1954
Elvis was booked for 2 shows in Memphis, but was unable to get back from Houston in time.
1955
Elvis went shopping in Memphis at the Wells Clothing Store.
1956
Elvis went to the Loew’s State Theater for the matinee performance of Love Me Tender.
1957
Elvis went to see “April Love” at the Loew’s Palace: the latest Pat Boone movie.
1958
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Photos by Loomis Dean, Life magazine photographer.
1960
Wild in the Country production.
Proving that his fans would buy almost anything he recorded, Frank Sinatra’s version of the children’s song “Ol’ Mac Donald” peaks at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 during a six week stay.
Elvis would later record the song for Double Trouble, but did not release it as a single.
“Are You Lonesome Tonight”, a ballad that was written in 1926 and first recorded by Al Jolson, became Elvis Presley‘s 43rd hit and 15th #1 in four years in the US. Billboard magazine reported that five answer records to “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” had been released. Four of them were different versions of the same song entitled “Yes, I’m Lonesome Tonight.” The fifth was the standard “Oh How I Miss You Tonight”.
Elvis recorded “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” was at the suggestion of manager Colonel Tom Parker’s wife, Marie Mott’s, favorite song. Its release was delayed by RCA Victor executives, who thought the song did not fit Presley’s new (and publicized) style.
Elvis Presley started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’, his third US No.1 of 1960. The single included a spoken passage loosely based on Shakespeare.
It was an immediate success in the U.S., topping Billboard’s Pop Singles chart and number three on the R&B chart. A month after the song’s release, it topped the UK Singles Chart. Presley’s version was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1961 and upgraded to double platinum in 1992.
In 2008, the 50th anniversary of Billboard’s Hot 100, the song was number 81 on the magazine’s “Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs” list.
1961
Kid Galahad October 23, 1961 until December 20, 1961
1962
It Happened at the World’s Fair August 28 , September 4-13 in Seattle, to Nov 9
1964
Elvis Presley’s song “Ask Me” hit #12 in the U.S.
Tickle Me production
1967
Stay Away, Joe Production.
1968
The Trouble with Girls
1970
Elvis Presley’s single “I’ve Lost You” hit #9 in the U.K.
Elvis Presley’s single “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me” hit #11 in the U.S.
1972
Elvis went to Las Vegas.
1976
Elvis performed at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California.
Elvis called Ginger Alden to invite her to come over to the tour and he even sent the JetStar to bring her to him.
At the same time Elvis suggested to Linda that she looked a little tired and maybe it would be a good idea to go to Memphis to have some time for herself.
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Wayne Hawthorne, President of Elvis Presley Fan Club of Victoria recalls the time he met Colonel Parker, Elvis and Linda Thompson in concert...
Although it only seems like yesterday this time 25 years ago that I was in San Francisco for Elvis' concert of November 28, 1976 at the Cow Palace.
I had been to the US a number of times without catching an Elvis concert but this time thankfully (as only 32 months later the King was dead) I was not going to miss out.
Thanks to local member Hedy Drissen and Cow Palace manager, John Root we has scored front row seats which was an unbelievable bonus. The prelims are a blur as nobody paid much attention - Elvis was the only topic of conversation!
Despite what many books say, Colonel Parker was very much in attendance and keeping an eye on everything. In fact, it was our club T-shirt that drew his attention and I had the pleasure of talking with him. Despite the many reports to the contrary I found him to be very amicable and openly frank and honest in his comments.
As for Elvis travelling to Australia (there had been rumours in the local Australian rags) he gave a straightforward 'NO!'.
He was totally honest in saying the '...the money was not in Australia' and that if Elvis toured in this region it would be to Japan. He further stated that Elvis was not interested really in overseas tours.. except maybe for Germany which was on the cards for 1978 as Elvis wished to thank the German people for their hospitality during his Army days there.
We (meaning Wayne Hawthorn and his first wife, Gina) had the pleasure of talking to a very beautiful and friendly lady in Linda Thompson, who was seated next to us front row!
'Marriage?' was the immediate question asked Gina blurted out which that offered a very quick '... awh not really on,' response from Linda. Ironically, it was that very night that Linda and Elvis ended their relationship.
You may read many different dates in many different books regarding this but only Linda's brother Sam seems to have got it correct in his book.
There certainly was no the slightest hint of what was to come. For during the concert Linda walked the couple of paces over to Elvis and asked for his scarf which she then gave to Gina (a cherished moment for her at the time'
Elvis was in exceptional form that night. Despite rumour of ill health, he appeared vibrant, suntanned and fit.
The first thing that struck us were his piercing blue eyes. I'm sure each and every one of the 17 odd thousand people, whether front wow or in the bleachers, felt he was looking straight at them. Combined with an infectious smile his presence was awesome to say the least.
