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Another Early Years.
Here is the DVD cover of the fifties television appearances a premium
documentary DVD.
This is the same DVD as the "Early Years" premium DVD with the same title
released last year.
2004/10/31 E-Mail / Ep.Gold.Com.
'Elvis' asks workers to help United
Way.
"Elvis" was in the courthouse
building Wednesday, helping raise money for
the United Way of Weld County. Elvis, or KFKA radio personality George
Gray,
walked around to various law clerks and court reporters' offices, catch-
ing
many off-guard as he serenaded them with "Love Me Tender."
Gray also asked
them to help the United Way. Weld District Judge Gilbert Gutierrez
walked
out of his chambers to shake Gray's hand, as he heard one of his clerks
laughing with embarrassment. "It's not every day you get to shake
Elvis'
hand," Judge Gutierrez said, also laughing. Shairan Whitman, an
accounts and
collections representative for the 19th Judicial District, helped
organize
the King's surprise visit. Gray has been doing Elvis impersonations for
years, and said he often helps with nonprofit organizations. "I've
slowly
been getting the reputation as being the Elvis guy in Greeley," he
said. But
he doesn't do it for just anyone and won't be Elvis for Halloween.
"I'll go
as Wayne Newton," he said. He may or may not have been joking.
Those at the
courthouse who donated to the United Way Wednesday will get a photograph
of
themselves with Gray, who was dressed in a very convincing white
polyester
Elvis suit. Anyone who wants a glossy 8x10-inch photo can get one for
$5,
Whitman said.
2004/10/31 Greeley Tribune - http://www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Cheyenne Jackson Dons Leather
Jacket to Star in All Shook Up, Replacing
Jarrod Emick.
Producer Jonathan Pollard announced Oct.
29 that actor Cheyenne Jackson,
originally hired as understudy for leather-jacketed outsider Chad in All
Shook Up, will now create that lead role in the commercial world
premiere of
the new musical comedy that uses songs made famous by Elvis Presley.
Jarrod Emick, who had previously been announced in the role, was
replaced
when final contract terms could not be agreed upon. Emick recently
played
Peter Allen's lover in The Boy From Oz on Broadway, and first shook up
musical theatre when he took home a Tony Award as Joe Hardy in the most
recent Damn Yankees. "Both the producers of All Shook Up and Jarrod
Emick's
representatives believed a deal would be made," said lead producer,
Jonathan
Pollard. "However, in the end we simply could not agree on the
terms.
The entire production team regrets that Jarrod won't be with us, as we
have
great respect for his ability and wish him well. We also feel incredibly
fortunate that we didn't have to look very far for his successor.
Cheyenne
Jackson, who was hired as his understudy, is a star on the rise whose
talent
and assets will have a prime opportunity to be discovered..."
Jackson recently appeared in a developmental summer 2004 run of the new
boy-band musical spoof, Altar Boyz. His Broadway credits include Aida
(Radames standby) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy understudy, Trevor
Graydon understudy). Regionally, he appeared in West Side Story (Tony),
The
Most Happy Fella (Joey), Hair (Berger), Grease (Danny), Carousel (Billy
Bigelow), Children of Eden (Cain), Anything Goes (Billy), Kismet (The
Poet)
and the title roles in The Rocky Horror Show and Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat.
"A new musical comedy set in 1955, All Shook Up is not a
biographical revue"
about Elvis, the producers stress. Rather, it's "a burnin' new
musical
comedy that tells the story of a small town girl (Jenn Gambatese) who
dreams
of hitting the open road, and the guitar-playing stranger (Jackson) who
brings romance, rebellion and rock 'n' roll into her life." The
show will
feature such Elvis Presley classics as "Heartbreak Hotel,"
"Burning Love,"
"Love Me Tender," "Can't Help Falling in Love,"
"Jailhouse Rock," "Blue
Suede Shoes," "A Little Less Conversation," "Hound
Dog," "Don't Be Cruel,"
and of course, "All Shook Up."
Broadway previews begin Feb. 20, 2005, at the Palace Theatre. Opening is
set
for March 24, 2005. Directed by Christopher Ashley, with a book by Joe
DiPietro, music direction and arrangements by Stephen Oremus, and
choreography by Ken Roberson, All Shook Up gets its world premiere in
Chicago in a five week, pre-Broadway engagement at the Cadillac Palace
Theatre, Dec. 19-Jan. 23, 2005. All Shook Up also stars Jenn Gambatese,
Tony
Award nominee Jonathan Hadary, Leah Hocking, Curtis Holbrook, Nikki M.
James, John Jellison, Alix Korey, Mark Price and Sharon Wilkins in a
cast of
28 that features Justin Bohon, Justin Brill, Paul Castree, Cara Cooper,
Randy A. Davis, Jennie Ford, Trisha Jeffrey, Michelle Kittrell, Anika
Larsen, Michael X. Martin, Karen Murphy, John Eric Parker, Justin
Patterson,
Jenell Lynn Randall, Michael James Scott, Jenny-Lynn Suckling and
Virginia
Woodruff.
2004/10/32 Kenneth Jones - Playbill - http://www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com
Lisa Marie's Mortality Reminder.
Lisa Marie Presley can't bear to spend time at her late dad Elvis'
Graceland
grave - because there's a space reserved for her right next to him.
The 36-year-old fears she'll follow her father and grandmother, Gladys,
and
die in her 40s, and then spend eternity lying beneath the grounds of the
Memphis, Tennessee, estate her father called home.
She says, "How many people are reminded of their fate, their
mortality every
day? "All the graves are lined up and there's a spot there -
waiting for me
- right next to my grandmother."
Graceland also features the graves of Elvis' father Vernon and his
grandmotherMinnie Mae. Lisa Marie adds, "I'm sure I'll end up there.
Or, I
shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room."
2004/10/30 contactmusic.com / http://www.elvis.com.au
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis is a hit again - on ads in
England.
England has a new king.
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, has been putting in more
public
appearances than anyone in the royal family in Britain recently as a
host of
advertisers - from Internet services to deodorant makers to even the
conservative Tory party - invoke his hip-shaking ways to stir up
business.
Elvis, who died in 1977, never performed in concert here. He planted his
blue suede shoes on British soil for only a few hours in 1960, at
Scotland's
Prestwick airport, during a layover on his return from military service
in
Germany. And, of course, the United Kingdom has plenty of its own
crooners
to idolize if it wants to be nostalgic, most notably the Beatles.
But it is Elvis's image that adorns television, radio and outdoor
advertising spots here. On posters on double-decker buses and in the
London
Underground, Unilever's Sure deodorant digitally changed a photo of
Elvis in
a black shirt to add in a white deodorant stain under his arms. The AOL
unit
of Time Warner Inc. is using an Elvis impersonator in its new U.K. ads
for
its new service AOL 9.0.
And the Conservative Party, whose elderly and buttoned-down bedrock
voters
might have been just the types to be appalled by Elvis 40 years ago,
last
month unveiled the king's "A Little Less Conversation" as the
theme song for
its campaign for a national election expected next spring.
The tune, written for the 1968 Elvis movie "Live a Little, Love a
Little"
was remixed and released as a single in 2002, becoming a huge hit in
Britain. It was adopted by the Conservatives to showcase the party's new
theme of more action - and implicitly draw a contrast with Prime
Minister
Tony Blair's Labour Party, which Conservatives criticize as being long
on
spin and short on results.
"Few people would expect the Tories to use an Elvis Presley song
but one of
the things that we wanted to do was add a little humor," says
Charles
Hendry, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. The party considered
numerous other songs from artists including the Beatles as well as
patriotic
tunes, he says, adding: "Elvis is a global icon now."
As icons go, he is also relatively cheap - a major reason why
advertisers
are so keen to use his image. U.K. marketers don't have to pay royalties
to
use digitally altered images of dead celebrities under British trademark
laws, says Todd Morgan, director of media and creative development at
Elvis
Presley Enterprises Inc., the business entity created by the Estate of
Elvis
Presley/The Elvis Presley Trust, whose sole owner is the singer's
daughter,
Lisa Marie Presley. Advertisers in the U.S. must pay for such use, he
says.
And the company charges everyone, including the British, for using
Elvis's
recordings, negotiating the price depending on the song and how much is
played, Morgan says. He declines to specify.
Elvis Presley Enterprises welcomes the advertising dollars. A few years
ago,
the company sent information to marketers alerting them that Elvis was
available.
"We want to hear from ad agencies. We consider every proposal on
its merit,"
Mr. Morgan says. On his home turf in the U.S., Elvis has appeared over
the
years in ads for Apple Computer's iMac, Toyota cars, Energizer batteries
and
Unilever's Lipton Tea.
Advertisers who simply rely on Elvis impersonators, however, don't have
to
pay royalty fees. They also get the added element of camp humor.
In AOL's television commercials, a Chinese man dressed as Elvis looks up
information about Elvis online before heading off to an Elvis convention.
In
the background, "Suspicious Minds" (1969) plays.
The ads, which appear just in the U.K., appeal to the British because
Elvis
was a star with humble, relatable roots, says Martin Cole, a planning
partner at Grey Global Group's London unit, which created the Elvis ads
for
AOL. AOL paid for "Suspicious Minds," but didn't owe anything
for the
impersonator.
"We wouldn't have wanted Elvis even if we could have had him,"
says Cole.
"He wouldn't have been right. We get all the fame of Elvis but are
able to
tell the story of an ordinary person."
Associated British Foods PLC uses an Elvis impersonator in television
ads
for its Kingsmill bread. The U.K. bread maker uses fake footage of
"Elvis"
coming off the plane at Prestwick airport and then spins a tale that the
singer secretly stayed behind in England to invent its bread. The spot
also
shows scenes of the impersonator in a 1960s kitchen baking bread.
