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Tuesday 29 April 2008

'High Spirit In Vegas' & 'Getting Down To Business' CDs: For the first time these two concerts will be available under their original titles, but not on CD-R and at the correct speed. High Spirit In Vegas and Getting Down To Business were recorded from the audience but quality was above average for this type of material. Both should be released soon on the Vegas Strip label.

High Spirit In Vegas - Las Vegas, NV September 2, 1973 MS: 1- Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra 1:02 ; 2- C.C. Rider 3:21 ; 3- I Got A Woman / Amen 4:26 ; 4- Love Me 1:40 ; 5- Steamroller Blues 2:48 ; 6- You Gave Me A Mountain 3:11 ; 7- Trouble 2:02 ; 8- Rock Medley : Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On/Mama Don't Dance/Flip Flop And Fly/Hound Dog 2:37 ; 9- Love Me Tender 1:32 ; 10- Fever 2:37 ; 11- Bridge Over Troubled Water ( with reprise ) 5:24 ; 12- Suspicious Minds 4:05 ; 13- Introductions of the band and celebrities : Hugh O' Brian, Marty Allen and Vernon Presley 3:45 ; 14- My Boy 3:24 ; 15- I Can't Stop Loving You 2:18 ; 16- An American Trilogy 4:25 ; 17- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 3:16 ; 18- Mystery Train / Tiger Man 3:12 ; 19- How Great Thou Art 3:38 ; 20- A Big Hunk O' Love 2:08 ; 21- Release Me 2:12 ; 22- What Now My Love 3:08 ; 23- Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing vamp 1:58

Getting Down To Business - Las Vegas, NV August 31, 1973 DS: 1- Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra 1:09 ; 2- C.C. Rider 3:21 ; 3- I Got A Woman / Amen 4:20 ; 4- Love Me 1:32 ; 5- Steamroller Blues 2:46 ; 6- You Gave Me A Mountain 3:09 ; 7- Trouble 2:04 ; 8- Rock Medley : Long Tall Sally/Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin' On/Mama Don’t Dance/Flip Flop And Fly/Hound Dog 2:35 ; 9- Love Me Tender 1:40 ; 10- Fever 3:31 ; 11- Bridge Over Troubled Water 3:57 ; 12- Suspicious Minds 3:52 ; 13- Introductions of band and celebrity : Charlton Heston 2:41 ; 14- My Boy 3:19 ; 15- I Can't Stop Loving You 2:15 ; 16- An American Trilogy 4:01 ; 17- A Big Hunk O' Love 2:30 ; 18- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ( beginning only ) 0:58 ; 19- How Great Thou Art ( reprise only ) 1:32 ; 20- Can't Help Falling In Love / Closing vamp 2:01 (News, Source: FECC)


SonyBMG provides FREE Elvis music via Internet: SonyBMG, one of the world’s biggest record labels, has made music by its artists free to listen to over the internet. The record label has signed a deal with We7 to stream songs on user’s computers accompanied by a short advert. The new deal will give music fans access to the complete back-catalogues of Elvis Presley and other artists including Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and others.

Speaking to BBC’s Newsbeat, the boss of We7 Steve Purdham, said the deal will give “free music in return for some of your time.”

The new service, which launched on April 28, will build the profiles of its users so that adverts are target specific to each person. Once users have listened to the songs they will also have the option to pay to download the tracks to their computer or MP3 players.

We7 is seen as the latest effort to try and control the growing problem of music piracy, which has seen the sale of traditional recorded formats, such as CDs, decline rapidly over recent years. (News, Source: AP)


Why the lyrics to Hound Dog were changed: Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid 1950s. The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best known version. This is the version that is #19 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. "Hound Dog" was also recorded by 5 country singers in 1953 alone, and over 26 times through 1964.

Thornton gave this account of how the original was created to Ralph Gleason. “They were just a couple of kids, and they had this song written on the back of a paper bag.” She added a few interjections of her own, played around with the rhythm (some of the choruses have thirteen rather than twelve bars), and had the band bark and howl like hound dogs at the end of the song. In fact, she interacts constantly in a call and response fashion during a one minute long guitar "solo" by Pete Lewis . Her vocals include lines such as: "Aw, listen to that ole hound dog howl.. OOOOoooow", "Now wag your tail", Aw, get it, get it, get it". Thornton's version is a slow, powerful, country blues.

