April 5, 200718 yr Author April 5th 1972 – Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York Filmmaker Bob Abel shoots his performance with a small Sony videotape camera to create a visual and audio record to be used as a concert blueprint for the full camera crew, which will begin work on the 9th in Hampton Roads, Virginia. B) Also in 1935, a devastating tornado swept through Tupelo, killing 235 and injuring another 350. In Presley family lore, it will always be remembered how Vernon and Gladys took refuge in Jessie and Minnie Mae’s home, with Gladys holding her baby tight. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/tuphistorytornadoad3.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/tupelo.jpg I visited the cemetery in Tupelo and saw a grave which held 12 family members who had perished during the tornado. How very different the story of Rock’n’Roll would have been had the Presley family suffered the same fate. :mellow:
April 6, 200718 yr Author April 6th In 1969, Elvis and Priscilla went to Las Vegas. There they went to the Flamingo, to see Tom Jones' midnight show. 1956 and Elvis flies to Las Vegas for a one night holiday at the New Frontier Hotel, with which the Colonel has begun discussions for a booking. It is his first visit to the show business mecca and he is entranced!
April 7, 200718 yr Author April 7th 1955 and Elvis appears at the Court House, Corinth, Mississippi for two shows and is presented as ‘ that Country Music Star’ Elvis Presley :dance: In 1965, Girl Happy opens nationwide and will be the twenty-fifth top- grossing film of the year B)
April 9, 200718 yr Author April 8th In 1960, RCA have rushed the session tapes to the pressing plant, and just four days after the session, the LP, Elvis Is Back, is shipped. It’s gatefold album of army snapshots has been printed in advance, and the titles of the subsequently recorded songs appear on a sticker. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/elvisisback.jpg
April 9, 200718 yr Author April 9th 1962 – Principal photography for Girls Girls! Girls! begins. Each morming, Elvis’ wardrobe is brought to the hotel before he is driven to the set for makeup. During filming, Elvis practises karate in his hotel suite, breaking as many as forty boards a night, until finally Hal Wallis puts a stop to the practice for fear his star will break his hand. :o 1953 - The Humes High School band presented its annual Minstrel Show at 8.00 p.m. in the auditorium, with Elvis the 16th listed act on the bill, as "Guitarist.....Elvis Presley". Both Elvis and his class mates dated this as the beginning of his rise of fame. According to Elvis: "I wasn't popular in school. I wasn't dating anybody. And then they entered me in this talent show, and I came out and did my "Till I Waltz Again With You" by Teresa brewer. It was amazing how popular I became after that". :dance:
April 10, 200718 yr Author April 10th 1956 – Friar Park Auditorium, Lubbock, Texas Elvis’ 1954 Cadillac has been driven to Lubbock for use on this tour. Vernon makes out an application for automobile liability insurance, naming Elvis Presley, a ‘professional singer,’ as his employer. On the form Vernon lists a 1956 Plymouth station wagon owned by him and a 1954 Cadillac convertible and 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood owned by Elvis. It is estimated that the two Cadillacs will be driven 100,000 miles in the next year, divided between Scotty Moore (30,000 miles), Bill Black, D.J.Fontana and Bobby (Red) West (20,000 each) and Elvis (the remainder).
April 11, 200718 yr Author April 11th 1956 – Coliseum, El Paso, Texas Elvis calls Bob Johnson at the Press-Scimitar in Memphis to thank him for his recent stories. Variety reports that Heartbreak Hotel has sold one million copies, thus becoming Elvis’ first gold record. :cheer:
April 12, 200718 yr Author April 12th 1956 – Armoury, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lionel Crane of the London Daily Mirror is on the scene and reports that Elvis wore a plum-coloured jacket with black trousers as two armed guards escorted him to the stage. He is greeted with a ‘scream that I thought would split the roof.’ Afterwards, in the dressing room, when asked about the reception, Elvis declares,’ It makes me want to cry. How does all this happen to me?’ He then shows off his horseshoe ring and boasts that he owns forty suits and twenty-seven pairs of shoes. :cheer: Elvis wearing the horseshoe ring http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/PublicityPhotoforLoveMeTender56.jpg
April 13, 200718 yr Author April 13th 1956 – Municipal Auditorium, Amarillo, Texas After two shows here, it marks the beginning of a two-day break in a tour that will stick in Scotty Moore’s memory as the time the crowd noise became so loud the musicians could no longer hear the music. ‘We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass. :lol: It was like being in a sea of sound.’ Elvis’ booking at the New Frontier in Las Vegas is confirmed, and confirmed and the Colonel suggests he be billed as ‘America’s Only Atomic Powered Singer.’ :dance: The chartered flight that Elvis and the band take to Nashville for a one-day recording session set up at the last minute by Steve Sholes is plagued with problems. First the pilot loses his way and has to land in El Dorado, Arkansas, to refuel. The one of the engines cuts out because the plane has not been switched over to its full tank. ‘Man, I don’t know if I will ever fly again,’ Elvis announces when he arrives in Nashville. :blink:
April 14, 200718 yr Author April 14th 1956 and after a dreadful flight, only one song is recorded in three hours at the session at RCA’s Nashville studio. The ballad that is cut is I Want You, I Need You, I Love You and it will become the A-side of Elvis’ second RCA single. :wub: While at the studio, Elvis is presented with a gold record for Heartbreak Hotel and immediately after the session, Elvis and the band take a bumpy flight to Memphis on the same chartered plane. In the evening, Elvis stops by Dewey Phillips’ Red, Hot and Blue radio show on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel Chisca. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You jPDRNex9IVg
April 15, 200718 yr Author April 15th 1956 and Elvis, the band and Gene Smith fly, by commercial carrier this time, to San Antonio, Texas for two shows at the Municipal Auditorium. According to the San Antonio Light, Elvis amuses himself between shows by playing Silent Night and Harbor Lights on the organ. Later, when the reporter asks a fan why she likes the singer, the response is, ‘Because he looks so mean.’ :yahoo:
April 16, 200718 yr Author April 16th 1955 and Elvis tops the bill at The Big ‘D’ Jamboree at the Sportatorium in Dallas, Texas. The bill includes rising country star Sonny James, veteran Hayride performer Hank Locklin, Charlene Arthur and many others. Like the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride, Ed McLemore’s Big ‘D’ Jamboree in Dallas is a live Saturday night show broadcast over a prominent local radio station with a strong signal. It serves as an important vehicle to expose Elvis to listeners across Texas and Bob Neal arranges for four appearances on the show, despite the fact that Elvis will have to pay a substantial penalty for missed Hayride shows. At this time Neal also commits Elvis to do two Beaumont, Texas shows in June with the same promoter.
