Elvis Information network mentions that EPE's Jack Soden said that Warner Brothers will release six more Elvis movies on DVD on January 8, 2005. The titles are: "Charro", "Kissin' Cousins", "Live A Little Love A Little", "Stay Away Joe", "Tickle Me" and "Girl Happy".
source: Elvis Information Network / Elvis News - updated on August 16th, 2004
Here is the cover art of the DVD release of "Return To Splendour". This DVD should be available September 1st. 2004.
source: Elvis News - updated on August 9, 2004
Elvis Sessions III
The
Recorded Music Of Elvis Aron Presley 1953-1977 By Joseph A. Tunzi
On
August 24th
2004 J.A.T. Publishing will release over a 650-page book that is the ultimate
account of Elvis Presley's recording career, author Joseph A. Tunzi's long
awaited Elvis Sessions III.
Elvis
Presley's overall impact on society was profound in many areas, but the most
important aspect was the way he revolutionized music.
Elvis Sessions III is the only publication to properly gage the true
depth of his artistry. Years of tireless research have ensured a level of
accuracy that sets a new standard in reference literature.
With
newly discovered facts, and over 100 unreleased photos,
Elvis Sessions III is a requirement for any comprehensive study of 20th
century music and culture.
Chicago
(August 5th) - Elvis Sessions III is the third volume of Joseph Tunzi's acclaimed Elvis
Presley sessionography. As authoritative as the first two entries were,
neither prepares you for the sheer knowledge the third volume imparts. As well
as containing previously undocumented facts, every J.A.T. Publishing release is
acclaimed for their inclusion of beautiful, unreleased photography. Designed
beautifully, Elvis Sessions III will include over 100 stark black
and white illustrations. Looking at Elvis in photos from actual sessions and
concerts makes clear the passion he felt for music.
From
his first demo to his last tour
Elvis Sessions III explores the most important body of music ever
recorded.Covering every area of Elvis' recorded legacy. Bootlegs, rehearsals,
soundboard recordings, a complete discography, and many surprise chapters are
all included. Another thing that makes
Elvis Sessions III stand out from other reference material is the easy to
read format. Even a casual fan can learn the intricacies of how Elvis'
recordings were constructed and marketed. A particularly informative section
contains undocumented details about Presley's two concert documentaries That's
The Way It Is and Elvis On Tour. Joseph Tunzi's evenhanded approach
has received praise from both casual and diehard Elvis Presley fans. Since
J.A.T. Publishing only makes a limited number of all their products,
Elvis Sessions III is going to quickly become a sought after collectible.
(J.A.T.
Publishing $59.95)
Upcoming books from
J.A.T. Publishing include:
•
Ace Frehley: The Ultimate Fan's Scrapbook by Bill Baker
•
Beatles '64
COLD NIGHT IN NASHVILLE
The
First Release From J.A.T. Records!
August
24th,
2004 marks the launching date of a new independent label J.A.T. Records. Formed
by Joseph Tunzi, the label will release the CD Cold Night In Nashville, a
compilation that focuses on what was to be the future direction of Elvis Presley's
recording career.
J.A.T.
Publishing has included bonus CDs with four of their acclaimed publications. One
of the few labels that will attempt to replicate the warmth of vinyl, Cold Night
In Nashville has the natural ambience that made the Elvis era so special.
Cold
Night In Nashville has ten
terrific selections, five of which are the original demo's that are
the ones actually heard by Elvis. These tracks along with one of Elvis'
favorites “Rainy Night In Georgia” would have constituted part of a
remarkable album. Although Elvis does not sing the tunes, Cold Night In
Nashville shows off Presley's unparalleled ability to pick classic material.
Chicago (August 5th) - In January 1977 Elvis Presley flew to Nashville to finish his Moody Blue LP at Creative Workshop studios. Unforeseen circumstances made Elvis cancel these sessions, but he still intended to record the new material for future release. While he died before he could begin the new sessions, six songs had already been selected. Cold Night In Nashville gathers together these tracks for the first time.
Cold
Night In Nashville is
one of the rare collections that let’s you explore the music inside and out.
Two versions of “Rainy Night In Georgia” and “Energy” are included. Like
all of the other tracks, a version by the composer is featured, but for these
two tracks we also get the opportunity to hear a commercially released version.
Adding even more value to this feature is that in the case of Brook Benton’s
hit rendering of “Rainy Night In Georgia”, Cold
Night In Nashville
spotlights a rare alternate take. Also included are two bonus tracks which
feature the original demo’s for two of Elvis’ most contemporaneous rock
songs “Way Down” and “I’ve Got A Feelin’ In My Body”. Composed by
Layng Martine Jr. and Dennis Linde respectively, both were songwriters Elvis
held in the highest regard. With Dennis Linde’s “By Day, By Day” and Layng
Martine Jr.’s “Let Me On” included among Elvis’ selection of new songs,
it is fascinating to hear how his final masters differed from these
authors earlier submissions.
Even
if Elvis did not get to record his six selections personally, they reveal that
his growth as an artist was still thriving at the time of his untimely death.
Even if one ignores its historical signifigence, Cold Night In Nashville
stands up as a great collection of music. This various artists release features:
“By
Day, By Day” – Dennis Linde, “Rainy Night In Georgia” – Brook Benton,
“Energy” – Tommy Roe ,“That's What You Do To Me” – Bob Morrison,
“Way Down” - Layng Martine Jr., “Yes I Do” – Alan Rush, “Let Me
On” - Layng Martine Jr., “Energy” – Bob Morrison ,“Rainy Night In
Georgia” – Tony Joe White, “I've Got A Feelin' In My Body” – Dennis
Linde
(J.AT. Records 72504 Cold Night In Nashville $15.99)
source: J.A.T. Publishing - updated on August 6, 2004
The event will benefit MASH—Moving Animals Safely Home by Labs4Rescue
Tickets are now $35.00 per person in advance only. Checks: personal (USA), travelers checks or international money orders to: Cindy Hazen or Mike Freeman, 1034 Audubon Drive, Memphis, TN 38117.
For more information contact Andrew Hearn at
ElvisMagazine@aol.com
Or visit www.essentialelvis.com
Source: Andrew Hearn - Updated July 16th
BMG Strategic Marketing Group released the special CD single of "That's All Right" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of rock 'n' roll, which will officially be celebrated around the world on July 5th, with most of the activities emanating from Elvis Presley's hometown, Memphis, TN.
"That's All Right" also appears on two full length BMG CDs released this week to commemorate the anniversary - the critically acclaimed "ELVIS AT SUN," the definitive collection of Presley's work at this historic studio, recorded with the legendary producer Sam Phillips, as well as "Memphis Celebrates 50 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll" featuring a diverse array of musicians who were either born in Memphis, recorded in Memphis, or were deeply influenced by the city and its sound, including Presley, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Otis Redding and many others.
"BMG is truly proud of this milestone and the overall renewed musical legacy of one of the greatest artists of all time," said Joe
DiMuro, Executive Vice President, BMG Strategic Marketing Group. "No one but Elvis could claim a #1 single 50 years after it was
originally recorded, and this tremendous achievement speaks to the phenomenal love and popularity he continues to enjoy today."
The success of "That's All Right" is yet another milestone in Elvis's record-setting music career. He is the only artist to be inducted
into all three music Halls of Fame, including Rock 'N' Roll, Country and Gospel. He holds the record for most top 10 pop singles, the
most gold and platinum awards and is the world's best selling artist, eclipsing any other musician or group in history. His popularity
remains intact to this day as there are more active Elvis Presley fan clubs around the world than for any other artist - dead or alive.
Source: E-mail - Updated June 24th 2004
Here's the latest issue ( No.48 - June 2004 ) of the French magazine '' Elvis My Happiness ''. This issue contains the latest news and several reviews of all the latest books, CDs, DVDs,etc..There are also interviews with Scotty Moore. An in-depth article related to '' That's The Way It Is '' and several other features. If you can read French then this magazine is for you !!!!
