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* Elvis Presley's concert in Greensboro in April, 1972 was professionally recorded and became part of the Golden Globe Award-winning musical-documentary motion picture Elvis On Tour featuring Elvis Presley in three different concerts, the one in Greensboro and three others ; two in Virginia and one in Texas.
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Benny recalls the first records he bought were " Du Bist Musik " by Italian schlager singer Caterina Valente and Elvis Presley's " Jailhouse Rock ".
After the cancellation of Martian, Bixby starred in four movies: Ride Beyond Vengeance, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, and two of Elvis Presley's movies, Clambake, and Speedway.
Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her, that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.
* 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
Kid Rock became the first musician to play in a recorded concert for television at Elvis Presley's Graceland on November 28, 2011 when PBS taped an episode for their Live from the Artists Den.
Examples include Elvis Presley's Easy come, easy go, Harold Robe's Never swap horses when you're crossing a stream, Arthur Gillespie's Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Bob Dylan's Like a rolling stone, Cher's Apples don't fall far from the tree.
His two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis in 1994, followed by Careless Love in 1999, placed the story of Presley's career into a rise and fall arc.
Encompassing more than 1, 300 pages ( including 1, 150 pages of text ), the work countered earlier biographies such as Albert Goldman's Elvis from 1981 with an in-depth, scholarly examination of Presley's life and music.
The white bandleader of the Bill Black Combo, Bill Black, who had helped start Elvis Presley's career, was popular with black listeners.
He found a modicum of success at Sun Records and found his way into Elvis Presley's social circle, once going to pick up a date for Presley in his purple Cadillac.
Co-writer Billy Steinberg came up with the title after Susanna Hoffs told him about the band's visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee.
* July 9 – Elvis Presley's Loving You opens in theaters.
** Elvis Presley's song " Are You Lonesome Tonight " is recorded for the first time
** Elvis Presley's concert in Hawaii.
By the time the again-renamed Milton Berle Show finished its only full season, Berle was already becoming history — though his final season was host to two of Elvis Presley's earliest television appearances, April 3 and June 5, 1956 .< ref >
Featured at Graceland are two of Presley's private airplanes, his extensive automobile and motorcycle collection and other Elvis memorabilia.
On December 8, 1956, two examples on the same broadcast were " Nuttin ' for Christmas ," which became a vehicle for Rocky Rockwell dressed in a child's outfit, and Elvis Presley's " Don't Be Cruel ," which was sung by violinist Bob Lido, wearing fake Presley-style sideburns.
Unlike the musicians in bands such as The Comets, or Elvis Presley's backing band, who had rockabilly or country music backgrounds, many musicians in Australian rock ' n ' roll bands – such as Johnny O ' Keefe's famous backing group The Dee Jays – had a solid background in jazz.
" The author adds that Presley's father Vernon " had a swimming pool in his bedroom ", that there " was a jukebox next to the swimming pool, containing Elvis ' favorite records " and that the singer himself " would spend hours in his bedroom, watching his property on a closed-circuit television.
" Graceland was Lisa Marie Presley's first home after her birth on February 1, 1968 and her childhood home, although her main state of residence was California where she lived with her mother after she divorced Elvis when Lisa was in elementary school.
* While touring across the United States, the band members in the rock music " mockumentary " This Is Spinal Tap gather around Elvis Presley's grave at Graceland and sing a verse of " Heartbreak Hotel a capella in three-part harmony.
The name was a combination of Vince Everett, Elvis Presley's character in Jailhouse Rock, ( which Cocker misheard as Vance ) and country singer Eddy Arnold.
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As his family disintegrated around him, Parsons developed strong musical interests, particularly after seeing Elvis Presley perform in concert on February 22, 1956, in Waycross.
** Elvis Presley holds his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.
* December 3 – The ' 68 Comeback Special marks the concert return of Elvis Presley.
** Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
An album, Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden, was released after the concert, on June 18, 1972.
The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8. 1 million viewers in the U. S. It scored an 86-date concert tour, and was on the top 10 tours of 2006 ; the tour broke a record at the Houston Rodeo that was set by Elvis Presley in 1973.
* In June 1956 Elvis Presley returned to Tupelo for a concert at the Mississippi-Alabama State Fair & Dairy Show.
