"Elvis, He Can't Be.. But He is"

Spotlight "Official ELVIS PRESLEY Album" August 1956: Another brilliant magazine of-its-time - from 'Charlton Publishing' - one of the very first magazines totally devoted to America's newest pop-sensation.

"Elvis' style of singing has caused more discussion than the atom bomb...."

EIN looks at three cool segments..
- Triple-Threat Man of the Music World.
- Elvis The Showman
- the 'Elvis Presley Fact Sheet' for mid-1956

The 7th in an EIN series looking at early magazine articles about Elvis Presley..
Check this fascinating article & rare photos..
(EIN Spotlight by Piers Beagley / Paul Gansky)

Spotlight "What You Don't Know About ELVIS PRESLEY" Movie Mirror Feb 1957: Another brilliant vintage article, this time from 'Movie Mirror' magazine February 1957.
Written by Alfred Wertheimer - the photographer - "Untold Facts about ELVIS PRESLEY by a Friend."

.. "Why do the girls go for Elvis? I'm no judge of that, of course! But I'd guess it's because he has very sensuous eyes and lips.
Elvis doesn't care what people think. And he's not bashful. He'll walk up and talk to anybody.
Elvis is completely unorthodox, and unpredictable. As he puts it, "If you wanta’ get ahead, you gotta be different!" And he means it.
With other performers, you can predict pretty well what the act is going to be when they step on a stage. Not with Elvis."

The 6th in an EIN series looking at early magazine articles about Elvis Presley - this time with some great 1956 images..
Go here to this fascinating article and discover more ....
(EIN Spotlight by Piers Beagley / Paul Gansky)

Spotlight "The Night ELVIS Flipped His Pelvis?" 1956: From On The QT magazine, December 1956 issue.

... 'Money isn't the only thing Elvis is getting plenty of. He's the reigning idol of every screaming bobby-soxer in the nation. Girls fight to get near him, quivering with ecstasy at the very thought of touching him.
Elvis was going so strong, so fast and so wide open that the pace became too much. One night in Jacksonville, Florida he plain collapsed - just laid back and passed out cold.
Tense and nervous after a tumultuous show, Elvis walked toward a parked car, then slumped to the ground.
"We took him to a hospital" Bill Black remembers...

The 5th in an EIN series looking at early magazine articles about Elvis Presley.
Go here to this fascinating article and discover more ....
(EIN Spotlight by Piers Beagley / Paul Gansky)

Spotlight "What is Presley doing to our children?" Home Journal magazine 1957: From Canadian Home Journal magazine, June 1957 issue.

. 'By the time Elvis stepped into the spotlight his audience was well primed. The auditorium became a nightmare of piercing shrieks and screams front 18,000 young throats.
Then he began to sing. But his performance was more a pantomime. He could only be heard in snatches when he wasn't contorting his body or face. Screams and shrieks poured in waves from all sides of the huge auditorium and increased in direct proportion to the intensity of his gyrations which closely resemble those of a burlesque dancer.
I was in the very midst of a kind of emotional violence I'd never witnessed before and couldn't understand or assess...
Is this mass hysteria harmful to adolescents?
Three experts suspect it is....

The 4th in an EIN series looking at early magazine articles about Elvis Presley.
Go here to this fascinating article and discover more ....
(EIN Spotlight by Piers Beagley / Paul Gansky)

Spotlight "Elvis Presley: Hollywood Hot Shot or Flop?" Movieland magazine 1956: From Movieland magazine the October 1956 issue.

... 'The most controversial performer in show business today is husky, long-haired, hip-swinging, rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley. ... and he can afford to smile at the controversy the mere mention of his name arouses. To date such controversy has meant a million gross within his first show biz year as well as a comfortable seven-year Hollywood film contract.
Hal Wallis, who signed Martin and Lewis to their first Hollywood contract, is the astute producer who is willing to gamble on having the right answer to the question: "Elvis Presley - Hollywood Hot Shot or Flop?"

The third in an EIN series looking at early, original magazine articles about Elvis Presley.
Go here to discover more & with some lovely rare photos..
(EIN Spotlight by Piers Beagley / Paul Gansky)

Spotlight "The Impact of Elvis Presley" LIFE magazine 1956: From the well-respected LIFE magazine August 27 1956 issue.

'Elvis - a Different Kind of Idol' Presley’s impact piles up fans, fads and fears.
In it they note that, "Up to a point, the country can withstand the impact of Elvis Presley as a familiar and acceptable phenomenon" as the US had seen it before with Sinatra and Rudy Vallee.
"The rewards of this, bump and grind, fearless expression are almost unbelievable for the young man who gave up his truck driving job two years ago to become a full-time singer."
Luckily the local Trinity Baptist Church was saying a Prayer For Elvis with the Reverent Gray noting that Elvis "had achieved a new low in spiritual degeneracy."

Elvis' career certainly lasted a little longer than the LIFE magazine writers expected back in 1956!

The second in an EIN series looking at early, original magazine articles about Elvis Presley.
Go here to discover more & with some lovely rare photos..
(EIN Spotlight by Piers Beagley / Paul Gansky)

'The Elvis Files Vol. 1 1953-56' In Depth Book Review: The first volume of the Elvis Files story, chronicling Elvis' rise from his pre SUN discovery to becoming the world's biggest new sensation - nearly 600 pages & over 1,400 photos...
All ELVIS EVENTS in this Time Frame Period 1953-1956 are shown..
- Every Working Moment...
- The Early Tours
- Plenty of CANDID Moments.
- Elvis Interviews
- The TV Shows
There is an incredible impact to this book that can shock even the most blasé of Elvis fans who think they have seen it all before. The amazing amount of sensational images, interviews and informative articles gathered together within its 600 pages is stupefying.
Of all the books I have previously purchased about early Elvis none of them demonstrate the excitement and dynamic life of Elvis as well as this superb volume. No other series of Elvis photo-books comes close.

Click here to find out what it includes with lots of example pages, book extracts - plus great ELVIS photos
(Book Reviews, Source;EIN)

'Elvis Presley: The Searcher' EIN Spotlight: The 2018 HBO Documentary & SONY release
The three-hour, two-film presentation focuses on Elvis Presley the musical artist, taking the audience on a comprehensive creative journey from his childhood through the final 1976 Jungle Room recording sessions. The films include stunning atmospheric shots taken inside Graceland, Elvis’ iconic home, and feature more than 20 new, primary source interviews with session players, producers, engineers, directors and other artists who knew him or who were profoundly influenced by him.

In our extensive spotlight EIN tracks the publicity, interviews and the reviews...
Compiled by Piers Beagley

Go here for Everything You Need To Know

(Spotlight, Source;ElvisInformationNetwork)

"Baby, Let's Play House": Recorded at Sun Studios in February 1955, Presley’s historic rendition of "Baby, Let's Play House" reveals the comprehensive love for – and knowledge of – the blues. Compared to the Arthur Gunter original Elvis’s version is much more emphatic, playful, exuberant, tougher and scornful. The interplay between Bill Black’s thunderous bass-slapping, Elvis’s audacious, experimental vocal – he makes use of every trick in his rapidly expanding vocal repertoire – and Scotty Moore’s snarling rhythm guitar creates something that transcends such labels as country and blues.
“You may have a pink Cadillac but don’t you be nobody’s fool.” But who is Elvis singing to here?

In this EIN Spotlight respected author Paul Simpson takes a fascinating look at this Sun Studios Elvis classic..

(Spotlight, Source;PaulSimpson/ElvisInformationNetwork)