J. Walter Thompson, the WPP Group ad agency that created the Kingsmill
ad,
auditioned dozens of Elvis impersonators. Small London ad firm CAKE
cooked
up some bad puns that it plans to use in upcoming print and online ads
to
play on Elvis's recordings: "Bake, Rattle and Roll" and "Hunka
Hunka Burnin'
Loaf."
British pop-music charts frequently feature old songs, but Elvis's music,
in
particular, has shown a remarkable ability to stay popular in the U.K.
Two
years ago, after Nike Inc. used "A Little Less Conversation,"
remixed by
artist JXL, during soccer's World Cup for its ads in 60 countries, the
song
was released as a single and shot to the top of the U.K. charts. That
gave
Elvis 18 No. 1 hits in Britain over the years and finally put him one
ahead
of the Beatles. This month, the 50th-anniversary rerelease of Elvis's
first
single, "That's All Right," is No. 3 on charts here, behind
singles from
Usher and Britney Spears.
Some Beatles fans, seeking to find links between the two biggest-ever
hitmakers in the U.K., note that the Beatles were fans of Elvis,
traveling
to meet him at his home in 1965. Last year, a museum exhibit of Elvis
memorabilia claiming to be the largest outside the U.S. opened in -
where
else? - Liverpool.
"You'll find a lot of Beatles fans are Elvis fans," says Dave
Bedford, a
guide in Liverpool for Beatles tours who sings Elvis on his karaoke
machine.
In London, avid Elvis fan Cathy Mathews frequently eats at Gracelands
Palace, a restaurant where Paul Hyu, who stars in the AOL Elvis
commercial,
performs nearly every weekend.
The real Elvis "has been dead for decades, and here he is still
making
people happy," says Mathews. Still, after seeing Elvis ads, she
isn't more
inclined to eat Kingsmill bread or buy Sure deodorant.By:
2004/10/30 Robert Guy Matthews - Wall Street Journal /
Ep.Gold.Com.
Dress Up Elvis.
Acollaboration between Ariel Books (Andrews
& McMeel Publishers) & EPE, this
slimline 32 page title (ISBN: 0740750704) is listed for release on 30
June
2005. Fans can all look forward to dressing Elvis up in their favorite
"King" clothes.
2004/10/30 http://www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
The Wiggles Visit Graceland.
The Wiggles toured Graceland today. They
are in Memphis for a concert at
FedEx Forum tomorrow night.
Preschool superstars The Wiggles - the Australian group that has taken
America by storm since their breakthrough debut in 1999 - are
celebrating
their first U.S. Gold Album for their children's CD titled Yummy Yummy.
The
Wiggles have achieved 12 Gold albums, 7 Platinum albums, and 3 Double
Platinum in Australia. On hand to congratulate the musical foursome are
Rock
'n' Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty and his young daughter, Kelsy, a big
Wiggles fan. John Fogerty performs in The Wiggles' upcoming holiday '04
release, Santa's Rockin'!, available on September 28 on both video (DVD
and
VHS) and audio (CD and audiocassette).
2004/10/29 http://www.thewiggles.com.au
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Here are the U.S. Billboard Elvis
Chart listings for the week o f: November 6, 2004.
(sg - sales gainer, gg - greatest sales
gainer, ne - new entry, re -
re-entry)
Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums
- Elvis 30 #1's up 2 to #26
(sg)
Billboard Top Country Catalog Albums
- Elvis 30 #1's remains at #6
(sg)
Billboard Top Country Albums
- Ultimate Gospel remains
at #72
New entries and Re-entries on the charts include:
-None this week.
Dropping off the charts include:
-Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales - That's All Right drops back off
the Hot
100 Singles Sales chart after a one week return to the chart. It
was last
#74 on the chart last week.
Notes of Interest include:
- Elvis 30 #1's is noted as a sales gainer.
2004/10/29 www.ElvisCharts.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
TCB Guitar Auctioned Off On eBay.
The TCB Reunion shows in Mol served
several good causes. Not only donated
ElvisMatters a check of 1.000 euro for the Belgian cancer research, the
5
TCB Members also agreed to sign a guitar in aid of Gaia, the Belgian
Organisation of Animal Rights.
This very guitar, signed in person on Saturday evening October 2nd by
John
Wilkinson, James Burton, Ronnie Tutt, Jerry Scheff and Glen D. Hardin
was
sold for 390 euros.
2004/10/ 29 http://www.elvismatters.be
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
The Complete Guide To His Music.
Here is the cover of the "The
Complete Guide To His Music" by John Robertson
which will be published November 2004 from Omnibus Press.
This updated and redesigned edition of the classic guide to the music of
Elvis Presley is sure to please fans that will be celebrating Elvis'
70th
birthday on January 8, 2005. In fact, the festivities will begin before
the
King's birthday and will last all year with special events across the
United
States. Special celebrations at Graceland and across Memphis have been
planned, with most events already sold out.
2004/10/29 http://www.elvispresley-theking.de
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis, The King Lives On, 70th Anniversary Film Collection.
In Japan a three DVD box titled "Elvis,
the King Lives On, 70th Anniversary
Film Collection" will be release December 22, 2004.
The set contains the movies "Clambake", "Frankie And
Johnny" and finally the
movie "Follow That Dream".
2004/10/29 http://www.elvisworld-japan.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
A Little Less Conservative.
The Conservative Party, whose elderly and
buttoned-down bedrock voters might
have been just the types to be appalled by Elvis 40 years ago, last
month
unveiled the king's "A Little Less Conversation" as the theme
song for its
campaign for a national election expected next spring.
"Few people would expect the Tories to use an Elvis Presley song
but one of
the things that we wanted to do was add a little humor," says
Charles
Hendry, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. The party considered
numerous other songs from artists including the Beatles as well as
patriotic
tunes, he says, adding: "Elvis is a global icon now."
As icons go, he is also relatively cheap - a major reason why
advertisers
are so keen to use his image. U.K. marketers don't have to pay royalties
to
use digitally altered images of dead celebrities under British trademark
laws, says Todd Morgan, director of media and creative development at
Elvis
Presley Enterprises Inc., the business entity created by the Estate of
Elvis
Presley/The Elvis Presley Trust, whose sole owner is the singer's
daughter,
Lisa Marie Presley. Advertisers in the U.S. must pay for such use, he
says.
And the company charges everyone, including the British, for using
Elvis's
recordings, negotiating the price depending on the song and how much is
played, Morgan says. He declines to specify.
Elvis Presley Enterprises welcomes the advertising dollars. A few years
ago,
the company sent information to marketers alerting them that Elvis was
available.
2004/10/29 Google / Ep.Gold.Com.
New Picture Of The Week Added
2004/10/29/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
Fever,
Hampton Roads, August 1st, 1976 (Soundboard Recording)
2004/10/29/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' , Las Vegas Hilton, 1972 (8mm)
2004/10/29/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
White Christmas
THE ITALIAN TV MAGAZINE RE-ISSUED THE
"WHITE XMAS" CD IN A SPECIAL EDITION ON SALE ONLY THROUGH
NEWSPAPERS STORES. THE CD HAS A LARGER ELVIS PHOTO ON COVER COMPARED TO
THE REGULAR BMG RELEASE AND IT COMES STUCK ON A NICE COLOUR CARDBOARD:
Cerchi un laboratorio fotografico aperto 24 ore su 24?
Stampa le tue foto digitali su Kataweb e le ricevi a domicilio in 48
ore.
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2004/10/28/Kataweb.it/EPGold.com
Elvis CD for free with Het Laatste
Nieuws.
On November 3rd, Belgium's most popular
daily paper will release a full
Elvis CD, containing 12 tracks. The special release is part of the new
series "Hit CD's" that this paper is putting out. One coupon
from the news
paper, and 4.95 euro is enough to get this special collector's CD. The
CD
campaign comes with a special commercial on Belgian national television
VTM.
The music that you'll hear - "All Shook Up" - comes from the
archives of
ElvisMatters, but not the images. Record company BMG gave special
permission
for this rare CD.
2004/10/27 http://www.elvismatters.be
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
New Elvis books
announced.
Several new books due for publication in
America in November may interest
many Elvis fans. Popstrology: The Art and Science of Reading the
Popstars is
a surprisingly interesting way of interpreting your personality by
examining
the pop music charts at your time of birth (ala astrology). Written by
Ian
Van Tuyl the 384 page book is being published by Bloomsbury Publishing
Inc.,
(ISBN: 1582344221). The Hal Leonard Corporation is releasing Greatest
Rock
Stories Ever Told: The Best of Rock Fiction (ISBN: 0634080288). The
publicity blurb indicates Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan and Bruce
Springsteen all feature. The Oxford University Press is publishing All
Shook
Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America. Written by Glenn A. Altschuler
this
240 page softcover (ISBN: 0195177495) has met with critical praise from
a
wide variety of sources including The Washington Post, Publisher's
Weekly
and Kirkus Reviews. It examines the impact of "race" music on
the cultural
landscape of the US and includes "vivid biographies" of Elvis,
Chuck Berry,
Fats Domino, Little Richard, Buddy Holly etc.
2004/10/27 ElvisBookSearch / www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
"Elvis"
to run in the Melbourne Cup.
Elvstroem (aka Elvis) the horse that won
Australia's second biggest race,
The Caulfield Cup, is to run in next week's Melbourne Cup. Trainer Tony
Vasil hais found the lure of the $4.6 million Cup irresistible.
