She had, of course, been exposed to and enjoyed a music appreciation course which had included the better known classical works such as `` Tristan und Isolde '', `` Candide '', `` Oklahoma '', `` Nozze de Figaro '', the atomic age singers, Eileen Farrell, Elvis Presley and Geraldine Todd, as well as the curious rhythmic progressions of the Venusians, Capellan visual chromatics and the sonic concerti of the Altairians.

Ray Charles is credited with the song's most well known rendition in current times ( although Elvis Presley had success with it in the 1970s ).

Holly saw Elvis Presley sing in Lubbock in 1955, and began to incorporate a rockabilly style, similar to the Sun Records sound, which had a strong rhythm acoustic and slap bass.

He also had ambitions to work in film, like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran, and registered for acting classes with Lee Strasburg's Actors ' Studio, where the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean had trained.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

McLean had started recording in Nashville, with Elvis Presley ’ s backing singers, The Jordanaires, and many of Elvis ’ s musicians.

Fuller's ability as a songwriter manifested itself through the intervention of her friend, producer Hal Wallis ; Fuller had wanted to get an acting role in the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii, which Wallis was producing, but instead he put her in touch with Hill & Range, the publisher that provided Presley with songs.

Sullivan had to take a medical leave from the series and missed the Elvis Presley show.

Like Orson Welles or Elvis Presley, he had a history of weight fluctuations through his career, attributed to his years of stress-related overeating followed by compensatory dieting.

Sinatra also had a brief acting career in the mid-60s including a co-starring role with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway, and with Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels.

Guralnick had previously written on Presley in the The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, starting with the first edition in 1976, said article having been reprinted for each subsequent edition.

Elvis Presley and Bono have stated his voice was, respectively, the greatest and most distinctive they had ever heard.

Much influenced by Elvis Presley, Orbison performed frenetically, doing " everything we could to get applause because we had only one hit record ".

Orbison attempted to sell to RCA Victor songs he recorded that were written by other writers as well, working with and being completely in awe of Chet Atkins who had played guitar with Presley.

The song was " Only the Lonely "; Orbison and Melson had earlier tried to pitch it to Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers but were turned down.

Wesley Rose, at this time acting as Orbison's agent, moved him from Monument Records to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), for a million dollars and the understanding that Orbison would expand into television and films as Elvis Presley had done.

He and Claudette shared a love for motorcycles ; she had grown up around them, but Orbison claimed Elvis Presley had introduced him to motorcycles.

An " Eternal Flame " in memoriam to Presley is maintained on the site, but on the day the band visited, the flame had gone out and its clear-plastic enclosure was flooded.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

On 1 August 2006, CNN reported that Barney, a Doberman Pinscher employed as a security dog at Wookey Hole, had destroyed parts of a valuable collection of teddy bears, including one which had belonged to Elvis Presley, which was estimated to be worth $ 75, 000.

While at WERE ( 1300 AM ) in Cleveland, Ohio, DJ Bill Randle was one of the first to introduce Elvis Presley to radio audiences in the northeastern US.

Earning the distinction of being one of the first white artists to appear on the US variety show Soul Train, Bowie mimed " Fame ", as well as " Golden Years ", his November single, that it was offered to Elvis Presley to perform, but Presley declined it.

Sullivan's failure to scoop the TV industry with Presley made him determined to get the next big sensation first.

* 1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, " That's All Right.

* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

When Presley heard " Only the Lonely " for the first time, he bought a box of copies to pass to his friends.

In January 1989, Orbison became the first musician since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the Top Five at the same time.

* 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

A musical style known as " gut-bucket blues " came out of the jug band scene, and was cited by Sam Phillips of Sun Records as the type of music he was seeking when he first recorded Elvis Presley.

* February 22 – Elvis Presley enters the United States music charts for the first time, with Heartbreak Hotel.

* March 13 – Elvis Presley releases his first Gold Album titled Elvis Presley.

* September 9 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

* December 4-The Million Dollar Quartet ( Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash ) get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time in history.

** Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

** The first footage of Elvis Presley is filmed as part of a film short about the Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Bill Randle.

In Hollywood, Jones met Elvis Presley for the first time who he recalls singing his song as he walked towards him on set.

It is available for tour, which is where Elvis Presley first recorded " My Happiness " and " That's When Your Heartaches Begin ".

Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first of three appearances on CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show, which garnered 72 million viewers ( Ed Sullivan was recuperating from a car accident ).

Gordon was also instrumental in launching the career of Johnny O ' Keefe, the first Australian rock star, who rose to fame by imitating Americans like Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

The first, a Blues-inspired cover of the Elvis Presley classic, Blue Christmas, and a new version of "" Home for the holidays ", a duet with Norah Jones.

Elvis Presley, who recorded his version of Arthur " Big Boy " Crudup's " That's All Right " at Phillips's studio, met that goal, and became highly successful, first in Memphis, then throughout the southern United States.

He was one of the first investors with Roy Scott in Holiday Inn, a new motel chain that was about to go national ; he became involved with the chain shortly after selling the rights to Elvis Presley to RCA for $ 35, 000 which he multiplied many times over the years with Holiday Inn.