Record producer Bernie Lowe suspected that "Hound Dog" could potentially have greater appeal, and asked Freddie Bell of Freddie Bell and the Bellboys to rewrite the lyrics to appeal to a broader radio audience. "Snoopin' round my door" was replaced with "cryin' all the time", and "You can wag your tail, but I ain't gonna feed you no more" was replaced by "You ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine." This new version of "Hound Dog" was recorded on Lowe's Teen Records in 1955 ((TEEN 101 with "Move Me Baby" on the flip side, two of four songs the group did with Lowe that year). The regional popularity of this release, along with the group's showmanship, yielded both a tour, and an engagement in the Las Vegas Sands Hotel's Silver Queen Bar. (News, Source: Wikipedia)


Is this Elvis?: An image bearing a resemblance to Elvis Presley has mysteriously appeared on a slate in a garden in the shadow of the Preseli hills and could become a shrine to the king of rock'n'roll.

The phenomenon has rekindled interest in speculation that Elvis' ancestors came from the area, and already fans of the legend are showing a desire to visit the north Pembrokeshire site.

Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo Mississippi in January 1935 and died at his Graceland mansion in August 1977 aged 42.

A TV documentary was made and a number of newspaper articles written in connection with a belief that the singer's ancestors emigrated from the Preseli's.

The slate is a garden ornament at the remote home of Miss Morgan who specifically asked for the location not to be revealed for fear of Elvis fans converging on her home.

Taking up the story she said "My five-year-old niece came into the house and said there was a man in the garden.

"I went outside but couldn't see anyone until my niece pointed to the slate. I was totally taken aback, absolutely amazed. The image was not there when we put the slate in the garden. I just don't know what to think," she said.

Going on to say that one of her friends has already offered a four figure sum for the slate she said "I don't want to sell it. I look at it every day to see if the image is still there."

Shown a picture life-long Elvis fan Gaynor Thomas of Cardigan said: "I'm not entirely convinced it is Elvis but there is a real likeness."

Currently saving to become one of more than 600,000 people who visit Graceland annually she said: "If it becomes possible I will definitely go and see the slate, and I'm sure very many other Elvis fans would be interested." (Odd Spot, Source: Charmaine Voisine/ John Adey, Tivy-Side Advertiser)

 

Monday 28 April 2008

Memphis Mafia members dispute Radford Ellis claim: EIN received the following message from Marty Lacker after yesterday's story about Radford Ellis' claim Vernon Presley offered him a job as Elvis' double:

"Although my memory is still very good, just to be sure and fair I checkerd with Billy,Sonny and Lamar and NONE of us remember anyone by the name of Radford Ellis.  Seems like, although he's a bit harmless in his story, Ellis is another bullshitter like Billy Miller.

At least one of the four of us was with Elvis every day during the period Ellis states and he was not a friend of Elvis.
 
These people come up with their stories because Elvis and in this case Vernon too, is gone but they forget one big thing, we are still here.  These people don't understand that we know just about everything Elvis did and who he did it with and who was around.  In many instances we knew more than his father, Priscilla and certainly Lisa Marie.
 
I don't say that to make ourselves important. Fame and a $1.25 will get you on the bus.  It doesn't mean anything to us.  All we do is state fact and we tell it like it is for a number of reasons. One being that Elvis is too important of a historical icon for false information to be put out there.
 
First of all, that's the way it should be with anyone.  It's a dis-service to Elvis just as it is a dis-service to the millions of worldwide fans.  They often complain that they don't know who or what to believe about Elvis,us and all those years and that's one reason we have been sticlers for the truth.
 
There are a number of things in that story sent in by EP Gold that Ellis stated that are so unlike Elvis to do and I will leave that alone for now.
 
We just thought your readers should know the truth." (News, Source: Marty Lacker)
Cover art for 2nd edition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" CD: Just released is the second edition of the Reeltrax import release "You'll Never Walk Alone", The content of this second edition is the same as the first edition - studio out-takes, session talk and other gospel highlights - only the cover got a "facelift" with a new portrait of Elvis Presley. (News, Source: Elvis News)

New Elvis related auction: Regency Superior has announced a new Elvis related auction for May 3rd. Among the 20+ items are signed Sun-records, promotional 78 rpms, contracts, signatures, pictures and even a 2 piece buff-colored leather suit, custom made for Elvis by the famous North Beach Leather Company (bearing its label).