Elvstroem's
recovery from an unlucky and soft run in the Cox Plate and the apparent
lack
of depth in the Cup field have swayed Vasil. Herald Sun
2004/10/27 Herald Sun / www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis To Be
Inducted Into UK Music Hall of Fame.
Channel 4 in the UK introduces its new UK
Music Hall of Fame this year. The
public participates in selecting inductees. However, Elvis Presley is
among
a small number of artists already chosen by the hall's steering
committee to
be among the first inductees.
The first awards ceremony will air on Channel 4 on November 14.
Priscilla
Presley is scheduled to appear and accept the honor for Elvis.
Click here:
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/H/halloffame/about.html
or go to the UK Music Hall of Fame page on Channel 4's Web site for all
the
details.
2004/10/27 UK Music Hall / Ep.Gold.Com.
Chasing Elvis.
A new book called Chasing Elvis, the book
tells how Elvis faked his death,
why, where he lives and what he's been doing with his life.
The publisher, Invisible College Press is putting the book out as a
novel
(fiction) to avoid lawsuits.
The book will be out shortly and that "It's as close to the truth
as they
are going to let you get."
2004/10/27 Viva Elvis - invispress.com / Ep.Gold.Com.
New Swedish
stamps available.
Nr 1 is the collector sheet with
beautiful print of Elvis' army days and the
stamp with the Wertheimer picture along with some other Swedish
celebrities
on A4 size. Price is 13.50 euro.
2004/10/27 http://www.elvismatters.be
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis Presley
tops dead rich list.
Elvis is still known as the king of rock
'n' roll
Elvis Presley has come top of a list of the highest-earning dead
celebrities, with an annual income of $40m (£22m).
Fans of The King have continued to snap up merchandise and visit his
Graceland home 27 years after his death.
Peanuts cartoon creator Charles Schulz was in second place on the list,
complied by influential US business website Forbes.com.
Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien was in third, making the top three
unchanged for the second year in a row.
Presley's earnings go to Elvis Presley Enterprises, which is owned by
his
daughter Lisa Marie.
Freddie Mercury appears on the list for the first time
His earnings could increase in the future as a new generation of fans is
introduced to him through a new clothing line and a Broadway musical.
A Forbes.com spokesman said: "The earning power of most deceased
people,
even famous ones, slows considerably or stops altogether when they die.
"But for a select few, the pay cheques keep coming and some draw
even bigger
pay-days than when they were alive."
John Lennon is fourth in the list with an estimated annual income of
$21m
(£11m).
He is joined by fellow Beatle George Harrison - who died in 2001 - whose
earnings reached $7m (£4m).
Musical success
Other top earners include screen icon Marilyn Monroe, with $8m, and
actor
James Dean, who died in a car crash in 1955 at the age of 24.
Murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in
1996,
is valued at $5m (£2.7m), putting him equal with legendary crooner
Frank Sinatra.
Flamboyant Queen frontman Freddie Mercury makes the list for the first
time,
also with $5m.
His earnings have been boosted by the success of the musical We Will
Rock
You, which has been filling theatres from Australia and Russia to Spain
and
Paris.
Back to top
1. Elvis Presley $40m (£22m), 2. Charles Schulz $35m (£19m), 3. JRR
Tolkien $23m (£12.5m),
4. John Lennon $21m (£11m), 5. Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
$18m (£10m), 6. Marilyn Monroe $8m (£4.3m),
7. George Harrison $7m (£3.8m), Irving Berlin $7m, Bob Marley $7m,
10. Richard Rodgers $6.5m,
11. George and Ira Gershwin $6m, =11. Jimi Hendrix $6m, Alan Jay Lerner
and Frederick Loewe $6m,
Cole Porter $6m, 15. James Dean $5m (£2.7m), Dale Earnhardt Sr
$5m, Jerry Garcia $5m,
Freddie Mercury $5m, Tupac Shakur $5m, Frank Sinatra $5m
2004/10/26 BBC / Ep.Gold.Com.
Australian DVD
Sales.
BMG Australia have sold 23,000 copies of
the 68 Comeback Special DVD and
22,200 of Aloha From Hawaii DVD. With a jump in sales expected before
Christmas both could well be double platinum by the end of the year.
Platinum being 15,000 units. Double Platinum 30,000.
Elvis DVD News - By: Elvis Australia (Source: BMG) October 26, 2004
2004/10/26 http://www.elvis.com.au
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis Forever.
As announced BMG UK will release
"ELV1S 30 #1 Hits"and "Elvis 2nd To None"
in one package (2 original CD's in a cardboard slip case titled "Elvis
Forever"). The label will also release a digi pack version of
Christmas
Peace on November 22.
Elvis Forever will be both 30 #1 Hits and 2nd To None CD's in a
cardboard
slip case. From the description it looks like two ordinary CD's as per
the
original release in a cardboard slip case and named Elvis Forever.
2004/10/26 http://www.elvis.com.au
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
The Sweet
Inspirations In Austria.
Elvis Presley's original backing group
"The Sweet Inspirations" will do a
series of concerts with a gospel choir. The ladies will perform with a
band
and the choir on the "Gospel Meets Vienna" tour from November
25th. until
December 5th. in various cities in Austria this fall.
Tourinformation:
25.11.04 Wien - Karlskirche 20.00h
Kartenkat.: ? 39,- / ? 29,- jeweils freie Platzwahl / ? 15,- Stehplatz
26.11.04 Lienz - Stadtsaal / Hotel Sonne 19.30h
Kartenkat.: ? 25,- freie Platzwahl
27.11.04 St. Veit - Fuchspalast 19.00h
Kartenkat.: ? 26,- / ? 23,- / ? 19,- jeweils freie Platzwahl
28.11.04 Graz - Grazer Kongress (Stefaniensaal) 19.00h
Kartenkat.: ? 39,- / ? 29,- / ? 19,- nummerierte Karten
? 15,- Stehplatz & Karten mit Sichteinschränkung
29.11.04 Linz - Christkönig Friedenskirche 19.30h
Kartenkat.: ? 39,- / ? 29,- jeweils freie Platzwahl / ? 15,- Stehplatz
01.12.04 Jenbach - Veranstaltungszentrum 20.00h
Kartenkat.: ? 25,- / ? 19,- jeweils freie Platzwahl
02.12.04 Saalfelden - Hotel Hindenburg 19.30h
Kartenkat.: ? 25,- / ? 19,- jeweils freie Platzwahl
03.12.04 Salzburg - Kollegienkirche 19.00h
Kartenkat.: ? 39,- / ? 29,- jeweils freie Platzwahl / ? 15,- Stehplatz
04.12.04 Wels - Minoritenkloster 19.30h
Kartenkat.: ? 39,- / ? 29,- jeweils freie Platzwahl / ? 15,- Stehplatz
05.12.04 Wien - Karlskirche 20.00h
Kartenkat.: ? 39,- / ? 29,- jeweils freie Platzwahl / ? 15,- Stehplatz
2004/10/26 Johnny B. / http://www.elvispresley-theking.de
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
ELVIS BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATIONS IN BAD NAUHEIM.
Bad Nauheim Information:
In den Kolonnaden 1
61231 Bad Nauheim
Tel: + 49 - 60 32 - 92 99 20
Fax: + 49 - 60 32 - 92 99 27
2004/10/25 http://www.elvis-presley-verein.de
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
ELVIS WIFE PICKS
UP UK AWARD Oct 25 2004.
ELVIS Presley's former wife Priscilla
flies into Britain next month to
collect an entertainment award for the King.
Priscilla Presley, 59, will attend the live finale of Channel 4's UK
Hall of
Fame series, which honours the all-time greats of popular music.
Though notoriously publicity shy, Priscilla has agreed to pick up an
award
marking Presley's outstanding contribution.
Viewers were asked to vote on a shortlist of 10 artists from each
decade.
The winning five acts will be honoured in a ceremony at the Hackney
Empire,
East London, on November 11.
Presley, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Madonna and U2 have already been
elected
founding members because of their huge impact on the British music scene.
Priscilla - mum of Lisa Marie, 36 - first met Presley in 1959 when she
was
14. They married in 1967 and divorced in 1973.
2004/10/25 By Fiona Cummins - Big News Network /
Ep.Gold.Com.
Historic Overton
Park Shell Goes Silent.
The Overton Park Shell played host to its
last concert until some necessary
repairs could be made. An engineering study found that the shell will
need
about 550 thousand dollars worth of improvements. It said this historic
venue has decayed to the point that it is now a liability for the city.
After this weekend it will be shut down until that money can be raised
to
fix the structure. It is unclear how long that will take because there
is no
dedication by the city or any real organized sources of money for this
project. But the intent is there as the group 'save our shell' try to
organize a fund-raising campaign. They say this structure is a vital
part of
this city's history and is as important of a landmark like Sun Studios.
The
shell was the first real venue for a young Elvis Presley. He played his
first show on that stage in 1954 and it is widely regarded as the first
rock
and roll show ever.
2004/10/25 Email / Ep.Gold.Com.
New Elvis Books
Announced.
The University of Illinois Press has
scheduled Louis Cantor's book, Dewey
and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay (Music in
American
Life) for January 2005 release. Examining the life of Memphis DJ, Dewey
Phillips (the first radio DJ to play Elvis' That's All Right Mama in its
entirety) it will be a hardcover release (ISBN: 025202981X). Meanwhile,
Krause Publications will release Warman's Elvis Field Guide in the US in
June next year. The only details so far supplied are that it will be a
softcover release (ISBN: 0896891364) with 512 pages.
2004/10/24 http://www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com
TCB Band rocks
Sydney, Australia.
