Elvis Presley
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1960 - Elvis Presley began his first post-Army recording. In Nashville, he recorded "A Mess of Blues." 1964 - The principal photography for the Elvis Presley movie "Roustabout" began. 1965 - Elvis Presley's single "Do The Clam" hit #19 in the U.K.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1964 - Elvis Presley's single "Kissin' Cousins" hit #12 in the U.S. 1970 - Elvis Presley's single "Kentucky Rain" hit #16 in the U.S. The song was written by Eddie Rabbit. 1970 - Elvis Presley's "Don't Cry Daddy" hit #8 in the U.K. 1981 - An updated version of Elvis Presley's album "Guitar Man" hit #43 in the U.K.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1957 - Elvis Presley's single "All Shook Up" was shipped to retailers. 1965 - Elvis Presley returned to Memphis after finishing filming for "Fun in Acupulco." 1967 - The movie "Easy Come, Easy Go," starring Elvis Presley and Elsa Lanchester, opened in the U.S. 1967 - Elvis Presley began working on "Clambake." 1969 - Elvis Presley's "If I Can Dream" hit #11 in the U.K. 1969 - Filming began on the Elvis Presley movie "Change Of Habit." 2004 - It was announced that DIGGIT Enterntainment Group would develop Elvis-branded applications for mobile devices worldwide.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1961 - Elvis Presley recorded "Rock-a-Hula Baby" and "Can't Help Falling in Love." 2004 - The Elvis Presley compilation album "Elvis Ultimate Gospel" was released by BMG.
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2004 - The Elvis Presley compilation album "Elvis Ultimate Gospel" was released by BMG.
Sure doesn't seem like it's been a year.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on "Stage Show" for the sixth time. 1956 - Elvis Presley performed "Money Honey" and "Heartbreak Hotel" on TV's "Stage Show." 1958 - Elvis Presley was sworn in as a private in the U.S. Army. 2004 - In Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Patton Museum of Calvary and Armor opened a new exhibit that focused on the years Elvis spent in the U.S. Army. The exhibit was planned to stay at the museum until March of 2005.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1958 - Elvis Presley got his Army haircut. 1961 - Elvis Presley quit doing live performances and made movies for the next eight years. His next live performance was on July 31, 1969. 1961 - Elvis Presley performed his last live show for the next eight years in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The show raised $62,000 for the U.S.S. Arizona memorial fund.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1953 - Elvis Presley visited the Tennessee State Employment Security Office. The interviewer noted that Elvis was "rather flashily dressed 'playboy' type." 1956 - Elvis Presley was at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles to screen-test for producer Hal Wallis. 1960 - The TV special "Welcome Home Elvis" was recorded in Miami Beach, FL. The show was hosted by Frank Sinatra. 1962 - Elvis Presley reported to the studio to begin work on the "Girls! Girls! Girls!" soundtrack.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1958 - Elvis Presley arrived at Fort Hood, TX, for basic training. He was station there for six months. 1964 - Elvis Presley's "It Hurts Me" hit #29 in the U.S.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1958 - Elvis Presley's "Don't" hit #2 in the U.K. 1972 - Elvis Presley recorded the song "Always On My Mind." 1976 - In Memphis, Bruce Springsteen jumped a fence at Graceland in an attempt to see his idol, Elvis Presley. 2004 - The Vermont Teddy Bear Company released a limited edition Elvis Bear 2. The bears were to be offered from March 29-April 24, 2004, at more than 750 Kroger stores free of charge with a minimum purchase.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1961 - In Hawaii, a resolution was passed "expressing gratitude and appreciation to Elvis Presley and Col. Tom Parker" for helping to raise funds for the USS Arizona. 1967 - Elvis Presley's "Guitar Man" hit #19 in the U.K. 2004 - The album "Maximum Elvis" was released. It contained the songs "The King Of Western Bop", "A White Man Who Could Sing The Blues", "Let's Get Real, Real Gone For A Change", "The Snowman", "This Unspeakably Untallnted, Vulgar Young Entertainer", "At The Movies", "A Nice Lad When You Get To Know Him", "The Hippie Element", "Death" and "Resurrection?".
