Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
1938
Vernon Presley .in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
Memphis, Tennessee 1948-1977
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
, 1955
Rosemary Clooney was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Mambo Italiano’ the singers second No.1. The song was banned by all ABC owned stations in the US because it “did not reach standards of good taste”.
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
1956
The country music trio known as Buddy Holly and the Two-Tunes began a two-week tour of the southern United States as a supporting act for George Jones and Hank Thompson.
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive May 11 1956 to March 1957.
January 9, 1957
march of dimes campaign
The Military Service Disruption
1959
In a long letter, the Colonel suggested to Elvis that he should make home tape recordings, with only his voice and a piano. The Colonel even told RCA about this, but nothing came from this idea then. Elvis did tapes, he always had the latest gadgets usually from RCA as perks and bonuses.
by the 1980s, RCA, then BMG and Follow That Dream Collector label would release a number of Elvis Presley’s home tapes, becoming official releases. Col Parker was a visionary in some aspects, just short sighted; being focussed on how much he could make from managing Elvis – he did consider himself part of the act. Just not the part that actually mattered. These Germany home tapes were released on the “Follow that Dream” Elvis Collector label.
1960
Military service in germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
1961
Orchestra leader Bert Kaempfert knocked Elvis Presley out of the number one spot on the US charts after six weeks with a sleepy instrumental called “Wonderland By Night”. Later in the year, Kaempfert would hire The Beatles to back Tony Sheridan on their first commercial recording, “My Bonnie”.
Bert Kaempfert had a #1 song with “Wonderland By Night”, unseating Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome To-night?” after six weeks. “Exodus”, one of The Top 100 Instrumentals of the Rock Era* by Ferrante & Teicher, moved to #3 with “Last Date” from Floyd Cramer on the way down. The rest of the Top 10: The Shirelles with a song written by Stanley, Idaho’s Carole King–“Will You Love Me Tomorrow” that moved from 14-5, Bobby Vee’s “Rubber Ball” bounced into the Top 10, “Angel Baby” from Rosie & the Originals, Johnny Horton’s “North To Alaska” was at #8 after 17 weeks, “Corinna, Corinna” from Ray Peterson edged up and Johnny Burnette placed “You’re Sixteen” at #10.
Wild in the Country productions
1963
Priscilla Visit
1967
Again Elvis went “horse buying” today and bought 3 more horses today.
1968
Elvis Presley released the single “Guitar Man,” featuring the song’s composer, Jerry Reed, on lead guitar. Reed’s recording of the song was number 53 on the country music charts in 1967. Elvis’ single spent one week at number one on the country chart.
Thirteen years later, “Guitar Man” was re-recorded in a new electric arrangement, with Presley’s original vocal left intact, and it was the last of his eleven number one country hits. The record also peaked at number twenty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was his last top-40 pop hit in the U.S.
1969
At Graceland, Elvis met with RCA producer, Felton Jarvis, in the den which would become known as Jungleroom to discuss going to Nashville to record what he hoped would put him back on top of the charts.
Marty Lacker was there, seething, as he listened. Elvis snapped at him, ‘What the hell’s the matter with you?’ and Lacker got the opening he needed to lay it on the line one last time: ‘ I just wish for once you’d try Chips Moman and his rhythm section, they’re great Elvis’. And Elvis said, ‘Well, maybe someday I will’. Colonel Parker had lost control, Lacker had won for Elvis.
more detailed reading: The American Sound Studios Sessions 1969: https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/reinve ... 1969.shtml
Afterwards, Elvis flew with 2 of the guys to Dallas for a few days.
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
1971
Elvis was selected as one of the nation’s Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year for 1970, by The Junior Chamber of Commerce of America. This award had been given out since 1939 and had been awarded to distinguished men in all fields, with one common denominator: they must all be 35 or younger.
Elvis flew to Los Angeles and then to Palm Springs for the weekend, where he bought another $3,500 worth of guns and gun related equipment.
1973
Elvis arrived at the Honolulu airport.
Then Elvis was brought to the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel by helicopter. Then he started with his first rehearsal with the band and backup singers, who had arrived too.
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... ary-9.html
Tom Moffat grabbed an off the cuff interview
1975
There was a big tornado in McComb, Mississippi, with a lot casualties. The Colonel used this news to persuade Elvis to do a benefit show for the victims. This was the Colonel’s way to get Elvis back on the road again and Elvis agreed.
1976
in the headlines:
Elvis battles middle age | Chicago Tribune Archive
Elvis Presley was on Vacation in Vail.
After a skiing accident at Vail Colorado, with Dr.Nick’s (George Nichopoulos) son Dean needing medical attention, Elvis, Dr Nick and Dean went to the local hospital. (Date unknown).
George Nichopoulos: ‘Finally we arrived at the hospital. I pulled out my Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance card with Elvis Presley Enterprises printed on it and handed it to the busy receptionist.
She must have thought she was being cute, ’cause she smirked back, ‘Yeah. So where’s Elvis?’
Still wearing his ski mask, Elvis looked all around, left and right, up and down; then he answered mischievously, ‘He’s here … somewhere’, ‘And who are you?’ the receptionist shot back. ‘The Lone Ranger’, Elvis replied matter-of-factly. But she had already returned to her paperwork, paying no attention to the silly masked man. (X-rays showed Dean’s knee was badly sprained and bruised with contusions.
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/don-ki ... lacs.shtml
1977
Elvis urged his dentist, Max Shapiro to marry his fiancée in Palm Springs.
Elvis got Larry Geller to perform the ceremony on the spot, with Elvis supplying the rings and Ginger as maid of honor. He took the occasion to muse out loud about the possibility of his marrying Ginger in the near future.
The Wake and Aftermath
1985
2003
A grand piano once owned by Elvis Presley was sold for $685,000 (£425,711). Music producer Robert Johnson and partner Larry Moss sold the piano to the chairman of the Blue Moon Group, Michael Muzio who was planning to take the piano on a casino-sponsored promotional tour. He was then planning for the piano to be shown at the proposed rock museum at Walt Disney World.
2005
Elvis Presley went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Jailhouse Rock.’ The single sold just 21,262 copies to reach No.1, the lowest sales ever for a UK chart topper since data began in 1969. The single was released to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his birth, a previous Elvis chart topper was re-released each week.
2013
Announcer/emcee/Country Music Hall of Famer Frank Page, a broadcaster for 65 years, died of a respiratory infection at age 87. On October 16, 1954, Wilkinson introduced radio listeners to Elvis Presley when the Memphis teenager first performed at Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium on KWKH’s live music show, the “Louisiana Hayride,” the state’s version of the Grand Ole Opry. During a year-long series of Presley appearances on the program, Wilkinson was the first to tell an audience, “Elvis has left the building.”
2014
Rolling Stone magazine published their Readers Poll: The 10 Greatest Double Albums of All Time. The top 5 were: 5. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti, 4. Bruce Springsteen – The River, 3. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street, 2. Pink Floyd – The Wall, and winning the poll was The Beatles – The White Album.
Generation skew deprives Elvis Presley’s Aloha Double LP and the From Memphis to Vegas/Vegas to Memphis 1969 mixed studio and live lp set.
2015
Film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. died of congestive heart failure at age 88.
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2017
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2020
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