The owner was looking for a bid of $41,250 or more to purchase this when it sold on June 25 2016. I was not able to see the final bidding price but 41thousand US dollars is nothing to sneeze about!! A vibrant full-length bright red wool coat with black fur trim and red satin lining, […] More
Elvis Presley (aka Tulsa McLean) is pictured with his film choreographer Charles O’Curran (April 5, 1913 – June 26, 1984) on the set of his fifth movie, G.I. Blues at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA. (They had already worked together on Loving You and King Creole.) Elvis’s first post-Army movie was filmed from April 29 […] More
The ORIGINAL: Elvis with three-year-old Pam Ogles (born December 16, 1957) during a shooting break on the set of “Follow That Dream“ in Florida, July/ August 1961. Pam Ogles shared with her twin sister Pat the role of the little blonde girl in the movie. It didn’t matter what age a cast member was, Elvis […] More
Elvis’ recorded “For Ol’ Times Sake”, originally recorded in Stax on 23 July 1973. The recipe to this original version of this obscure track is the simple yet unusual arrangement to the song combined with Elvis’ deliberately fragile vocal which portrays the emotion of the protagonists narrative. This is a practice which Elvis had applied […] More
“Girls, girls, and more girls.” In Munich they checked into the Edelweiss Hotel and prepared for a pleasurable evening at the Moulin Rouge. Elvis immediately got reacquainted with the chorus girls he’d met in March. According to Peter Guralnick in his Presley biography, Elvis had his picture taken there with “Marianne, a stripper who had […] More
Charlie Hodge was one of Elvis Presley’s best friends who was with him till the very end. Charlie met Elvis in the army and made a huge impact on Elvis especially on the ship ride to Germany. When Elvis would sleep walk and have nightmares on the ship Charlie would help him back to bed […] More
Billy Smith is the one person who knows Elvis Presley better than anyone. He is Elvis’s cousin and grew up with Elvis. He knew Elvis before fame and Elvis spent his whole life with Billy. From the time they were kids till the end. Billy was also one of the few who actually spent a […] More
Chance encounter with a fan on a lonely beach at the top east coast of Oahu during Elvis’s holidays in Honolulu, Hawaii in May 1969 (May 4 to 18). Elvis had booked the vacation under the name of Dr. John Carpenter, his character in the movie Change of Habit. The woman is a Ms. Rosentheen according […] More