The latest issue contains an exclusive review of the double CD set '' Elvis Chante Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller '' that shall appear on the market very shortly.
source: Elvis My Happiness / FECC Team - updated on June 23, 2004
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Win a free admission ticket to THE KING'S RANSOM on display in Memphis for Elvis Week 2004!
To enter, simply send your :
Name
Street Address or P.O. Box Address and E-mail Address to :
THE KING'S RANSOM CONTEST
c/o Bud Glass Productions
3813-7 N. Monroe
PMB 21
Tallahassee, FL 32303
A drawing will be held on Saturday, July 24th And the winner will be contacted immediately. The winner will receive a free one-day admission ticket to THE KINGS RANSOM exhibit on display in Memphis at the Airport Inn, August 9-14, 2004.
source: Bud Glass - updated on June 18, 2004
Elvis Unlimited will release soon a new book and you can read the details hereunder.
Elvis is said to be the most photographed man in history. If not the most photographed, he is certainly one of the most photographed anyway. From every angle and corner, Elvis has been exposed, "recycled" and captured, almost from the day he first stepped in at Sun in Memphis, to record that little single for his beloved mother - or from the day he redefined popular music. Since then, every moment and movement of his life and career has almost been captured on film. The result an enormous collection of Elvis photos spread around the World. But what was missing in that huge collection - for a big deal - was some crucial information of what, whom and who was seen on the pictures. "Who is Elvis standing with on that pictures?" you have probably asked yourself a hundred times. That problem has now been solved.
Elvis' Magnetism For the many fans that actually met Elvis personally or saw him at concerts, it was a revelation seeing Elvis' powerful and prolific character. For the many Elvis fans who didn't caught a glimpse of the King - likely the biggest part - it is still a revelation seeing him on pictures and feeling the fascinating magnetism and mysterious charisma of Elvis. Some of those many thousands of photos spread around the World are well known to many Elvis' fans, thanks to the thousands of books written about the man. Some of the most famous - and perhaps most bizarre and controversial of the history of popular music - being the ones taken in the Oval office at the White House in December 1970. It's of course Elvis' meeting with former President Richard M. Nixon.
At the time being, it was a meeting of probably the country's (and the World's) two most prominent household names for every American citizen. To this day the pictures that captured the event, is still as fascinating, as they were back then. They're simply become household-pictures for every Elvis fan around.
Not Alone
But they're not alone. Elvis was also captured with other personalities like Nixon. He was photographed together with Frank Sinatra, Muhammed Ali, Glen Campbell, Bill Haley, Dean Martin and Sophia Loren among many, many others. All of which today is considered to be household pictures as well, in the enormous collection of Elvis snapshots taken during his life. But sometimes you've probably caught a glimpse of Elvis with someone else on a picture but you never knew who it was? If so, you have the chance to learn a lot more about these other - not to famous - personalities. Names like Tempest Storm, Imogene Coco, Dorothy Harmony, Gary Merrill and Hedda Hopper. You can read a lot more about them and many others, their meeting and connection to Elvis, in the detailed new book titled "Elvis And Other Celebrities - Candid Favourite Shots", released through Elvis Unlimited very soon.
First A-Z Book
The new book is not supposed to be a new photo book, with many rare and unpublished photos, even though some are really rare. Instead it's the first ever A-Z book, to sum up all the details of every personality Elvis met in his life, in a compact form with a picture of Elvis and the person written about. At least an attempt to do so. A book terribly missed for every Elvis fan around.
source: Elvis Unlimited - updated on June 16, 2004
'' Elvis 68 Comeback Special '' Deluxe Edition DVD and '' Elvis, Aloha from Hawaii '' Deluxe Edtion DVD will be released in North America on June 22. Dates vary in other territories of the world, depending upon the plans of the BMG marketing teams in those areas. Here is a full rundown from BMG of the release dates as they now stand :
Australia (July 5) ; Belgium (June 21) ; Canada (June 22) ; Chile (June 30) ; Czech Rep (June 21) ; France (June 21) ; Germany (June 21) ; Ireland (July 2) ; Italy (June 21) ; Japan (Aug 16) ; Korea (June 24) ; Mexico (June 27) ; Netherlands (June 21) ; Poland (June 28) ; Portugal (June 28) ; South Africa (June 28) ; Sweden (June 21) ; Switzerland (June 21) ; Taiwan (July 2) ; Thailand (July 6) ; United Kingdom (July 5) ; United States (June 22)
The scheduled release date for all other European markets June 21. The scheduled release date for all ll other Asian and Latin American markets is on or before July 5.
The dates in a few places outside North America could change because promotional campaign plans by the BMG marketing teams in those areas continue to evolve and the release date is tied to those plans.
source: Steven Colella - updated on June 16, 2004
In celebration of 50 years of Rock 'n' Roll, TV Guide will be issuing four commemorative Elvis covers for its July 4th issue (on news stands July 1st). The first of four covers is being unveiled exclusively here, with the release of the other three covers soon. Each of the four covers depicts Elvis during a different phase of his legendary career and all newsstand copies will be affixed with a mini-CD featuring a Never-Before Released Live version of Elvis's first single, "That's All Right."
source: Steven Colella -updated on June 15, 2004
It's part of an overall promotion EPE Marketing has been working on with Miller Beer and Rolling Stone magazine to celebrate 50 years of rock 'n' roll. This image is from the Rolling Stone cover in September 1977. The cans should be available all over the country. Miller will include advertising inserts in Rolling Stone promoting the can series which is also great exposure for Elvis. There's also a Miller Mini-Magazine that includes a promotion for the July 3,4, and 5 weekend events at Graceland - These mini-mags will be included in the welcome kits at this year's collectors club conference. Sorry, no beer will be included.
source: Steven Colella - updated on June 12th, 2004
CBS is whipping up a big hunk of burnin' love for the King of Rock 'n Roll a new four-hour movie about Elvis Presley. The film, tentatively titled "Elvis," will be the first-ever TV movie to use the master recordings of some of Presley's biggest hits, according to Variety.
It's slated to air sometime next season, presumably during a sweeps period. The actor who will play Elvis has not yet been cast. But co-producer Howard Braunstein says the most important element for going forward with the film was getting Presley's estate involved.
"We thought that if you're going to do this right, you just can't do it without their cooperation," said Braunstein. "They're going to open their archives for us, and that means we really get first-hand information about his life rather than just some biography."
Past TV projects about Presley have used Elvis sound-alikes to record the King's songs, while individual songs have been licensed for some feature film soundtracks. "When our Elvis actor opens up his mouth, it'll be Elvis' voice that comes out," said co-producer Robert Greenblatt. The producers are also promising a "warts and all" version of Presley's story, despite the cooperation of the singer's estate. "The estate understands that you need to tell the true version of his story," says Braunstein. "And hopefully, with access to the archives, we can learn all sorts of new and provocative things.
"The estate is not afraid of doing the darker side [of Presley]," says Braunstein. "It just wants it done with class and integrity, like. ..[2001's] Judy Garland [made for-TV] movie."
Although there have been many Elvis TV movies and feature films in the past, Braunstein thinks there's still room for another King-themed project. The film's producers say that "Elvis" will not follow the singer's whole life, but will focus on just one part of it. However, they are not sure which part yet. Presley died in 1977 at the age of 42 from a heart attack.
source: Steven Colella - updated on June 11th, 2004
The show re-launched on June 4th with the new site and a brand new format in what we hope to be is an exciting
step forward in the world of elvis internet media.