Elvis went through some 23 songs and proved he still had that magical recipe that could whip audiences into frenzy. This was no Vegas crowd. On no less than six occasions there was a stampede towards the stage consisting mainly of the younger female brigade.
Teddy Bear and Love Letters were two of the songs that drew such a response but it was the suggestiveness of Fever that drove them wild.
With slow pelvic movements, wicked smile and caresses of the stand-up mike more reminiscent of the 50's Elvis had them eating out of his hands.
Fever the crowd rushed Fever! a pelvic thrust - the crowd rushes again and so it went on.
Those poor security guards should have bee paid ten-fold just for that one song!
Throughout it was obvious that Elvis just loved every second of the 'tease'. One could just hear him thinking '...here I am 20 years later and I've still got 'em goin' crazy!.'. Yes sure he surely did!
Elvis late called for his guitar '...just to prove he could play' and strummed his way through fantastic renditions of Blue Christmas and That's All Right.
All too soon - it was all over!
Many of the crowd seemed too stunned to move. Elvis had hit them like us like a thunderbolt that night!
A memory I will cherish for all time...
the FTD release:
2008
In 2008, much of Elvis’ early catalog was about to be Public Domain in Europe. A re-release of each single in the UK culminated in a box set of the re-releases. It put Elvis Presley back on the charts.
2016
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Recordings By Elvis Presley, Prince & More Among 2017 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductions
By: Caryn Robbins
Nov. 28, 2016
In keeping with its ongoing dedication to preserving and celebrating timeless recordings, The Recording Academy® has announced the newest additions to its distinctive GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. This year's collection acknowledges a diverse range of both singles and album recordings at least 25 years old that exhibit qualitative or historical significance. Each year recordings are reviewed by a special member committee comprised of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts, with final approval by The Recording Academy's National Board of Trustees. With 25 new titles, the Hall, now in its 44th year, currently totals 1,038 recordings
"The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame represents all genres of music, acknowledging the diversity of musical expression for which The Academy has become renowned," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "Memorable and inspiring, these recordings are proudly added to our growing catalog and are an integral part of our musical, social, and cultural history."
Representing an array of tracks and albums, the 2017 GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inductees range from the Jackson 5's "ABC" to N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton. The highly reputed list also features David Bowie's "Changes," Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock," Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Billie Holiday's Lady Sings The Blues, Prince's Sign "O" The Times, Merle Haggard's Okie From Muskogee, and the Beach Boys' "I Get Around." Other inductees include recordings by Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Deep Purple, Dion, the Everly Brothers, Arlo Guthrie, R.E.M., Sly & The Family Stone, and Sonny & Cher, among others.
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Eligible recipients receive an official certificate from The Recording Academy. For a full list of recordings inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame, visit www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame.
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Esposito remembered as Elvis’ friend, confidant and leader of the ‘TCB’ crew
By JOHN KATSILOMETES LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
November 28, 2016 - 5:03 pm
Joe Esposito’s friends were forever taken by his humility. As Elvis Presley’s right-hand man and chief confidant for nearly 20 years, the man Presley playfully dubbed “Diamond Joe” was always measured and matter-of-fact about his relationship with the King.
“My dad just loved being around Elvis’ fans,” Esposito’s daughter, Cindy Bahr, said Sunday of her father, who died Wednesday at age 78 at his home in Calabasas, California. “He was so appreciative of them. They were his life.”
Memorial services for Esposito are pending, Bahr said, but there is no plan for a public event.
Esposito’s influence in Las Vegas and impact on Presley’s life and career is well remembered by those who knew him.
“Elvis and Joe were together, all the time, and if anyone knew the real stories of Elvis, it was Joe,” said Las Vegas resident Loanne Parker, widow of Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, who met Esposito in 1969 when Presley began his run at the International Hotel (now the Westgate Las Vegas).
“He was the go-between for Elvis in his business and career relationships. If Elvis needed to talk to someone, he said, ‘Joe, get so-and-so on the phone.’ That’s how it always was with those two. Joe was always there.”
Esposito recently had suffered dementia and moved from Las Vegas to Calabasas, near Los Angeles, in May to be closer to his family. Bahr said he died “peacefully, of natural causes.”
Esposito’s close connection to Presley was undeniable. The two met in the Army in 1958, having been stationed in Germany shortly after both were drafted. Presley took a shine to the unassuming man from Chicago, inviting him to work as a de facto personal assistant when he was discharged in 1960.
Esposito thus became the only non-Southern member of the so-called “Memphis Mafia,” and one of the first to wear the famous, golden lightning bolt “TCB” necklace (which typically stood for “Taking Care of Business,” but also “Taking Care of Broads” or “Taking Care of Booze”) in Presley’s inner circle.
