In films large and small, allusions to the King continue to pepper the silver screen
Elvis died 29 years ago tomorrow, but he continues to appear in more movies each year than any of today’s top box office draws.
Of course, most of these appearances are fleeting, cinematic shout-outs. Still, they indicate that Elvis Presley continues […]
Elvis Presley Enterprises produces a tribute artist concert
Donny EdwardsDonny Edwards majored in computer science in college and was working as retail manager of a Target store in Texas when a lifelong love of Elvis Presley finally caught up with him, nudging him into what he once thought of as a joke for people who […]
Over a couple of decades, these music and film idols became neighbors and friends
When Elvis Presley and Pat Boone met in 1955, it was an awkward backstage encounter at a sock hop in Cleveland, Ohio. Boone's cover of Fats Domino's “Ain't That A Shame” was a No. 1 hit record.
Elvis had recorded “That's All […]
The latest Elvis record is not the kind you download. If you were in Memphis, you knew you weren’t on Lonely Street at all those sold-out events. But Graceland spokesman Kevin Kern says the official attendance figure for the week was 75,000. Even in the sweltering heat, 55,000 took part in the candlelight vigil. “The […]
Elvis Presley had seen her in a TV sitcom and suggested her for a role in a 1964 movie in which he would tell her she was “as purty as a little ol’ speckled pup.”
The movie was “Kissin’ Cousins,” in which Elvis played a dual role as an Army officer and as the officer’s hillbilly […]
Once the site of Assembly of God Church, which Elvis attended through 1954, and where the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and their families were members. Elvis would sneak out of Sunday services to go a mile down the street to East Trigg Avenue Missionary Baptist Church, to hear Rev. Herbert Brewster and the singing of Queen C. Anderson and the Brewsteraires.
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