Source: Jim Devereaux - Updated June 5th 2004
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We just received the news that there will be an epic mini-series '' Elvis '' on CBS prime time for the season 2004 - 2005. We don't know at this time if the mini-series will start this coming Fall season or for early 2005. This mini-series is done with the cooperation of Lisa Marie Presley and the Elvis Presley Estate. More details when we have it !
source: Steven Colella - updated on June 4, 2004
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Elvis' belongings from the private collection of Russ Howe, Tom Salva and Bud Glass will be on display for the first time ever in Memphis this coming August at the Airport Inn on Brooks Road. It'll be possible to see these items from August 9 to August 14, 2004.
source: Bud Glass - updated on June 4, 2004
"INVITED SPECIAL GUESTS" The Sweet Inspirations (Elvis' backup singers 1969-77)
The Brass Attack (Horn Section) Al Dvorin (Famous announcer & Col. Parker's right hand man)
Ed Bonja (Tour Manager-Official Photographer) Patti Parry (personal friend 1960-77 Elvis' little sister-Memphis Mafia)
Darlene Tompkins "BLUE HAWAII" costar 1961 Cynthia Pepper "KISSIN COUSIN" costar 1964
and many more...
and on AUGUST 21, 2004 TRUMP CASINO 29, COACHELLA, CA 760-775-5566
"INVITED SPECIAL GUESTS" The Brass Attack (Horn Section) Al Dvorin (Famous announcer & Col. Parker's right hand man)
Ed Bonja (Tour Manager-Official Photographer) Patti Parry (personal friend 1960-77 Elvis' little sister-Memphis Mafia)
Darlene Tompkins "BLUE HAWAII" costar 1961 Cynthia Pepper "KISSIN COUSIN" costar 1964
Hans Fiebig Originator and Creator of Elvis Famous TCB Sunglasses
Optician to the Hollywood Stars Jody Reynolds (Friend and Hall of Fame Rockabilly Recording Artist #1 Hit 'Endless Sleep')
Rick Logan (Personal Assistant Col. Parker and Elvis Presley Tours)
For more information you can go to the the website www.americantrilogyshow.com
Source: e-mail - Updated June 2nd 2004
Fine article in the new ICE Magazine,
in which Ernst discusses the new CD "Elvis At Sun." The article
proclaims the CD to be the "go-to disc for collectors and mainstream
consumers alike who simply want to hear the brilliant first phase of Elvis'
career."
Ernst is quoted as saying, "We've spent the better part of a year restoring
every single one of these. Every one of those 19 tracks will sound better than
you've ever heard them before. That's very hard to tell people, because we say
that on every release (laughing). But this time, it really is true...I've been
working with an English and a Swedish (expert), and we've gone through every one
of them, hand-corrected every mistake, readjusted the EQ's until we were
silly...all to get close to what the original Sun records sounded like."
He goes on: "In several cases, we've been able to get a tape that was one
generation earlier than what we had. Of the 19 cuts, we have new and improved
audio sources on 14 of them."
And: "Just 15 months ago we located a tape that had gone terribly wrong (gotten
lost). It has better generation masters of seven of the tracks, including 'That's
All Right,' 'Good Rockin' Tonight,' 'I'm left...,' and 'Baby, Let's Play House.
We restored the end of 'I'm Left...,' which has gone bad for so many years; we
got the full-length fade out of 'Mystery Train' on there; and we got both 'I
Love You Because' and 'Harbor Lights' without the reverb that RCA always added
to them, because we were able to get hold of the real tapes."
"Technology has certainly improved in five years (since 'Sunrise'), but
it's really the time spent...we've had to take this outside normal
recording-studio scenarios, because we never could have paid the bill for the
restoration we've done. It's been done by three people with too much equipment
for sensible people to own, so...no studio costs. At a going rate of $250 an
hour, this would have been a million-dollar project; we've been working on it
for a year."
"I played it for (an RCA executive) who's ultra-critical, and even he said
it's like night and day when played against the versions of everything we've
ever put out before."
New liner notes were penned by Knox Phillips (Sam's son)....
source: KHoots / FECC Forum - updated on May 26, 2004
The first book is titled " I Was the One " and contains quotes from Elvis about himself, with one quote on each side, and a picture on the opposite page. The second one is " He Touched Me " and contains quotes from famous people about Elvis and pictures of either Elvis together with that person or a solo picture of the person (or of Elvis).
Both are printed on glossy paper and contain approximatively 140 photographs each and hard cover books
source: Peter Haan / It's Elvis Time - updated on May 18, 2004
These films will be released on DVD on August 3rd, 2004. All films are remastered in new 16x9 digital transfers, in a format preserving the “scope” aspect ratio of their original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for widescreen TVs. The DVDs also include an Elvis Presley trailer gallery.
source: Elvis News - updated on May 8, 2004
It will be the first time that an original Elvis' band member will be the guest star in an Italian Elvis' meeting. In the afternoon he will be available for pictures and autographs, and in the evening he will sing with an Italian Elvis' band The Dreamers.
The event will take place on May 29th, 2004 in Cortemaggiore (PC) near Milano, in the north of Italy, from 2:00 pm to Midnight. During the party there will be many attractions such as an Elvis' fair (sell/buy Elvis' memorabilia, Lp's, CD's, books, video and so on), American Cars and Bikes Expo, an Elvis' portraits contest, Elvis' Karaoke and three of the best Italian Elvis' tribute bands ; Rocking (fifties), Contromano (sixties) ; Dreamers (seventies).The proceeds of the event will be donate to the ' Alzheimer ' and 'Armonia ' (fight the breast cancer) Associations.
You can obtain further details at the website of the '' Elvis Friends Fan Club Of Italia '' and/or write to Stefano Bardelli at slebar@tin.it .
source: Stefano Bardelli - updated on May 4th, 2004
BMG Strategic Marketing has partnered with Elvis Presley
Enterprises to distribute two comprehensive deluxe DVD box sets chronicling two
of Elvis Presley’s most memorable television appearances. The DVDs “ELVIS:
’68 Comeback Special - Deluxe Edition DVD” and “ELVIS, Aloha from Hawaii -
Deluxe Edition DVD” feature all the previously released material and an
abundance of previously unreleased footage.
The “ELVIS: ’68 Comeback Special - Deluxe Edition DVD” is a three-disc set
featuring all the material shot for Elvis Presley’s 1968 television special,
which is considered one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest moments on television
and one of the most magical and important moments of Elvis’s career. The
original broadcast version of the special is included for historical context.
The DVD set features the two complete jam session concerts and the two complete
solo concerts – all with Elvis in black leather – that were shot as the
resource for the heart of the original broadcast. These four concerts have never
been released in their entirety. Also included are all takes of the material
shot for the original broadcast’s two big production numbers and for the
show’s opening and closing segments. Over half of the seven hours of material
on this set is previously unreleased. The material is presented with newly re-mastered
sound and picture.
“ELVIS, Aloha from Hawaii - Deluxe Edition DVD” is a two-disc set featuring
all the performance material formally shot in conjunction with Elvis’s
“Aloha from Hawaii” television special – an historic concert event seen in
more than 40 countries by 1.5 billion people when it initially aired in 1973.
The original American broadcast version of the show is included for historical
context. The DVD set features the complete concert that was adapted for that
special and the complete rehearsal concert performed two days before. Both
concerts are presented with newly re-mastered sound and picture and are being
released in their complete, uncut form for the first time. Also included is the
raw, uncut footage shot for the “Elvis arrives” sequence of the special’s
original opening and the raw, uncut performance footage of songs recorded for
the after-show session that Elvis taped as a resource of extra material for the
American broadcast.
source: EPE - Updated on April 27, 2004
We received yesterday a message from Joe Tunzi concerning his book '' Elvis - Sessions III ''. Time is running out for our contest so participate to our Sessions III contest before it's too late !!!
'' Many fans are asking about Sessions 3. It is out of our hands and in production. It will be released VERY soon, and for those who pre-ordered a special gift will be given for their patience.We will also accommodate those who may have pre-ordered through our dealers,thank you . JAT ''
Courtesy of J.A.T. Publishing we received a nice a color photograph taken by Ray Walker at the '' Frankie And Johnny sessions ''. You can see this picture by clicking on the one above ( middle ) or simply going directly to our '' Picture Of The Week ''.
The Elvis Presley Club Of Italy started in 1986 and has now reached No.100. Sebastiano Cecere has been able to hold the Fort for 18 years and no doubts that he'll be able to continue for many years to come. Congratulations to Sebastiano and the Elvis Presley club of Italy for his achievement !!!
