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We have revieved the tracklisting and images from the booklet of the upcoming
Request Box show. This 2 CD set from the Southern Comfort / Audionics labels is a re-issue of Request Box Show released 18 years ago by the Bilko label and features the very rare August 19th & 20th shows. All remastered from the original 1975 audience-recording.
Priscilla Presley : My Life With and Without Elvis Presley original article from Ladies Home Journal - August, 1973. After five years as the wife of the superstar singer,
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is as much of a mystery woman as she was the day she married him - May 1, 1967. In this, her first interview, she talks about Elvis - their romance, marriage, and divorce - and her life today as a woman alone.
The Very Best of Elvis Presley 2 CD set is an absolute delight. Mastered from a high a resolution 24 bit master, the
sound quality is perfect and very easy on the ear.
Graceland was not damaged and none of EPE's employees were injured by the series of tornadoes that tore through the Memphis area late Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough attends the Anna Sui 2008 Fall Collection during Fashion Week, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008, in New York.
Paramount will release the DVD box set,
Elvis! - Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection in Australia in April. The eight titles are the same as released last year.
In 2008, The Hills Centre for the Performing Arts in Sydney celebrates its 20th birthday. As a special treat for the local community, The Hills Centre is bringing Elvis into the building for one night only on April 17 with
The Gospel According to Elvis.
Dwight Hemion, who directed the 1977 CBS Special
Elvis in Concert has died aged 81.
Following JAT Productions book,
Elvis - Portraits due for release in April will be
Elvis Concerts which
will be released late 2008. The cover art picture will be that of the one originally planned for 'Elvis Portrait's. Both will be all color books.
Released on the At Last Records import Label is a four track CD entitled
Elvis Et Les Filles. The CD comes in its own in plastic sleeve, the cover is just single sheet of paper. Includes three duets by Lisa and Elvis, one Celine Dion and Elvis and 'Love Me Tender' - Elvis Presley and Linda Ronstadt.
Nothing about Republican Presidential candidate,
Mitt Romney brings to mind the hip-swiveling
Elvis Presley, but at campaign events ... this week, the booming thump of Elvis' 'A Little Less Conversation' was the musical intro ... Romney said in a speech in Boca Raton'. This is a time for action ... It's time for '
A Little Less Conversation'. Hillary Clinton wore an
Elvis Presley purse, when visiting the Peabody Hotel.
To sum up, A Wild Weekend In Huntsville! Volume Two is another excellent production containing a previously unreleased show from this venue. As such I highly recommend it. Both the superior sound quality and attractive artwork are further advantages which make this a must for every collection.
A huge fire destroyed today more than 150 barraks at Fort Chaffee. Building 803 where Elvis Presley submitted to a buzzcut in 1958 was not affected by the fire.
JAT Productions next book,
Elvis - Portraits is due for release in April.
Celebrating twenty years of JAT Productions this special project will be a hardcover, all color book.
The true story of Elvis' performance at the
Pan Pacific Auditorium - October 28, 1957. Elvis was determined to impress his celebrity-studded audience, and he did. With Hollywood celebrities and their children among the more than nine thousand in attendance, Elvis performed eighteen songs ending with 'Hound Dog'.
Listen to an
Interview with Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin who talks about meeting Elvis at his hotel after attending Elvis' concert at the
Los Angeles Forum on May 11, 1974. During the concert, Elvis stopped a song and said: 'Wait a minute... If we can start together fellas, because we've got Led Zeppelin out there... let's try to look like we know what we're doing, whether we do or not'.
In cooperation with the Southern Comfort / Baxter / Bilko and 2001 import labels the Audionics label will re-issue several old bootleg classics.
The Request Box 2CD set will be released March 2008 after which Elvis' March 22, 1975 concert,
A Hot Winter Night,
Goodbye Memphis 76 and
April Fool Day (audience recording),
Opening Night 72 and others will see the light. All releases will be remastered from the original tapes, some of which obtained from
The Colonel himself.
Cancelled - The Request Box is a re-issue of Request Box Show released 18 years ago by the Bilko label and features the very rare August 19th & 20th shows. Here's the info we have received with the artwork.
