Magazine Cover of the Week

Rolling Stone Magazine

October 29th 1981

"Elvis - The Party Years" by Albert Goldman

Magazine Cover of the Week

1956 

Hep Cat's Review

Top 10 Highest Earning Dead Celebrities

Classic Movie Poster of the Week (10/17/2015)

Jailhouse Rock

premiered in US theaters October 17th 1957

Top 10 Most Visited Famous Gravesites

Top 10 Most Visited Famous Gravesites

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

Kissin' Cousins

The #1 movie in the USA this week in 1964

(2 weeks at #1)

WE LOVE ELVIS!!!

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley,

The King of Rock and Roll!!!

This Week in Movie History

This week in 1960 Elvis was king of the movie theaters as his just released movie "G.I. Blues" tops the box office charts for the week.

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

Viva Las Vegas

1964

Your Classic Movie Poster of the Day

The 1958 movie starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones and Walter Matthau.  Originally written for James Dean, it was shelved when he died in 1955.  The film was revived in 1957 after a successful off broadway run, Hal Wallis suggested they use the young superstar Elvis Presley in the title role and change it from a boxer in New York City to a singer in New Orleans.  Elvis got a deferment for his enlistment in the US Army to film this in New Orleans.
The soundtrack produced the #1 Elvis classic "Hard Headed Woman"

Billboard All-Time Top 100 Songs ( 1958 - 2008 ) - 50th Anniversary

Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite

Today in 1973 - Elvis Presley drew the largest audience for a single TV show to that time -- an estimated one billion viewers in 40 countries. Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii, a live, worldwide concert from Honolulu International Center Arena (later known as the Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena). Performed at 12:30 a.m. Hawaiian Time, it was beamed live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries, and was seen on a delayed basis in approximately 30 European countries. The first American airing was April 4th on NBC-TV. The show was also released as a two-record album, and became one of Elvis’s top-selling LPs

This was the last soundtrack (and last #1 album on the Billboard 200 for Elvis) released during Elvis lifetime, the last 2 were released after his death, Elvis in Concert (1977 TV Special) and This is Elvis in 1981.

Here is the complete show from 1973

Happy Birthday

Today would have been the 76th birthday of the King of Rock N Roll Elvis Presley.

It is also the birthday of the most wonderful woman in my life, my beautiful wife Michelle!

I knew I had the perfect wife when I suggested going to Memphis and Graceland for our honeymoon and she was all for it!

We had a great time and have been back with our girls and its still a wonderful trip and a great place to visit.

Here is her favorite Elvis song.

Elvis Presley

33 years ago today the King of Rock n Roll passed away in his home, Graceland, in Memphis TN. He was 43 years old and left behind a legacy in music and pop culture that will never be seen again or equaled.

Here is the only million selling single Elvis had in the UK and spent 9 weeks at #1 and 5 weeks at #1 on the US Hot 100, Its Now or Never

The Bestselling and Most Played Single of 1957

"All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley. Written by Otis Blackwell, who also wrote "Don't Be Cruel", the biggest selling single of 1956, he wrote this when challenged by a fellow songwriter. He was handed a bottle of Pepsi and told "You say you can write a song about anything, write about this" and within minutes he was playing "All Shook Up" on the piano at the Shalimar Music Publishing house.
Here the Jordanairres talk about recording "All Shook Up" and then we here the song.

Happy Richard Nixon Day

Today would have been the 96th birthday of our 37th President Richard M Nixon.
I would like to see the new "Frost/Nixon" movie and I have the dvd of the "David Frost Interviews Richard Nixon" on my netflix list.
One of our more fascinating presidents because he seemed to be paranoid of just about everyone and he proved it with his "enemies list". I am sure most Presidents have one of those but his seemed to be the one everyone remembers.
I thought he picture would tie yesterday and today all together nicely. President Nixon is probably just as famous for that picture as he is for Watergate and being the only sitting US President to resign the office.