* " Blue Suede Shoes " was written by Carl Perkins during a trip to Amory for a concert with Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash in 1955.
* October 3 – Elvis in Concert, a TV concert special filmed during Elvis Presley's final tour, is aired on CBS.
* May 13 – First riot at an Elvis Presley concert takes place in Jacksonville, FL
* October 15 – Elvis Presley plays a concert in Lubbock, Texas.
In October, 2009, Martin purchased at auction a D-28 that was played by Elvis Presley in his last concert for $ 106, 200.
He first gravitated to music at the age of four when his parents took him to an Elvis Presley concert at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium.
In September 2010 Yep Roc issued The Impossible Bird, Dig My Mood and The Convincer on vinyl for the first time, and after a one-night reunion concert with Elvis Costello in October in San Francisco, Lowe embarked on his first non-solo United States tour " this millennium.
This closely followed what was possibly the Stamps Quartet's most famous moment, backing Elvis Presley in his 10 June 1972 concert at Madison Square Garden.
The band on their 2006 concert tour This made Westlife the third act ( along with Cliff Richard ) in the UK to have the most No. 1 singles, tailing behind Elvis Presley and The Beatles.
He paid over £ 11, 000 at auction, for a shirt which he believed was worn by Elvis Presley at his famous 1956 Tupelo concert.
In 2002, the arena hosted a concert, commemorating the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death.
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* April 29 – When his tour stops in Memphis, Tennessee, Bruce Springsteen jumps the wall at Elvis Presley's mansion, " Graceland ", in an attempt to see his idol.
* April 1 – Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Mitch Miller film Sinatra's Timex Special for ABC at Miami, Florida's Fountainbleu Hotel
* April 20 – Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood for the first time since coming home from Germany to film G. I.
* April 3 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Milton Berle Show.
* April 6 – Paramount Pictures signs Elvis Presley to a three-picture deal.
* April 3 – Elvis Presley appears on The Milton Berle Show.
However on 21 April 2008, during a BBC Two radio interview with Ken Bruce, theatre impresario and chairman of Everton F. C., Bill Kenwright, said that Elvis actually spent a day in the UK being shown around London by Tommy Steele in 1958.
Eilert Dahlberg ( born April 4, 1953 in Anundsjö, Sweden ), who uses the stage name Eilert Pilarm is a Swedish Elvis impersonator.
In the April 2007 issue, Q published an article containing the 100 Greatest Singers, won by Elvis Presley.
It was also one of the few venues outside of the United States where Elvis Presley performed in concert ( April 2, 1957 ).
Elvis Presley's shows at the Gardens on April 2, 1957 were his first ever concerts outside of the United States.
* Elvis Presley & The TCB Band — April 21, 1976 and June 18, 1977
* Elvis Presley & The TCB Band-June 14-15, 1972, June 28, 1974 and April 27, 1977
Elvis Presley's first, apparently not very successful, appearance in Las Vegas, as an " extra added attraction ," was in the Venus Room of the new Frontier Hotel from April 23 through May 6, 1956.
* " Hound Dog " was sung by Eddie Clendening, portraying Elvis Presley, in the Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, which opened in New York in April 2010.
Elvis Presley released it as a single on April 20, 1970.
April 2008 saw the introduction of the Elvis Costello Jazzmaster, the second signature Jazzmaster model made at the Corona facility-a faithful replication of Elvis Costello's 1960s Jazzmaster used during his 1977 debut album, My Aim is True.
During his show on 21 April 2008, theatre producer Bill Kenwright told Bruce that Elvis Presley once visited London in 1958 and was taken on a tour of the city by Tommy Steele.
* 2006: # 61: Joe Henry ( Jan-Feb ), # 62: Kris Kristofferson ( March – April ), # 63: Alejandro Escovedo & Jon Dee Graham ( May – June ), # 64: Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello ( July-Aug ), # 65: Old Crow Medicine Show ( Sept-Oct ), # 66: Solomon Burke ( Nov-Dec )
While on stage, Elvis Presley introduced O ' Brian from the audience at the singer's April 1, 1975 performance at the Las Vegas Hilton, as captured in the imported live CD release " April Fool's Dinner ".
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