Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1946
1937
Vernon in prison
1938
Vernon in prison
Memphis, Tennessee
1949-1977
1954
Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour. (September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954)
1957
The production chief of Paramount Studios petitioned the U.S. Army to defer Elvis Presley’s induction by two months so he could finish filming “King Creole.” The draft board agreed after Elvis made the request himself.
Elvis and the Colonel’s in the red Isetta sports car which Elvis has just presented to him as a Christmas present. ‘It is snug’ observed Colonel Parker.
After visiting and conferring with the Colonel, Elvis attended the Grand Ole Opry, accompanied by Gordon Stoker, who took him to a clothing store where he purchased a tuxedo for the evening.
The Jordanaires : Hugh Jarrett : Gordon Stoker, Elvis Presley : Neal Matthews : Hoyt Hawkins.
Johnny Cash : Elvis Presley : Gordon Stoker.
Elvis spent the evening chatting with performers backstage and even made a brief appearance to wave at the audience.
Hank Snow : Elvis Presley.
The Wilburn Brothers : Teddy Wilburn, Elvis, Doyle Wilburn.
Brenda Lee with Elvis
Gordon Terry, Elvis Presley, Col Parker and Ray Price
Governor of Tennessee- Frank G. Clement ,Elvis and Colonel Parker.
After the Opry, it was over to the governor’s mansion to see Governor Frank Clement until one o’clock in the morning playing the piano.
The Marigolds, (evolved from The Prison Aires), with lead singer Johnny Bragg, performed for Elvis at Governor Frank G. Clement’s mansion. They sang Jailhouse Rock for Elvis, and he was impressed with their harmonies, and wanted to record with them, but apparently Colonel Parker did not consider this a good career move. Elvis joined them for a rendition of Just Walkin’ In The Rain,a song Elvis did not record. Elvis and his party returned back to Memphis in the early hours of Sunday 22nd of December 1957.
, 1958
Elvis leased a BMW 507 from BMW Glöckler. The car was a ‘used’ one and Elvis knew this, formerly driven by racing ace Hans Stuck. Elvis was assured by Mr Glöckler that ‘the car was very well run in by Mr Stuck’. Stuck had raced the car in several sports car events, but the engine was modified for Elvis to use on a daily basis. (So the car was quite special). He had already a black Mercedes as well as a Volkswagen. That last one was used by Red and Lamar.
Over Christmas Elvis and his friends fooled around with the new tape recorder, singing songs like Danny Boy and Mona Lisa.
1959
Conway Twitty released the single “Lonely Blue Boy.” It became the third of his three Top 10 pop hits. Elvis’ version of this song, “Danny” recorded for King Creole was not released until the RCA’s Legendary Performer compilation series in the 1970s.
1960
Elvis was in Wild in the Country Production
1963
Priscilla visit to Elvis: Priscilla Beaulieu sitting next to Dee Stanley’s niece, Theresa, at the Dolan street house, Memphis, TN,
1970
Elvis Presley left Memphis without any money and got on a series of planes between Memphis, Washington and LA.
He went to Washington most likely to see Joyce Bova, who was a Federal Government employee – and during the flights and meeting various people, the gift he intended to give to Bova was instead given to then President Nixon.
Elvis arrived in Washington and was picked up at the airport. He dropped off a letter addressed to President Nixon requesting a meeting to discuss how the King of Rock and Roll could help Nixon fight drugs – including getting credentials as a “federal agent at large.” to the president at 6.30 a.m.
Then he checked into the Hotel Washington again. Elvis tried to get in touch with the BNDD’s director John Ingersoll. This failed, but there was a call from President Nixon’s deputy counsel, asking Elvis to meet him in 45 minutes at the Old Executive Office Building on the White House grounds.
Elvis Presley was almost at the Oval Office when he remembered he still had a gun and he turned over an ankle holstered pistol to the astonished security team.
He gives Nixon a chrome-plated Colt .45 while the President agreed to give him a Narcotics Bureau badge – but only after learning that the chief of the narcotics bureau had turned down the same request earlier that day and told Presley the only person who could overrule his decision was the President.
There Elvis, Sonny and Jerry met with President Nixon. To everyone’s surprise, except for Elvis’ , they really hit it off, and Elvis left the following day with that what he came for: the BNDD badge.
At Elvis’ request, the meeting remained secret for more than a year until The Washington Post broke the story on January 27th, 1972.
In the internet era: The documents about the Presley-Nixon summit consumed so much of the administration time of the Nixon Presidential Library that when the internet happened in the 1990s for the public – they were some of the first documents made available for download, just to reduce the government cost of processing copy requests.
So in that sense, that meeting did help to improve Nixon’s image and legacy.
https://npg.si.edu/blog/december-21-197 ... hard-nixon
1971
Elvis went to the Memphian and saw Dirty Harry and Straw Dogs.
2006
“Writing for the King” was released. The set included two CDs and a book that included more than 140 interviews with songwriters.
https://www.elvisinfonet.com/ftdreview_ ... eking.html
2017
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/ ... 970-232795
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 108809012/
2019
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment ... -interview
Elvis Presley: The King only had ‘one’ REAL friend in music …
Express.co.uk–17 hours ago
The Blue Suede Shoes and Hound Dog hitmaker was a paragon of music in his heyday, but Elvis Presley also faced insurmountable tragedy and went to an …
https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/pris ... christmas/
Priscilla Presley Keeps ‘Fond Memories’ of Late Ex-Husband Elvis Alive Every … “To this day she still listens to Elvis‘ Christmas songs — it never gets old for her.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elvis ... christmas/
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