This most recent issue contains CD reviews of the recent FTD's releases, the latest news, an article on the movie '' Clambake '' and other features. You can write directly to them for information or if interested to subscribe at elvis_presley_club_of_italy@yahoo.it .
source: Elvis Presley Club Of Italy - updated on April 16, 2004
The Elvis Presley Convention in Montreal is held on April 3rd, 2004 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at St-Gilbert Hall located at 5415 Jean-Talon East in Montreal, near the St.Michel metro ( bus 141 ). Dealers and collectors from all over Canada will be on hand to buy, sell, and trade Elvis memorabilia of all kinds; LP’s, CD’s, DVD's, photos,videos, and everything from Elvis dolls to Elvis stamps.
Door prizes will be handed out all day long, and for trivia buffs,an Elvis trivia contest at every hour will challenge the Elvis fans on hand. There will be also a live band and Luc Bouffard will sing Elvis' songs.
Admission: $5.00 Adults ; Age
12 and under, free ( with an adult ).
source: Daniel Pharand - updated April 1st, 2004
A documentary look at the last hours in the life of Elvis Presley, including interviews with key members of The Memphis Mafia. This release also includes a 40 minute audio CD featuring Elvis' backing group The Jordanaires.
CD tracklist : All The King's Men Medley, Suspicion, Don't, Too Much, Girl Of My Best Friend, Paralyzed, Love Letters, Fame and Fortune, American Trilogy, Gospel Medley.
DVD extra's discography, filmography, colour booklet with subtitles available in the following language ; Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. 60 minutes and Region 2. From what we understood this DVD & CD is being produced in United Kingdom and release in April.
source: It's Elvis Time / Peter Haan - updated on March 30, 2004
Daniel Pharand invites you to the Elvis Presley Convention on April 3rd, 2004 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at St-Gilbert Hall located at 5415 Jean-Talon East in Montreal, near the St.Michel metro ( bus 141 ). Dealers and collectors from all over Canada will be on hand to buy, sell, and trade Elvis memorabilia of all kinds; LP’s, CD’s, DVD's, photos,videos, and everything from Elvis dolls to Elvis stamps.
Door prizes will be handed out all day long, and for trivia buffs,an Elvis trivia contest at every hour will challenge the Elvis fans on hand.
Admission: $5.00 Adults ; Age
12 and under, free ( with an adult ).
source: Daniel Pharand - updated March 21, 2004
Elvis Unlimited mentions that the video " Return To
Splendour " will be released on DVD this Spring. " Return To Splendour
" contains some of the best 8 mm film of Elvis, most of it filmed in the
1970’s by Sean Shaver. Read more about this release soon.
source: Elvis News / Elvis Unlimited - updated on March 18, 2004
D. Hardin, Jerry Scheff and Ronnie Tutt. This will be a one time event only, and there are NO plans for another reunion.
Vocalist is Jenson Bloomer (UK), who brings along his group Mondo Carne. Tickets are limited, as the showroom holds only 485 seats. However, there’s a Saturday and a Sunday show, which gives the band the chance to bring a different track list on both shows. There’s a special combiticket for visitors that wish to attend both TCB-shows.
Dates: October 2 & 3, Mol Belgium. Tickets on pre sale at info@elvismatters.be. Don't miss out this unique live experience by Elvis Presley's rock band. No studio try-outs, but the very best of the best!
Source: www.elvismatters.be -updated on March 11, 2004
It s Elvis Time and Elvis Quarterly are proud to inform you of our remarkable Elvis scoop the Memphis 69 Sessions - 35th Anniversary Reunion Concerts, featuring the original players that participated at these legendary sessions Reggie Young (guitar), Bobby Emmons (keyboards), Gene Chrisman (drums), Mike Leech (bass) and Bobby Wood (piano).
The Memphis 69 sessions are amongst the finest moments of Elvis career; he recorded the landmark album From Elvis In Memphis during these sessions, as well as the hitsingles In The Ghetto , Suspicious Minds , Kentucky Rain and Don t Cry Daddy.
These fantastic players have never played at an Elvis convention before, so this is really a first that you cannot afford to miss. Elvis collector Arjan Deelen was able to locate all five players and negotiate an agreement with them. Reggie, Bobby E., Gene, Mike and Bobby W. are really looking forward to this unique reunion, and can t wait to knock your socks off with their amazing musicianship!! These two concerts will take place in Holland and Belgium next October. More info soon!!
Source: It s Elvis Time & Elvis Quarterly - updated on March 10, 2004
Warner Brothers will release several Elvis' movies on DVDs in July 2004. The following seven titles scheduled for July 2004 are : It Happened At The World's Fair, Harum Scarum, Spinout, Double Trouble, Speedway, The Trouble With Girls and This Is Elvis ( extended version ).
source: e-mail - updated on February 27, 2004
Currently released in Malaysia is '' The Lost Performances '' on DVD. This is NTSC Region 1 and in DTS digital surround.
source : HT Long - updated on February 23, 2004
Two versions (Thai and English) of VCD Roustabout have just been officially released in Thailand.
source: Nitaya Kanchanawan from The Elvis Presley Information Center of Thailand - updated on February 20,2004
Planet Hollywood, London
Sunday 29th February
5pm until late
Tickets £25.00
Email elvismagazine@aol.com
A superb evening in the company of Elvis Elvis' close friend and bodyguard for sixteen years, Sonny West. A member of Elvis inner circle, the Memphis Mafia, Sonny will provide an exclusive insight into his extraordinary life with the King.
The evening will also be attended by Sonny s beautiful wife Judy and will feature a Grand Charity Auction in aid of Make A Wish Foundation, a superb charity granting wishes to children living with life-threatening illnesses.
Highlight of the auction will be an original artwork from Elvis - All The Kings Men, kindly donated by Sonny and Judy and personally signed by all the members of the Memphis Mafia featured in this superb set of programmes.
Elvis Memorabilia will also be available on the night from The UK s Official Elvis Presley Magazine, Essential Elvis UK.
source: Essential Elvis UK - updated on February 16, 2004
by Sandra Haynes Pichon
The author of this book is a fan who met Elvis lots of
times and the book details the parallels of her life with Elvis' life, hence
the title "Raised On Elvis! Elvis! Elvis!" In the book she looks
back at the good times at the concerts and Vegas shows she attended, becoming
friends with the Memphis Mafia, and how Elvis changed as he became ill.
According to the information from Sandi the book will contain 40 pages of
unpublished photo's, both concerts and candids, from Sandi, Dorothy Campbell,
Keith Alverson, George Hill and Joyce Biddie Hulsey. The foreword was written
by Kathy Westmoreland.
source: Elvis News - updated on February 12, 2004
'' Calling Elvis '' is a new 70-minute CD is to be released that contains a comprehensive overview of all the Elvis Presley's telephone conversations that are currently known to exist, including several that have not been released previously.
'' Calling Elvis '' is packaged beautifully in a deluxe, full-colour digipack with two " wings ". The packaging complements the CD very well, as it contains 18 rare photographs of Elvis -- from different stages in his career -- holding a telephone! It’s a true piece of art, courtesy of young Dutch designer Ron Landheer. This Dutch designer is known on the FECC board as '' Unchained Elvis '' and a regular of our '' Alternate Cover Art '' section.
source : EIN - updated on February 10, 2004
The Elvis Presley Convention in Montreal is held on April 3rd, 2004 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at St-Gilbert Hall located at 5415 Jean-Talon East in Montreal, near the St.Michel metro ( bus 141 ). Dealers and collectors from all over Canada will be on hand to buy, sell, and trade Elvis memorabilia of all kinds; LP’s, CD’s, DVD's, photos,videos, and everything from Elvis dolls to Elvis stamps.
Door prizes will be handed out all day long, and for trivia buffs,an Elvis trivia contest at every hour will challenge the Elvis fans on hand. There will be also a live band and Luc Bouffard will sing Elvis' songs.
Admission: $5.00 Adults ; Age
12 and under, free ( with an adult ).
source: Daniel Pharand - updated April 1st, 2004
A documentary look at the last hours in the life of Elvis Presley, including interviews with key members of The Memphis Mafia. This release also includes a 40 minute audio CD featuring Elvis' backing group The Jordanaires.
CD tracklist : All The King's Men Medley, Suspicion, Don't, Too Much, Girl Of My Best Friend, Paralyzed, Love Letters, Fame and Fortune, American Trilogy, Gospel Medley.
