(December 20th 1960) The Elvis Presley movie “Flaming Star” opened nationwide in the U.S. For that week the movie was #12 on the National Box Office Survey,due to strict laws of the racial separation the movie was banned in South Africa because of its focus on the complications of a bi-racial family. Elvis Presley was […] More
(December 21st 1958) Elvis leased a BMW 507 from BMW Glockler the car was a ‘used’ one and Elvis knew this,formerly driven by racing ace Hans Stuck.Elvis was assured by Mr Glockler that the car was very well run in by Mr Stuck who had raced the car in many sports car events but the […] More
Christmas was always a very special and very important time for Elvis. Graceland, his home, became a place of enjoyment and happiness for all. She loved these holidays, being with her family and all the fun things that Christmas brought: decorating, opening presents, celebrating New Year’s Eve, her birthday, sleigh rides, making snowmen and playing […] More
1. Just inside the front door 2. The 15ft living room couch 3. The light in the hallway next to the staircase 4. Inside the kitchen cabinet (see the corns?) 5. Only the edges of the Pool Room are painted navy behind the fabric 6. The glass slider inside the Trophy Building to the Music […] More
07/30/1961 – Florida.On Sunday afternoon, July 30, 1961, Elvis appeared at Weeki Wachee Springs Park in Florida, on the west coast where he was then filming “Follow That Dream.”There thousands of fans were waiting for him.Colonel Parker interrupted the filming of the Elvis feature film “Follow That Dream” and prepared a great media expectation with […] More
Elvis takes advantage of a break between rehearsal and the night’s performance that will take place at the Dorsey brothers’ “Stage Show” to return to his hotel.It was the day Elvis met the man who would become his invisible photographer. To the photographer of the most absolute intimacy of him: Alfred Wertheimer.After rehearsals for the […] More
When Alfred Wertheimer arrived at the midtown Manhattan loft to photograph Elvis’s rehearsal for NBC’s The Steve Allen Show, Elvis was in a corner of the studio, deep within himself, intimately playing and singing his beloved gospel music on a beautiful upright piano.It was Friday June 29, 1956.Next to him was his cousin Junior Smith, […] More
Elvis performed on the stage of the Ottawa Auditorium on April 3, 1957.He arrived at Ottawa’s Union Station in the morning that same day.At last night’s performance in Toronto, Elvis wore his full gold lamé suit, designed by Nudie Cohn, for the last time, though he had only worn it in full for three performances.In […] More
Elvis Presley was, in private and in public, one of the most generous people in contributing to charitable organizations and charity events, which has never existed.Of the many organizations that Elvis supported, one of his favorite charitable organizations was the Hospital para niños St. Jude en Memphis.El St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, is an infant […] More
Both friends of Roy Orbison from Sun Records. After Roy Orbison and Teen Kings broke up as a band, Warren Smith’s band became Roy’s band for recording and touring. Most of Roy’s Sun Record Company songs were recorded with them. On the 1956 tour they would play a set with Roy then switch clothes and […] More
She first met Elvis when she was working at Goldsmith’s Department Store in Memphis with a friend named Dixie Locke, who was dating Presley. When Dixie and Elvis went their separate ways, he asked Barbara if he could take her out. But she was one of his girlfriend during his remarkable ascent in 1956- above […] More