The jacket, the highlight of the Elvis items, is hand-stitched, 5-button, with 2-button cuffs. The pants, also hand-stitched, feature a football-style fly, and slightly bell-bottomed. The suit appears moderately worn with some sweat stains. Even Elvis, apparently, appreciated a casual Friday in Las Vegas.

This leather suit was one of his favorites and sometime around 1974 had similar ones made for the stage. It is very similar to his 'Mermaid' and 'Rainfall' suits. The suit was a gift from Vernon Presley to Jim Curtin. (Letter of authenticity from Jim Curtin included). (News, Source: Elvis Matters)

Local fans still have vivid memories of brushes with Elvis: In the wonderful world of Elvis Presley fandom, there's always more.

Unflagging interest in all things Elvis means that even 30 years after Presley's death, there are more stories to hear and more images to see. In that sense, the King is definitely not dead.

Two weeks ago, after reading an Associated Press story about newly discovered 1972 Presley concert photos, I shared a picture I have. It shows Presley in the 1950s, when he apparently visited the Dallas radio station KLIF. My late father-in-law David Muhlstein, a radio news director there, is standing right next to Elvis.

Seeing that was all it took to coax a few Herald readers into sharing their personal Presley pictures. I also heard from far-flung Elvis fanatics, who sent theories about my photo. A Danish gentleman, Brian Petersen, is such an Elvis aficionado he believes he can precisely pinpoint the date of my picture -- Aug. 10, 1956. Another e-mail directed me to a message board where Elvis fans guessed at the timing of my photo based on Presley's sideburns.

My goal was to find other candid shots.

Diane Woodall's snapshot may be the fuzziest of the bunch, but the Everett woman has a good story to go with it. Her mother, Arlene Dinsmore, worked at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. She was there while Presley was filming "It Happened at the World's Fair."

Along with the picture her mother took -- Presley flanked by police officers -- Woodall sent a statement her mom wrote about the scene.

Dinsmore wrote that during the time Presley was at the fair, "September Fourth to the 17th, 1962," he was walking to the Seattle Monorail one day with two police officers. "I rushed up to him and grabbed his arm and told him I had two daughters who would like his autograph. He very kindly signed two World's Fair postcards for me," she wrote.

In 1999, Woodall's mother went so far as to have her statement, with the Presley picture attached, signed and stamped by a notary public.

The story behind it may be a riddle, but the photo Mark Hibbert sent looks to be a sharp-looking Elvis posed with a hotel maid -- to me, that maid looks pretty nervous. Hibbert of Marysville said the picture was taken by his late grandmother, Wynn Barry, who was a beautician at Seattle's posh Olympic Hotel.

Describing Barry as quite a character, Hibbert said she lived an elegant life in San Francisco before divorcing and moving here. At the Olympic, she once styled the hair of opera star Maria Callas, among other famous clients. During the Seattle filming of "Cinderella Liberty," Hibbert said, his grandmother landed his brother, Scott, a role as an extra in the 1973 James Caan movie.

About the Presley photo, though, Hibbert is short on details. Searching the Internet, where Elvis Web sites trace an almost day-by-day history of Presley's life, I could find no mention of him being in Seattle in 1966 -- the year marked on the photo's border. Along with his 1962 World's Fair visit, Presley sang at the old Sicks Stadium and in Tacoma on Sept. 1, 1957. HistoryLink.org, an online encyclopedia of Washington state, puts Presley in Vancouver, B.C., and in Spokane on Aug. 31, 1957.

Perhaps Elvis made an unreported Seattle visit, or Hibbert's grandmother photographed him on her travels elsewhere. "If my grandmother saw Elvis, she would have pinned him down," said Hibbert, who runs a Marysville music studio, Whiskey Ridge Recording.

In the mid-1960s, Hibbert played bass guitar in a successful local band, Axis Drive. The band was a regular at Seattle's Warehouse Tavern, and once backed up Bobby Sherman. It was hardly Elvis fever, but Hibbert recalls girls throwing jelly beans at the band.

Retired KJR disc jockey Danny Holiday, who lives near Stanwood, sent me a picture of Presley taken with Holiday's mentor and close friend, Red Robinson.

Taken at Vancouver's Empire Stadium on Aug. 31, 1957, the day before Presley played Seattle, it shows a 22-year-old Elvis with Robinson, then 20. Robinson, who emceed the Vancouver concert and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is still heard on Vancouver's CLEAR-FM, 104.9, every Saturday night.

A half-century ago, Holiday said he went with his parents to Vancouver to see Elvis. "The Vancouver show only lasted 20 minutes because the crowd rushed the stage," Holiday said.

