June 2, 200817 yr You are so right, Lesley. Johnny and June were made for each other. Without her by his side, I doubt he would have made it to the age he did. This song sums them up for me. You can truly believe that when he sang these words, he was singing them to June :wub: EdSIlVZhsDw He loved her so much, and i think once June passed away, Johnny died of a broken heart because she wasn't by his side. :( :wub:
June 2, 200817 yr Author He loved her so much, and i think once June passed away, Johnny died of a broken heart because she wasn't by his side. :( :wub: Their's was a true love story :wub:
June 3, 200817 yr Their's was a true love story :wub: And you don't see many true love stories. :wub:
June 3, 200817 yr Author Interview with Barbara Eden by Alanna Nash Elvis' Flaming Star, co-star Barbara Eden talks to Alanna Nash about Elvis Presley. The original interview from August 2007 was the very first time Barbara Eden had been interviewed in-depth by anyone about Elvis. God, what a talent he was! I remember the first time I saw him. It was on television. I had a job dancing, and one of the girls took me home to rehearse, and her sister came running in the room and said, 'Look! Look! Quick! Stop!' It was the Ed Sullivan Show. And he was just electric. You'd never forget him after that. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/barbara_ed...s_presley.shtml
June 4, 200817 yr Interview with Barbara Eden by Alanna Nash Elvis' Flaming Star, co-star Barbara Eden talks to Alanna Nash about Elvis Presley. The original interview from August 2007 was the very first time Barbara Eden had been interviewed in-depth by anyone about Elvis. God, what a talent he was! I remember the first time I saw him. It was on television. I had a job dancing, and one of the girls took me home to rehearse, and her sister came running in the room and said, 'Look! Look! Quick! Stop!' It was the Ed Sullivan Show. And he was just electric. You'd never forget him after that. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/barbara_ed...s_presley.shtml How could you ever forget him? I know i couldn't :wub: :yahoo:
June 12, 200817 yr Author June Juanico Remembers Elvis Presley June Juanico: Elvis was the love of my life. I met him in the summer of '55, when he was just a regional star. I was 17 and he was 20. He had been in my hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi, several times before, and people said, 'You need to see him', and I went on this one night. I thought he was the most gorgeous thing: big, dreamy eyes. Girls were screaming over him, and I'm just not that kind. I was passing by him, not even looking at him, and he reached through the crowd and grabbed my arm. He said, 'Where are you going?' http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/june_juani...s_presley.shtml I love this book. June was so lucky to meet Elvis when she did, right at the beginning :wub: I met her last year and she is still a beautiful lady and so gracious :D
June 16, 200817 yr Author Elvis Wasn’t A Star When He Came To Ocala In 1955 http://www.elvisnews.com/Presentation/Func...w&item=1223
June 17, 200817 yr Author Andy Warhol - The Elvis Works This article explores Andy Warhol's series of screenprinted paintings of Elvis which came in "Single", Double", "Triple" and "Pairs" image formats, as well as "Elvis (Eleven Times)"! http://www.elvisinfonet.com/spotlight_warhol_ang.html I love those Warhol pics
June 19, 200817 yr Author Linda Thompson Remembers Elvis Presley + Elvis' chow, Getlow Elvis was a very tender soul. He had such a good heart. We literally bought out a pet shop one night. About three o'clock one morning, Get- Low was acting really strange, so we had a doctor come over. He said, 'I don't think the dog will make it through the night'. So Elvis leased a Learjet and flew Get Lo, my girlfriend and me, and the doctor up to Boston to a special clinic for kidney dialysis. We left him up there for about three months. But he didn't live long after that. He was only about a year old. We were on tour when he died, and we were coming home on his plane when they told us. Elvis just cried. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/linda_thom...s_presley.shtml
June 20, 200817 yr Awwwwww, thats sad :( But the story shows just how generous and caring Elvis was :wub:
June 26, 200817 yr Author Alfred Wertheimer talks about photographing Elvis at 21 in 1956. http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/alfred_wertheimer.html Al is a lovely guy :wub: He made my day when he took my photo when I met him last year. If anyone can make me look good in a photo, it would have to be him :lol: Interview with Mike Stoller - Legendary Songwriter Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber helped give birth to rock and roll when they wrote Hound Dog in 1952. Their list of hits sounds like the very history of rock and roll almost from the moment of its birth, with classic songs recorded by everybody from Elvis Presley to the Drifters to John Lennon. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/tynterview...e_stoller.shtml
June 27, 200817 yr Author Some more great interviews Danielle Riley Keough Home Page Pouring through celebrity images this week, as I usually do in this job, my eyes were immediately drawn to pictures of Riley Keough, granddaughter of Presley, at a Hollywood event (see right). For some reason I couldn't quite take my eyes off her, and I wasn't exactly sure why. Until it hit me - just like her grandfather before her, Keough possesses that extra something, a definite je nes sais quoi. For all the non-believers out there, Elvis does live on... in the spirit of this 19-year-old :wub: http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/danielle_riley_keough.shtml Interview with Bones Howe Bones Howe. Recognize the name? You should. For more than 40 years, Bones Howe has been producing hit records and putting music in the movies. He's made records with Elvis Presley and movies with Steven Spielberg without getting wrapped up in the Hollywood tinsel. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/Interview_...ones_Howe.shtml Freddy Bienstock - Music Publishing and Elvis Presley Although Freddy Bienstock is not a household name, he is famous to many as the music publisher and plugger for Elvis Presley. But still, even to Elvis fans, he is something of a mystery figure. He is an essential component in the Elvis story. Just how important becomes clear when he said, quite matter of factly, 'For the first 12 years of Elvis' career with RCA, he wouldn't look at a song unless I had seen it first'. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/freddy_bienstock.shtml
