Pat & Elvis

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 […]

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    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 […]

  • Still ga-ga over Elvis? Read’em and weep

    A plaster bust of Elvis Presley wept “miracle” tears Friday on the 25th anniversary of his death, its Dutch owner claims.
    The 50-year-old Elvis impersonator in Deurne in the southern Netherlands also said the ghost of the Elvis appeared in his house last week.
    Toon Nieuwenhuisen said the bust, which he keeps in a spare room he […]

  • Humes High School

    Elvis began his freshman year in September 1949 at Humes High School, now the site of Humes Middle School. He walked 10 blocks down Jackson every day to get to school from Lauderdale Courts.

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