1915
Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey; died of a second heart attack suffered on May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles.
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
1954
The Presleys lived at 2414 Lamar Avenue, rented til the end of 1954 to mid-1955
1955
Elvis appeared with Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins on a show at the National Guard Armory. Mississippi.
https://www.scottymoore.net/amory.html
According to Bill E. Burk, the show was booked by Bobby Ritter, a dee jay for WTUP in Tupelo, who also reputedly booked Elvis for others shows in Mississippi, including Bruce and Tupelo. “He (Elvis) was always late on stage, it seemed,” said Ritter. “On those nights when he would arrive late, Bob Neal and I would go on stage. Bob would be the comedian and I the straight man and we tried to keep the folks entertained until Elvis got there, but they didn’t want to hear us.”
Bill wrote:
Carl Perkins remembers the Amory concert well.
Perkins and Elvis had driven to Amory together from a concert the night before in Helena, Arkansas. En route, they were discussing music and both mentioned how much they liked singing the song, Only You, made popular by the Platters.
During his time on the Amory stage, someone in the audience shouted, "Only You, Carl."
"You got it, hoss," Carl snapped back, and sang his version of the song.
Perkins had the house jumping and they weren't ready for him to leave the stage when the time came.
Backstage, Perkins found Elvis sitting, head in hands, shutting out the world.
"You feelin' okay?" he asked Elvis.
"Aw, ain’t no need in me goin' on," Elvis replied. "They’re ready for you. What’d you do Only You for?"
Challenged, Perkins snapped, "’Cause I wanted to. ‘Cause I can sing it. There’s two reasons. You want another one?"
“Well, I was gonna do it," Elvis told his fellow Sun partner.
"Well, go on out there and do it," Perkins commanded.
"Hell, the Platters are singin' it somewhere tonight."
"I ain't that big a damn fool,” a sulking Elvis said. "I ain’t goin’ out there and sing something you done sung. You done tore ’em all to pieces. I might as well go on to the car. "
Ritter and a partner had seen this interplay. Ritter made a five dollar bet, that despite the audience’s reaction to Perkins, Elvis would come out the crowd winner at the end.
"Walking toward the stage, Elvis asked me what we had been talking about," said Ritter. "I told him about the bet."
When Elvis walked on, the crowd was still shouting "We want Carl! We want Carl."
Elvis, said Ritter, seemed to become overly motivated.
"He went wild. He sang, he was all over that stage. He was down on his knees. He was attacking that guitar.
"And it wasn’t long before he had 'em eatin' outta his hands!"
When he re-entered the backstage area, Elvis winked at Ritter and said, "Go get your five dollars!"
By this time, Elvis had signed with RCA and the concert in Amory would be the last time the three acts would appear together – Carl Perkins was days away from audition the “Blue Suede Shoes” for Sam Phillips and cut it at Sun.
Sometime in the fall of 1955, Carl and Johnny shared a bill at the Armory in Amory. It was reputedly on this show that Johnny suggested that Carl write a song based on a phrase he had heard. Cash told Perkins of a black airman whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany. He had referred to his military regulation air shoes as “blue suede shoes.” Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes. Carl replied, “I don’t know anything about shoes. How can I write a song about shoes?“
While playing in Jackson, Tennessee several nights later, he saw a dancer in the crowd trying to keep his girlfriend away from his new blue suede shoes, which connected with the idea that Cash had given him and leads his writing lyrics and subsequently he and his brothers worked up an arrangement.
1956
A busy day: Elvis donated some toys to a Marine drive for underprivileged children.
RCA decided to have Elvis in advertising for RCA equipment and the Hungerford Furniture photo shoot was done. RCA realized teenagers don’t buy family furniture and the photos were unused.
Hal Kanter, screenwriter and director of “Loving You”, flew to Memphis to meet Elvis Presley.
Elvis stopped by the police station for a visit then he went downtown to the Malco Theater to see Storm Of The Nile.
1957
Disc Jockey Al Priddy of KEX, Portland, Oregon is fired for violating the radio station’s ban against playing Elvis Presley’s rendition of “White Christmas”. He was told by the management “It is not in the spirit we associate with Christmas.”
1958
Military Service in Germany
October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
1959
The four male members of The Platters were acquitted of charges of aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness and assignation after an incident on August 10th in Cincinnati. Despite the outcome of the trial, the scandal would severely damage the group’s career.
Elvis: Military Service in Germany
1960
Elvis Presley had been around four years and already his career hit total was up to 43. Even better, he had the #1 song for the third straight week with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
Elvis Presley’s soundtrack album “G.I. Blues” hit #1 in the U.S. Elvis did not want this LP released and it outsold his preferred “Elvis is Back”
Wild in the Country Production
1961
Kid Galahad Production
1966
Elvis Presley’s album “California Holiday” hit #17 in the U.K. (Called Speedway in North America)
Elvis donated all kind of cheques with a total amount of $105,000 for charities.