DVD extra's discography, filmography, colour booklet with subtitles available in the following language ; Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. 60 minutes and Region 2. From what we understood this DVD & CD is being produced in United Kingdom and release in April.
source: It's Elvis Time / Peter Haan - updated on March 30, 2004
Daniel Pharand invites you to the Elvis Presley Convention on April 3rd, 2004 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at St-Gilbert Hall located at 5415 Jean-Talon East in Montreal, near the St.Michel metro ( bus 141 ). Dealers and collectors from all over Canada will be on hand to buy, sell, and trade Elvis memorabilia of all kinds; LP’s, CD’s, DVD's, photos,videos, and everything from Elvis dolls to Elvis stamps.
Door prizes will be handed out all day long, and for trivia buffs,an Elvis trivia contest at every hour will challenge the Elvis fans on hand.
Admission: $5.00 Adults ; Age
12 and under, free ( with an adult ).
source: Daniel Pharand - updated March 21, 2004
Elvis Unlimited mentions that the video " Return To
Splendour " will be released on DVD this Spring. " Return To Splendour
" contains some of the best 8 mm film of Elvis, most of it filmed in the
1970’s by Sean Shaver. Read more about this release soon.
source: Elvis News / Elvis Unlimited - updated on March 18, 2004
D. Hardin, Jerry Scheff and Ronnie Tutt. This will be a one time event only, and there are NO plans for another reunion.
Vocalist is Jenson Bloomer (UK), who brings along his group Mondo Carne. Tickets are limited, as the showroom holds only 485 seats. However, there’s a Saturday and a Sunday show, which gives the band the chance to bring a different track list on both shows. There’s a special combiticket for visitors that wish to attend both TCB-shows.
Dates: October 2 & 3, Mol Belgium. Tickets on pre sale at info@elvismatters.be. Don't miss out this unique live experience by Elvis Presley's rock band. No studio try-outs, but the very best of the best!
Source: www.elvismatters.be -updated on March 11, 2004
It s Elvis Time and Elvis Quarterly are proud to inform you of our remarkable Elvis scoop the Memphis 69 Sessions - 35th Anniversary Reunion Concerts, featuring the original players that participated at these legendary sessions Reggie Young (guitar), Bobby Emmons (keyboards), Gene Chrisman (drums), Mike Leech (bass) and Bobby Wood (piano).
The Memphis 69 sessions are amongst the finest moments of Elvis career; he recorded the landmark album From Elvis In Memphis during these sessions, as well as the hitsingles In The Ghetto , Suspicious Minds , Kentucky Rain and Don t Cry Daddy.
These fantastic players have never played at an Elvis convention before, so this is really a first that you cannot afford to miss. Elvis collector Arjan Deelen was able to locate all five players and negotiate an agreement with them. Reggie, Bobby E., Gene, Mike and Bobby W. are really looking forward to this unique reunion, and can t wait to knock your socks off with their amazing musicianship!! These two concerts will take place in Holland and Belgium next October. More info soon!!
Source: It s Elvis Time & Elvis Quarterly - updated on March 10, 2004
Warner Brothers will release several Elvis' movies on DVDs in July 2004. The following seven titles scheduled for July 2004 are : It Happened At The World's Fair, Harum Scarum, Spinout, Double Trouble, Speedway, The Trouble With Girls and This Is Elvis ( extended version ).
source: e-mail - updated on February 27, 2004
Currently released in Malaysia is '' The Lost Performances '' on DVD. This is NTSC Region 1 and in DTS digital surround.
source : HT Long - updated on February 23, 2004
Two versions (Thai and English) of VCD Roustabout have just been officially released in Thailand.
source: Nitaya Kanchanawan from The Elvis Presley Information Center of Thailand - updated on February 20,2004
Planet Hollywood, London
Sunday 29th February
5pm until late
Tickets £25.00
Email elvismagazine@aol.com
A superb evening in the company of Elvis Elvis' close friend and bodyguard for sixteen years, Sonny West. A member of Elvis inner circle, the Memphis Mafia, Sonny will provide an exclusive insight into his extraordinary life with the King.
The evening will also be attended by Sonny s beautiful wife Judy and will feature a Grand Charity Auction in aid of Make A Wish Foundation, a superb charity granting wishes to children living with life-threatening illnesses.
Highlight of the auction will be an original artwork from Elvis - All The Kings Men, kindly donated by Sonny and Judy and personally signed by all the members of the Memphis Mafia featured in this superb set of programmes.
Elvis Memorabilia will also be available on the night from The UK s Official Elvis Presley Magazine, Essential Elvis UK.
source: Essential Elvis UK - updated on February 16, 2004
by Sandra Haynes Pichon
The author of this book is a fan who met Elvis lots of
times and the book details the parallels of her life with Elvis' life, hence
the title "Raised On Elvis! Elvis! Elvis!" In the book she looks
back at the good times at the concerts and Vegas shows she attended, becoming
friends with the Memphis Mafia, and how Elvis changed as he became ill.
According to the information from Sandi the book will contain 40 pages of
unpublished photo's, both concerts and candids, from Sandi, Dorothy Campbell,
Keith Alverson, George Hill and Joyce Biddie Hulsey. The foreword was written
by Kathy Westmoreland.
source: Elvis News - updated on February 12, 2004
'' Calling Elvis '' is a new 70-minute CD is to be released that contains a comprehensive overview of all the Elvis Presley's telephone conversations that are currently known to exist, including several that have not been released previously.
'' Calling Elvis '' is packaged beautifully in a deluxe, full-colour digipack with two " wings ". The packaging complements the CD very well, as it contains 18 rare photographs of Elvis -- from different stages in his career -- holding a telephone! It’s a true piece of art, courtesy of young Dutch designer Ron Landheer. This Dutch designer is known on the FECC board as '' Unchained Elvis '' and a regular of our '' Alternate Cover Art '' section.
source : EIN - updated on February 10, 2004
Here's the front cover of the upcoming '' Follow That Dream '' DVD from MGM/UA. The DVD will be available on region 1 and scheduled for release on April 20, 2004. The movie will contain English and Spanish mono, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish. The original theatrical trailer will be included as well.
source: FECC Team - updated on February 2, 2004
NEW YORK -- At 11 a.m. today, in a midtown Manhattan music studio, a handful of record industry veterans will huddle around a reel of tape they say is an original master from the historic 1954 recording debut of Elvis Presley. Then, after a brief introduction, the tape will be chopped to pieces.
Thousands of pieces, if
all goes as planned. The owner of this tape intends to dice it into two-inch
bits, which will then be mounted on framed plaques and sold to fans for $495
apiece. It's being billed as a chance for Elvis lovers to own a sliver of one of
the most famous moments in pop history -- the songs recorded in Memphis's Sun
Studio by Presley under the eye of producer Sam Phillips. The Sun sessions are
widely considered the birth of rock.
"Exactly how many
we make is function of how many pieces of tape will withstand cutting,"
says Michael Esposito, president of Master Tape Collection, based in Bloomfield,
N.J. "The song 'That's Alright, Mama' runs 2:20, and the tape runs at 15
inches per second, so that piece of tape alone could allow us to produce 800 to
900 plaques."
Spluttering fans, take
note: Esposito says he has made top-quality digital copies of the music on the
tape. And he claims that the reel is deteriorating so quickly, it will be
unplayable in a matter of years. But the project has, nonetheless, earned him a
legion of new enemies. Message boards on Presley fan sites have been filled with
slashing posts by collectors who consider Master Tape's cut-and-mount concept an
outrage.
"Next they'll be
selling little bits of the Mona Lisa," huffed someone identified as Greg on
the elvis-collectors.com message board, "or maybe a slice of the U.S.
Constitution or the dead sea scrolls."
"If this is real,
I'm pretty sure that God made a commandment against doing this kind of thing!!"
fumed "elvis fan" on the same page.
If
this is real. The leading authority on Elvis's recording career has serious
doubts. Actually, that's putting it charitably. Ernst Jorgensen, the author of
"Elvis Day by Day" and the man who oversees the CD repackaging of
Presley's back catalogue for RCA, the King's label, heard the tape when Esposito
tried to sell it to RCA a few years ago. He passed, convinced that he was
listening to a copy of a master tape that RCA already owns.
