Elvis Presley
I posted “Tell me something about yourself that sounds made up but is 100% true.” Hundreds replied, all interesting, some incredible. Here are some of the answers. “✔” received the most attention. Kathy Alexander Power: I was electrocuted and died. Ray Morris: I had a small part in a porn flick Johnny Means: I spent…
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In November 2019 actress-singer Ann-Margret was presented with the first-ever Bob Hope Legacy Award for her many contributions to the USO and American servicemembers. She deserved it. In March 1966, Margret went to remote parts of Vietnam with entertainers Chuck Day and Mickey Jones for her first USO tour. Not only in Vietnam, but they…
Every Elvis Presley Movie ranked (by box office success, IMDB, Ultimate Movie Ranking). Jailhouse Rock (1957) Loving You (1957) Love Me Tender (1956) King Creole (1958) Viva Las Vegas (1964) G.I. Blues (1960) Blue Hawaii (1961) Follow That Dream (1962) Flaming Star (1960) Girl Happy (1965) Roustabout (1964) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Elvis: That’s the…
The first Elvis Presley impersonators first appeared right after Elvis was beginning his career. Even in the 1950s, Johnny Cash would perform an imitation of his fellow Sun Studio alumnus during his shows. After his death on August 16, 1977, the number of impersonators across the globe exploded from right at 2,000 to tens of…
By 1970, Elvis Presley had revived his music career with record breaking live concerts in Las Vegas. Colonel Tom Parker booked Elvis at Houston Rodeo for more shattered attendance records in the Astrodome. Fueled with enthusiasm playing to live audiences and free from Hollywood movie contracts, Elvis wanted to get back to his roots: performing…
The first celebrity tour bus I ever saw was outside the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio. Virginia Grimmett, a dear family friend, pointed it out: “Look Jackie, it’s Claude Kings and Don Gibson’s bus,” she gestured. “I think Minnie Pearl might be in there too.” As a 7 year old, in 1963, it was incredible…
Most of the 1960s kept Elvis Presley busy making movies in Hollywood and on location in Florida, Arizona, Washington and elsewhere. Here are 20 rare photos from that decade.
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May 14th marked the anniversary of the day B.B. King died during his sleep in Las Vegas in 2015. On May 27, 2015 his body was flown to Memphis where a bass band marched in front of his hearse for the funeral procession down Beale Street. They played “When the Saints Go Marching In.“ He…
Elvis Presley served in the United States Army from 1958-1960. Sworn in at Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas, his basic training was at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. He was stationed in Germany. Here are 20 rare photos you may have never seen of Private Elvis Presley. Click here for 20 Elvis Army pictures.
Here’s a collection of photos taken of Elvis Presley prior to and during the beginning of his career in the 1950s.