In the summer of '57, Presley's "Teddy Bear" had been a No. 1 hit. With the smoldering look of a star at his peak, Presley posed with the fresh-faced Robinson while holding a cute prop, a plush toy bear.

"Red still has the bear wrapped in plastic," Holiday said. (News, Source: Julie Muhlstein, Herald Columnist /  www.epgold.com)

Sunday 27 April 2008
Promo CD from Chile: BMG / Sony of Chile released a promotional CD commemorating the 30 anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. This promotional disc was originally due for release August 2007 but just recently arrived at radio stations in Chile. The CD is a replica of a 1956 vinyl 10-inch release from RCA Chile. The original is considered the most rare and important vinyl release made in South America. (News, Source: Elvis Chile /Elvis News)

"The King" by Ron Galella: The famous American celebrity photographer Ron Galella, known for his 'historic' pictures of Marlon Brando (Ron Galello lost 5 teeth at his first encounter with the actor), Liz Taylor, Robert Redford, Jackie O and Bruce Springsteen, has published his 'Best Off' in volume 14 of 'GUP Magazine' (Guide to Unique Photography) which is subtitled "The Paparazzi Issue". This picture is the highlight of Ron's "Best Off", and is simply titled 'The King'.

Ron Galella, one of the firs paparazzi in Hollywood, also managed to snap Elvis with Diane Goodman departing the Hilton Garden Inn at JFK Airport (New York) For Nassau Coliseum on July 19, 1975. (News, Source: Elvis Matters)

Retiring CBI boss got car from Elvis: Bob Cantwell, director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, has announced his retirement, ending a 44-year law enforcement career that brought him into close contact with two of the most famous figures of the 20th century.

Cantwell, who has been CBI director since July 1, 1999, was working for the Denver Police Department in 1976 when he befriended Elvis Presley on a moonlighting job and was given a Cadillac by the singer.

He was one of three officers the singer gave a luxury car.

Cantwell was still with Denver when he was assigned to a security detail for Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa in Estes Park in the late 1980s. Cantwell worked with the Colorado Department of Corrections before he was named to the CBI post.

He expects to leave the CBI in late May or early June.

"I've grown up with law enforcement," he said this week. "I love it. I just love helping people."

Cantwell, who's turning 65, isn't sure what he will do when he retires.

He's had some job offers, he said, and he's thought about working cold cases or finding a ghost writer to help him write a book about his career. But he's not worried about what he will do next.

"When God shuts one door, he opens another," said the graduate of Metropolitan State College and the FBI National Academy.

Cantwell's successor will be selected through a competitive process. Peter Weir, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety, will make the final selection. The job pays $11,073 to $11,859 a month.
(News, Source: Marilyn Robinson: www.rockymountainnews.com /www.epgold.com)


Tributes pour in for Bill E. Burk -UPDATED

Bill Eugene Burk.......may he rest in peace

 


Vernon Presley offered Radford Ellis a job as Elvis' double: Radford Ellis is a singer and performer who was born and raised in Memphis, TN. He has won many local and regional talent contests; his first at age 5.

Radford first met Elvis around 1966 at Graceland while helping his older brother repair a pinball machine. Before this meeting, he was just an average Elvis fan, but afterwards, Elvis musically influenced Radford.

During the early 70's Radford fronted a band called Radford Ellis and the McCarver Sisters. It was during this time that he began his tribute to Elvis. The band regularly played at Liberty Land Amusement Park in Memphis, TN, a launching ground for other Elvis Tribute Artists.

In 1972 during a 2am conversation with Harold Lloyd, Elvis' first cousin, at the Graceland guard house, the phone rang. It was Elvis. Radford was then invited to come to the house and show off his customized motorcycle. After looking at the bike, Elvis asked if he could take it for a ride. A few minutes later Elvis returned and a friendship began that lasted until Elvis' untimely death in 1977.

Radford saw Elvis perform live 3 times and was personally invited to many parties and get togethers at Graceland and the Memphian Theatre, many of which included Christmas and New Year's Eve parties. Elvis gave Radford a rawhide fringe jacket and a TCB necklace that he removed from around his own neck. These things are still in his posession to this day.

It was at one of the many parties at Graceland that Radford performed Elvis for Elvis. It was at this time that Vernon Presley offered him a job as Elvis' double. Radford was to be a decoy for Elvis after concerts. The job would have included leaving the arena dressed as Elvis, getting into a limo and driving to the airport and/or the hotel to divert an onslaught of fans while Elvis safely left the building. Due to a conflict with his 1st wife, Radford turned down the job.

