Origins of Elvis' sideburns
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Origins of Elvis' sideburns
I would love to know where Elvis got his idea to grow his now legendary sideburns - I know that he dyed his hair black because Tony Curtis (one of his favorite actors) had black hair - but where did Elvis get the idea to grow his sideburns (which suited him very, very well)?
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Elvis might have mentioned it once that he dyed his hair to look like Tony Curtis but i dont think he did it for that reason.He just ,proberly, wanted his hair black.
He dyed his hair whilst making 'Loving you' .You can tell certain scenes in that film his hair was different.
As for his sideburns, i think he just wanted to look older than he was.
Sean
He dyed his hair whilst making 'Loving you' .You can tell certain scenes in that film his hair was different.
As for his sideburns, i think he just wanted to look older than he was.
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Actually, Elvis started dying his hair black much earlier than "Loving You". In the end scene for Love Me Tender which was refilmed in New York Junco Studio on Oct 29, 1956 Elvis has black hair.
In some of the pics from his Oct 11-14, 1956 tour of Texas it also looks like he´s already dyed his hair black.
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Actually, Elvis started dying his hair black much earlier than "Loving You". In the end scene for Love Me Tender which was refilmed in New York Junco Studio on Oct 29, 1956 Elvis has black hair.
In some of the pics from his Oct 11-14, 1956 tour of Texas it also looks like he´s already dyed his hair black.
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Hi Brian,bripet56 wrote:Hi!
Actually, Elvis started dying his hair black much earlier than "Loving You". In the end scene for Love Me Tender which was refilmed in New York Junco Studio on Oct 29, 1956 Elvis has black hair.
In some of the pics from his Oct 11-14, 1956 tour of Texas it also looks like he´s already dyed his hair black.
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Brian Petersen
If you look at the first clips of 'Loving You' ,its obvious his hair is NOT black.But his scene ,like just before he sings 'Mean Woman Blues' and Teddy Bear, his hair is jet black which is why i assumed he dyed his hair whilst making 'Loving you'.
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You´re probablu right about Loving You, haven´t watched the movie in a long time.
However, there are lots and lots of pics from late 1956 where it is very clear that Elvis dyed his hair jetblack.
But maybe it was the kind that disappeared after he washed his hair a few times and he had to dye it again.
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You´re probablu right about Loving You, haven´t watched the movie in a long time.
However, there are lots and lots of pics from late 1956 where it is very clear that Elvis dyed his hair jetblack.
But maybe it was the kind that disappeared after he washed his hair a few times and he had to dye it again.
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"It's really simple, but no one seems to understand it. When I was a boy, I used to think that sideburns and a moustache would make me look older. I couldn't grow the moustache, so I settled for sideburns."
Found this in an Elvis In Art book that I have. But I don't know the origins of the quote or the time frame, although I would guess it's from the 50's.
Found this in an Elvis In Art book that I have. But I don't know the origins of the quote or the time frame, although I would guess it's from the 50's.
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The thing is when you do get older sideburns make you look older than you are, and Elvis should have trimmed them carefully from '70 onwards. Thanks to modern technology Keggyhander gives a fine example.LovingYou wrote:"It's really simple, but no one seems to understand it. When I was a boy, I used to think that sideburns and a moustache would make me look older. I couldn't grow the moustache, so I settled for sideburns."
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Now Elvis' hear was jet black on January 6th, 1957 when he performed on the Ed Sullivan show. Shooting on Loving You began in mid-January, so it seems unlikely he would have washed the dye out. Plus, doesn't Jorgensen and Guralnick's Day by Day note that Elvis had his hair dyed just prior to the movie.bripet56 wrote:Sean!
You´re probablu right about Loving You, haven´t watched the movie in a long time.
However, there are lots and lots of pics from late 1956 where it is very clear that Elvis dyed his hair jetblack.
But maybe it was the kind that disappeared after he washed his hair a few times and he had to dye it again.
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Brian Petersen
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