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1818
Germany’s Franz Gruber composed a melody to go with words written in a poem by Austrian priest Josef Mohr, creating the carol we know as “Silent Night.” “Stille Nacht” was first performed early the next day during Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Gruber’s hometown of Obendorf.
1906 – Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, MA.
1920
Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance when he sang in Jacques Halevy’s “La Juive” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1937
Vernon in prison
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1977
1951
Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” was first broadcast by NBC. It was the first opera written specifically for television.
1952
Elvis sings “Old Shep” and “Cold, Cold Icy Fingers” at his school’s Christmas concert to rave reviews
September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
1954
Singer Johnny Ace accidentally killed himself while playing Russian Roulette backstage at a Houston concert on Christmas Eve. Ace was well known for singing and playing piano with such Blues legends as Bobby Bland and B.B. King. He later signed with Duke Records and had a string of R&B hits, including “My Song”, “Saving My Love”, “Please Forgive Me”, “Cross My Heart” and “The Clock”, along with two more hits after his death, “Pledging My Love” and “Anymore”. Cashbox magazine had named Johnny Ace as its Most Promising New Artist earlier in the month.
The Clovers began a ten-day stint at Los Angeles’ 5-4 Ballroom.
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented from the end of 1954 to mid-1955
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
1955
The Lennon Sisters make their first appearance on The Lawrence Welk Show when they perform on his Christmas Special. The Lennons would become a staple of Saturday night TV for the next 14 years and scored a #15 hit in America in 1959 with their version of “Tonight You Belong To Me”.
Elvis stayed at home over Christmas and did not appear on the Louisiana Hayride this week.
The Presleys 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
1956
Accompanied by Dottie Harmony, a showgirl Elvis dated in Las Vegas, he went Christmas shopping at Lamar Airways Center.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive May 11 1956 to March 1957.
1957
Elvis wrote a letter to the Memphis Draft Board to request officially a deferment for the filming of his new motion picture: ” so these folks will not lose so much money, with all they have done so far.”
The Presleys lived at Graceland
The Military Service Disruption
1958
Elvis helped decorating the company’s Christmas tree. He also entertained his fellow soldiers with a moving version of Silent Night.
October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
1959
The Philadelphia Orphan’s Court gives Chubby Checker a raise in his weekly allowance from $150 to $200. The 19 year old singer (who’s real name is Ernest Evans) has already put three songs, “The Class”, “The Twist” and “The Hucklebuck” in the US Top Forty. (in 2017 dollars, Chubby Checker went from $1,305.29 to $1,740.38 at 770.2% inflation)
Private Presley, earning less than that, was living off base .Military Service in Germany Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
Elvis had been undergoing a series of skin treatments for enlarged pores; however, they came to an abrupt end, when Elvis accused Griessel Landau of making sexual advances. Landau threaten blackmail about 16 year old girls which he knew Elvis was seeing. Shades of Jerry Lee Lewis, so Elvis called The Col, and Elvis went to the army’s Provost Marshal Division, which referred the case to the FBI. . Griessel Landau was not a real doctor, he was selling an herbal face scrub and massage service and after a small payment, he flew to London and that was the end of it.
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
1960
Wild in the Country production break
1962
Priscilla visit
1964
Elvis signed another one-year lease on the Perugia Way house to run through the following year.
1965
Elvis bought some gifts from Harry Levitch, including gold wristwatches, one with the initials “GK” (George Klein) and one with “EP”, some diamond rings, bracelets and charms and a butterfly pin.
1966
In Memphis, pressure had been mounting on Presley for years from the Beaulieu family and from the Colonel, rumors had been swirling for months even amongst Elvis fans, and he’d had an engagement ring made six months previously, Elvis Presley finally got down on one knee during Christmas celebrations at Graceland and presented Priscilla Beaulieu with a three-carat diamond ring he’d had made for her six months earlier, saying, “We’re going to be married.”
1967
A lot of party supplies were rented from Dixie Rents for the Graceland Christmas party. The ground were decorated with the usual life-size Nativity scene and 8 lighted garland trees were rented too.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
1970
Again Elvis gave away some Mercedeses. This time to Sonny West, who was about to get married, Dr. Nick and Bill Morris.
In the early morning he visited the Memphis Police headquarters “to say hello, to the men and women who had to work on Christmas.”
1971
Elvis purchased a watch of $1,100, a ring of $500 and a chain of $1,200 form Lowell Hays. This transaction took place in the Memphian’s men’s room.
1973
Almost every evening was spent at the movies, except for tonight: Elvis had surgery to remove an ingrown toenail at a podiatrist’s office in Memphis.