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1966 - The movie "Frankie and Johnny," starring Elvis Presley and Donna Douglas, premiered in Baton Rouge, LA. 1977 - An Elvis Presley concert in Baton Rouge, LA, was postponed after Elvis did not return from the intermission. 1986 - Elvis Presley's "Crying In The Chapel" was certified gold by the RIAA.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1955 - Elvis Presley released "Baby, Let's Play House." The b-side was "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone." 1956 - Elvis Presley filmed his first Hollywood screen test for Hal Wallis. 1959 - Elvis Presley rented a piano while in Germany. 1960 - Elvis Presley taped Frank Sinatra's Timex TV special in Miami. 1977 - Elvis Presley was admitted to a Memphis hospital due to fatigue and intestinal flu. He stayed in the hospital for six days. 1981 - The album "The Million Dollar Quartet" was released for the first time on Sun in the U.K.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1960 - Elvis Presley was named the Best-Selling Male Artist at the first annual National Association of Recording Merchandisers Awards in Las Vegas. 1977 - Elvis Presley's single "Moody Blue" hit #6 in the U.K. 1996 - A revival of the 1970's musical "Elvis" opened in London. Timothy Whitnall played the 1960's Elvis and P.J. Proby played Elvis in the later years.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1956 - Elvis Presley performed on "The Milton Berle Show." The show was broadcast live from the aircraft carrier USS Hancock. Elvis played the songs "Heartbreak Hotel," "Money, Honey," and "Blue Suede Shoes." 1960 - Elvis Presley went into a recording studio for the first time since leaving the U.S. Army. 1963 - The Elvis Presley movie "It Happened At The World's Fair" premiered in Los Angeles. 1965 - Elvis Presley's "Do the Clam" hit #21 on the pop chart.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1959 - The Elvis Presley compilation album "For LP Fans Only" hit #19 in the U.S. 1960 - Elvis Presley recorded "Are You Lonesome Tonight." 1973 - NBC aired the Elvis Presley movie "Aloha From Hawaii." It was the first American airing of the performance. 1981 - The documentary film "This is Elvis" premiered at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, TX. The film was premiered for the press the previous day.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1967 - The Elvis Presley movie "Double Trouble" was released in the U.S.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1956 - Paramount Pictures signed Elvis Presley to a three-movie deal. 1965 - Elvis Presley's single "Crying In The Chapel" was released. 1968 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley saw Tom Jones' midnightshow at the Flamingo. 1968 - Elvis Presley's single "Stay Away" hit #67 in the U.S. 1970 - Elvis Presley bought a six door 1969 Mercedes limo. 1974 - Elvis Presley's single "I've Got A Thing About You" hit #33 in the U.K. 1992 - The U.S. Postal Service invited customers to vote on which picture of Elvis they would like to appear on a postage stamp. 2004 - The Elvis Presely album "Blue Christmas" was released on CD.
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Today in Elvis Presley History 1962 - Elvis Presley arrived in Hawaii to shoot portions of the movie "Girls! Girls! Girls!". 1965 - The Elvis Presley movie "Girl Happy" premiered. The movie opened in the U.S. on April 14, 1965. 1970 - Colonel Parker concluded a deal with MGM.