The legendary TCB Band, Myrna Smith and Mick Gerace rocked Sydney over
the
weekend with two sensational concerts. The shows featured many
interesting
song choices including Good Rockin' Tonight, Viva Las Vegas, Reconsider
Baby
(particularly good), a very clever version of It's Now or Never (sung
half
in real Italian) and Moody Blue. EIN will publish a review of the shows
shortly.
2004/10/25 http://www.elvisinfonet.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis Entourage
For Elvis Entourage.
Charlie Hodge, Scotty Moore, George
Klein, Jerry Schilling, Suzanna Leigh,
Joe Kent and others will do a special benifet for the late Richard Davis
Triplets January 6, 2005.
Richard Davis, longtime member of Elvis's personal entourage and a very
good
friend to EPE and to Elvis fans everywhere, died peacefully in his sleep
last august, apparently from a heart attack. Memphis-born Richard Davis
was
many things to Elvis: friend, valet, bodyguard, even movie stand-in. He
went
to work for Elvis in the early 60'ies and their relationship continued
up
until Elvis's death in 1977. Davis never wrote a book "because
there's never
been a book written about Elvis yet that's totally truthfull. I don't
agree
with books (of the Memphis Mafia), because a lot is fabrication. They're
only written to make money at Elvis's expense, and he's not here to
defend
himself."
There will also be Elvis artifacts on display. All proceeds will go to
Richard Davis' Triplets.
Event: Benefit Concert for the Davis Triplets
Location: Horseshoe Casino, Tunica, Mississippi
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2005
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $25.00
2004/10/25 E-Mail / Ep.Gold.Com.
The Memphis
Lullaby.
The book "The Memphis Lullaby"
tells the story of Elvis Presley's life in
his own words. Or as the Glasgow-based writer Linda Ann McConnell puts
it:
"it paints an intimate portrait of the King in his own words -
transcribed
from recordings of radio interviews, press conferences, concerts, his
handwritten notes and remembered conversations with his friend Larry
Geller". The book was presented last August.
Synopsis:
"It is 10 August 1977, Elvis Presley sits in his living room at
Graceland.
He has decided it is time to write his memoirs and intends to call the
book
'Through My Eyes'. He reflects on his life, from humble beginnings in
Tupelo, Mississippi, through his rise to stardom and how he became the
man
the world called 'The King.' The story imagines Elvis as he reminisces,
recalls anecdotes and touches the truth in his own words about the man,
the
myths and the music. As we walk with Elvis on his nostalgic journey we
glimpse the man behind the King while commemorating his life and career".
2004/10/24 http://www.thememphislullaby.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
More Dolly More
Elvis
About 30 years ago Elvis Presley asked a
pretty blond country singer if he
could record a love song she'd penned. The request for I Will Always
Love
You stirred Dolly Parton's blood. But Colonel Parker wanted half the
publishing rights and Parton, a savvy business woman, wasn't ready to
give
that up and Elvis didn't record the song.
She told the story to set up a new song she's written, "I Dreamed
About
Elvis", to memorialize the event. The song, which will appear on a
CD
scheduled for release in early 2005, is a novelty song performed with an
impersonator (Ronnie McDowell) who eventually sings her famous ballad by
the
end of the track. The upcoming album will also feature a remake of Elvis
Presley's "Viva Las Vegas."
2004/10/24 Google / Ep.Gold.Com.
50 years later,
Elvis returns.
Statue of Presley unveiled at Municipal
Auditorium.
An Elvis Presley statue, made by sculptor Eric Kaposta, was unveiled
Friday
morning in front of Municipal Auditorium, a day before a 50th
anniversary
concert celebrating Elvis' first professional performance at the
auditorium
in 1954. The bronze sculpture is 7 1/2 feet tall and weighs
approximately
1,000 pounds.
2002/10/23 ElvisWorld Japan / Ep.Gold.Com
Elvis Convention
In Montreal.
Daniel Pharand invites you to the Elvis
Presley Convention on November 6th,
2004 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to St-Gilbert Hall located at 5415
Jean-Talon East in Montreal, near the St.Michel metro ( bus 141 ).
Dealers
and collectors from all over Canada will be on hand to buy, sell, and
trade
Elvis memorabilia of all kinds; LP's, CD's, DVD's, photos,videos, and
everything from Elvis dolls to Elvis stamps.
Door prizes will be handed out all day long, and for trivia buffs,an
Elvis
trivia contest at every hour will challenge the Elvis fans on hand.
There
will be also a live music and we'll give you the details later
concerning
this.
Admission: $5.00 Adults ; Age 12 and under, free ( with an adult ).
2004/10/23 Daniel Pharand / Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis Promotion
In Denmark.
BMG Denmark will do some heavy promoting
of Elvis from week 48 and until Christmas.
The first thing they have done is to include Elvis on their local
promotion
CD for the Danish music dealers titled "Nyheder På Vej In
November" (New
Releases In November). There is 11 songs on the CD. Two of them is Elvis
"White Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland"
This "Nyheder På Vej In November" CD is very hard to find.
BMG Denmark only
makes 300 copies as far as we know.
See picture for the cover and label
On November 22 will BMG Denmark release Christmas Peace as a single CD.
They
will run TV commercials on the four biggest television stations in
Denmark
for Christmas Peace from week 48 to 51.
The two DVD boxes Aloha From Hawaii and 68' Comeback was released in
June in
Denmark, but they never made it to the DVD charts because BMG Denmark
decided to wait with the promotion until the weeks before Christmas.
BMG will run TV commercials on TV2, Zulu, TV3 and TV3+ in week 48 to 51.
New commercials will be produced both for Aloha From Hawaii, 68'
Comeback
and Christmas Peace
This promotion campaign will be the greatest for Elvis ever in Denmark!
Beside all the BMG releases will Now Music in Denmark also produced a
"Best
of" Christmas CD. Featuring all the best Christmas songs. Elvis
will be
included with I'll Be Home For Christmas. This release will also be TV
promoted
Elvis is not forgotten in Denmark!
2004/10/23 http://www.elvisunlimited.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Belgium Elvis
Hit CD
Belgiums news paper Het Laatste Nieuws
will release a full Elvis CD,
containing 12 tracks. The special release is part of the new series
"Hit
CD's" that this paper is putting out. One coupon from the news
paper, and
4.95 euro is enough to get this special collector's CD. The Elvis CD is
available on Wednesday, November 3rd.
The CD campaign comes with a special commercial on Belgian
national television VTM. The music that you'll hear - "All Shook Up"
- comes
from the archives of ElvisMatters, but not the images. Record company
BMG
gave special permission for this rare CD. No doubt that this new release
will once again lift the sales figures of Elvis in Flanders.
2004/10/23 Elvis Matters / Ep.Gold.Com
Here are the
U.S. Billboard Elvis Chart listings for the week of: October 30, 2004:
(sg - sales gainer, gg - greatest sales
gainer, ne - new entry, re -
re-entry)
Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums
- Elvis 30 #1's down 5 to #28
Billboard Top Country Catalog Albums
- Elvis 30 #1's down 2 to #6
Billboard Top Country Albums
- Ultimate Gospel down 1 to
#72
Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales
- That's All Right re-enters at
#74(re, sg)
New entries and Re-entries on the charts include:
-Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales - That's All Right ore-enters the
Hot 100
Singles Sales chart after a one week absence from the chart. It
was last at
#64 on the Oct. 16, 2004 chart.
Dropping off the charts include:
-None this week.
Notes of Interest include:
- That's All Right re-enters the singles sales chart and is noted as a
sales
gainer.
2004/10/22 www.ElvisCharts.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
REMINDER: Bill
Elliot To Drive New Elvis 50th Anniversary Race Car.
Bumping this article back up out of News Archive to remind you that Bill
Elliot's run with the Elvis/He Dared to Rock 50th Anniversary car is
this
weekend! Click here:http://www.memphismotorsports.com for the current
information on the Memphis Motorsports Park site.
BILL ELLIOTT and ELVIS PRESLEY - ON THE SAME RACETRACK? ONLY IN MEMPHIS.
50TH Anniversary Celebration Combines
NASCAR and Rock 'n' Roll for October
Race Bill Elliott will run Memphis NASCAR Busch Series race Oct. 23rd.
Credit: Autostock
MEMPHIS, TN (July 5, 2004) - On the front steps of Sun Studio, and in
harmony with today's worldwide celebration of "50 Years of Rock 'n'
Roll,"
officials from Memphis Motorsports Park, along with Elvis Presley
Enterprises, the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau and Action
Performance
Companies, announced that legendary NASCAR driver Bill Elliott will
compete
in the Sam's Town 'He Dared To Rock' 250 on October 23, 2004 at Memphis
Motorsports Park - in a specially-designed race car sponsored by Lucas
Oil
and Boyd Gaming Corporation's Sam's Town Tunica Hotel & Gambling
Hall.
2004/10 22 EPE / Ep.Gold.Com.
Rockin' Roles
Elvis may have left the building, but
when it comes to making movies, no
other pop star will achieve what he did. For better or worse, he was a
prolific actor. Joe Queenan gets all shook up
Elvis Presley's acting career breaks down into two distinct phases. In
his
early films - Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, King Creole, Flaming Star
- he
honestly tried to make good movies. He worked hard, he learned his lines,
he
most certainly did not phone in. The public enjoyed the films, but not
as
much as Elvis would have liked. A desperately poor country boy, Elvis
was
always interested in making money, and after the massive success of the
hokey, slapdash, just plain terrible Blue Hawaii in 1961, he decided to
churn out an uninterrupted series of very bad, very corny motion
pictures
for the remainder of his career. For whatever the reason - most likely
the
sheer exhilaration of getting something for nothing - he threw in the
towel.