There are also
questions raised by the physical appearance of the tape and the box it came in,
Jorgensen says. The tape that he saw has telltale markings of assorted edits,
suggesting it's a patchwork of tapes strung together, he says. As damning
evidence, Esposito's tape contains songs spanning the entire 16-month period of
the Sun sessions. All the other masters feature just a few days' or weeks' worth
of material, Jorgensen and other Presley experts maintain. Jorgensen believes
that what Esposito has comes from what he called a "safety copy" of
songs from "Golden Celebration," a 1984 reissue. "It's also in
poor taste," Jorgensen added. "Inherent in everything Elvis is greed.
It will haunt him forever."
Esposito
is convinced, however, that what he has is the genuine article, and he offered a
10-page "forensic report" that he says settles nearly every question
of the tape's provenance. Though the story includes what it calls "a
mystery," it won over Elvis Presley's estate, which sold Master Tape a
license allowing the company to use Presley's image to market its plaques.
"We're not making
any judgments about [the tape]," said Todd Morgan, a spokesman for the
estate, Elvis Presley Enterprises. But he later added: "All we can go by is
the research they presented, and it's convincing."
Also in Esposito's
corner is the man he hired to authenticate the tape, Tony Bongiovi, a producer
with 50 gold and platinum albums to his credit. On Friday, Bongiovi sat in Nola
Studios, where today's news conference is scheduled, and offered a listen. On
the tape, a take of "When It Rains, It Really Pours" breaks down and
you can hear Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore and Phillips trying to figure out
what went wrong.
"What happened?"
Presley asks.
Phillips offers more
directions, then Elvis chimes in again, addressing either Moore or bass player
Bill Black:
"Hey, you know
when you first hit bah-dah-dah . . . ya old boom, boom, boom, you just hold that
till you get the change." And a moment later: "All right, let's hit
it."
Bongiovi stops the tape
before the band tries "When It Rains" again. A small man with a
booming voice, he's overjoyed about eavesdropping on rock's prince as he fumbles
toward his throne.
"Here's Sam
Phillips talking to Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley!" he shouts.
Bongiovi says he spent
20 hours authenticating the tape, aided by sound engineer and owner of Nola, Jim
Czak. What Bongiovi found compelling was evidence that he was listening to
"unprocessed sound."
An element of the
unknown shrouds any account of the Sun session masters, which yielded a batch of
world-changing tracks, including "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "Mystery
Train." Presley was an 18-year-old truck driver when he began the
recordings in July 1954, and a year later he had enough momentum to catch the
attention of RCA, which paid $35,000 to Phillips to buy out Elvis's contract.
That sale included all
of Phillips's master tapes. He delivered 15, and RCA turned them into cash right
away. Before the label released its own string of hits with Presley, starting
with "Heartbreak Hotel," it rereleased his Sun material, which, with
the added heft of a national publicity campaign, rose higher than they had the
first time around.
According to Jorgensen,
RCA then stashed the masters in a warehouse in Indianapolis, near the company's
manufacturing plant. About nine of those tapes were destroyed in 1959 when
someone in upper management decided to save money on storage costs by tossing
out thousands of reels. They had copies, after all. Who cared?
"I talked to some
of the men who were at the plant back then," Jorgensen says. "I wanted
to cry when they told me about it. I couldn't bring myself to ask how they
destroyed them."
Esposito doesn't claim
to have one of the nine reels that were presumed to be destroyed. Instead, he
believes he owns a tape that Phillips didn't hand over to RCA, and which somehow
wound up in a warehouse along with a huge cache -- between 400 and 500 tapes --
that includes the work of other Sun stars, including Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee
Lewis and Carl Perkins. Nobody knows how that trove got to the warehouse, he
says, but it was uncovered in 1992 when it was purchased by a couple at auction
-- sold off because the owner of the storage bin hadn't paid the rent. Esposito
won't say how much he spent for the tapes, which he purchased through a
middleman, but calls it "a substantial sum of money."
The Master Tape
forensic report states that Esposito called Phillips in July 2002 and told him
what the tape looked like. The color ("chocolate brown") and the brand
(Scotch) matched Phillips's memory of it, the report says. But Phillips never
heard or saw the tape because of his hectic travel schedule, the report says,
and last year he died.
Real or not, the tape
will test the legendary ardor of Presley fans. Esposito didn't take pre-orders,
so he has no sense of demand.
But Elvis isn't the
first 20th-century legend who has been shredded for dollars.
source: David Segal ( Washington Post ) / Arjan Deelen - updated on January 27, 2004
This is a list of pending Elvis issues and all subject to change. We don't have details on some of these products either such as the DVD box-set scheduled for October 2004.
March 23- Ultimate Gospel ( BMG ) ;April 20- Follow That Dream DVD ( MGM ) ; June 21- '68 Comeback DVD set ( EPE ) ; June 21- Aloha From Hawaii DVD set ( EPE ) ; June 21- Sun Sessions ( BMG ) ; October 26- 3 DVD box set ( ??? ) ; November 9-Elvis Anthology-2 DVD Set ( EPE ??? )
source: e-mail - updated on January 24, 2004
Here's a review of the latest book from J.A.T. Publishing from the bi-monthly Shreveport Forum News. Click on the book cover above if you want to read this review of '' The Hayride Years 54-56 '' by Frank Page and Joey Kent.
source: FECC Team - Updated on January 16, 2004
A new women Polish magazine appears today ( January 15 ) on the stands and contains a promo CD with 7 tracks from the 30 #1 Hits. The tracks featured on that promo are : Love Me Tender, It's Now Or Never, The Wonder Of You, Are You Lonesome Tonight ?, Suspicious Minds, Jailhouse Rock and Can't Help Falling In Love.
source: Tomek Michalczyk from the Elvis In Person website - updated on January 16, 2004
The movie '' Follow That Dream '' will be released in the USA ( region 1 ) on April 20, 2004. Amazon is already taking pre-orders for this at $10.47 USD.
source: FECC Forum - updated on January 14, 2003
We are now hosting the '' Candid Central '' section from Paul's Elvis Page website. You can access it directly from here, from the left menu on the main page and welcome page menu when newly updated. It is possible that some pictures/links won't work but those will be fixed within the next few days.
source: Paul Sweeney / FECC Team - updated on January 12, 2004
Catalog Audit Results in 15 New Certifications
WASHINGTON, January 8, 2004 - With a large crowd of fans gathering to celebrate
Elvis Presley’s birthday, RCA Records and BMG Strategic Marketing Group, both
part of BMG, with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced
at a ceremony on the grounds of Graceland Mansion this morning that Elvis
Presley now stands as the best selling solo artist in U.S. history.
"Elvis Presley, quite simply, is an American icon," said RIAA Chairman
and CEO Mitch Bainwol. “As such an important musical, historical and cultural
figure, we’re thrilled to be able to make this announcement. We will continue
to work closely with BMG to make sure that there will be more exciting news
about the Elvis Presley catalog in the near future," concluded Bainwol.
“It is incredibly gratifying to have the certifications to back up what many
have long held as an article of faith, that Elvis is the best selling solo
artist in U.S. history,” said Joe DiMuro, Executive Vice President, BMG
Strategic Marketing Group. “I’d like to thank the RIAA and our team who
worked tirelessly to complete this audit and help secure Elvis’ historic
achievement.”
In August 2002, it was announced that the Presley catalog finally passed the
previously elusive 100 million sales mark. And now during this recent audit, 15
titles were either being certified for the first time or upgraded from
previously audited sales levels, his overall album sales total climbed to 117.5
million.
In all, seven new Gold records were added to his overall tally including
“Almost In Love,” “C’mon Everybody,” “Double Dynamite,” “Elvis
Sings Hits From His Movies, Vol. 1,” “Frankie & Johnny,” “I Got
Lucky” and his 1956 release “Love Me Tender.” Four of these titles (“Almost
In Love,” “Double Dynamite,” “Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies, Vol.
