers Elvis Presley.
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Video : George Klein Interviews Dr. Nick : George Nichopoulos

George Klein interviews Dr. Nick : George Nichopoulos on his 'Memphis Sounds' TV Show.
In this short video interview with GK, Dr Nick gives his opinion on why Elvis died.
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Elvis

Here we have a very interesting article that we are honored to bring to you. Author Ed Silverman has given kindly given us permission to present his story of his two encounters with Elvis, the first in Las Vegas 1956 in which he was in the audience for one of the 'Atomic Powered Singers' shows. He did not get to meet Elvis on this occasion but made up for that when he covered Elvis' discharge from the army, interviewing him close up at Fort Dix on March 2, 1960 as an American broadcasting Company TV news correspondent.
Ed's title for the article, is simple, 'Elvis'. And we have decided to keep it as is!
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Video : George Klein Interviews Red West

George Klein interviews Red West on his 'Memphis Sounds' TV Show.
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Video : George Klein Interviews DJ Fontana

George Klein interviews DJ Fontana on his 'Memphis Sounds' TV Show.
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Video : Liza Minnelli talks about meeting Elvis Presley

During a recent

BBC interview with Graham Norton, Liza Minnelli talks about meeting Elvis in 1970. Liza talks about how Elvis came backstage to watch her show and then invited her up to his suite and that he showed off his Karate moves. She also says that she was sitting next to Chubby Checker, Alice Cooper and Linda Lovelace, partially confirming what appeared to be bizarre claims by Alice Cooper in a recent interview.
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Interview with Elvis Presley : The 1972 Madison Square Garden Press Conference : June 9, 1972

The 1972 Madison Square Garden Press Conference : June 9, 1972, in much improved picture quality, plus the transcript to read if you prefer ... Elvis: First of all, I plead innocent of all charges! ...
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Interview with Elvis Presley : The February 1970 Houston Astrodome Press Conference

The Houston Astrodome was chosen by Colonel Parker to be the first venue for Elvis to perform outside Las Vegas. After the concluding show Elvis held a press conference for about 100 journalists at Astroworld.
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Interview with Celeste Yarnall : Live a Little, Love a Little

Interview with Celeste Yarnall who appeared briefly in Live A Little, Love a Little. Celeste plays Ellen, the girl at the party, with all the astrological reasons why she and Elvis just can't possibly be matched up. However, not one to be easily discouraged, Elvis woos her by showing her a box with blinking lights, and by singing A Little Less Conversation. Their brief romance is interrupted, however, by Michele Carey hooverin' up a storm.
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Video: Dame Shirley Bassey talks about Elvis Presley

Shirley Bassey still gets 'goose bumps' when she recalls her first meeting with Elvis Presley. In this video from the Graham Norton Show in 2003 she tells of the time she visited the Elvis while passing through Las Vegas and was shocked when, in a fit of creativity, Elvis undid her buttoned outfit and got busy with the nearest pen. 'He unbuttoned it and started doodling on my skin. I still get goose bumps talking about it ...'
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Interview with 'Aloha From Hawaii' director and producer, Marty Pasetta

Video interview with

Marty Pasetta, the director and producer of Elvis' Aloha from Hawaii TV special watched by over 1.5 billion people worldwide. Marty reminisces about pitching his ideas for the Elvis Aloha from Hawaii special, the first program to ever be beamed around the world by satellite. Marty actually told Elvis 'You gotta to lose weight' when they met in Las Vegas. Elvis spent the next three months dieting, taking vitamin injections, and rigorously working out with his Memphis karate instructor, Kang Rhee.
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June Juanico Remembers Elvis Presley : Interview with June Juanico

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?'
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Interview with Sam Thompson

Interview/article with Sam Thompson about his time as bodyguard for Elvis Presley and much more.
This is an excellent article and we have added two small parts from answers given in another interview.
All up it is very informative - if you only read one article on our website this year, make it this one.
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Video: Interview with Milton Berle : Milton Berle talks about Elvis Presley

Interview with Milton Berle who talks about Elvis and his appearance on 'The Milton Berle Show', about his first meeting with Elvis that occurred when Colonel Parker aksed Berle to audition him. It was on his second appearance on The Milton Berle show that Elvis' performance of 'Hound Dog' drove the audience wild, and had the press and some of the viewers appalled. It is one of his most controversial performances.
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Elvis Presley's Ford Thunderbird - Proud to say he sold a T-bird to The King

Elvis Presley was a Cadillac man and everybody knew it. Ernie Barrasso talks about selling Elvis a red Thunderbird Landau. Ernie also talks about when Elvis rented out his Thunderbird Lounge in 1967 and 1968.
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Video : Bill Medley Remembers Elvis Presley

Bill Medley Remembers Elvis Presley (09:43). I was working the Hilton Hotel, Elvis was in the main room, I was in this lounge and Elvis was doing You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' in his show. And so I'm doin' it 'You never close your eyes--' And I'm right at the place where it's 'Baby, baby, I get down on my knees for--' and I sense some rustling going on backstage, you know, when you're onstage it's like your living room and somebody walks onstage it's like somebody walking into your home at midnight. So I hear this rustling going on and I'm 'Baby, baby I get down on my knees for you'. And here comes Elvis and he walks right by me, in front of me, hits me on the arm and says, 'Hi, Bill' and keeps right on walking. And there was about four other guys with him and they just walked right off. And I didn't say anything. Well, the place went crazy.
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Jerry Reed and Elvis Presleys Guitar Man Sessions