1968
with fans in Beverly Hills – at home from Trouble with Girls Production
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... er-12.html
1969
The album “From Memphis To Vegas/From Vegas To Memphis” was confirmed gold by the RIAA.
1970
The Elvis compilation album “Almost In Love” hit #65 in the U.S.
1971
Elvis and Joyce Bova flew to Washington staying at the Washington Hilton.
1973
Elvis worked hard in the Stax Studios until 5.00 a.m. Elvis was focused on 4 songs written or brought to him by Voice.
Stax Studio – Memphis, Tennessee
December 12 / 13 1973 (Wednesday / Thursday)
Mr. Songman CPA5 1621-06
Thinking About You CPA5 1622-08
Love Song Of The Year CPA5 1623-08
Help Me CPA5 1624-01
1975
Elvis did a Midnight Vegas Show in The Rainfall Jumpsuit.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
Fairytale
And I Love You So
Tryin’ To Get To You
All Shook Up
Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel
One Night
You Gave A Mountain
Guadalajara
[band introductions]
Just Pretend
How Great Thou Art
Softly, As I Leave You
Little Darlin’
America The Beautiful
Mystery Train/Tiger Man
Little Sister
O Sole Mio – It’s Now Or Never
Can’t Help Falling In Love
1976
Elvis Presley performed his last Las Vegas Concert.
Scarf Sideman Charlie Hodge’s birthday.
Also Sprach Zarathustra
See See Rider
I Got A Woman/Amen
Love Me
My Way
Fairytale
You Gave Me A Mountain
Jailhouse Rock
Little Sister
It’s Now Or Never
Tryin’ To Get To You
Happy Birthday
Blue Suede Shoes
Blue Christmas
Softly, As I Leave You
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
That’s All Right
Bridge Over Troubled Water
[band introductions]
Early Morning Rain
What’d I Say
Johnny B. Goode
Love Letters
School Days
Hurt
Such A Night
Sweet Caroline
Can’t Help Falling In Love
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... er-12.html
After the show of December 12, 1976 Elvis broke down in his dressing room and cried. He had talked with Rex Humbard, televangelist, about the lack of meaning of the life he lead.
Humbard (who died aged 88 in 2007) recollected: “I took both his hands in mine and said: “Elvis, right now I want to pray for you”, “Please do”, Elvis said, and cried.”
Humbard performed Elvis’ funeral service.
Nina notes:
It is hard to imagine that it wasn’t good to be the King, but Elvis Presley, although he dominated radio, had successful movies and smash tv specials, the amount of money that passed through his hands made him the biggest individual driver of the American economy – supporting the recording and movie industry as much as in his private life, he hired his extended family and lucky outsiders who made his inner circle.
Elvis Presley didn’t go to church because he didn’t want to disrupt the service.
Elvis Presley also didn’t care for how all the Preachers and Minsters had their hands out for money – and certainly, there was no comfort in their religion.
Elvis Presley publicly maintained that he was a Christian and that is really all that it takes for a person to be a member of a group – he did explore and study a range of religions = he had a lot of Jewish friends and he was deeply into eastern philosophies much to the disinterest of his inner circle who wanted to party and not have Elvis read -preach and try to spiritualize the group around him, probably as a means to reduce his guilt at the rather hedonistic life he did lead – offset by his extreme generosity to a wide range of charity groups.
Mostly. it’s getting away from that binary thinking and Elvis could have done better if he had stood up for his aspirations, and that was the biggest issue I think for him – everyone thought Elvis was an alpha male, but he really wasn’t – he was the guy in the corner with a guitar and he managed to be so good that the centre of attention shifted to him, rather than him stepping up into it.
2003
The Presley Pictures “Roustabout”, “King Creole”, “Blue Hawaii” and “Paradise, Hawaiian Style” were released on DVD.
2005
Queen overtook The Beatles to become the third most successful act of all time. Sales in 2005 showed that Queen had now overtaken The Beatles to make it into third place, spending 1,755 weeks on the British singles and album charts. The Beatles slipped to fourth place, with 1,749 weeks. Elvis had spent 2,574 weeks on the singles and album charts, making him number one in the Top 100 most successful acts of all time. Sir Cliff Richard remained in second place, clinching 1,982 weeks.
2014
#Elvis at The O2 opens today in London!
2015
‘I thought this guy must be famous’ Kurt Russell reveals he met Elvis Presley as a child Express.co.uk
2017
Suzanna Leigh, Elvis Presley’s Co-Star in ‘Paradise, Hawaiian Style dies
2018
Elvis‘ Palm Springs honeymoon hideout listed at $2.695 million
Fox News–22 hours ago
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CNN–Dec. 7, 2018
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2019
Blue Christmas brought the music of Elvis to Fergus
Wellington Advertiser–2 hours ago
The king – An Elvis Presley impersonator came to centre stage at the Fergus Grand Theatre on Dec. 7 with his show Blue Christmas. As soon as …