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Interview with Jerry Weintraub - Elvis Concert Promoter. I started to call Tom Parker who was Elvis' manager every morning at 8:30 in the morning. 'Good morning, Colonel, this is Jerry Weintraub. I want to take Elvis on tour'. Finally, one morning he said to me, 'You still want to take my boy on tour'. I said, 'Yes'. He said, 'Okay, you be in Vegas tomorrow at 11:00 o'clock with a million dollars and we'll talk a deal' .... I said, 'Okay I'll get it and I'll be there'. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Vernon Presley by Nancy Anderson : Good Housekeeping, January 1978. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Norm Crosby. I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
The Sweet Inspirations were founded by 'Cissy' Houston (Born Emily Drinkard, married to Gary Houston at age 21 for two years) mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick (herself the mother of well-known sisters, Myrna Smith's cousins Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick). Emily and Lee were members of The Drinkard Singers, a family group that had the distinction of recording the first Gospel album to appear on a major label: A live recording from The Newport Jazz Festival in 1959. The line-up...| www.elvis.com.au
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On November 23, 1976 at Graceland, Memphis tennessee, Elvis' cousin Harold Loyd, the night guard at graceland, called the police complaining of a drunk, pisto wielding man blocking the gates at Elvis Presley's home in a brand new white lincoln continental. When the police got to the open driver's side window, they found that the man was Jerry Lee Lewis ... | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
He got calls from Frank Sinatra and President Nixon. He would have me go to the phone and say, is this really President Nixon? Is this really Frank Sinatra? | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Sheila Ryan who was was Elvis' girlfriend after Linda Thompson. Sheila was the Playboy Oct.'73 cover girl and married James Caan in '76 (divorced in '77). | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with John Wilkinson, Elvis' rhythm guitarist from 1969 to 1977. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
This is an interview I conducted with the great recording engineer Bill Porter back in 1987. We chatted and listened to some of his recordings. In one week of 1960, Bill Porter-engineered recordings accounted for 15 of Billboard's Top 100 Singles. You could chalk it up to his having folks like Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins and the Everly Brothers to record, but then you'd have to explain why, with Porter out of the picture, so many of their careers took a nose-dive. The fact is, the...| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Jerry Schilling by Ken Sharp from Goldmine Magazine. Jerry and Elvis forged a close friendship that lasted from the mid-'50s until Elvis' death in 1977. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
We found Scotty to be very easy going and he genuinely seemed to enjoy reminiscing about the early years of his career in the music business.The interview was originally published in the August 1973 issue. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
When Elvis Presley committed to returning to live concert performances in 1969, he needed to recruit, along with back-up singers and other show members, a new core rhythm group. The new players would eventually become known as The TCB Band, a nod to the 'Taking Care of Business' slogan and logo Elvis had adopted for his personal and professional life. James Burton (lead guitar), Larry Muhoberac (piano), Jerry Scheff (bass), Ronnie Tutt (drums) and John Wilkinson (rhythm guitar).| www.elvis.com.au
James Burton is the consummate sideman of his generation. As a lead specialist, he virtually set the standard for country-rock a decade before the genre even existed. A master of understatement, he has elevated the lead guitar fill to art form status. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
It therefore comes as a pleasant surprise to learn that Larry Muhoberac, the man who played keyboards for Elvis for ten years, is an Aussie citizen and currently lives in a delightful home overlooking a valley full of gum trees on Sydney's northern beaches. Larry's story is one of those tales of a series of glorious accidents which led to a long period working for the most famous rock star the world has ever known. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Shaun Nielsen Interview ... It's not a secret that Elvis loved the voice of tenor Shaun 'Sherrill' Nielsen. During a 1970 Las Vegas show, Presley introduced him as: 'The greatest tenor in Gospel music'. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
On March 28th, 1998, Scotty and D.J. Fontana performed at an Elvis convention here in Europe. That same evening, I interviewed them both in Scotty's hotelroom. Actually, it wasn't easy to find good questions, as Scotty's That's All Right Elvis and Peter Guralnick's Last Train To Memphis describe the early years in wonderful detail. Nevertheless, the interviews were quite interesting in many ways. Especially Scotty is very straightforward and outspoken, and his viewpoints shed a new light on v...| www.elvis.com.au