In 1973 or 1974 while Elvis returned from riding a big black horse named "Sombitch" (a name recieved after throwing Elvis), he gave Radford the nickname "Chief," a nickname he still uses to this day.

After Elvis' death in '77, Radford stopped doing his tribute to Elvis out of respect for his friend and to persue his own musical career. Radford fronted many bands in the late 70's and 80's including The Diamond Steel Band which achieved much success in the southeast region of the US.

He also worked with producer, Fred Morris in Nashville, on a solo career. While performing for audiences throughout the country Radford has often been asked to perform Elvis songs. He reminded so many people of Elvis that requests started pouring in for him to perform an Elvis tribute. So after much thought and consideration, Radford Ellis put together "Thanks For The Memories" as a tribute to Elvis' fans and a personal message to an old friend.

Even though Elvis has long since "left the building," Radford will hold these memories and the private conversations with Elvis very deep in his heart and soul. So when you see a Radford Ellis show, you are not watching the usual impersonator or tribute artist, you are watching a friend say "Thanks For The Memories." (News, http://members.tripod.com/~radfordellis/bio.html /EP Gold)


"He Touched Me Radio Special" CDR promo: This is the first issue of the He Touched Me Radio Special. (News, Source: Barry McLean)

 

Saturday 26 April 2008

Tributes pour in for Bill E. Burk: EIN has received many, many tributes about Bill Burk since we announced news of his death yesterday.

The outpouring of tributes to not only EIN, but on other sites and numerous messageboards, symbolises the respect and admiration fans around the world have for Elvis World's incomparable "007".

Read the tributes

Obituary & Guest Book


New Elvis sculpture completed: Michael Kuznetsov has completed his latest Elvis sculpture. Michael has told EIN:

" This sculpture is made of polymer clay turned into plastic after baking. It is only 7 inches high."

Michael's sculptor's gift was inspired by seeing many Elvis action-figures having nothing in common with their fabulous prototype. See more images (Spotlight, Source: Michael Kutnetsov)


Live A Little, Love A Little: In his 28th film, Elvis Presley plays frazzled photographer Greg Nolan, juggling two jobs and scrambling to keep his work life afloat while also contending with the kooky attentions of a beach beauty (Michele Carey). Four breezy songs, including the recent Elvis chart-buster, “A Little Less Conversation” and the “Edge of Reality” dream sequence add to the zippy fun. And, for the first time, Elvis takes on-screen chances with his public image doing more “adult” comedy. Visit EIN's Elvis film section, Celluloid Elvis

Original Album Classics: Due for release from SONY / BMG on July 16, 2008 is the five CD budget set "Original Album Classics". (News, Source: Elvis News)


Chart update: On the US Billboard chart the "ELV1S 30 #1 Hits: remains #1 on the Top Country Catalog Charts for the 4rd week in a row. The album is #14 on the Top Pop Catalog charts (last week #12) and on the Billboard Comprehensive Albums Chart is is listed at  #130 (last week # 122).

On the Swedish Singles Top 60 DJ Spankox Re: Version of "Baby Let's Play House" climbs to #27 in it's fourth week on the chart. On the Mid-price Albums chart "The Essential Elvis Presley" drops from #6 to #9 while the "ELV1S 30 #1 Hits" compilation fell off the list. The compilation DVD "The King Of Rock And Roll" drops from #4 to #10 on the Music DVD Top 20.

In The Netherlands "ELV1S 30 #1 Hits" climbed to #25 on the Back-catalogue Chart. (News, Source: Elvis News)

 

Friday 25 April 2008

Bill Burk passes away: It is with deep sadness that EIN has to report the passing of Elvis World's "007", Bill E. Burk. To say Bill was highly respected throughout the Elvis world is a vast understatement. Bill was one of the greatest promoters of the Elvis legacy the world has known, and through his many books and long running magazine, Elvis World, was renowned for disspelling many of the myths which had grown up around Elvis.

Bill's legacy is indeed a great one.

EIN expresses its very sincere condolences to Bill's wife, Connie, and his family.

Opposite: Bill (left) with Elvis during Elvis' Army stint

We received this message from Bill's wife, Connie:

It is with such great and abiding sadness that I am telling you that Bill passed away peacefully today at Baptist Hospital at 10:10 am, surrounded by his 3 children -- Gary, Jennifer, Randy -- and me.

