Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1938
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1977
1955
Johnny Cash released the Sun Records single “Folsom Prison Blues,” which peaked at #4 on the Country chart but did not break into the Billboard top pop list. Cash included the song in his repertoire for decades. He performed it at Folsom Prison on January 13, 1968 and that “live” version was eventually released by Columbia on the “At Folsom Prison” album the same year, and as a single that reached #32 on the pop chart.
Elvis performed at the Helena, AR Catholic Club, in a show with Carl Perkins. There were sold 500 tickets, two days in advance.
https://www.scottymoore.net/helena.html
Col Tom Parker made the first Television appearance deal for Elvis on the Jackie Gleason Show – hosted by the Dorsey Brothers
1956
Fats Domino had one of the biggest R&B songs of all-time with “Blueberry Hill”, #1 for a ninth straight week.
Elvis Presley gave his final regular performance on Louisiana Hayride, a live radio program that was broadcast on KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana. Presley made 50 appearances on the show. At the end of the show, Horace Logan first uttered the now legendary phrase ‘Elvis has left the building’.
Elvis arrived in Shreveport at 5.00 a.m. and checked into the Captain Shreve Hotel. He performed at the Louisiana Hayride, Hirsch Memorial Coliseum , Louisianan Fairgrounds, Shreveport.
This would be his final Hayride appearance and a one man radio concert with over 9,000 fans enjoying it in person.
Tommy Blake and Elvis
Backstage there were milling scores who want to slap his back, shake his hand and “remember me” him. Then the reporters, the photographers, the disk jockeys with their tape-recorders, city officials, civic dignitaries, fan club presidents, business associates. . .
Horace Logan, deejay Ed Hamilton and Elvis at the Hirsch Coliseum – Dec. 15, 1956
Photo by Langston McEachern
Elvis waves farewell to Shreveport and the Hayride – Dec. 15, 1956
Photo by Langston McEachern
Elvis had already made “Love Me Tender” and “Loving You” was scheduled next. The performance was attended by Hal Kanter, director of Elvis’ upcoming film. After watching the show Hal Kanter crafted the screenplay: the story of the rise of a young singer, who very much resembled Elvis Presley. It would even have an Artistic Free Speech Fight vs City Hall scene for Lizabeth Scott – in what would become her final movie.
1957
Sammy Davis Jr. hosts a syndicated radio talk show with a round-table discussion of Rock ‘n’ Roll. His guests are Columbia Records executive Mitch Miller and MGM Records president Arnold Maxim. When Davis and Miller blast Rock ‘n’ Roll as “the comic books of music,” Maxim takes an opposing viewpoint and says, “I don’t see any end to Rock ‘n’ Roll in the near future.”
1959
Colonel Tom Parker cleverly keeps his client in the news by suggesting that Elvis may re-enlist at the end of his first hitch. That, of course, never happened and Presley received his official discharge from active duty on March 5th, 1960.
1960
Wild in the Country Production
1961
Kid Galahad Production
1962
The 4 Seasons had one of the top songs of the new decade with “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, #1 for a fifth week. Elvis Presley was stuck at 2 for the fifth week with “Return To Sender” while “Bobby’s Girl” wasn’t going anywhere for Marcie Blane. Chubby Checker moved up nicely with “Limbo Rock” and the Tornadoes slid up to 5 with “Telstar”. The rest of the Top 10: The Orlons with “Don’t Hang Up”, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass with “The Lonely Bull”, “Ride!” by Dee Dee Sharp at #8, Little Esther Phillips edged up with “Release Me” and Steve Lawrence moved from 20 to 10 with “Go Away Little Girl”.
“Return To Sender” hit #1 in the U.K. The song peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart,[5] and was even the UK Christmas number one of 1962. It also reached #2 on the American Billboard singles chart, but reached number 1 on the rival Cash Box and Music Vendor singles charts. “Return to Sender” also went to #5 on the R&B charts.[6] It was the first Christmas number one in Ireland, as the Irish Charts had been founded in October 1962. Cut from the movie, and the single’s B side, “Where Do You Come From” peaked at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100, The single was certified “Platinum” by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US.
Gerri Granger later recorded an answer song: “Don’t Want Your Letters”.
Actor Charles Laughton (Spartacus, Mutiny on the Bounty, Witness for the Prosecution, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Advise & Consent, The Big Clock, Captain Kidd, The Canterville Ghost, Hobson’s Choice, It Started with Eve, This Land Is Mine) died of complications from gall bladder cancer at 63. Laughton had been the host of the first and second of three Ed Sullivan episode that Elvis Presley appeared on; while the Ed hosted one was from the waist up.
1965
The movie “Harum Scarum” opened in the U.S.
1966
Elvis gave a present to George Klein: a yellow Cadillac convertible.
1968
The Trouble With Girls
1970
“Elvis – That’s The Way It Is” was released in the U.K.
1973
Elvis Presley recording session that was stopped earlier that morning was picked up again and ran from 9.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m.
Stax Studio – Memphis, Tennessee
December 15 / 16 1973 (Saturday / Sunday)
Promised Land CPA5 1629-06
Your Love’s Been A Long Time Coming CPA5 1630-09
There’s A Honky Tonk Angel (Who Will Take Me Back In) CPA5 1631-08
1975
Elvis closed his 2 week Las Vegas engagement and after expenses Elvis and The Colonel had to split $180,000.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Tryin’ To Get To You
And I Love You So
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
Hound Dog
I’m Leaving
You Gave A Mountain
Polk Salad Annie
Just Pretend
How Great Thou Art
Burning Love
Softly, As I Leave You
America The Beautiful
Little Sisiter
One Night
Until It’s Time For You To Go
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
It’s Now Or Never
Can’t Help Falling In Love
1994
“It’s Now or Never: the Elvis the Tribute Concert” is broadcast. John Stamos hosted artists from a variety of genres doing Elvis Presley covers.
DJ Fontana, John Stamos, some ETA, Scotty Moore and Neal Matthews
DJ Fontana, Chris Isaak and Scotty Moore
In attendance: Priscilla Presley, and Lisa Marie with 2nd husband, Micheal Jackson
“It’s Now or Never, the tribute to Elvis” tv special soundtrack
2001
R&B singer Rufus Thomas, whose biggest Pop hit was “Walkin’ The Dog” in 1963, died following a short illness at 84 – he’d recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s. Scored the 1963 US No.10 single ‘Walking The Dog’ and the 1970 UK No.18 & US No.28 single ‘Do The Funky Chicken’. A popular Memphis disc jockey from 1953 to 1974, there is street named in his honor, just off Beale Street.
Thomas’ Sun Records song “Tiger Man” was performed by Elvis on his 1968 tv special – and Elvis appeared on stage with Thomas in 1956:
2008
A modest, one-story, red-brick house in St. Louis where Rock ‘n’ Roll pioneer Chuck Berry lived for eight years in the 1950s, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Berry, who now lives in Wentzville, Mo., about 40 miles west of St. Louis, said “Many of my favorite songs came about while in that house. It’s good to know that my music and now that house will always be a part of St. Louis’ history.”
2016
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainm ... l-karaoke/
https://www.expressnews.com/entertainme ... 798942.php
2017
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pop- ... -lv3gbz3zq
newidea.com.au/new-reports-claim-elvis-presley-intentionally-overdosed
2018
looks like Jerry Schilling
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... anion.html