June 29, 200817 yr Author Interview with Wink and Sandy Martindale Wink Martindale was the morning DJ at WHBQ in Memphis. The evening DJ, Dewey Phillips, was known for playing what was then called 'race music', and it was one evening that a record brought in by Sam Phillips featuring an artist by the name of Elvis Presley was played. 'You could tell that something exciting was going on when the record was played', says Wink. Ironically, Wink's future wife Sandy had dated Elvis for six years http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_...artindale.shtml
July 4, 200817 yr Author From the Archives........On Tour with Elvis: ROAD WARRIOR - Rock and roll's first superstar made his first records without drums. Elvis Presley began touring the South with just guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black. Drummer D. J. Fontana tells how he joined the band in 1954 and what those early years were like. Oh, no, no, no, there was no audition. Elvis, Scotty and Bill come to Shreveport, where I was the house drummer for the Louisiana Hayride. In those days everybody played the Hayride. The headliners were people like Jim Reeves and Webb Pierce, and most of those guys didn't even like drums. I'd just stand backstage until somebody asked me to play. So Scotty come over and said, "Hey, we need a drummer. You want to work with us?" I said, "That's why I'm here." To me touring with Elvis was just a job. But we worked hard. Heck, we'd play on the back of feed trucks, little bitty high-school gyms--we played 'em all. We worked all those little towns for a year and a half before Elvis even got known. He didn't really get known until he started doing those television shows nationwide. But he always got that same wild reaction. He was a good-looking kid, you know, and the music was different. We'd pack them little old gyms--I think the tickets were maybe 50 cents. We'd also do package shows with country acts, Webb or Faron Young. They were the main draw, the hot artists. Back then the country artists just basically stood up sang all their hit records. They didn't move. So they didn't know what to think of Elvis. There for a while they'd have him close the first half of the show. But see, when Elvis left the stage, there was nobody left to sing to. All the kids would follow him outside. It got harder as he got bigger, because we didn't have no big sound system. I don't think the kids ever heard us play or him sing, either one. We only had one mike onstage, or sometimes an extra mike for Bill's bass. Scotty had that one little bitty old amp--the whole volume wouldn't go across the room on it. And when Elvis stopped playing rhythm to do his moves, boy, it was like the bottom fell out. So I don't think the kids ever heard us. All they wanted was just to see him out there. (News, Source: By D.J. Fontana | NEWSWEEK Jul 19, 1999 Issue/Charmaine Voisine) Wouldn't it have been fantastic to have actually been there in those early days :cheer:
July 6, 200816 yr Author Elvis Presley - Musical Prodigy Elvis Presley was a genius. He didn't express himself the way the middle clases do, which is with word play and being able to explain his actions and reactions. He acted on gut instinct and expresed himself by the way he held the microphone, by the way he moved his hips, by the way that he sang down the microphone. That was his genius ... I believe the esence of any performer is gut instinct ... Because it's all in you, it's instinct. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis_pres...l_prodigy.shtml This is nothing new to us Elvis fans. We've always known what an extra special talent Elvis had :wub: :yahoo:
July 6, 200816 yr Elvis Presley - Musical Prodigy Elvis Presley was a genius. He didn't express himself the way the middle clases do, which is with word play and being able to explain his actions and reactions. He acted on gut instinct and expresed himself by the way he held the microphone, by the way he moved his hips, by the way that he sang down the microphone. That was his genius ... I believe the esence of any performer is gut instinct ... Because it's all in you, it's instinct. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis_pres...l_prodigy.shtml This is nothing new to us Elvis fans. We've always known what an extra special talent Elvis had :wub: :yahoo: And very special it was too, and still is. :yahoo: :wub:
July 10, 200816 yr Author Andreas van Kuijk - Colonel Tom Parker In the spring of 1960, a Dutch housewife named Nel Dankers-van Kuijk visited her hairdresser in Eindhoven, and thumbed through the new issue of Rosita, a Belgian women's magazine. There she saw a photograph that stopped her heart. A young American singing star, Elvis Presley, just home from the army in his handsome dress blues, waved to his fans from the doorway of a train. But it was the big man standing behind him who caught her eye. He looked so much like her younger brother Jan? http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/andreas_van_kuijk.shtml
July 11, 200816 yr Author Was Elvis really the King of the Gypsies?: The U.K government has been heavily criticised for wasting tax-payers' money on a magazine which claimed that Elvis Presley was a gypsy. Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month magazine also suggests that Presley's ancestors were Sinti - German gypsies who emigrated to America in the 18th century. The publication - for school pupils - also claims that film legends Charlie Chaplin and Rita Hayworth came from gypsy backgrounds.The magazine was given a $140,000 (GBP70,000) grant by the British government . But Schools Minister Lord Adonis has been criticised over the "politically correct" initiative. Member of Parliament Philip Davies says, "This is a grotesque abuse of taxpayers' money. When families are struggling to pay their bills, for the Government to fund this magazine which speaks garbage is just another kick in the teeth." The Department of Children, Schools and Families said the magazine was designed to increase understanding of travellers' cultural heritage. A spokesman said: "It is not true that Andrew Adonis has approved or endorsed the distribution to schools of Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month magazine."The department provided GBP70,000 of funding to the gypsy, Roma and traveller community. The aim was to produce material and events across the country to celebrate the culture of the gypsy, Roma and traveller community." As always Elvis conquers all bases and from the look of Elvis' photo what would you say? http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/GypsyElvis.jpg (News, Source/SanjaM) Seems like mention Elvis' name and you get a story :rolleyes:
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