April 17, 200718 yr Author April 17th With dreams for a fleet, in 1975, Elvis buys a Convair 880 jet, taken out of service by Delta, for $250,000. The purchase will be announced on June 11th and the plane will be named the Lisa Marie, with the subsequent cost of its customised refurbishment in Fort Worth, Texas, coming to an additional half million dollars. Amenities will include a queen-size bed, gold plumbing features and a videotape system, and the tail will sport the TCB logo. :cheer: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/lmplane.jpg
April 18, 200718 yr Author April 18th The entourage with which Elvis sets out for California in 1960 to make his first post-army motion picture includes army buddies Joe Esposito and Charlie Hodge, long-time friend Lamar Fike, Red West’s cousin Sonny and Elvis’ cousin Gene Smith. Together with Colonel Parker’s staff, they occupy two private cars on the Southern Pacific Sunset Limited, at a cost of $2,424.41. Old friends Red West and Cliff Greaves have already returned to Los Angeles to resume their search for show business opportunities.
April 19, 200718 yr Author April 19th In 1956, Elvis is at the Municipal Auditorium in Oklahoma City for two shows. The Daily Oklahoman reports that Elvis’ response to critics of his music is that ‘it’s a healthy thing. You don’t have to be doped up to do it.’
April 26, 200718 yr Author April 20th 1960, Elvis is due to make his first post-army motion picture in California and to avoid the large crowd gathered for his arrival at Union Station in Los Angeles, Elvis disembarks on a siding just outside the station and takes a cab to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with Colonel Parker. April 21st 1960 and Elvis begins preproduction on G.I.Blues, a Hal Wallis production for Paramount. The picture is to be directed by Norman Taurog and co-stars Juliet Prowse.
April 26, 200718 yr Author April 22nd In 1957, the new iron gates with a special guitar motif, manufactured by the Veterans Ornamental Iron Works of Phoenix, Arizona, at a cost of $1,300, are delivered to Graceland by a local firm and installed with their electronic equipment for $1,752. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/gate_442754.jpg
April 26, 200718 yr Author April 23rd 1956 – Venus Room, New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas Elvis opens a two-week engagement in front of a more jaded, older audience. In 1959 Elvis will recall,’ After that first night, I went outside and just walked around in the dark. It was awful…….I wasn’t getting across to the audience.’ At the same time, he falls in love with Las Vegas and is thrilled to meet such show business legends as Johnnie Ray and Liberace. He catches a number of other shows, including that of Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, whose novelty performance of Big Mama Thornton’s hit, Hound Dog, impresses him as a potential showstopper. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/Elvis2020Celebs208.jpg
April 26, 200718 yr Author April 24th In 1973, Elvis appears at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim and Lisa Marie is in the audience for the show. In 1977,Elvis performed at the Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan and "Unchained Melody" and "Little Darlin" were recorded here. April 25th In 1955 Elvis began a 5 day tour with artists from TNT Records at M-B Corral, Wichita Falls, Texas. When each artist had finished his performance Elvis left for Seymour, an hour away, for a second performance but didn't arrive before midnight because he ran out of gas and money. The hardcore Elvis fans were still waiting for him when he finally got on stage at the High School, Seymour, Texas. For a long moment Elvis just stood there with his eyes closed, not saying a word and Scotty stepped up behind Elvis, pretending to wind him up. With that, Elvis grabbed his guitar and the show was on. :dance:
April 26, 200718 yr Author April 26th 1957 and Elvis is photographed standing proudly in front of his newly installed gates at Graceland wearing a yellow jacket, brown trousers, red socks and belt and white, green and blue shoes decorated with guitar-shaped figures. B) Wish I had the photo :dance:
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