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Elvis really is everywhere, even if the last name isn’t Presley
January 5th, 2008
When Elvis Presley catapulted into stardom in 1956, his name sounded too good to be true, as if it had been snatched straight out of the humid Memphis air.
It proved to be the perfect foil for conservative pundits, who nicknamed Elvis “the Pelvis” and rolled their eyes at the singing hip-swiveler christened with the cornpone […] -
Last Elvis bike roars onto eBay
January 4th, 2008
The last motorcycle in a 30-edition “Elvis Presley 30th Anniversary Signature Motorcycle Collection” is being auctioned on eBay to benefit Presley Place, the transitional housing complex for homeless families.
The auction will end on Tuesday, Elvis’ birthday, with a reserve price of $58,815 for the motorcycle, which is designed to look like Elvis’ 1957 black Harley-Davidson […] -
On-screen smooch with Elvis still pays
January 4th, 2008
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 […]
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Memphis Draft Board
Once the site of the Memphis Draft Board, where Elvis reported in March 1958 for his induction into the Army.
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Sun Records
Sun Records/Memphis Recording Service. In the mid- to late summer of 1953, Elvis was a walk-in who paid $3.98 to record “My Happiness.” A year later, on July 5, 1954, he would record “That’s All Right (Mama),” often called the Big Bang of Rock and Roll.
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Overton Park Shell
Elvis, with Scotty Moore on guitar and Bill Black on bass, performed one of his first live performances at Slim Whitman’s show July 30, 1954. “We were all scared to death,” Scotty recalled. “Elvis, instead of just standing flat-footed and tapping his foot, he was kind of jiggling. … With those old loose britches that we wore, you shook your leg and it made it look like all hell was going on under there.”