A look at Elvis' Guitar Man Sessions with Jerry Reed. Jerry Reed immediately took over the session, you can hear it from the first notes of the first take - Reed is coaching the musicians, encouraging them, egging them on, with Felton happy just to be presiding over some thing that is actually happening. There is a bright, shimmering surface to the music different in many respects from anything Elvis has ever recorded before but providing, at the same time, the kind of churning, driving rhythm that has characterized Elvis' music from the first. There is not the slightest question of Elvis' engagement. There is no self-deprecation, there is no wisecracking; all of the singer's attention is focused on the music. Completely updated.
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The woman kissed by Elvis (when she was 15)

A great story and new photos from August 1956.
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Interview With Photographer Alfred Wertheimer

In 1956, Alfred Wertheimer was a struggling twenty-six year old free-lance photojournalist in New York City, Wertheimer's good fortune gained him access to Elvis Presley during that first, heady flush of fame in 1956.
The resulting photos captured the everyday Elvis, relaxed and off-guard during down times. Now, Al Wertheimer's classic photos are the most esteemed collection of pictures of Elvis Presley ever taken.
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Presley Doesn't Wiggle Any More : but the fans still scream for him non-stop!

We have an 'NME Exclusive article' from Friday March 31, 1961 as a follow-up to our article in honor of the 50th anniversary of Elvis' U.S.S. Arizona Benefit concert in 1961. 'The climax came when he closed with the all-out rocker 'Hound Dog', the signal for the greatest bout of unlimited pandemonium, many of the younger girls going completely berserk! Then came the trickiest part of all - 'Operation Exit Elvis' - to get Presley out of the building before the crowd could tear him apart from sheer adoration. This was executed with all split-second timing of an army manoeuvre. Taking no encores and no final bows, he departed with the speed of a sprinter, racing from stage to a fast car, already moving as the singer got in. The amazing get-away was reminiscent of scenes from gangster films after they have robbed a bank! ...' Original article in PDF and transcribed into text.
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Jack Lord and Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley and Jack Lord first met on January 14, 1973 following Elvis' triumphant Aloha From Hawaii television special. Elvis made special mention that Jack was in the audience which completely 'floored' the Lords., 'One of my favorite actors is in the audience, Jack Lord, I gotta say that, you know, Hawaii 5-0'. Afterwards, they went backstage and met Elvis for the first time, and met later at The Lords home facing the ocean on the Oahu side of the island. They met again on February 10, 1973 in Las Vegas.
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Cliff Richard talking about Elvis on Parkinson 1980

Video (9:36) of Cliff Richard talking about Elvis on Parkinson in 1980. Also Sammy Cahn a songwriter and musician is on the show and has some interesting comments and proves to be quite the comedian. Also we have audio of Clif Richard talking about first hearing Heatbreak Hotel and of being inspired by Elvis.
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Elton John Remembers Elvis Presley : And First Hearing Heartbreak Hotel

Elton John : I remember so well the day my mother came home with a 78 of 'Heartbreak Hotel'. She said she'd just heard it in the record shop and she knew she had to buy it straight away. So she put it on for us both to listen to and I'd never heard anything like that before in my whole life.
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Elvis Presley : Press Conference at Graceland : March 7, 1960

Elvis Presley : Press Conference at Graceland : March 7, 1960.
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Interview with Shaun 'Sherrill' Nielsen

It's not a secret that Elvis loved the voice of tenor Shaun 'Sherrill' Nielsen. During a 1970 Las Vegas show, Presley introduced him as: 'The greatest tenor in Gospel music'.
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Jimmy Dean Remembers Elvis Presley

Throughout the years I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to witness the beginnings of more than one musical legend. One afternoon, we were paid a visit by a young and inexperienced Elvis Presley, who was appearing on an excursion boat, the S.S. Mt. Vernon. Includes Interview with Jimy Dean.
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Bruce Springsteen Talks and Sings about Elvis

In a recent interview with Bruce Springsteen by Dave Marsh about Bruce's new 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' release, Bruce was asked by a fan how Elvis' death affected the songs on the album:
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Interview with Ginger Alden and Linda Thompson

Interview with Ginger Alden and Linda Thompson

from 1980.
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Ann-Margret talks about Elvis - Recorded February 11, 1994

Ann-Margret talks about Elvis

(07:40). Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Sweden to Anna Aronsson and Gustav Olsson. She grew up in a small town 'of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle'. Her father worked in the United States during his youth and immigrated back in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company. Ann-Margret moved to the USA four years later. During Viva Las Vegas the two began a relationship lasting one year.
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Interview with Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson wrote the song, It Keeps Right On A Hurtin' early in 1962 inspired by the terminal illness of his father. He recorded the song himself and it became one of his biggest hits, reaching # 3 in the US pop chart and becoming the first of his records to make the country music charts, where it peaked at # 4. It earned him his first Grammy nomination, for Best Country & Western Recording, and was later recorded by over 100 performers including Elvis Presley in 1969 at his legendary American Sound Studios Sessions.
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Jerry Schilling and Andrew Solt discuss the re-release of Elvis On Tour on DVD and Blu-Ray

Jerry Schilling and Andrew Solt discuss the re-release of Elvis On Tour in this exclusive interview ...
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Red West Remembers Writing For The King

Elvis didn't listen much to his own music but he really loved From Elvis In Memphis, the album he did with Chips Moman; that was an album full of great songs and Suspicious Minds by my buddy Mark James. Elvis was so sick of the movie songs that he'd been recording and it was not doing his career any good. When he cut that album, the session was just loaded hits, In The Ghetto, Suspicious Minds, Don't Cry Daddy, Kentucky Rain.
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Connie Francis and Elvis Presley

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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Interview with Richard Davis

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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