One Night In Vegas contains the August 10 opening concert. This is Elvis at his
very best. It is not easy to find suitable words for this concert. It
simply is Elvis at his very best! And that says about everything!
First Look Studios is no longer negotiating for the distribution rights of
Elvis the Movie starring
Kurt Russell and therefore will not be releasing this title.
Have you heard the news? Not only is there good rockin' tonight, but you'll be able to groove to it even more. At first, I thought I wouldn't need to own a copy of '
Elvis At Sun', as I already had 'Sunrise' and 'The Sun Sessions CD'. But I was truly floored by the difference in sound quality.
Due to an incorrect quark file being used by the manufacturer of FTDs CDs, the name 'Presley' has been spelt wrong (Presely) on the spine of their latest release
Wild In The Country. As the item has already shipped, they will supply quantities of the corrected sleeve as and when requested.
FTD will release a 2 CD version of
That's The Way It Is in April in their
Classic album series (7" digipack with booklet) along with the CD originally included in the
The Way It Was book. This will be a regular 5" CD.
The new Reel Trax import label will CD entitled '
You'll Never Walk Alone'. This CD, with a running time of 77 minutes comes with a 16 pages booklet with all the information regarding Elvis' love for gospel music.
The latest CD in the
FTD classic albums series,
Wild In The Country, has been released with
Husky Dusky Day with Hope Lange added. FTD had planned to have this at the end of the disc as a ghost track - but found out that they couldn't do so for legal reasons. As usual it is in the 7" digipack format, with a booklet. All tracks have been remixed and remastered for this release and sound truly beautiful.
The tenth and final book in the
Words - The Complete Lyrics series containing the lyrics and stories behind each title between WHA and Y will be released in February.
The
Follow That Dream Label's Sun book and CD project is due out at the end of 2008, and and expected to be in it's final form over the next 3-4 months. There will be 3 CDs with the book, and they will be worth having because of Kevan Budd's excellent work, but they are the bonus - the book is the main issue.
Elvis at the Hayride package is a boxed set consisting of a
beautifully embossed hard cover leatherette bound 168 page coffee table book with 150 glossy rarely seen photographs of the young Elvis Presley,
2 CD set of historic Louisiana Hayride recordings of Elvis and a
DVD narrated by Louisiana Hayride historian Joey Kent.
Earl Brown, who wrote 'If I Can Dream', passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Sherman Oaks, California on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008 after a lengthy illness. Earl had celebrated his 79th birthday on Dec. 25, 2007 with friends.
Michael Parkinson once asked the famous New Zealand soprano
Kiri Te Kanawa about the greatest voice she'd ever heard, probably expecting her to name Luciano Pavarotti or Maria Callas, but she said: 'The young Elvis Presley, without any doubt'.
EPE has purchased the Royal Oaks Apartments. The complex has about 80 units and sits on a 5.2-acre lot on the north side of Craft Road west of Elvis Presley Boulevard.
Fall in love with the King all over again with the collectors edition set
The Very Best of Love, featuring
12 of Elvis Presley's most cherished
ballads. Also included is a one-of-a-kind,
pictorial DVD featuring over
400 photo's of 'Elvis Trough The Years' plus a 32 page biographical booklet and five Elvis-inspired greeting cards.
A CD that can be played on a turntable. A vinyl record that can be played by a standard CD player. It seems science fiction, instead it's a true story.
Baby Let's Play House remixed by DJ Spankox will be like the old 45 rpm singles with one
A side (Vinyl) and one
B side (CD).
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Sony BMG are planning on a March 1st release the
Elvis Viva Las Vegas soundtrack CD in Australia. The CD includes
seven Elvis performances along with other artists including,
Bruce Springsteen - Viva Las Vegas,
The Little Willies (With Norah Jones) - Love Me and
Patti Scialfa - Looking for Elvis.
A new promo CD
Elvis Hawaii USA containing 25 Hawaiian related tracks, including many rare recordings! This release contains recordings from Hawaiian radio, Aloha From Hawaii, the movies, a tribute radio broadcast from March 19, 1961: Elvis and the colonel pay tribute to the victims of Pearl Harbor 1941 + more.