The post-Blue Hawaii films were shot quickly and inexpensively, and had
extravagantly absurd plots: Elvis as an actor trapped in a harem during
a
promotional tour for the State Department, Elvis as a beleaguered tuna
boat
captain, Elvis as a singing trapeze artist suffering from vertigo. In
all of
these films, he had to sing his way out of trouble, and almost without
exception, the soundtracks were dreadful. Unlike King Creole and
Jailhouse
Rock, where he looked like a snarling thug, movies like Tickle Me, Girls,
Girls, Girls, Fun In Acapulco and Harum Scarum displayed a domesticated,
well-manicured Elvis. The films were mildly risqué - lots of skin-tight
shorts - shorts and halter tops (on the girls, that is) - but generally
wholesome. The defanged King was no longer a threat to middle America;
Bob
Dylan and the Rolling Stones were. The public had given its heart to
Elvis,
and Elvis gave the public Viva Las Vegas! in return. Thanks.
No pop star before or since ever achieved what Elvis did; the landscape
is
littered with the bones of his imitators. As I pointed out in a
Movieline
article 11 years ago, the one record in the motion picture industry that
will never be broken is the King's string of 31 money-making films,
almost
all of them horrendous. None of us will ever witness a phenomenon like
Elvis
Presley's movie career; he could literally get away with murder. Madonna
tried and failed. Mick Jagger tried and failed. Sting, Prince and Dylan
tried and failed, as will Puff Daddy and Eminem. The closest things to
Elvis's crossover success are the careers of Cher, Sting, Ice Cube, LL
Cool
J and Mark Wahlberg. Like I said: Elvis had no competition.
Unlike Frank Sinatra, a shorter, tougher man with a colossal ego, Elvis
was
probably not temperamentally suited to be an actor. He seemed nervous
and
embarrassed in his screen debut Love Me Tender, and did not show much
more
range in films like King Creole and Flaming Star, by far his best "serious"
pictures. His phrasing was mechanical; he tended to snarl and brood a
lot.
Of course, most people would snarl and brood a lot if they were trapped
in a
film where they had to play a hip-swivelling pharmacist's son who is
being
courted by a local gangster who wants him to come back and do his
nightclub
act in the lounge where he used to work as an underpaid busboy even
though
his father wants him to finish high school and enter a profession like,
well, pharmacy. Elvis did his level best, working with the material
given
him, but the only time he seemed to relax was when he took centre stage
to
belt out one of his hits. Then, suddenly, magically, he stopped being a
dour
pharmacist's son and turned back into Elvis. The eyes lit up. The
headbeam
smile returned. The hips swivelled. The King was back.
Someone, perhaps the rock critic Greil Marcus, once said that Elvis
would
have fared better in a TV action series like The Six Million Dollar Man.
I
agree. Elvis was never in a class with crossover artists like Sinatra
and
Dean Martin; they knew how to lighten up and enjoy themselves on the big
screen. Elvis always seemed wound-up. Moreover, in his early films, he
was
often overshadowed by talented actors like Walter Matthau, John McIntire
and
Richard Egan, who could readily conjure up more than three facial
expressions. Even the paunchy, middle-aged burnout clowning around as
the
bloodthirsty Kiowa chieftain Buffalo Horn, in Flaming Star, could act
better
than Elvis.
In his later movies, this problem was corrected; now Elvis was generally
cast opposite galoots and bimbos. And in his later movies, three facial
expressions were two more than an actor needed. To be fair, Elvis was
never
a terrible actor in the sense that Madonna and Mick Jagger are, and
because
he possessed great looks, his mere magnetic presence partially
compensated
for his lack of ability. Madonna, despite all her earnest huffing and
puffing, is rather ordinary-looking and her attempts to "emote"
in films
like Body Of Evidence, Shanghai Surprise and Dick Tracy actually have
been
known to make grown men weep. Me, for instance. No matter how hard she
tries, she still looks like the fat girl playing Eliza Doolittle in the
school play. As for Jagger, he is a charismatic rock star who has the
misfortune to look like a chimp. A chimp, I might add, who is no threat
to
John Gielgud, nor, for that matter, John Belushi. And let's not even
talk
about the puny Roger Daltrey or the loveable but ineffective Ringo.
Oddly,
because of their sheer ludicrousness, films like Fun In Acapulco, where
Elvis dresses as a matador and sings songs about Pedro the Bull, are
still
entertaining, if only because they provide a glimpse into a society that
obviously had a few screws loose. Contrasted with pathetic films like
The
Next Best Thing, where the facile but gifted Rupert Everett literally
blows
the frumpy, washed-out Madonna off the screen, Elvis's films are oddly
charming, hypnotically absurd. The lamest Elvis song - for example, the
shrimping tune from Fun In Acapulco - never makes your skin crawl the
way
Madonna's graveside rendition of American Pie in The Next Best Thing
does.
Nor did Elvis ever undertake anything as hopeless as Jagger's forlorn
impersonation of a legendary Aussie highwayman in Ned Kelly. To this day,
I
am still trying to figure out how a man as physically unimposing as Mick
Jagger could have possibly dominated the Outback. And where that accent
came
from.
Elvis Presley's most amazing accomplishment is that he made dozens of
unwatchable movies that are still fun to watch. Both of my children - 18
and
15 - are enthralled by these films, in large part because they cannot
believe that anyone could get away with what Elvis did. When you see a
film
like Harum Scarum, where Elvis sets out to the Middle East on a State
Department goodwill tour, crosses the Mountains of the Moon, is then
abducted by bandits, gets gussied up in lime green pants and a golden
cumberbund, dons a turban, and leads a peasant's revolution against the
wicked oppressors, you can only shake your head in disbelief. Elvis
Presley
was a poor boy from Mississippi who grew up to be the biggest star in
the
world. He made 26 of the most mesmerisingly awful movies in the history
of
motion pictures. There's not a day that goes by that I don't miss him.
2004/10/22 Guardian.co.uk / Ep.Gold.Com.
Showtime At The
International.
Set for release November 15th, 2004 is an
Import audience recording release
entitled "Showtime At The International". This release
contains the August
11, 1971 Dinner show.
International Hotel welcomes you / Also sprach zarahustra Intro / That's
all
right / Proud mary / You don't have to you love me / Sweet carolina /
Polk
salad annie / Walking around / Johnny b. goode / It's impossible / Love
me /
Blue suede shoes / Heartbreak hotel / Teddy bear - Don't be cruel /
Hound
dog / Memphis Tennessee / Trying to get to you / Suspicious minds /
Introductions / I'm leavin' / Lawdy miss clawdy / The impossible dream.
2004/10/22 Email / Ep.Gold.Com.
Behind the
Button: Elvis Presley's "Cameo" on Born to Run.
The King's Court Button
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen can be seen wearing an Elvis fan
club
badge on the cover of his classic 'Born To Run' album from 1975? Elvis'
image is on the button placed on Bruce's guitar strap, a badge from the
now-defunct New York-area Presley fan club called "The King's Court".
The following artice is reprinted with permission from the Springsteen
Backstreets Magazine (#80)
As many observant fans have known for years, Clarence Clemons isn't the
only
"King of the World" to appear on the Born to Run album cover
with Bruce. A
close inspection reveals that Elvis Presley is also on the cover.
Granted,
he may not be as big as the Big Man-but then, who is?
Elvis' image is on the button placed on Bruce's guitar strap, a badge
from
the now-defunct New York-area Presley fan club called "The King's
Court".
The group was formed in 1972 by fans who met while waiting in line for
the
initial sale of tickets to Elvis' four Madison Square Garden concerts.
One
of the first in line was Staten Island native Al Hanson who, as an avid
chess player, came up with the club's name. He also became its treasurer.
About eight months after the club was formed, Hanson led the group in
designing a King's Court button and personally paid for five hundred
buttons
to be distributed to all who joined. "I was a young guy with some
money to
spend," he recalls with a laugh. Each member also received a
black-and-white
King's Court bumper sticker. As the club continued to grow, eventually
thousands of buttons were printed and distributed. (Collectors take note:
Hanson hand-stamped the phrase "100% Elvis" on the backs of
the first 500.)
Hanson estimates that the Court had almost three thousand members at the
time of Elvis' death in 1977. The club folded shortly after Presley died.
In the year after the club's demise, Hanson also became a big
Springsteen
fan with the release of Darkness on the Edge of Town. He purchased a
copy of
Born to Run when he eventually started exploring Bruce's back catalog.
Almost immediately, Hanson recognized the King's Court button on the
album's
cover. "The only way Bruce could have one of those buttons,"
he recalls
thinking, "is if he was in our fan club or knew someone who was. We
distributed those buttons to members only."
Born To Run
After discovering the King's Court button on Born to Run, Hanson
telephoned
Patricia Chmara, the Court's ex-president, who had also become a big
Springsteen fan. Unfortunately, by that time she could no longer locate
any
written records confirming Bruce's membership. There was, however, one
listing of King's Court members that included a "Pam" in New
Jersey, who
Chmara suspected might have been Springsteen's youngest sister, now a
professional photographer. If Chmara was right, Pamela Springsteen would
certainly have been one of the King's Court's youngest members, since
she
was only about ten years old when the club was formed. (Through her
agent,
Pamela Springsteen declined to comment.)
In any event, Al Hanson still considers himself one very lucky fan. In
addition to helping to design a small but significant part of Bruce
Springsteen's "wardrobe" for Born to Run, he is also one of
the relative few
who've gotten to see both Presley and Springsteen at Madison Square
Garden.