He had irreversable brain damage from cardiac arrest suffered Monday afternoon, and it was his living will that he not be kept alive artificially in a situation like that.
 
It is terribly painful for those of us left behind, who will miss him so dearly, but Bill is now in a much better place.
 
Services will be at Memphis Funeral Home, Poplar Avenue.  Visitation on Sunday, April 27, 3-6 pm.  Service Monday, April 28, 1 pm.  Burial at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery at a later date next week.
 
We ask that any memorials be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, www.stjude.org, in Bill's name.
 
Thank you for all your prayers and support throughout Bill's illness.  We both truly appreciated it!

Connie

 

Thursday 24 April 2008

More feedback on Elvis visiting London: EIN asked the person with Elvis during his time in Germany, Lamar Fike, for a comment on the claim Elvis secretly visited London. Succinctly, Lamar replied:

"This did not happen."

We also appreciated Peter Turner's comments on the claim:

The only time Elvis was given permission to leave Germany during his service was when he was allowed to make a trip to Paris. He hired a limo to take him and the guys in his entourage, there and back. With him were:- Red West, Lamar Fike and great army buddy, Rex Mansfield. Check out Rex`s excellent book `Sergeant Presley` co-written with his wife Elisabeth, who also worked as Elvis`s live-in secretary in the house in Bad Nauheim during those years. (No mention in the book of a `London trip`.)

On the Paris trip they did get to meet some Brits....a troupe of English dancing girls from a Paris nightclub they went to, who spent an evening with the guys in El`s hotel suite playing scrabble and discussing Parisian architecure. Then of course, there was his stopover in Prestwick on the way back to the USA and demobilisation.

But that was the total sum of Elvis`s `extra-Germanic` activities to foreign countries. Period!

Also, no way would he have gone to London on his own! At the very least Red & Lamar would have gone too. They were at his side for all `off-base` actvities, plus Rex also. They even had two fist-fights in Paris with guys pissed off at their `gals` being more in love with The King than them.

And yet no-one recogised the most famous face on the planet...flying to and from London...on his own........ in 1958?
Yes..of course!

Finally why would this still be such a state- secret...in 2008? (The CIA might assasinate Tommy?) If it happened, why not confirm it, instead of mysterious talk of pledges of silence. You can tell from Steele`s response that he doesn`t want to call his mate a liar in print, or actually confirm it, otherwise he`d be going along with the fantasy, so he`s masked it all in press double-speak, which actually, speaks volumes! Kenwright should go into business with Jeffrey Archer.

PS: Tommy has also mentioned in the past, that he saw Buddy Holly & The Crickets playing live in Norfolk Viginia, when he was out there as a Merchant seaman. He recalls they sang `Not Fade Away`.A few things to ponder in relation to this:- Steele was out of the MN and doing his first stint at the 2-I`s by July 1956. At that time there were no `Crickets`, Holly was still trying to get something away in Nashville..and `Not Fade Away` was a year off.


"Elvis On Tour" DVD release discussion: The FECC board posted a number of interesting messages about Elvis On Tour, the only Elvis film yet to be officially released on DVD:

Ricky: During Elvis Week last summer, I asked Tom Brown of Turner Movies the same question.. He claimed it will come out, although he couldn't say exactly when. He went on to say that he had the movie poster from EOT hanging on the back of his office door as a daily reminder. I was further disappointed when he stated he wasn't aware of the this particular messageboard. I pointed out, he should read some of the opinions of those more knowlegible of Elvis than the average fan on say...Elvis Insiders. No one wants this more than me, since I was at the 4/9/72 evening show. I always state to folks, that as an extra in the film, I ended up on the cutting room floor.....unless.....an outtake exists!

I thnk we should start a letter campaign asking, begging, pleading with Turner for this release! If they get enough mail maybe they'll get around to it. In fact we should campaign for complete TTWII AND EOT official releases.(meaning every single inch of footage, every single minute of sound!)

Contact Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. at the following address:

One CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Everybody to your pen and paper (or is that too archaic?)......Sylvie


New iTunes Elvis releases + CD release "True Love": Due for release on the Pagasus label on June 9, 2008 is the budget compilation "True Love".

On iTunes two new albums were released by Bluebird Music (see photos opposite), although the release date states January 1, 2008, these twenty tracks virtual albums just popped up in the results. (News, Source: Elvis News)