1” and “Frankie & Johnny”) were also certified Platinum for sales in
excess of one million copies. There were four additional Platinum awards for
“Flaming Star,” “From Nashville To Memphis,” “Let’s Be Friends,”
and “Separate Ways.”
Additionally, four new multi-Platinum certifications included “Burning Love
and Hits From His Movies, Vol. 2” (two million), “The Top Ten Hits” (four
million), “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (three million) and "Elvis'
Christmas Album" which remains the best selling title in the Elvis Presley
catalog with certified sales of more than nine million copies.
Also, contributing to his overall sales total was the recently released “2nd
TO NONE,” a collection of Elvis Presley singles that follows up 2002’s
“ELV1S: 30 #1 HITS,” which was certified both Gold and Platinum in November
2003 for sales of more than one million copies.
In all, Elvis Presley has received 97 Gold Records, 55 of which have been
certified Platinum, and 25 have gone on to multi-Platinum status. His highest
certified album is "Elvis' Christmas Album" which has been certified
for the sale of more than seven million copies.
He has also received more Gold and Platinum singles than any artist in history
with 51 Gold singles, 27 of which have been certified Platinum with seven being
certified multi-Platinum.
Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman audit all certification requests for the RIAA’s
Gold and Platinum award program.
source: EPE - updated on January 8, 2004
Here's the latest issue ( No.46 - December 2003 ) of the French magazine '' Elvis My Happiness ''. As usual each magazine several reviews of all the latest books, CDs, DVDs,etc..There's also an article on the '' TCB Band And The Imperials in Paris '', an interview with James Burton. A text on the shows of Elvis' 12th Vegas season ( March 18th - April 1st 1975 ), a tribute to Johnny Cash and many other features. If you can read French then this magazine is for you !!!!
There's a short note in the magazine concerning the double CD set '' Elvis Chante Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller '' that was scheduled last year. It's being mentioned that the '' Elvis My Happiness '' is negociating with BMG and hoping this double CD set could be released in the first quarter of 2004.
source: FECC Team - updated on January 8, 2004
Before going any further we would like to wish to everyone a Happy New Year and all the best for 2004. The December 2003 Contest was our last one and we want to thank all our readers who participated this past year. The answers to the trivia questions for Contest #12 are:1- Yes ; 2- False. The last show was opened with '' Blue Suede Shoes '' ; 3- Yes; 4- April/May 1975 tour; 5- True ( Ron Tutt, Jerome Monroe and Larry Londin ) .Three (3) good answers out of five (5) were required to be eligible. For the very first time the first three winners were eliminated since they had only two (2) good answers out of five (5), and therefore a second draw was done for obtaining the winners to this contest.
The three
winners are :
#1 : Stig Ericsson from Sweden - Elvis - Inside Loving You book by Ger Rijff
#2 : Michael Cavino from New-York, NY - Elvis - Rock'n' Nassau book by J.A.T. Publishing
#3 : Svante Rask from Sweden - Dragonheart FTD
Congratulations to the three winners! All three winners will be notified by e-mail and for arrangements about the shippings.
source: FECC Team - updated on January 2, 2004
Many of our readers know very well the site '' Paul's Elvis Page '' and his '' Candid Central '' section. Unfortunately our good friend Paul Sweeney from Ottawa,Canada got problems with his server because he's exceeding the monthly traffic allowance, and the aforementioned section on this site is greatly responsible since this is a very popular part of Paul's wesbite.
Sometimes in January the '' Candid Central '' section of '' Paul's Elvis Page '' will be hosted on our site. Paul Sweeney will remain the owner of this section and responsible for the updates.
source: Paul Sweeney / FECC Team - updated on December 31, 2003
In the January '04 Ice Magazine (page 18) there is a brief piece/interview with Ernst. He's working on a coffee table book book covering 1954-1955, with the regular photos/memorabilia and some new stuff. More importantly, it will "hopefully have a three CD set with everything Elvis ever recorded for Sun, from the worst sounding acetate ever - of the Louisiana Hayride - to all the Sun masters. It will be very limited, probably just 5,000 copies, a labor of love".
source: FECC Forum - updated on December 30, 2003
EPE's fanclub president Christmas single for this year brings us "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me". The back contains the usual wishes by Lisa-Marie and Priscilla. The CD comes in a jewelcase like last year's "Christmas card".
source: Jordan's Elvis World - updated on December 28, 2003
The FECC Team would like to wish to their readers and members of our Forum a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
source: FECC Team - updated on December 24, 2003
Elvis Presley is the all-time singles king in Britain, nearly a half-century after he first crashed into the pop chart here, according to a new list published Monday. Presley has appeared on 1,193 of the weekly charts since 1952, when British Hit Singles, a book published by Guinness World Records, began keeping records.
At No. 2 is Cliff Richard with 1,152 weeks in the charts, followed by The
Shadows at 771 weeks. The singles chart in Britain has varied in length over the
years. When Presley appeared for the first time in 1956 with "Heartbreak
Hotel," the British chart listed 30 records. In 1978, the year after
Presley died, the chart stabilized at its present length of the top 75
singles.The rest of the top 10 are: Elton John, Madonna, Diana Ross, Michael
Jackson, Rod Stewart, the Beatles and David Bowie.
source: Associated Press, London - updated on December 23, 2003
A new 3 DVD box by Entertainment Distribution titled " Inside Story - The Man The Music The Legend " is available from Amazon. The documentary DVD (region 1) was released on November 11, 2003 and the running time is 450 minutes. The footage is both black/white and color.
source: Elvis News / Elvis World Japan - Decmber 23, 2003
This is the latest issue ( #241 ) of the fan club magazine '' It's Elvis Time ''. The magazine contains all the details of their '' Elvis : Second To None Party '' in Amsterdam on January 8, 2004. As always the newest issue contains articles, CD and book reviews,etc...You will find all the details concerning this party in Amsterdam on It's Elvis Time website .
source: It's Elvis Time - updated on December 20, 2003
We spoke with Joe Tunzi and he informed us that the book is out. The CDs will follow in a couple of days and distribution will start in the middle of the week. We also received the complete track listing of '' Elvis Presley At The Hayride Tonight ! volume one '' CD. Don't miss our interview with Joey Kent published on our site a week ago !!
Track listing :
01- That's All Right ; 02- Blue Moon Of Kentucky ; 03- Baby Let's Play House ; 04- Tweedlee Dee ; 05- I Was The One ; 06- Hound Dog ; 07- Hearts Of Stone ; 08- Maybellene ; 09- That's All Right ( second version ) ; 10- June Carter Cash talks about Elvis at the Hayride and reads a poem.
source: Joe Tunzi / FECC Team - updated on December 15, 2003
Everyone's been talking about the recent discovery of a brand
new interview, albeit very short, recorded on August 9th 1975 at the Memphis
Liberty Bowl Stadium by radio broadcaster Harold Johnson. Elvis was at the
stadium enjoying a football game between the Memphis Southmen and the Charlotte
Hornets when the interview was conducted live on air.
Essential Elvis has acquired the exclusive and official rights to the
interview and a CD will be out within just a few days. The disc, entitled
Elvis Touchdown! includes several other football related interviews with Elvis,
and some unique on stage dialogue (the singing voice of Elvis does not appear on
this release).
source: Essential Elvis UK / FECC Forum - updated on December 12, 2003
EPE released a press-release on the celebration of the 50th
anniversary of Elvis first recording “That’s All Right Mama”. Part of the
celebrations are various releases.
CDs
First up is the release on March 23, BMG/RCA of “Elvis Ultimate Gospel”.
This single disc CD will contain the greatest hits from Elvis’ extensive
gospel recordings. Also in June, shortly before the 50th anniversary of That’s
All Right, BMG/RCA will release “Elvis at Sun”, a new, comprehensive
collection of Elvis Presley’s Sun Records recordings. Yesterday the follow up
to "ELV1S 30 #1 Hits" and "Elvis 2nd To None", titled "Anthology"
was also announced.