He offers a great analogy by way of comparison, too: "For me,
seeing Elvis
was like seeing God onstage, but seeing Bruce was like seeing your
brother
or your best friend."
Backstreets Magazine #80
The image of Elvis on the button was cropped from a publicity photo
taken
backstage at Presley's Las Vegas concert stand in the summer of 1970. (That
stand was filmed and later released theatrically as Elvis: That's the
Way It
Is; the film's 2001 "Special Edition" featured footage of the
backstage
meeting where the photo was taken.) The original photo was in
black-and-white (as, of course, was the Born to Run cover), but the
actual
King's Court button featured a red-white-and-blue design.
Bruce sported his button in numerous photos taken by Eric Meola during
the
album cover sessions for Born to Run. In addition to what appeared on
Born
to Run, several more of Meola's photos eventually appeared on
Springsteen's
Greatest Hits and Essential albums. Probably the easiest place to most
clearly see Springsteen wearing his Elvis button is on page 40 of
Springsteen's Songs (in either the hardcover or paperback edition).
Behind the Button: Elvis Presley's "Cameo" on Born to Run
By Shawn Poole - From Backstreets Magazine #80 (reprinted with
permission)
Al Hanson invites all fans interested in discussing Elvis, Bruce and/or
"classic rock" in general to e-mail him at coolrockndaddy@aol.com
Don't even
think about asking him for a King's Court button, though. He only has
two left.
2004/10/22 Shawn Poole - Backstreets Magazine #80 / http://www.elvis.com.au
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Blue
Suede Shoes, International Hotel, 1970 (8mm)
2004/10/22/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
Early
Morning Rain (Chicago, October 14th, 1976, Soundboard Recording)
2004/10/22/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
New Picture Of The Week Added
2004/10/22/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
Our Topic Elvis On DVD Is Updated
2004/10/22/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
Essential Elvis,
the UK's official Elvis Presley magazine, has just announced a very
unique event to be staged at Elvis' former home at 1034 Audubon Drive in
Memphis. To coincide with Elvis' 70th birthday celebrations, fan
will be able to enjoy a special gathering at the famous address, with
all proceeds going to the family of the late Richard Davis. The
party will be on the evening of January 7th, and begin at 6:30pm.
Tickets can be purched (in advance only) by send payment to either of
the Essential Elvis offices, or by visiting www.essentialelvis.com
and clicking on Events.
UK fans please send £16.50 per ticket to...
Essential Elvis, PO Box 4176, Worthing, W. Sussex BN14 9DW
US fand please send $30.00 per ticket to...
Essential Elvis, PO Box 161334, Memphis, Tennessee 38186
Sam A. Thompson,
bodyguard and close friend of Elvis Presley, will visit the UK in
November as a guest speaker. Essential Elvis is flying Sam to its
event to enable fans from around the country to listen to his incredible
story.
Sam first met Elvis in 1972, just after his sister, then Miss Tennessee,
had begun a serious relationship with the King. Linda Thompson was
romantically linked to Elvis for almost five years, and her brother Sam
soon joined his security team.
During the years that Sam worked for Elvis, he was treated as a
bother-in-law. Elvis even purchased Sam and his wife Louise a
home, just yards from his Graceland mansion, so the two friends could be
close. They shared an extremely personal relationship, which
lasted until Elvis' death in August 1977. Sam was on duty at
Graceland at the time, and was allocated the job of funeral security,
and to personally guard his friend's body until he was laid to rest.
Because of his security work, and his involvement with the Memphis
Police Department, Sam went on to study law. Elvis himself
encouraged his friend to pursue the career he wanted. Sam became a
County Court judge, and is now retired. He owes his long and
successful career to Elvis' guidance. It's a remarkable story.
The event will consist of the showing of almost 50 private
never-before-seen photos (on a huge screen) from Sam's family album.
Candid shots of his sister and Elvis in romantic poses, unseen photos of
Sam protecting Elvis on stage, and many other stunning memories of life
with the world's greatest superstar will be enjoyed for the very first
time.
Professional entertainer and Elvis historian Shayne Driscoll will be
formerly interviewing Sam, before fans are given the opportunity to ask
their own questions. Fans will then enjoy time to talk to Sam
personally.
Event to be staged at
Empress Suite, Marine Parade, Worthing, W. Sussex.
On
Saturday 20th November 2004 @ 5pm
Tickets: £14.95 from the UK office or by visiting www.essentialelvis
and clicking on Events
For additional information please contact Andrew Hearn on 01903
525917 or email ElvisMagazine@aol.com
2004/10/22/Essential Elvis/EPGold.com
Movin Mobile
Released By LMP?
LMP (Lovely Music Production) was the 1st
in 2002 that released on their
label the "Capital Performance" Soundboard on a Import CD.
Also it was mentioned that the next Soundboard for release would be "Movin
Mobile"
The producers just confirmed they will release the Soundboard "Movin'
Mobile" on their label LMP since the finalized product ( use a
generation
higher ) won't be of any competion with the Madison's release
"Movin' Mobile".
2004/10/21 E-Mail / Ep.Gold.Com.
Movin' Mobile
Now Out.
The new Madison release '' Movin' Mobile
'' is out now.
This CD contains is a a soundboard recording from the Mobile, AL
June 2,
1975 afternoon show. '' Movin' Mobile '' features also a bonus
track (
soundboard ) recorded in stereo at the March 21, 1976 evening show in
Cincinnati, OH and a full color 12 pages booklet.
Track listing :
1 - I Got A Woman / Amen ; 2 - Love Me ; 3 - If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
;
4 - Love Me Tender (with false start) ; 5 - All Shook Up ; 6 - Teddy
Bear /
Don't Be Cruel ; 7 - Hound Dog ; 8 - The Wonder Of You (with false
start) ;
9 - Burning Love ; 10 - Introductions by Elvis of vocalists, band ; 11 -
Johnny B. Goode ;12 - Drum solo ; 13 - Bass solo ; 14 - Piano solo ; 15
-
Introductions by Elvis of vocalists, orchestra ; 16 - School Day ; 17 -
T-R-O-U-B-L-E ; 18 - I'll Remember You ; 19 - Why Me Lord? ; 20 - Let Me
Be
There (with reprise) ; 21 - An American Trilogy ; 22 - Funny How Time
Slips
Away (with reprise) ; 23 - Little Darlin' ; 24 - Mystery Train / Tiger
Man ;
25 - Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing Vamp.
Bonus: track 26 - Let Me Be There (previously unreleased stereo
recording)
March 21, 1976 Evening Show in Cincinnati OH.
2004/10/21 E-mail / Ep.Gold.Com.
ANN-MARGRET'S
CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION.
Ann-Margret with The Jordanaires and Art
Greenhaw.
Available 11/09/04
Songs:
The Christmas Song; Jingle Bells; I'll Be Home For Christmas; What Child
Is
This?; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; Go Tell It On The
Mountain; I
Heard The Bells On Christmas Day; O Come All Ye Faithful; The Manger
Song;
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Silent Night; (Bonus Song: Jesus Loves Me)
CD only $16.98
To play Real Audio samples of Art's music, visit www.amazon.com
and then
search for "Ann-Margret"
2004/10/21 http://www.artgreenhaw.com
/ Andylon Lensen / Ep.Gold.Com.
Another Elvis
Inspired Commercial.
An Elvis Presley lookalike from Blackpool
is the star of the new campaign
for AOL, created by Grey London, as the ISP taps into the craze for
music downloads.
The campaign, called "Chinese Elvis", shows how AOL members
can feed their
obsessions and access unique music content via the keyword search
feature.
It is the latest campaign from Grey for AOL 9.0 to use a central
character
to highlight the benefits of being an AOL member. Other campaigns have
used
"Vanessa", to highlight child safety; "Steve" to
represent the speed of AOL;
and "Gareth", who illustrated the ability to upload and share
photography.
The new campaign breaks this week.
2004/10/21 Google / Ep.Gold.Com.
Ann-Margret -
Viva La Vivacious.
The new "Best of" with
Ann-Margret is entitled "Viva La Vivacious" .
The album is a double CD. It features two duets with Elvis.
Tracklist:
CD 1:
I Just Don't Understand / Gimme Love / I Don't Hurt Anymore / It Do Me
So Good /
Heartbreak Hotel / Oh, Lonesome Me / Fever / My Last Date With You /
Slowly /
Hey, Little Star / Man's Favorite Sport / Rock & Roll Waltz / Kansas
City / Thirteen Men /
Jim Dandy / Bye Bye Birdie / You're The Boss (Duet with Elvis Presley)
/
Little Boy (Little Girl) (Duet with Al Hirt) / Lost Love / Lady Loves Me
(Duet with Elvis Presley) /
No More / Dance With Me Henry / What Am I Supposed To Do / Every
Beat Of My Heart
CD 2:
Could It Be? / Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone / Tell Me,
Tell Me /
What Do You Want From Me / It's Not So Funny / I Ain't Got Nobody (Nobody
Cares For Me) /
Chicago / Mister Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang / His Ring / Teach Me Tonight /
Romance In The Dark /
Just Because (Ft Al Hirt) / Make Love To Me / Begin The Beguine /
Hideaway Heart / Mack The Knife /
Swinger / C'est Si Bon / Senor Blues / Blame It On My Youth / All You
Had To Do Was Tell Me /
Lips That Lie / He's My Man / Bachelor In Paradise
2004/10/21 http://www.elvisunlimited.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
CBS Casting
Elvis.
CBS will hold an open casting call in Los
Angeles in search of an actor to
play Elvis Presley in the upcoming four-hour miniseries "Elvis".
