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
He had given his mum Gladys a puppy that she named ” Sweet pea”. You will see Gladys lovingly holding little Sweet pea amongst these photos. More