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- Elvis Presley By Bono Out of Tupelo, Mississippi, out of Memphis, Tennessee, came this green, sharkskin-suited girl chaser, wearing eye shadow -- a trucker-dandy white boy who must have risked his hide to act so black and dress so gay. This wasn't New York or even New Orleans; this was Memphis in the Fifties. This was punk rock. This was revolt. Elvis changed everything -- musically, sexually, politically. In Elvis, you had the whole lot; it's all there in that elastic voice and body. As he changed shape, so did the world: He was a Fifties-style icon who was what the Sixties were capable of, and then suddenly not. In the Seventies, he turned celebrity into a blood sport, but interestingly, the more he fell to Earth, the more godlike he became to his fans. His last performances showcase a voice even bigger than his gut, where you cry real tears as the music messiah sings his tired heart out, turning casino into temple. In Elvis, you have the blueprint for rock & roll: The highness -- the gospel highs. The mud -- the Delta mud, the blues. Sexual liberation. Controversy. Changing the way people feel about the world. It's all there with Elvis. I was barely conscious when I saw the '68 comeback special, at eight years old -- which was probably an advantage. I hadn't the critical faculties to divide the different Elvises into different categories or sort through the contradictions. Pretty much everything I want from guitar, bass and drums was present: a performer annoyed by the distance from his audience; a persona that made a prism of fame's wide-angle lens; a sexuality matched only by a thirst for God's instruction. But it's that elastic spastic dance that is the most difficult to explain -- hips that swivel from Europe to Africa, which is the whole point of America, I guess. For an Irish boy, the voice might have explained the sexiness of the U.S.A., but the dance explained the energy of this new world about to boil over and scald the rest of us with new ideas on race, religion, fashion, love and peace. These were ideas bigger than the man who would break the ice for them, ideas that would later confound the man who took the Anglo-Saxon stiff upper lip and curled it forever. He was "Elvis the Pelvis," with one hand on the blues terminal and the other on the gospel, which is the essence of rock & roll, a lightning flash running along his spine, electroshock therapy for a generation about to refuse numbness, both male and female, black and white. I recently met with Coretta Scott King, John Lewis and some of the other leaders of the American civil-rights movement, and they reminded me of the cultural apartheid rock & roll was up against. I think the hill they climbed would have been much steeper were it not for the racial inroads black music was making on white pop culture. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival were all introduced to the blues through Elvis. He was already doing what the civil-rights movement was demanding: breaking down barriers. You don't think of Elvis as political, but that is politics: changing the way people see the world. In the Eighties, U2 went to Memphis, to Sun Studio -- the scene of rock & roll's big bang. We were working with Elvis' engineer and music diviner, Cowboy Jack Clement. He reopened the studio so we could cut some tracks within the same four walls where Elvis recorded "Mystery Train." He found the old valve microphone the King had howled through; the reverb was the same reverb: "Train I ride, sixteen coaches long." It was a small tunnel of a place, but there was a certain clarity to the sound. You can hear it in those Sun records, and they are the ones for me -- leanness but not meanness. The King didn't know he was the King yet. It's haunted, hunted, spooky music. Elvis doesn't know where the train will take him, and that's why we want to be passengers. Jerry Schilling, the only one of the Memphis Mafia not to sell him out, told me a story about when he used to live at Graceland, down by the squash courts. He had a little room there, and he said that when Elvis was upset and feeling out of kilter, he would leave the big house and go down to his little gym, where there was a piano. With no one else around, his choice would always be gospel, losing and finding himself in the old spirituals. He was happiest when he was singing his way back to spiritual safety. But he didn't stay long enough. Self-loathing was waiting back up at the house, where Elvis was seen shooting at his TV screens, the Bible open beside him at St. Paul's great ode to love, Corinthians 13. Elvis clearly didn't believe God's grace was amazing enough. Some commentators say it was the Army, others say it was Hollywood or Las Vegas that broke his spirit. The rock & roll world certainly didn't like to see their King doing what he was told. I think it was probably much more likely his marriage or his mother -- or a finer fracture from earlier on, like losing his twin brother, Jesse, at birth. Maybe it was just the big arse of fame sitting on him. I think the Vegas period is underrated. I find it the most emotional. By that point Elvis was clearly not in control of his own life, and there is this incredible pathos. The big opera voice of the later years -- that's the one that really hurts me. Why is it that we want our idols to die on a cross of their own making, and if they don't, we want our money back? But you know, Elvis ate America before America ate him. (From RS 946, April 15, 2004) http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5940035