Participants will be judged on their singing ability, charisma and
likeness
to Elvis. Those interested in attending the casting call should look
18-33
years old. Hopefuls are required to bring their headshots, resumes and
be
prepared to sing 10 bars of any Elvis song.
Date: Wednesday, November 10
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Where: CBS Television City
Gate 6 - Sound Stage 46
7800 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking: There is no parking on the CBS lot. There is parking available
at
The Grove and on the street near the lot.
Note: Participants will be seen on a first come/first served basis.
No phone calls please. For more information go to CBS.com
"Elvis" is a fact-based drama about the life of Elvis Presley,
one of the
most famous stars the world has even known. With the full cooperation of
the
Elvis Presley Estate, his electrifying yet tumultuous story will be told.
He
was born into poverty in Tupelo, Miss., honed his musical sensibilities
as a
teenager in Memphis and was universally proclaimed the King of Rock 'n'
Roll
by age 21. His life - both public and private - his music, movies,
relationships and impact on the popular culture will be explored. Robert
Greenblatt and David Janollari ("Six Feet Under") for
Greenblatt/Janollari
studio, Howard Braunstein and Michael Jaffe ("It Must Be Love")
are the
executive producers for Jaffe/Braunstein Films, LTD. James Sadwith
("Sinatra") is the director.
CBS Information :
http://www.cbs.com/info/user_services/info_casting_call_elvis.shtml
2004/10/21 CBS / Ep.Gold.Com.
The Elvis
Chronicler.
Photo:As a teenager, Joyce Nichols
believed Elvis Presley would go places
with his new style.
Timothy J. Jones.
Joyce Nichols first heard the name Elvis Presley on her favorite radio
program, The Louisiana Hayride, in the fall of 1954. Saturday night
after
Saturday night, she wrote in her diary the names of the performers, the
songs they played, and the announcer's comments. This time, though, she
couldn't even spell the up-and-coming musician's name.
"I wrote 'Ellis Prestly,'" Nichols recalls of that October
night nearly a
half century ago. She was Joyce Railsback then, a teenager in Big
Spring,
Texas, (pop. 25,233) who was dedicated to the weekly radio show that
aired
live on KWKH, 470 miles east in Shreveport, La.
Presley's first appearance on the popular program led to many
more-creating
a legacy for the Louisiana Hayride, KWKH, and everyone associated with
it.
And Joyce Nichols basked in that reflected fame when her diary helped
form
the backbone of a CD about the beginning of Presley's musical career.
Like many who heard his first radio broadcast, though, Joyce wasn't sure
what to make of the unusual sound.
"He has a new and different style and might go places with it,"
she wrote in
her diary that night. On Jan. 8, 1955, she noted Presley's 20th birthday
and
wrote, "He has on crocodile skin shoes. He also has a pair of pink
shoes."
On Dec. 17, 1955, she wrote, "Man alive! What a feeling he must
have to know
the people crave him and his music."
After three years of weekly entries, she tucked the pages away for more
than
40 years, though she said later she was not even sure why.
Then a few years ago-tuning in KWKH again in a burst of
nostalgia-Nichols
heard the familiar voice of Frank Page, the announcer who had first
introduced Presley to the radio audience. Page asked fans of the
long-defunct Hayride to share their memories and memorabilia; plans were
in
the works for Good Rockin' Tonight: The Evolution of Elvis Presley, a CD
tracing the singer's two years as a Hayride regular.
Page couldn't believe what he heard from Nichols.
"Who would take the time to do that, night after night after night?"
he
says, recalling the now-yellowed pages, scrawled in pencil. "We
didn't have
that ourselves. It was great!"
Page and Joey Kent, writer and producer of the CD, also co-wrote a book
about the Hayride titled Cradle of the Stars. It traces the Hayride's
history with regulars who included such music greats as Hank Williams,
Johnny Cash, and Kitty Wells.
Kent calls the 47-year-old diary his "Rosetta stone." The
written record
helped him date the few available recordings of the old shows. But more
than
that, he says, it brought the audience to life.
"Joyce's input was refreshing just because she was the target
audience of
Elvis," Kent says.
In Kent's creation of the double CD, Nichols-through her diary
entries-becomes a real-life example of the typical Elvis fan. Her
experiences and comments as read by Page give another dimension to the
story
of Presley's early years. Page says meeting Nichols and her husband, who
traveled to Shreveport to deliver the diary, was a chance to see
firsthand
how his beloved radio show had affected its listeners.
"We knew by the number of people that came to the show that we had
many fans
in west Texas," he says. "But her dedication was something
else. It was
amazing to us."
Kent, whose father had purchased rights to the Louisiana Hayride before
his
death in 1992, says seeing the diary confirmed what he already knew: The
show reached across hundreds of miles and left its mark on many people.
Nichols is still an avid collector of Elvis memorabilia and says being
part
of the CD and book is a thrill, but one that seems almost natural.
"I just loved Elvis so much," Nichols says. "Maybe this
is my way to be able
to show it."
2004/20/21 Debbie L. Jensen / Ep.Gold.Com.
CELINE'S SON
WANTS TO RELIVE HALLOWEEN ROLE AS ELVIS.
CELINE DION is far from thrilled her son
RENE CHARLES wants to dress up as
ELVIS PRESLEY for a second year in a row for Halloween (31OCT) - and she
blames broadcaster LARRY KING.
The French-Canadian singer is looking forward to enjoying her third
Halloween with her three-year-old offspring, but she admits she often
wishes
he would develop a taste for another costume.
She says, "Larry King gave Rene Charles a little Elvis Presley
outfit. We
dressed him up. He was having such a great time with his little blonde
hair.
"I said, 'This year, Rene Charles, what do you wanna be?' So we're
looking
at little magazines and (I said), 'What do you want? This one or this
one?'
He says, 'No, I wanna be Elvis Presley again.'
"He can't fit in the (original) outfit. He wants to be Elvis, we
live in
Vegas, do you feel for me? Can you imagine? Elvis Presley walking on the
(Las Vegas) Strip again with Celine Dion. Oh, my God!"
2004/10/20 ontactMusic / Ep.Gold.Com.
Lisa Marie's
Second Album & Upcoming Marriage.
Lisa Marie Presley answered questions
from her fans on her website forum. In
response to questions on a second album she answered that the album was
being mixed this week and should be released in March 2005.
The album contains several "agressive" rock tracks, ballads
and mid-tempo
songs. Lisa Marie recorded three covers for this album. With the release
of
the album she will do another tour.
Lisa confirms also today that she will get married to her guitarist and
producer Michael Lockwood soon.
2004/10/2004 Ekstra Bladet / Various / Ep.Gold.Com.
The Legend Lives
On DVD.
A new DVD with the title The Legend Lives
On has been released in Germany.
The DVD features early television shows with Elvis. As a bonus is there
included a chapter of tribute stuff by names like Tom Jones, Little
Richard,
Carl Perkins and others.
2004/10/20 http://www.elvisunlimited.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
The Artist
Collection Website.
RCA put a special website on-line
promoting the "Artist Collection" series.
Click Here for The Artist Collection Website : http://www.artistcollection.org
2004/10/20 http://www.artistcollection.org
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis Everywhere:
Musicology and Popular Music Studies at the Twilight of the Canon.
Elvis complained bitterly in a June 27,
1956, interview about being singled
out as "obscene" for his Milton Berle appearance, when there
had been a
bona-fide burlesque queen on the same program: "This Debra Paget is
on the
same show. She wore a tight thing with feathers on her behind where they
wiggle most. And I never saw anything like it. Sex? Man, she bumped and
wiggled all over the place. I'm like Little Boy Blue. And who do they
call
obscene? Me!" Of course, Elvis was more than a little disingenuous;
he went
on in the same interview to throw the reporter what now looks like one
of
the biggest red herrings of popular music scholarship: "The colored
folks
been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, for more years
than
I know. They played it like that in their shanties and juke joints, and
nobody paid it no mind 'til I goosed it up. I got it from them."(58)
This is a fundamental assumption of almost all Elvis reception, the
basic
matrix of ideas being neatly summarized in the title of a paper
delivered at
the First International Conference on Elvis Presley in 1995: "A
Revolutionary Black Sexual Persona: Elvis Presley and the White
Acquiescence
of Black Rhythms." The African American author, Jon Michael
Spencer, argues
that "the syncopated leg and body movements that Elvis displayed [while
singing "Hound Dog"] on television that evening [are
attributable] to the
rhythms that undergird African-American culture and give it its
distinctiveness," and that these rhythms transmit "the
attendant sexualities
of the irrepressible black cultural presence in the South."(59)
There is a
general sociocultural truth here that no one can deny, but the specific
case
of "Hound Dog" subsumes itself under that rubric only with
extreme
difficulty. (Spencer makes no mention of Leiber and Stoller, or of
Freddy
Bell and the Bellboys.) According to this analysis, the consistent
attacks
on "Hound Dog" as (white) burlesque striptease are a racist
cultural
misreading; the correct reading was given by Elvis himself in the quote
above.
One waits in vain for Spencer to articulate precisely the
phenomenological
outlines of black rhythm. In a gesture that would have Sontag weeping in
frustration, he blithely turns away from the formal erotics of black
music
("It is impossible to capture in notation the sexualities conveyed
by the
rhythms that have long brought the therapeutic black ritual places into
existence") and starts analyzing the content of black blues lyrics.(60)
I would argue that it is quite easy to discuss the sexualities conveyed
by
the rhythms of "Hound Dog"--you don't even need notation to do
it--and yet
Spencer may still be right, because the distinctive rhythmic structures
of
that specific performance and recording of "Hound Dog" are
irretrievably
white. Every time Fontana lets loose that tommy-gun burlesque lick--twelve
nervous snare hits leading to a heavy bass thud--he creates a massive
downbeat accent. In fact, he turns one entire unit of the song (snares)
into
a large upbeat to the next (bass drum). This is the crucial rhythmic
gesture
of the song, and it creates no syncopation and no polyrhythmic play.