Celebrate the holiday season with
Elvis: Home For The Hollidays. This timeless selection of classic Christmas favorites by the King of Rock & Roll is perfect gift idea for the Elvis fan in your life to treasure for years to come. Includes: Commemorative Tin --
CD --
Handpainted Keepsake 'Elvis Guitar' Candle --
32-Page Biographical Booklet --
Elvis-Inspired Door Hanger --
Six Postcards.
The
Elvis Presley Commemorative Chess Set includes a folding cardboard chessboard and plastic chess men in a decorative storage tin. Elvis is the King, Priscilla is the Queen, an acoustic guitar is the Bishop, a hound dog is the Knight, Graceland is the Rook, and blue suede shoes are Pawns.
'
Girls! Girls! Girls!' is again wonderfully remastered, it is almost like hearing it for the first time. The original album was a huge success. It didn't reach the one million copies '
Blue Hawaii' was selling (and on its way to 2 million!!), but with 600.000 units, it sold twice as much as '
Elvis Is Back!' and '
Something For Everybody'.
I was a chaplain with the Third Armored Division in West Germany. Elvis Presley, then serving in the Army in Texas, was sent overseas to join the division. My first contact with Elvis was when he went to a local military movie theater to see his most recent film, "King Creole." Military police had to escort him out of the theater.
Michael Hoey worked on six of Elvis films, a screenwriter, director and producer. He's written a book about his upbringing and career called
Elvis, Sherlock and Me: How I Survived Growing Up in Hollywood.
With Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' reverberating off the cement walls, Lt. Col. Thomas Salo, commander, 102nd Signal Battalion, and Jeurgen Jaeger, 102nd Signal Bn., shut off the main power supply to the KN-4100 telephone switch during a closing ceremony for building 3705 on Ray Barracks.
Elvis at the Hayride 2 CD set of Elvis' historic Louisiana Hayride recordings.
Bill Belew, who headed the design team for Elvis Presley's stagewear and much of his personal wardrobe from 1969 to 1977, died of cardiac arrest yesterday.
Shortly after the soon-to-be released second volume of
A Wild Weekend in Huntsville! the Madison label will release a CD titled
Hot August Night featuring the August 12, 1972 Midnight Show as recorded from the
soundboard at the Las Vegas Hilton.
The
Baby Lets Play House - Spankox Remix release is on a brand new media called VinylDisc: it's a special
compact disc (CD) playable on a
normal CD player but also by a traditional 33rpm turntable. Elvis'
Baby Let's Play House will be the world's first commercial release on this new interesting media that like the old 45 rpm singles has one
A side (Vinyl) and one
B side (CD).
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On June, 14 1710 arriving on the ship 'Fame', Captain Walter Houxton, were the following:
Johann Valentin Bressler, 41, Anna Christiana, 36, Anna Elisabetha, 14, Anna Gertrud, 12, Andreas, 6, Antoni, 4, and (son) 1-1/2.
Interview with Jerry Schilling by Ken Sharp.
Longtime Elvis friend George Klein said, 'Jerry has an insight a lot of people don't have. He was one of the few guys who would tell Elvis the truth. I think he has a different angle because he had a lot of quality time with Elvis and Elvis respected his opinion on a lot of stuff'.
Bill Black's main stand-up bass is today owned by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, who received the instrument as a birthday present from his late wife Linda McCartney in the late 1970s. The bass can be seen in the video clip to McCartney's song 'Baby's Request'. In the documentary film In the World Tonight, McCartney can be seen playing the bass and singing his version of 'Heartbreak Hotel'. In 1995, he played it on 'Real Love', the last 'new' Beatles record (one of two in which McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr overdubbed a full arrangement onto a John Lennon home recording from the late 1970s).
The UK distributor has pulled the plug on the
New York: RCA Studio 1: The Complete Sessions CD / DVD Audio / Book release after Sony BMG Music in the UK sent out a letter threatening legal action.
The version of the album that has sold 9,000,000 is the RCA
Camden reissue from 1970, also titled
Elvis' Christmas Album, which features the eight Christmas-oriented tracks from the original album plus two additional, later recordings. Included in that figure is the Pickwick reissue from 1976, which sold tons in the States in the years following Elvis' death. The original 1957 album LOC-1035, is certified for Triple Platinum (3,000,000 units) by the RIAA. Those sales were achieved between 1957 and 1969.
