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The Australian release of
Elvis The King: a 2-disc CD set, will contain the bonus tracks
Welcome To My World on Disc 1 and on Disc 2 the live version of
If I Can Dream.
The three new FTD releases
I Sing All Kinds,
Raised On Rock and
Easy Come, Easy Go has now been released. All three contain lot's of goodies.
Sony BMG will release
Viva Las Vegas as a 2 CD set,
Elvis The King and
The Early Years on July 27.
Viva Las Vegas will include a previously unreleased Elvis concert recorded in Las Vegas, August 1969 and will be available for a limited time only.
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD. Digipack with a 16 page booklet. Never before have we seen an Elvis concert from the 50'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
Elvis - The Hollywood Collection contains six Elvis movies released on DVD for the first time: '
Tickle Me', 'Charro!', 'Kissin' Cousins', 'Girl Happy', 'Live a Little, Love a Little' and 'Stay Away, Joe'. Both this set and
Tickle Me will not be released in Australia.
Well, well, well. RCA/BMG's 'collector's only' label,
Follow That Dream, issues another keeper with their third effort. Some of the most enchanting Elvis moments are where he sings along with his own guitar or piano, as on the 1953 'My Happiness' Sun demo or the staggering 1966 home tape of 'If I Loved You'. '
In A Private Moment' unleashes more home demos, from Germany in '59 and Los Angeles in '60 and '66, and both the soul and earthy humor of the man come shining through.
Much has been written about Elvis Presley's last Madison stop for the concert he gave at the Dane County Coliseum -- he died just two months later -- but in the three decades since, one close witness has not gone on the record, until now. Eric Schumacher, 52, today works at the Pyle Center for University of Wisconsin-Extension. Thirty years ago, Schumacher drove the limousine that carried Presley from the Four Lakes Aviation terminal to the Sheraton Hotel near the Coliseum. He also picked up Presley at the Coliseum after the show.
Boots Randolph, Nashville's most celebrated saxophonist and a member of the city's vaunted 'A-Team' of session musicians, died this afternoon after suffering a subdural hematoma last week. He was 80.
Many area people remember Elvis' performance at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City on June 21, 1977. However, Stan Zakinski has a unique recollection. The former Rapid City police chief provided the local security for Elvis, picking him up at the airport and driving him to the city's brand-new venue.
The work of Elvis Presley's song writers is exceedingly famous; many of the composers themselves, however, are less well known. Below are biographies for some of Elvis' most notable song writers.
Volumes 1-3 of
Having Fun With Elvis On Stage have been released on 10 inch vinyl. All three are re-mixed and the covers have been updated and restyled with new colour pictures of Elvis on stage on the covers. Also just released is
My Way on 45 RPM Vinyl 7" Single and
March of Dimes on 12" vinyl.
Sony BMG will release
Viva Las Vegas as a 2 CD set,
Elvis The King 2 CD set, and
The Early Years on July 27.
Viva Las Vegas will include a previously unreleased Elvis concert recorded in Las Vegas, August 1969 and will be available for a limited time only.
Just released is a new CD titled
Have You Heard The News? This CD features many different radio and TV reports from the day Elvis died august 16, 1977. A big part of the material has never been released on CD before. Also released on the same label is the British 1972 Elvis vinyl album
Rock'n'Roll has now been released on CD.
Following the same plan as the 'Elvis 18 UK #1s campaign from 2005, Sony/BMG will release a new set of
18 singles, this time classic singles that did not make it to #1.
Sony BMG are planning
an exclusive, invitation only 30th anniversary event to be held at Darling Harbour in Sydney Australia on August 16.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment will release
Elvis The King: a 2-disc CD companion album. Thirty years on since Elvis Presley's tragic death, this comprehensive collection of 50 stand out tracks including No.1's from 2005's 18 singles campaign.
Tracklisting.
The
Follow That Dream label have decided on a new information policy. The reason they are not giving out the actual track listings are many says
Ernst Jorgensen.
The next release from the Madison label will be
Closing Night - February 1970. For the first time ever, this show will be available from start to finish, with the best-ever audio source, direct, reel-to-reel transfers to DAT. The sound quality is excellent, given the limitations of early '70s soundboard recordings, and definitely superior to all previous, incomplete releases of this concert.
Sandi Pichon's new book
Elvis on Tour 1975 will be released later this year. This book will be an illustrated book, dealing with the concert years of the late Elvis 1970 - 1977.
In August the book
Elvis '56 - In The Beginning by Alfred Wertheimer will be re-issued with the title
Elvis: The
King In The Making ... This 224 pages book, with a pre-face by Peter Guralnick, will be released August 8, 2007.
Here is the cover art for the DVD releases of 'G.I. Blues', 'Blue Hawaii', 'Roustabout', 'Paradise Hawaiian Style', 'Fun In Acapulco', 'King Creole', 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' and 'Easy Come, Easy Go' plus the '30th Anniversary Box' set containing the same titles.
Following the same plan as the 'Elvis 18 UK #1s campaign from 2005, Sony/BMG will release a new set of 18 singles, this time classic singles that did not make it to #1.
Sony BMG will release
Elvis At The Movies the most comprehensive Elvis Presley
2 CD movie package ever produced' in June. Whilst this is a welcome focus on what is one of the now more ignored and derided parts of Elvis' career the question remains.
Did they get it right in terms of song selection and balance?
On July 1st FTD will release
I Sing All Kinds a collection of outtakes from the sessions in
Nashville during 1971 in it's
regular CD series plus
Raised On Rock (2-disc set) and
Easy Come, Easy Go (single disc featuring the newly discovered original stereo mixes) in the classic album series with deluxe 7" packaging.
Last year it was Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and President George Bush exploring Graceland. This year, it's a tourist invasion expected to break all records during the 30th anniversary Elvis Week.
Milo High, who was the pilot of Elvis' 'Hound Dog II' JetStar plane, has passed away.
Wanda Jackson will be in Australia in June for concerts in
Sydney,
Melbourne and the
Wintersun Festival in Coolangatta. Wanda is most remembered for her massive hit
Lets Have a Party in the 60's and her rise to fame along side of dating Elvis who encouraged her to step from gospel to Rock 'N Roll. As a sign of respect to her old friend, she has released her new album 'I remember Elvis' and will be promoting it on her tour.
An American Trilogy FTD a review by Geoffrey Mc Donnell. This is the long awaited and asked for FTD release of multi-track recordings from February 1972's Las Vegas season + extra songs from the opening night January 26th 1972 soundboard concert to give us a total of 24 tracks. Most of the 15th Feb 1972 M/S here is unreleased, the title track from 14.2.72 M/S is also unreleased,
Here is news of Volume 4 in the great 'American Way' series: If you have the first three volumes in the 'American Way' series you'll know what to expect from this new one.
Click here to see Miss USA Rachel Smit in an Elvis-inspired dress as she represents her country during one of the events of the Miss Universe pageant. Smit won the Miss USA title, representing her home stage as Miss Tennessee.
A new Elvis documentary for
George Klein, called :
Elvis Close As A Brother is in the works and the producers are asking for help locating home movie footage of (i) early Elvis Las Vegas performances at the International and (ii) any footage of 70's Elvis touring...and in particular Elvis arriving at a gig or backstage and/or with fans....
Ben Weisman, a classically trained pianist who helped write nearly 60 songs for Elvis Presley, including many for his movies, has died. He was 85.
In June, auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will be selling one of Elvis Presley's personal checkbooks from the early 1970s.
Barbara Pittman's claim to fame rests on both the handful of singles she cut during the 50s at the legendary Sun studios and her friendship with Elvis Presley. A living witness to Memphis's musical history, she not only participated in the rise of rockabilly music, but also saw, firsthand, the biggest changes in Elvis' life.
Paul McCartney has confessed The Beatles classic album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was heavily influenced by Elvis Presley.
Rolling Stone magazine ran a poll for the 10 best comeback albums ever. Elvis' album 'From Elvis In Memphis' is ranked at #2.
Willie Nelson still reckons that
Always on My Mind was the best song Elvis ever crooned ...'People are always telling me how well I sing
Always on My Mind ... But the plain truth is, it was always meant for Elvis. I only sang it myself as an afterthought and now I'm not allowed off a stage without performing it.
The 'Million Dollar Quartet' session has been released in 2 disc vinyl edition.
Written and researched to the highest degree,
Follow Me To Tennessee is an accurate a 116-page guide to 123 Elvis-related sights in and around the city of Memphis. There has been a number of similar books published over the years, so why another one? To put it simply, Memphis has changed quite considerably recently, and we feel it's time for a revised look at what Elvis-related sights the city still has to offer.
The USA release date for
Elvis At The Movies has been put back one week to June 11th due to a problem with the master. If necessary the date will be delayed another week if the problem is not corrected as expected. Sony BMG Australia are also now planning to release Elvis At The Movies on June 11. (As above)
Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD release of 'Jailhouse Rock' and 'Viva Las Vegas' on 18th September 2007.
There is little doubt that 'Elvis By The Presleys' is a good-looking and well made book: an attractive and inviting dust-jacket covers the almost metallic-sheen boards of this hardback edition, which contains good quality paper and is well bound. The printing is clean, the photographs well reproduced. It is, then, a shame that each chapter is introduced by a page or two of introductory text that is set in a very large typeface with an almost total lack of leading (space between lines), making the texts appear to be a jumble of letters and thus difficult to read -- a poor layout technique indeed.
A new DVD entitled
Elvis Has Left The Building features reports, mainly from the Dutch, Belgian, German and U.K. television, on the death of Elvis Presley.
Writing for the King is filled with the reflections of writers who connected with Presley, among them the teams of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (whose credits included
Jailhouse Rock and
Hound Dog) and
Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman (
Viva Las Vegas and
Little Sister). Others included
Ben Weisman (
Follow That Dream), Tony Joe White (
Polk Salad Annie), Mark James (
Suspicious Minds) and Dennis Linde (
Burning Love).
On June 11, 2007, Sony BMG Music Entertainment will release
Elvis At The Movies - the most comprehensive Elvis Presley 2 CD movie package ever produced.
The book
Elvis Is Back is about Elvis' return to the music scene in 1960. This year was a bittersweet one for Elvis. He was being discharged from the Army. Music had changed in two years and he was a little insecure about his music career.
The
Hot Shots and Cool Clips Volume 2 DVD has been released. This volume features clips from his
1957 Detroit performance,
1957 home movie footage of
Graceland,
Elvis 1958 Army induction (and famous haircut), the
G.I. Blues premiere, excerpts from the
1971 Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Men Prayer Breakfast and much more.
Follow That Dream have now released
Live in LA, a book (with CD) spanning Elvis' LA concerts from the fifties to the seventies, the special edition 2CD set
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, and the live 1972 soundboard CD
An American Trilogy.
Sony BMG have asked Elvis Australia to remove all news of the new CD releases from our website. We are asked only to say that more news will be announced soon.
Paramount Pictures will release 'Elvis - 30th Anniversary Collection' an eight DVD Box Set in Australia in early August 2007.
I was an Elvis fan growing up. Elvis was a force of nature. He was the first white guy who could sing black songs and sing them right. I think it just blew everybody away.
Since Graceland opened to the public in 1982, EPE have gone on a real estate binge, buying everything from gas stations to apartment complexes around the Whitehaven mansion.
'Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus' the first full-length biography of the man who would be Doc Pomus, sheds new light on this mysterious, colorful character whose songs are at the heart of the pop music of the last 50 years.
An Army uniform worn by Elvis Presley, which was found in the Mississippi Sound after Hurricane Katrina, will be on display when the Hard Rock Biloxi opens in July.
Dolly Parton knocked back advances from Elvis Presley's people to record one of her most famous songs,
I Will Always Love You.
Joseph Pirzada is working on a new
DVD-Video/Audio and
Book release,
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley. The DVD will contain nearly 25 minutes of newly found concert footage from the 50's with complete filmed song performances (more than 1)
with sound and an unreleased interview with Elvis from 1957. The book contains well over 100 pictures and artifacts (95% of them unseen).
The Essential Elvis Presley has now completed it's run in the Australian top 100 ARIA
Album Chart. In total the album was on the chart for 7 weeks reaching a high of #33.
Kinkade's oil painting, 'Graceland, 50th Anniversary', takes artistic license, using a telescoping perspective that shrinks the sweeping lawn in order to focus attention on the home. Instead of Elvis' famous pink Cadillac, Kinkade chose a shade of green for the car, because, "I just felt like we needed a color accent that was a little different," he says.
The comforting power of Elvis has once again become obvious, this time for a baby polar at the Berlin. A healthy daily meal keeps the baby animal up and running, but after each meal, the baby polar bear is treated to 'feel good Elvis music'.
The Madison label will release soon a new CD titled
A New Kind Of Rhythm! featuring the March 21, 1976 evening show in Cincinnati, OH.
Movin' And Groovin' is the third volume in
The American Way series featuring Elvis' legendary sessions from January - February 1969 at the American Sound studio in Memphis.
Charlie Hodge who passed away on March 3rd 2006, has been honored at the 2007 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York City.
Movin' And Groovin' is the third volume in
The American Way series featuring Elvis' legendary sessions from January - February 1969 at the American Sound studio in Memphis.
The Wonder Of You was written by singer and composer Baker Knight (1933 - 2005) He composed more than 800 songs. He has written songs for Hank Snow, Hank Williams Jr., Mickey Gilley, about a dozen tunes for
Dean Martin, and fourteen for Ricky Nelson.
VH1 have unveiled the 50 Best Selling Male acts in UK chart history with Elvis at #1, outselling all other artists to claim the coveted title of the UK's favourite, having accumulated 21 No 1's and selling a staggering figure of 10,311,196 #1 singles.
This week, half a century after his recording debut, Elvis Presley was crowned the greatest voice of all time by Q magazine. 'From his debut release,
That's All Right, onwards, Presley put sex into rock and roll. Country, gospel and blues, he took them all in his stride'.
In March of 1957 Elvis' parents Vernon and Gladys Presley were looking for a larger and more private home than the one they and Elvis were living in on Audubon Drive.
Elvis Ultimate Gospel will be re-released with a slightly different tracklisting and cover.
In My Father's House and
Evening Prayer have been added and
Miracle of the Rosary deteted.
'The Gospel Side of Elvis' by Joe Moscheo of the Imperials will be released in August. This book takes a look at Elvis' roots and the role of gospel in his foundational years.
Elvis Presley plans to be a ghost voter at the 2007 national elections in the jungle-clad South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea -- if you believe the nation's electoral rolls.
Volume 9 in the
Words - The Complete Lyrics series will be released soon. This 9th volume contains the lyrics between 'THEW' and 'WE'.
A 270 acre farm once owned by Vernon Presley is up for sale.
Joe Guercio, the legendary 'musical director' for the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, and of course Elvis Presley's conductor, has begun working on a biography.
Lonely Avenue - The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus is a revealing look at the life of the prolific songwriter who is known for writing for Elvis Presley and others. For Elvis he is famed for co-writing songs such as
Viva Las Vegas and
A Mess Of Blues.
According to Jan Henriksen Elvis is King ... no questions, no debate. Others might come close, but in the Rock 'n' Roll Stakes, Elvis Presley was first across the line, there was no photo finish, he was lengths in front.
Elvis Jumpsuits; All Access, the greatest-ever exhibit of Elvis Presley's iconic stage costumes from the major concert era of his career, 1969-1977, officially opened today in the visitor center at the music superstar's beloved Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
Warner have big plans for Elvis Presley and his films. In response to a question about
That's The Way It Is and
Elvis On Tour DVDs, a Warner representative said; 'We have huge Elvis news ... We cannot announce all the plans now, but we will have a big announcement to make in a few weeks. Elvis fans are going to be very very happy!'
In honor of the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, 30 limited edition Harley-Davidson bikes built as replica's of the 1957 Blue KH model that Elvis once owned will be released. Retail price: $57,888, including a limited-edition painting.
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.