As if any introduction is required. Ronnie Tutt was a regular member of Elvis's TCB band from July 1969 until June 1977. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
James Burton was born in Dubberly, Louisiana, on August 21, 1939, but he grew up in Shreveport which he refers to as home. He never took any lessons in how to play the guitar. He picked it up from listening and sitting in. His first guitar was not a Fender (the one he is most associated with) but a Rex, and after that a Stella. In 1953, he walked into a Shreveport music store and fell in love with the '53 Telecaster. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
I felt very privileged that James gave me over two hours of his time on his day off, the day after the recent Elvis Presley In Concert show in Sydney Australia. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Dominic Joseph Fontana was born on March 15, 1931 in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was in Shreveport that D.J. Fontana started his career - as the staff drummer for the Louisiana Hayride. In 1954, when Elvis Presley was starting to make inroads in the Mid-South region as an up and coming act to be reckoned with, he and his band, which then included the legendary Scotty Moore on lead guitar, Bill Black on bass and Elvis doing the vocals and playing rhythm acoustic guitar, were knocking out audienc...| www.elvis.com.au
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Duke Bardwell worked both on stage and in the studio with The King in the mid-70s, and in all he played bass on 181 concerts. Yet he's always avoided media exposure about his association with Elvis, until now. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Joe Esposito by Larry King. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Elvis Presley died at Graceland on August 16, 1977. He was 42 years old. Through the early morning of the 16th, Elvis took care of last-minute tour details and relaxed with family and staff. | Elvis Presley| biography.elvis.com.au
Video interview with Ernst Jorgensen. Ernst talks about his becoming an Elvis fan as a teenager, discovering Elvis tapes in the RCA vaults, including songs that were not known to be recorded by Elvis such as 'A Hundred Years From Now' and talks about tapes that should have been in the vaults but were not. Ernst also talks about his mastering of Elvis' songs and the challenges involved, Elvis' duets with Ann Margret and Elvis Movies including his 'greatest movie', Elvis That's The Way It Is. |...| www.elvis.com.au
One of the most recorded guitar players of all time, Reggie Young has played on hundreds of hit songs in multiple genres. His career spans over 50 years and between the years 1967 thru 1971 alone his guitar was on 120 Top 40 pop and R&B hits. He's recorded with Elvis and opened for The Beatles along with playing guitar on several hundred different artists recordings, playing rockabilly, R&B, rock, pop, country and jazz with some of the greatest of all time: ... Do you have a special memory wi...| www.elvis.com.au
Graceland, the evening of Thursday, January 9, 1969, one day after Elvis' 34th birthday. Elvis met with RCA producer, Felton Jarvis, in the Jungleroom to discuss going to Nashville to record what he hoped would put him back on top of the charts. Marty Lacker was sitting there in the Jungleroom that evening, seething, as he listened to Elvis and Felton finalize the dates for Nashville. He began to unconsciously shake his head back and forth (his head was big, bald and round and as a result his...| www.elvis.com.au
Ernst Jorgensen, the caretaker of the vaults for the music of Elvis Presley, tells Ken Sharp about protecting the achives of the King of Rock. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Besides Sam Phillips, Chips Moman was the only man to effectively produce Elvis Presley -- helping midwife The King's creative rebirth in 1969. And it was Moman who helped build and shape American Sound Studios and its house band -- generating the most prolific run of chart hits ever. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Elvis Presley on Monday, October 28, 1957, just after the general press conference, but prior to his debut at the Pan-Pacific in Los Angeles. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Dixie Locke was 15 years old when she spotted Elvis Presley at the First Assembly of God in Memphis. At 19, the future King of Rock had a start in his career thanks to a recent recording with Sun Records, but that didn't stop him from pursuing love. I had some very good, close friends at the high school. Friday or Saturday night, we'd go to the skating rink. We did that pretty regularly. I had seen Elvis at church. He had started coming to the church where I had been all my life, but we had n...| www.elvis.com.au
Once an in-demand Hollywood actress, Dolores Hart shocked the entertainment industry when she gave up everything to become a cloistered Benedictine Roman Catholic nun. She left her career, broke off her engagement to Los Angeles businessman Don Robinson, and pursued her vocation as a nun. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Interview with Charlie Hodge .... I said, 'Hello, Is Elvis there? This is Charlie Hodge'. And Lamar said, 'Charlie Hodge?' And I heard Elvis yell, 'Yeah, Charlie, come on up'. And so, that's how we got together after we got to Germany. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au