What it
does do is create a rigid hierarchy of weak and strong units, and
enforce a
regularly recurring structural downbeat at the end of each verse. (That's
why the whole band stops playing each time he does it.)
Such absolutely square delineation of upbeats and downbeats is not at
all
characteristic of African American rhythm. A. M. Jones completed his
first
pioneering studies of African rhythm in 1956, and the patterns he
transcribed bear little resemblance to those underpinning what was then
the
current number two single on America's pop charts. African rhythm, in
general, is additive, not divisive--it avoids strong hierarchies of
beats,
avoids strong coordinated downbeats altogether, and maintains an even
fluidity through complex non-coincident polyrhythms. African American
music
has had to compromise with the rigid upbeat-downbeat structures that
rule
European forms
(see Gunther Schuller's Early Jazz, who makes this point in a
still-useful
introductory discussion of Jones);(61) but--over its syncopated (and
thus
recognizably Afro-Caribbean) rumba bass, "Hound Dog" careens
so far toward
an angry, jerky, hierarchy-of-beat-dominated whiteness that it is
impossible
for this listener to hear the creation of any sort of "therapeutic
black
ritual space."
All one has to do to hear the problem is compare Presley's version of
"Hound
Dog" with Big Mama Thornton's 1953 original. Of course Thornton did
not sing
the number in the uptempo rockabilly style--but her slower, more relaxed
reading, with its flexible phrasing, just makes much, much less of the
inevitable downbeats. She starts out, as does Elvis, singing each line
as
one long upbeat ("You ain't nothin' but a HOUND dog"); but as
soon as the
words change, she shifts the line around so that the "downbeat"
falls at the
beginning, with a remnant of the original end stress still perceptible
("You
TOLD me you was high-class / But I can SEE through that), and sticks to
that
phrasing even when the opening text comes back ("You ain't NOTHIN'
but a
hound dog"). Each line has a focal accent somewhere (and never in
the same
place twice), but Thornton's elegant syncopations and micro-inflections
of
the beat keep the rest of the syllables energized, too. The overall
effect
of macro and micro flexibility is enticingly additive: Thornton loosens
up
the stress hierarchy of the text, evens it out, and lets it float sexily
above the steady backbeat underneath.
Presley's reading of the song holds rigidly to end-accented phrasing
("You
ain't nothin' but a HOUND dog," every time). Each line has a clear
feeling
of upbeat leading to final downbeat, and when Elvis rhythmically
activates
some of the lines through "boogification" ("You-ain't
ah-nuh thin-but
ah-hound dog") the link between his singing and Fontana's playing
becomes
clear: Each of them is enforcing a strict rhythmic hierarchy by making
an
entire phrase of weak upbeats lead inexorably to a heavily stressed
downbeat. What happens very obviously in the recording is that the two
are
in a sort of rhythmic canon: Fontana's arrival on the downbeat always
energizes Presley's leap toward the next stressed downbeat, as if the
singer
is being shot out of a cannon. (When Fontana launches Scotty Moore into
his
second solo this way, it's with a downbeat so strong that it throws the
guitarist briefly into another key!)
These macho rhythmic gestures are cadences--alternations of tension and
release--and they appear nowhere in Big Mama Thornton's conception of
the
blues. The drive of the twelve snare hits to the bass drum, of the
"You-ain't ah-nuh thin-but ah-" to the "HOUND dog,"
of the grind to the
bump, is, like the drive of the dominant to the tonic, a feature of
European
music. And the bump-and-grind erotics of the tonic-dominant polarity are
well established in the West.(62) Elvis the Pelvis is not necessarily
out of
Africa; he may well remind us of another sexually dangerous Western
musical
artist recently recognized as prone to pelvic pounding.
2004/10/20 http://www.findarticles.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Calling Elvis
again.
Back
To Tupelo
Former Dire Straits
front guy Mark Knopfler has once again written a song
with Elvis as its theme. His new cd Shangri-La contains the song
"Back To
Tupelo" with distinct Elvis referrals. Probably the lyrics will be
the best
way to describe: around the time of 'clambake' movie number twenty-five
you
and the lying dutchman are still in overdrive you're as strong as when
you
started mississippi in your soul you can still be marlon
brando and the
king of rock and roll
it isn't just the records no, you must have hollywood the
songs alone are
not enough
that much is understood you'll soon be back in memphis maybe
then you'll
know what to do the storylines they're giving you are just
not ringing
true
oh, it's a ways to go back to tupelo
when you're young and beautiful your dreams are all ideals
later on it's
not the same
lord, everything is real sixteen hundred miles of highway
roll back to the
truth and a song to give your mother in your first recording
booth
around the time of 'clambake' that old dream's still rolling on
sometimes there'll be the feeling things are going wrong the
morning star
is fading Lord, the mississippi's cold you can still be
marlon brando and
the king of rock and roll
but it's a ways to go back to tupelo
2004/10/20 http://www.elvismatters.be
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
Elvis'
"White Christmas"-CD released In Germany.
The White Christmas" at the
drugstore Schlecker" 4,99 Euro!!
TrackingList Elvis' "White Christmas"-CD:
"Christmas Album" (1958):
Santa Claus Is Back In Town / White Christmas / Here Comes Santa Claus /
I'll Be Home For Christmas / Blue Christmas / Santa Bring My Baby Back /
O Little Town Of Betlehem / Silent Night / Peace In The Valley / I
Believe /
Take My Hand, Precious Lord / It Is No Secret
Album "The Wonderful World Of Christmas" (1971):
O Come, All Ye Faithful / The First Noel / On A Snowy Christmas Night
/
Winter Wonderland / The Wonderful World Of Christmas /
It Won't Seem Like Christmas / I'll Be Home On Christmas Day /
If I Get Home Christmas Day / Holly Leaves And Christmas Trees /
Merry Christmas Baby / Silver Bells
Plus:
"Mama Liked The Roses" und "If Every Day Was Like
Christmas"
2004/10/20 Ep.Gold.Com
The FTD Topic Is Updated
2004/10/19/Robin Klarenbeek/EPGold.com
"Elvis Memories"
The Elvis International Shop will attend this meeting on Sunday December 12th
2004/10/19/EPGold.com
THE MOVIE SHARK TALE AND A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION.
The International Hit "A
Little Less Conversation" was used in the Disney
Movie / Cartoon " Shark Tale" that is now playing
at theaters which is
number # 1 currently.
2004/10/19 J. Mello / Ep.Gold.Com.
A New Donna
Presley Venture.
This photo is of Donna Presley Early with
the famous gold piano owned by her
First Cousin Elvis Presley
Zamage Digital Art Imaging Inc., the world's leading publisher of
photo-to-art artwork using proprietary processes, is pleased to announce
it
has signed an agreement with Donna Presley for the exclusive rights to
the
Donna Presley collection of family Elvis photos.
"This is outstanding news," said Stewart Irvine, President and
CEO of
Zamage. "This collection of Elvis photos, will be transformed into
a
stunning body of artwork by our artists and made available to Elvis fans
throughout the world. It is a never-seen-before, collection of family
Elvis
photos now available through Zamage and Presley Art."
The collection of over 200 photos will be available for viewing online
at
www.presleyart.com and the
company will be taking orders immediately. Each
piece of art is a collector's edition and the body of artwork is
unmatched.
"Elvis has touched so many lives throughout the world," said
Donna Presley.
"We want to help people make Elvis a part of their daily
lives."
About Zamage
Zamage Digital Art Imaging, Inc., (OTCBB.PK.ZMGD) founded in 1999, is a
publisher, designer, manufacturer and marketer of canvas and paper
giclee
printed fine art products and art-inspired gift products. It is the only
company in the world that provides customers with a fully-integrated
photo-to-art and VMS (variable media and size) fine art printing system.
From scanning the photos to delivering custom-designed framed artwork
Zamage
offers seamless, end-to-end artwork at a quality unmatched in the market.
About Presley Art
Presley Art is the first digital photo-to-art website devoted entirely
to
Elvis Presley. The visually stunning, Donna Presley Limited Edition
collection of Elvis family photos is now available through Zamage
Digital
Art Imaging Inc.
2004/10/19 Google / Ep.Gold.Com.
Japanese DVD
Release Dates
The recently released Warner DVD titles
will be released in Japan too on
December 17th. (region 2). The titles are: It Happened At The World's
Fair /
Harum Scarum / Spinout / Double Trouble / Speedway / The Trouble With
Girls.
All titles will also be released in a 6 DVD collectorsbox.
2004/10/18 http://www.elvisworld-japan.com
/ Ep.Gold.Com.
"MYSTERY
TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN".
"MYSTERY TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN",
and it will be also available on DVD with
new Stray Cats live shows from Brixton - London 2004.
A new song on the latest Stray Cats CD about Elvis, Johnny Cash and Carl
Perkins is written by Brian Setzer.
The music is very similar to the original song "Mystery Train"
with many of
the same guitar riffs.
The live album with the studio version of Mystery Train Kept A Rollin'
is
due out November 9th.
The lyrics:
Well the train pulled in the station 'bout 1955
I'd never been to Memphis, but oh man alive
The town was really buzzin' 'bout thi