“I always said that Joe’s job was to organize Elvis’s staff and group,” Parker said. “But he also organized Elvis, too. There was not a significant period of time when he was not around and in that role.”
In a statement posted on her Facebook page, Elvis’ ex-wife Priscilla Presley said: ‘I’m so sad to hear my dear friend, Joe Esposito, has passed. Joe has been a true friend of mine since I met him in Germany with Elvis. I will forever have a soft spot for him and will feel a profound emptiness, as we shared stories only he and I could share, as we have lost many, in our very tight group.”
Esposito and longtime Elvis aide Marty Lacker were Presley’s co-best men at the couple’s wedding at the Aladdin in 1967.
Esposito also was present the fateful day of Aug. 16, 1977, when Presley died at age 42 at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, and had the somber duty of informing Priscilla and Colonel Parker of the tragic news. The scene, as set by R-J columnist Norm Clarke in a 2011 interview with Esposito:
“About 2:15 p.m. on Aug. 16, 1977, Esposito was downstairs at Graceland, preparing for the trip to Portland, Maine, Elvis’ next appearance. A telephone rang. Elvis’ fiancee, Ginger Alden, was calling, seeing if “any of the guys” were down there. That’s how the nightmare began for Esposito and Elvis’ Memphis Mafia.
It sounded like Elvis had fainted. Esposito raced upstairs and found Elvis on the bathroom floor, cold to the touch and his tongue hanging out of his mouth.
‘I knew he was dead,’ Esposito said.
When Esposito looked up, he was horrified to see Lisa Marie, 9, watching.
Esposito had Alden take Elvis’ daughter to another room. An ambulance was on the way.
Less than an hour later, Elvis was officially pronounced dead.”
In a separate interview, Esposito simply said, “I had to tell some of the people close to Elvis that he had died. It was naturally, at the time, what I needed to do. You do the things you have to do. I didn’t want them to hear it on the news, so I called and told Priscilla about it. Parker, too. It was a tough situation. I will always remember that day as just being very, very tough.”
It was left to Esposito to quickly plan the King’s memorial service. “The question at the funeral was, how are we going to handle it? Like it was his final performance, that’s how.”
During Presley’s performing career, Esposito usually was the first to reach Presley when the King left the stage, offering him towels and leading him from hoards of fired-up fans.
Esposito assumed unlikely roles, too, credited with bit roles in such Elvis films as “Viva Las Vegas” and “Clambake.” He is ubiquitous in old photos of Presley through his days at the International and Las Vegas Hilton, and during Presley’s days on the road. During Presley’s final performance at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis in June 1977, Esposito was at the King’s side just before and right after that show.
In an interview in 2010 marking what would have been Presley’s 75th birthday, Esposito said, “I still see Elvis singing onstage today. He loved that more than anything in the world. He’d say, ‘The energy makes you feel so damn good.’ A lot of people don’t realize, it’s just addictive. Sad thing is when he talked about getting older, ‘When I turn 50, will they love me? What about 60?’ But he’d still be singing, strong songs, ballads, gospel.”
While living in Las Vegas, Esposito authored five books chronicling his days with Elvis. He was enormously popular at Presley conventions locally and around the world.
“We would tour the theater, the stage, the dressing room and the suite upstairs where Elvis used to live, and it was always enlightening to spend that time with him,” said Rick White, former Las Vegas Hilton and LVH entertainment executive, who organized five Elvis conventions with Esposito during his 11-year run at the hotel, ending in 2015. “What he took as commonplace, like showing the booth where Col. Tom Parker would sit or where he and the band would hang out in the dressing room, was important in developing the Elvis lore in Las Vegas.”
Example: Esposito once told the story of how his team had buckets of ice water awaiting Presley when he walked offstage. The King would submerge his arms into those buckets to heal the scratches he suffered from fans grabbing at him as he handed out his silk scarves from the stage.
“Joe had lots of great stories,” White said, “and he debunked quite a few myths, too.”
As Esposito said in that 2010 interview: “Elvis was a very smart person, a very well-read person. He loved to read about religion and science especially. He was no dumb country boy. That’s one of the biggest Elvis myths, that he was dumb and being led around by the Colonel. That’s one of the great myths about him.”
And “Diamond Joe” was always grateful for his time with, and memories of, Elvis.
“We were close. He was my best friend. I’m always reminded of him, whenever I hear a song or his name or the title of a show somewhere,” Esposito said. “It amazes me, still. I’ve had a hell of a life because of him.”
John Katsilometes’ column runs Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday in the A section, and Fridays in Neon. He also hosts “Kats! On The Radio” Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on KUNV 91.5-FM and appears Wednesdays at 11 a.m. with Dayna Roselli on KTNV Channel 13. Contact him at jkatsilometes@reviewjournal.com. Follow @johnnykats on Twitter, @JohnnyKats1 on Instagram.
Note: The participation of Marty Lacker as co-best man at the the wedding of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was added to the original version of this column.
2018
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Joni Mabe loves the late, great Elvis Presley, warts and all
Phil Hudgins, Columnist
Most people aren’t really proud of their warts. But Joni Mabe of Athens, Georgia, has a wart she wouldn’t take a thousand dollars for. In fact, she may have given that much to acquire it—or more. She wouldn’t say.
But this wart, you see, belonged to Elvis Presley’s right wrist, and Mabe wanted it. She bought it from the doctor who removed it just before Elvis entered the army in 1958. I’ll tell you about the toenail clipping and hair buttons later.
I telephoned Mabe to see what she thought about Elvis’s posthumously receiving the Medal of Freedom.
“Well, a lot of Elvis fans are upset that none of the family went to accept,” she said. “Elvis loved badges, rings, pistols, medals. That medal really would have meant something to him.”
Mabe has been an Elvis fanatic ever since the singer died in 1977. She was out washing and waxing an International Scout automobile and listening to the radio. Elvis was singing every song.
There was something about his voice, she said. She hadn’t even seen the man in person. She had her chance in 1976, but by then, Elvis was a caricature of himself: overweight, unprepared, couldn’t remember lyrics. So she passed up her chance.
Now that he’s gone, she’s obsessed with Elvis stuff, with his voice, with his complexities. She started collecting Elvis memorabilia and went on tour with her exhibit, “Joni Mabe's World Famous Traveling Panoramic Encyclopedia of Everything Elvis.” Now the exhibit is stationed permanently in a museum in Cornelia, Georgia. It fills the third floor of the Loudermilk Boarding House, of which she is the fourth-generation owner.
Now, about that toenail. She found it crawling on her hands and knees in the Jungle Room of Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis. The tour group had left, and the woman behind the velvet rope disappeared. “I wanted to touch where Elvis walked,” Mabe said, so she got down and felt around the green shag carpet. Next to a sofa, there it was. Not a sequin. A toenail. Now, Mabe is not saying the clipping is authentic. She’s calls it a Maybe Elvis Toenail. The wart is the real thing. Both are in her museum.
She made hair buttons from Elvis hair she acquired from the King’s barber, along with ordinary hair from a Cornelia barber shop that was used as filler. The Elvis estate said she was violating a copyright, so she stopped making buttons.
Lest you think Mabe has a one-track mind, I must point out that she is an accomplished artist. Her glittered artwork hangs in the Atlanta airport, and some pieces will be featured at the 2019 Atlanta Biennial—a big deal—starting in January.
Yes, she is a bit taken with Elvis. And come Aug. 2-3, you can see a bunch of men pretending to be Elvis at Mabe’s 16th Elvis tribute show, being held this time at the Rabun County Civic Center in Clayton, Georgia.
But you’ll have to go to the museum to see the wart.
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Elvis Presley CGI recreation movie scrapped for THIS reason – James Dean REPLACED The King
ELVIS PRESLEY was set to be recreated in CGI for a new movie, but James Dean replaced him.
The King of Rock and Roll starred in over 31 movies during his Hollywood career. And now 42 years after his death, Elvis Presley was sought to be recreated in CGI for a new movie.
Movie fans may have read this is the case with James Dean for the upcoming Finding Jack movie.
However, the Hollywood Reporter says it was originally Elvis that the film’s director had in mind.
After all, the $40 million movie needs someone to play an Army unit leader, and The King had a stint serving in West Germany during the 1950s.
But the controversial move will not be happening since Elvis’ estate rejected the idea.
Nevertheless, Elvis did have a momentary digital recreation in Blade Runner 2049 a couple of years ago.
Instead, a CGI recreation of James Dean, who died in 1955 after starring in just three movies, will play the soldier in Finding Jack.
He will play an Army unit leader called Rogan opposite a soldier called Fletcher, “who attempts to rescue his beloved military dog Jack at the end of the war.”
Meanwhile, Elvis is getting a musical biopic from Baz Luhrmann starring Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’s Austin Butler.
The 28-year-old beat the likes of Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort and Harry Styles to the role.
On Butler’s casting, Baz released a statement, which read: “I knew I couldn't make this film if the casting wasn't absolutely right, and we searched thoroughly for an actor with the ability to evoke the singular natural movement and vocal qualities of this peerless star, but also the inner vulnerability of the artist.
“Throughout the casting process, it was an honour for me to encounter such a vast array of talent.
“I had heard about Austin Butler from his stand-out role opposite Denzel Washington in The Iceman Cometh on Broadway and through a journey of extensive screen testing and music and performance workshops.”
Elvis hologram in Blade Runner 2049 (Image: WB)