1974
Elvis loses interest suddenly in The New Gladiators, and production is immediately shut down, even though investors responded favorably to a recent presentation. The official explanation, however, centers around the King’s recent health problems.
1975
Marion Cocke, the night nurse at Graceland, was with Elvis when he woke up from a nightmare. According to Cocke the dream was so real that Elvis awoke in a rage. He dreamt the had gone broke and was deserted by all his friends.
The Wake and Aftermath
1977
Elvis’s version of “My Way” hit #22 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in late-1977/early-1978 (higher than Frank Sinatra’s peak position), number 6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and went Gold for its successful sales of over half a million copies. The following year the single reached number 2 on the Billboard Country singles chart but went all the way to number 1 on the rival Cash Box Country Singles chart. In the UK, it reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart.
Paul Anka heard the original 1967 French pop song, Comme d’habitude (As Usual) performed by Claude François, while on holiday in the south of France. He flew to Paris to negotiate the rights to the song. In a 2007 interview, he said, “I thought it was a shitty record, but there was something in it.” He acquired adaptation, recording, and publishing rights for the mere nominal or formal consideration of one dollar, subject to the provision that the melody’s composers would retain their original share of royalty rights with respect to whatever versions Anka or his designates created or produced.
Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song on December 30, 1968, and it was released in early 1969 on the album of the same name and as a single. It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart in the US. In the UK, the single achieved a still unmatched record, becoming the recording with the most weeks inside the Top 40, spending 75 weeks from April 1969 to September 1971. It spent a further 49 weeks in the Top 75 but never bettered the No. 5 slot achieved upon its first chart run.
Elvis Presley began performing the song in concert during the mid-1970s, in spite of suggestions by Paul Anka that it was not a song that would suit him. Nevertheless, on January 12 and 14, 1973 Presley sang the song during his satellite show Aloha from Hawaii, beamed live and on deferred basis (for European audiences, who also saw it in prime time), to 43 countries via Intelsat. Elvis early 1970s version was more defiant, and the 1974 and later versions were defeated.
Interviewed in 2007, Paul Anka said he had been “somewhat destabilized by the Sex Pistols’ version. It was kind of curious, but I felt he (Sid Vicious) was sincere about it. Vicious did not know the lyrics to the song when it was recorded, so he improvised lyrics, using swear words
1994
The Elvis song “If Everyday Was Like Christmas” hit #94 in the U.S. The song was written by Red West.
The original single reached No. 2 on Billboard’s “Best Bets For Christmas” survey in 1966, and returned to the chart in 1967, spending a total of eight weeks in the chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1966.
Elvis christmas albums continue to be repacked and sometimes, they chart.
2009
Larry Knechtel, the keyboard player for Bread, died following a heart attack at the age of 69. Knechtel earned a Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon And Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and also performed with Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., The Dixie Chicks and Elvis Costello.
2013
Billboard magazine announced that America’s all-time biggest-selling Christmas album was Elvis Presley’s “Elvis’ Christmas Album,” first issued in 1957 and certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as having sold 10 million copies. Kenny G’s “Miracles: The Holiday Album,” ranks second with 7.3 million units sold, followed by a three-way tie: Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song,” and Mannheim Steamroller’s two albums, “Christmas” and “A Fresh Aire Christmas,” each with sales of 6 million copies.
2016
Las Vegas, Nevada named a street after Elvis Presley.
At a Vegas hotel, the Elvis exhibit planned for 10 years closes in year one and in 2017, the Exhibition, Hotel and EPE are in litigation.
#LetTheGirlsPlay Cover: Elvis Presley, ‘Blue Christmas’
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Stars Petula Clark and Karen Carpenter knocked back Elvis Presley threesome
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/c ... 98ddae5eca
2017
Christmas album of 2017? It’s beginning to look a lot like Elvis
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... riah-carey
2019
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/l ... -las-vegas
Liberace told Elvis Presley he needed ‘more glitz’ in his shows …
Fox News–12 hours ago
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Baz Luhrmann’s current playlist hits everything from Elvis …
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 693334001/
Elvis Presley: Daughter Lisa Marie on Michael Jackson …
Express.co.uk–3 hours ago
Elvis Presley had one daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, with his ex-wife Priscilla Presley. The couple maintained a good relationship after their spit …
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment ... n-marriage
Listen to David Bowie’s Christmas impression of Elvis Presley
Far Out Magazine–11 hours ago
Nothing quite says Christmas like a bit of Elvis Presley—even if by that we actually mean David Bowie. A few years back, 2013 to be exact, Mick …
Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and more pay tribute to Elvis Presley with special Christmas performance
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