It's a day I'll never forget,
Sunday, Sept. 1, 1957. That's the day Elvis made his Seattle debut, at the old
Sicks' Seattle Stadium. Also at this show was a 15-year-old
James (Jimi) Hendrix who made a color drawing showing Elvis wielding a guitar.
Following is the Q & A
songwriter with songwriter Winfield Scott.
One of the earliest and most widely seen performance photos of Elvis Presley was taken right here in Tampa, during a 1955 concert appearance at
Fort Homer Hesterly Armory. A tightly cropped version of the photo was used on the cover of Presley's first album. But specifics about the photo's origins have been as fuzzy as the green shag carpet in the Jungle Room of Presley's Graceland mansion.
Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires, tells how Elvis did not want to record '
Blue Chistmas' for inclusion on
Elvis' Christmas Album. After the producers told him he had too, Elvis asked the Jordanaires and band to come up with something so bad that it would never see the light of day as a single.
The color drawing, showing Elvis wielding a guitar, was made by an impressionable 15-year-old Hendrix two months after attending Presley's concert at Sick's Stadium on September 1, 1957. Included in the picture is a list he wrote down during the concert itself, the entire line-up of songs he heard Presley sing that night.
The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977 has been released on DVD. This special includes an
all-star tribute to Elvis Presley, who had passed away two months prior. Rockabilly pioneers
Carl Perkins,
Jerry Lee Lewis and
Roy Orbison join
Johnny Cash on '
This Train Is Bound For Glory' in memory of Elvis Presley, whose affinity for such sacred music was well known.
Elvis' Christmas Album is the top-selling release of all time with 9 million sales.
One summer morning in 1961, an 11-year-old Tom Petty sat on pine straw in his front yard, wondering how he was going to spend his day. By the end of the afternoon, he knew how he would spend his life - Elvis kicked off my love of music.
On this day in 1970,
Elvis Presley visited President Richard Nixon at the White House. Presley initiated the meeting, asking the president to name him a 'federal agent-at-large' in the war on drugs. Presley arrived at the Oval Office bearing a gift: a World War II-era Colt .45 pistol. Three weeks earlier, Presley met with Vice President Spiro Agnew in Palm Springs and suggested that his celebrity status could be used in promoting anti-drug efforts.
FTD have announced that the title
Long Lonely Highway has been deleted.
Review of Elvis In Concert at the International Hotel in August 1969, originally published by Rolling Stone magazine on February 21, 1970.
The Founding President of the Elvis Presley Fan Club of Japan (Tokyo) Mr. Tad Akazawa has passed away after suffering a massive heart attack.
The
Memphis Recording Service, Vol. 1 set is now
sold out with no more to be remade. We have
five sets left in stock then we will be sold out as well. The
Memphis Recording Service, Vol. 1 set is about Elvis' first two years at the Memphis Recording Service (Sun Records). The set contains a
5.1 audio DVD, a
vinyl 45 RPM single and a
detailed bookwith exclusive new information, unseen documents and colour photos covering the humble beginnings of Elvis Presley's music career and its effects on the birth of Rock'n'Roll during 1953 -1954.
We have additional and final info for the upcoming
Rock Back the Clock CD. As Recorded live in Pontiac, Michigan, Silverdome, December 31, 1975/January 01, 1976. The main reason for this new and ultimate Pontiac '75 release is that the
sound quality is excellent for an audiance recording. This new source is very clear and most importantly,
almost echo-free because the person with recorder was sitting very close to the sound system. If you have any of the previous 'Straight Arrow' CD releases, then you know what to expect in design and sound quality.
George Klein's detailed account of his long friendship with Elvis will be released in the summer as
Elvis, My Best Man. Klein says he has used the same ghost writer, Chuck Crisafulli, who wrote Schilling's book,
Me And a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley.
George Klein provided the captions for the The 143-page
Elvis Family Album, a chronological look at Elvis' life from infancy in Tupelo to high school in Memphis to Hollywood and the Oval Office during Elvis' famous summit with President Nixon.
