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EIN
E-Alert #167.........Friday 15 April 2005
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Hi
everyone
Another
busy week in the Elvis world and as you'll read in our news
items several interesting announcements were made.
Nigel
(& Piers)
Some
of the items added to
www.elvisinfonet.com this
week:
News
- Sonny
West "Aussie" tour dates announced
- Web
site for CBS "Elvis" mini-series
- The
last guitar Elvis played on stage is for sale
- President
Carter talked to Elvis 2 days before he died
- Now
What debuts on Billboard album chart at #9
- Lamar
Fike in hospital
- Tragedy
hits "Vegas Elvis" reality show
- New
CD, book & DVD releases
Articles
- ICE
magazine article on Elvis
- "Orion"
gunned down and killed
Reviews
- Greg
Page, Mick Gerace & the TCB Band
Interview
- Bud
Glass talks to EIN (Part 1)
Last
chance - competition closes today!
Win
an Elvis 8 DVD set!
Breaking
News
Sillerman
And George Klein On Elvis Projects
If
rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley shows up in any future
digital projects it will not likely be in a commercial, The
Los Angeles Times reports. Robert F.X. Sillerman - who recently
gained control of Presley's name, image and likeness - said
he doubted Presley would appear in a car commercial, the way
the late Steve McQueen recently did. Sillerman also said he
didn't think it would be a good idea to do with Presley what
was done with the late Conway Twitty recently -- when bits
of Twitty's old records were manipulated through a computer
program to make it sound like he was singing a new song. "I'm
not sure you're going to see Elvis in a commercial," Sillerman
said. "With Elvis, less is more." George Klein, a pallbearer
at Presley's funeral who currently operates an Elvis station
on Sirius satellite radio, said he would welcome a new Elvis
record. "I think it's strictly business and this is 2005,"
Klein said. "He's been dead 27 years, and you have to move
on. Market what you got. A duet with Britney Spears or something
like that would be great." (Source: Los
Angeles Times)
"Elvis
a genius"
MICHAEL
SCHENKER GROUP (MSG) singer Chris Logan spent time in the
studio in February laying down his vocals for the soundtrack
to the movie "Crazy". "It is the Hank Garland story," Logan
writes on his web site. "For those unfamiliar with the name,
Hank Garland was a prolific guitar player of the '50s and
'60s," the singer continues. "A major portion of his work
was done with with Elvis Presley, so I did a couple Elvis
songs for the movie. Quite an interesting singer, Elvis was.
I had always goofed around singing like him as a kid, but
I'd never taken a serious approach to it until recording these
tunes. The man was quite simply a genius — an amazing vocalist
who was far ahead of his time." (Source:
Roadrunner Records)
Billboard
Weekly chart update
(courtesy
of www.ElvisCharts.com)
April
23, 2005
(sg
- sales gainer, gg - greatest sales gainer, ne - new entry,
re - re-entry)
Top
Christian Albums - Ultimate Gospel down 1 to #34
Top
Country Albums - Ultimate Gospel up 2 to #57
Top
Pop Catalog Albums - Elvis 30 #1's down 4 to #43
Top
Country Catalog Albums - Elvis 30 #1's up 3 to #4
Top
Music Video Sales - He Touched Me Vol 1 & 2 reenters at #39
(re)
Top
Comp Music Video Sales - He Touched Me Vol 1 & 2 reenters
at #39 (re)
Did
you know?
- When
Elvis performed his "bump & grind" version
of Hound Dog on The Milton Berle Show, future music legend
Quincy Jones saw 'an emotional revolution' in his performance
- On
its USA release Clambake grossed US$1.6 million and made
a small profit
- Like
Elvis, superstar David Bowie (real name David Jones) was
born on January 8
- Old
Macdonald (from Double Trouble) was voted the worst movie
song of all-time by the Raspberry Roasters Roundup club
in the US
- Former
Russian leader, Boris Yeltsin, revealed on CNN in 1991 that
after facing down tanks outside the Russian Parliament he
returned to his official residence and sang Are You Lonesome
Tonight?, his favorite Elvis song
EIN
looks back at:
Elvis'
USS Arizona benefit at Hawaii’s Bloch Arena 1961
On
Sunday March 25 1961 Elvis performed a benefit show for
the USS Arizona Memorial building fund.
The
USS Arizona was the battleship lost in the 1941 Pearl Harbour
attack with 1,117 men on board. With seating for 4000, the
sold-out performance managed to raise nearly $65,000. Tickets
in the special ringside section cost $100 each, an immense
price in those days. Half of these were paid for by Elvis
and donated to patients from the local Honolulu Tripler
Hospital. Elvis performed in his famous gold-lame jacket
and black pants.
This
would be the last time Elvis would wear the gold-lame jacket
on stage. Backing Elvis were his regular band, which now
also included both Boots Randolph on sax and Floyd Cramer
on piano. The ever-wonderful Jordanaires provided backing
vocals.
Ron
Jacobs, a local DJ, described it as “One of the most exciting
experiences of my life. I was amazed at how much music such
a small group of performers could generate. Elvis' onstage
moves, which have since been widely copied, captured visually
what his music sounded like. To me, the most exciting moment
was when Elvis ended his smash-hit song 'Hound Dog' by landing
on both his knees and skidding at least 6 feet across the
stage!”
Elvis
performed an astounding selection of songs including the
rare ‘A Fool Such As I’, ‘Swing Down, Sweet Chariot’ plus,
new “Elvis Is Back” album tracks, ‘Such A Night’ and ‘Reconsider
Baby’.
March
25th set-list:
1.
Heartbreak Hotel
2.
All Shook Up
3.
A Fool Such As I
4.
I Got A Woman
5.
Love Me
6.
Such A Night
7.
Reconsider Baby
8.
I Need Your Love Tonight
9.
That's All Right
10.
Don't Be Cruel
11.
One Night
12.
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
13.
It's Now Or Never
14.
Swing Down, Sweet Chariot
15.
Hound Dog
A
recording of this sensational show, in unfortunately fairly
poor quality, is available on the silver box-set "Elvis
Aron Presley".
Two
days later Elvis would report for filming on his new movie
“Blue Hawaii”.
The
Bloch Arena concert would be Elvis’ last performance on
stage until more than 8 years later in Las Vegas, July 31st
1969.
Elvis
Trivia Question
What was the title of Elvis' 1961 gospel album?
(Last
week's answer:Libertyland was
the name of Elvis' favorite amusement park in Memphis)
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