DVDs
In the summer, likely late June, EPE will release its highly anticipated, new
comprehensive DVD collections of the material from Elvis Presley’s 1968
television special Elvis and his 1973 television special Elvis: Aloha from
Hawaii, via Satellite. Both sets are to be distributed globally by BMG. Content
details will be announced soon on the official Elvis site. Both DVD sets will
contain all the previously released material plus previously unreleased material
all specially presented in newly re-edited and re-mastered form. In the case of
the 1968 special, so much footage was shot from which to assemble the original
TV show that the previously unreleased component of the ’68 TV special DVD
will be particularly significant.
Television Special
The 50th Anniversary year will crescendo with an as yet untitled, new Elvis
network special in development for airing in the fourth quarter. EPE is the
owner and executive producer of this project, which will be produced by the
acclaimed David Saltz. A more detailed announcement on this project will be
forthcoming.
source: Elvis News / EPE - updated on December 11, 2003
The interview with Joey Kent ( owner of the Louisiana Hayride archives ) is now available for our readers. This is definitely a very interesting reading as you will certainly learn a few things there. Joey Kent and Frank Page are planning a second Hayride book that will focus on Elvis' last live performance at the Hayride on December 15, 1956. This is also very interesting to learn that they are hoping to include a CD containing the full concert from that night's performance.
Songs performed at the last Hayride performance were : "Heartbreak Hotel", "Long Tall Sally", "I Was The One", "Love Me Tender", "Don't Be Cruel", "Love Me", "I Got A Woman", "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again", "Paralyzed", and "Hound Dog".
Don't miss it and go directly from here at the interview with Joey Kent.
source: FECC Team - updated on December 9, 2003
Mr. Joseph D. Kent is the owner of the Louisiana Hayride archives. He kindly accepted to make an exclusive interview with us for our readers. The interview should be published on our page very soon so watch this space for further details.
As announced recently '' Elvis - The Hayride Years 54-56 '' book by Frank Page & Joey Kent and published by J.A.T. Publishing will be out on December 12, 2003. This new publication will contain about a hundred (100 ) pages with great photographs from the Hayride years and a few surprises as well. This book comes with a 10 tracks CD of restored Louisiana Hayride recordings.
source : FECC Team - updated on December 4, 2003
The
entries for our tenth contest ( November 2003 ) closed on the 30th. We would
like to thank everyone for their participations. The answers to the trivia
questions for Contest #11 are:1- Yes at a Hollywood party in 1957 ; 2- Tupelo,
Mississippi September 1957 ; 3- False (1965 ) ; 4- No ; 5- Yes in
Mobile,AL on June 2nd, 1977 .Three (3) good answers out of five (5) were
required to be eligible and according to this rule almost all the entries
were retained excepted for one who didn't have three good answers out of five.
The three
winners are :
#1 : Jim Bolton from New Jersey - Elvis - Rock'n' Nassau book by J.A.T. Publishing
#2 : Trevor Spooner from Leceister, UK - Elvis - Easter Special ( FTD )
#3 : Simon Evans from UK - Elvis Sings Beatles' Songs promo
Congratulations to the three winners! All three winners will be notified by e-mail and for arrangements about the shippings.
You can now participate to our last 10th Anniversary contest. You can go directly to Contest #12 or from the the welcome page on www.elvis-collectors.com.
source: FECC Team - updated on December 1st, 2003
'' Elvis - The Hayride Years 54-56 '' book by Frank Page & Joey Kent and published by J.A.T. Publishing will be out on December 12, 2003. This new publication will contain about a hundred (100 ) pages with great photographs from the Hayride years and a few surprises as well.
This book comes with a 10 tracks CD of restored Louisiana Hayride recordings. '' Elvis Presley At The Hayride Tonight ! - volume one '' CD contains '' Tweedlee Dee '', '' Hearts Of Stone '', a surprise version of '' Maybellene '' and others. The suggested retail price for this book with CD is $34.95 USD plus postage.
source : J.A.T. Publishing - updated on November 27, 2003
The Belgian fanclub Elvis Matters announces the release of a
new book, titled "Memories - Sweetened thru the ages just like wine",
subtitled "On the road with Elvis & John Wilkinson". "Memories"
holds over a hundred rare illustrations and takes you back to the days when
Elvis filled showroom after showroom. The 160 page book brings back to life the
many memories of Elvis Presley's friend and rhythm guitarist John Wilkinson.
Author of the English book is Peter Verbruggen, who also wrote "Elvis -
King of Belgium".
For the release of this book, Elvismatters joined forces with the Danish fanclub
"Elvis Unlimited". The book is all but an encyclopedia. Instead, it's
a bundle of memories, as John Wilkinson remembers his years with Elvis. It's
illustrated with unique documents, news paper clippings and reviews.
First presentation of the book is on Saturday, January 10th 2004 during the
Belgian Birthday Party in Sint-Niklaas (near Antwerp). Guest of honor is, of
course, John Wilkinson himself. The second presentation of the book - in
presence of John - takes place on Saturday January 17th in Denmark, and on the
18th in Sweden.
source: Elvis News / Elvis Matters fan club - updated on November 21, 2003
We just received the latest issue ( No. 97/98 ) of the magazine from the " Elvis Presley Club Of Italy ". You can find the latest news, an in-depth article on Elvis at Sun Records, CD reviews of '' Close-Up '' box set, Studio B Nashville and Dragonheart FTD's. You can write directly to them for informations or if interested to subscribe at elvis_presley_club_of_italy@yahoo.it .
source: Elvis Presley Club Of Italy - updated on November 20, 2003
Here's an example of an entry:
You can buy a copy signed by the author David Neale on Roots Of Elvis website.
source: David Neale - updated on November 19, 2003
This is the accurate statement from Joe Tunzi concerning the book '' Sessions III ''. This statement was mentioned on our forum but there were a few words replaced by incorrect ones.
"Elvis Sessions 3 will be out early next year. The information has finally reached the cut off stage and I think everyone will appreciate the reason for the extra time it took to get this project done. There are more than a few surprises, all of which have been supported. I understand the frustration of the many fans who want this book, but once it's out, it's out forever and I have only one chance to make that happen. And I want it to be my best chance. Common sense tells me people understand this. Thanks for your patience.!
source: J.A.T. Publishing - updated on November 12, 2003
Elvis World Japan had the coverart of the " 200 Cadillacs " documentary from Image Entertainment. This one hour DVD, covering Elvis' generosity and especially the Cadillacs he gave away, is set for release January 6, 2004.
source: Elvis World Japan/ Elvis News - updated on November 11, 2003
Here we have a Chinese version of the '' That's The Way It Is - Special Edition '' DVD.
source: Evan Mueller - updated on November 7, 2003
This is the new four Russell Stover Chocolate CDs. The four different versions are shown above with their back covers. The back covers have the same pictures as the front but in larger size. All four have the mention '' Collect All Four '' and in French '' Collectionnez la Série de 4 ''.
source: Barry McClean - updated on November 6, 2003
We are
sorry for having delayed the annoucement for this contest as
scheduled but we were away for the weekend.The entries for our tenth contest (
October 2003 ) closed on the 31st. We would like to thank everyone for their
participations. The answers to the trivia questions for Contest #10 are:1-
Several answers were possible: Words, Yesterday, Runaway and My Babe are a few
examples ; 2- September 6, 1971 Las Vegas Closing show ; 3- Cary Grant ; 4-
George Klein ; 5- Bing Crosby Award .Three (3) good answers out of five
(5) were required to be eligible and according to this rule almost all the
entries were retained excepted for one who didn't have three good answers out of
five.
The three
winners are :
#1 : W. Veen, Groningen from Holland Elvis - Asian Magazine promo CD '' The Best Elvis Presley Movie Hits ''
#2 : Svante Rask, Skogas, Sweden - Elvis - Dragonheart ( FTD )
#3 : Jacques Laurent, Brussels, Belgium - The Greatest Live Performances Of Elvis Presley ( Sunday Telegraph Promo )
Congratulations to the three winners! All three winners will be notified by e-mail and for arrangements about the shippings.
You can now participate to our eleventh (11th) contest. You can go directly to Contest #11 or from the the welcome page on www.elvis-collectors.com.
source: FECC Team - updated on November 4, 2003