The recent Memphis Recording Service CD Single release of
My Baby Left Me, released August 2007 only through HMV Stores in the UK (For one week only) is to enter into the 2009 Edition of Guinness Book of World Records.
Priscilla Presley,
Lisa Marie Presley, and Elvis' oldest grandchild,
Riley Keough, made a rare appearance in London for the Led Zeppelin reunion show.
The CD
A Wild Weekend in Huntsville! - Volume Two featuring the June 1, 1975 afternoon show
recorded from the mixing desk will be released in January 2008.
The previous matinee performance in Huntsville was one of the best from this tour, and this one is as good if not better. The sound quality is also superior to the first volume with a fresh, dynamic, lively rocking sound.
'Burning Love' has entered the UK singles chart at #13 this week. This single ends the 2007 UK campaign containing some of Elvis' UK chart hits which never reached #1. Buy complete
Elvis The King CD Set and/or
Elvis The King 10' Vinyl Set.
On the Australian DVD Chart
Elvis The King of Rock 'n' Roll drops from #16 to #19. The DVD is certified Gold and has been on the chart for 4 weeks, peaking at #5.
We drove up, and there's two limousines, and there's Elvis in a truck wearing a cowboy hat. He goes, 'Who in the fuck is Eric Clapton? Goddamn limousines! Why does he have to bring a fuckin' limousine to a movie theater?' I said, 'Oh my God, what am I gonna do?' Then, to top it, Elvis always sits in a certain place in the theater, and Eric's sitting there (laughs). It's like rubbing salt in the injury.
So we went over, and Terry Melcher was producing. Terry played a track for Elvis, and Brian said, 'Do you think we have anything?' And Elvis said, 'No'. And we went back to our studio. Later, the security guys told us it was
Brian Wilson of
The Beach Boys.
We have a video
first look at the new and soon to be released
Elvis Presley's Graceland DVD. The DVD will include footage of the upstairs area of the racquetball building including Elvis' bathroom, lounge and dressing room area featuring a walk in closet, Jacuzzi, Whirlpool tub and luxurious multi head shower and steam bath, along with a bathroom and dressing room area for his friends.
View a video interview with
Jerry Schilling as he talks about
Elvis' meeting with President Richard Nixon and the events leading up to it. Jerry was the only one with Elvis at the start, on the plane as Elvis wrote to the President. The video starts with a
great slide show, as they say
'a picture paints a thousand words'.
Inside Graceland has now been released. This
112 page full colour photo book is made from pictures from the world's top Elvis collector and historian Sherif Hanna. Inside Graceland includes stunning photos of Elvis' personal items and wardrobe taken before the mansion opened to the public.
Tonight, intimate stories of an American legend,
Elvis Presley. With us, Elvis' best buddies, Marty Lacker, who knew Elvis since junior high, was co-best man at his wedding, served as the King's bookkeeper and secretary. Lamar Fike, he even tried to go into the Army with him, but couldn't.
Jerry Schilling still finds it hard to discuss all the time he spent with Elvis. Also Elvis' stepbrother, David Stanley, at
Elvis' Graceland mansion the day he died. Kathy Westmoreland, backup singer, it was a hot summer night in 1970 when Elvis Presley first stood on a stage and introduced Kathy Westmoreland to the world.
Anita Wood who dated Elvis seriously for years in the '50s, even lived for a time at Graceland. And Patty Perry, who knew Elvis for so long, she was the only woman officially, or unofficially in the
Memphis Mafia.
This 'Viva Las Vegas' soundtrack will be released in January. The documentary featured performances by some of the today's biggest stars doing their unique interpretations of the Elvis song that had the most influence on them. The CD features these great performances as well as original songs by Elvis Presley.
Last week we published a preview of 6 pages from the book
Inside Graceland. There you one can see how different many of the rooms at Graceland looked back in 1975 when Elvis lived there. Since then many people have asked us if we could show more pictures from the book. So
here is another 4 pictures of Linda Thompson posing in various places in and outside the house.
Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever.
+ Plus Bonus DVD Audio.
This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11.000 people. Highly recommended.
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound.