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Ready for an AI-Boosted 'Sun Sessions'?
As the latest Presley archival release, Memphis, suggests, there are still discoveries to be made in Presley's archives - and a more radical future may be ahead. Presley's Sun Studios sessions, with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, were recorded live to single-track mono tape by label owner Sam Phillips, which means any real remixes of the songs have always been impossible. But AI demixing technology - which allows instruments to be separated from a single track - keeps advancing. Jorgensen recently asked Emile de la Rey, who worked on the sound for Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, to do a test remix of 'Good Rockin' Tonight' using Jackson's proprietary AI technology. The results, 'a perfect separation of instruments' along with the removal of tape hiss, were far superior to any more widely available machine-learning methods, so Jorgensen is waiting for access to that level of technology. Once he's got it, he says, 'I'd like to do everything from the Fifties. Because even the Sun recordings, they are very simple. There's an acoustic and electric and a slap bass. But when you open that up, it's still like a new revelation. It's not like it becomes thin and you think, 'Oh, is that all there is?'
Jessie D. McDowell (J.D.) Presley | Elvis Presleys Grandfather
Elvis Presley's Grandfather, Jessie D. McDowell (J.D.) Presley was born on April 9, 1896. We tell his story in great detail and with compassion, and include audio of his two songs he recorded in 1958. For the first time we name Elvis' great-grandfather on his father side and publish a photo of Elvis' great grand-mother, Rosella. Includes video, of Elvis' Grandfather Jesse D. Presley with his wife, Vera, on CBS TV in 1958 discussing his new record, his singing debut and hopes of becoming a success. Plus audio of the two songs he recorded, and released on record!!
Released | Elvis: The Last Tours Vol: 1 | 4 CD Set from FTD
As part of its ongoing live on tour series, Follow That Dream (FTD) has released 'Elvis: The Last Tours Vol: 1'. This 4-CD 5" digipak set features great shows from 1977 – West Palm Beach (Feb 13), St. Petersburg (Feb 14), Montgomery (Feb 16), Columbia (Feb 18), Johnson City (Feb 19) and Charlotte (Feb 20/21). The concerts feature all of the songs that were recorded by the engineer during the February 1977 tour. Recorded in mono.
Review | Elvis Presley at The New Frontier Hotel April 1956
Elvis Presley, unanimously acclaimed by critics as the most important singing find since Johnnie Ray, will open in the New Frontier Hotels' Venus Room Monday, April 23, as a special added attraction to the Freddy Martin show. The handsome 21-year-old rock 'n' roller's appearance in the latest Sammy Lewis production is considered to be the Las Vegas entertainment scoop of the year. (Las Vegas Sun : April 21, 1956).
Elvis Presley Arrest Warrant
This is a genuine document. A 1974 arrest warrant issued to Elvis Presley by the city of Los Angeles. The warrant stemmed from a failure by Elvis to appear in court regarding his vehicle being parked in a red no parking zone at the Los Angeles International Airport. The original citation was issued December 18, 1974. Elvis' bail was set at $20.
Released | From Elvis At Christmas Deluxe Gatefold Vinyl LP + CD Releases from MRS
'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) has released both the 'From Elvis At Christmas' CD Deluxe and the limited Christmas special LP, in Crystal Clear 180g Vinyl with white splatter & Glitter. At this time we are receiving only half of our order for the Vinyl with the balance in early November. For the first time ever, Elvis' Christmas Album is remastered and mixed into true living stereo. With this release, a new standard is set, to probably the best ever sound separation achievement in history, that has ever been done, delivering fascinating results.
Elvis Presley's first cousin, Harold Loyd, reveals secrets of the King of Rock n' Roll
'Elvis is good to his family and he is good to his fans', Harold Loyd told this writer in 1992, some fifteen years after his first cousin died on August 16, 1977. 'He would love knowing that fans still come to Graceland. He loves his fans'. In May 1976, this reporter first met Loyd at the famous musical gates at the entrance of Presley's home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee. Besides being a loyal cousin to the King of Rock and Roll, Loyd was obviously a dedicated ambassador to the fans who came daily to visit the home. Loyd was generous with information and praise for Presley as he agreed to sit down at the Graceland gate guard shack for conversation and interviews each evening for a few days.
Elvis: Made In Germany - Private Recordings (Best of Germany) CD from MRS
'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) on its alternate budget label, MRS CAMDEN, will release the CD 'Elvis Presley Made In Germany – Private Recordings' on 22nd November 2024.This is a 'best of' CD version taken from the original 3CD version of 'The Complete Private Recordings' originally released in 2019.The CD features personal recordings taken from a recently discovered tape made by Elvis while stationed with the US army in Germany in January 1959. They also include early renditions of songs Elvis would record formally years later.
Interview with Susan Henning
Susan Henning was born in North Hollywood, raised in the San Fernando Valley, the blonde, tan, blue-eyed California girl epitomized the Healthy All American girl. She won 'Miss Teen USA' in 1965. Susan appeared in Elvis' movie, 'Live A Little, Love A Little' and says her all-time favorite was the 1968 'Elvis Special' where 'Elvis and I came together again igniting our chemistry to thrill the fans'.
Elvis Presley and Karate
Elvis was first exposed to Karate in 1958 after he was drafted into the Army and stationed in Germany. His first instructor was a German shotokan stylist named Juergen Seydel who taught Elvis at his off-base housing in Nauheim until 1958. One nice thing about the military was that you got thirty days of paid vacation (leave) each year. During his vacation in Paris he would take private lessons with Tetsugio Murakami, one of Japan's top shotokan stylists, who would help pioneer shotokan in Europe. On one occasion he spent nine straight days studying for several hours each day with Murakami.
From Elvis At Christmas Deluxe Gatefold Vinyl LP + CD Releases from MRS
'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) will release a CD Deluxe and a 1000 copies only Christmas special LP, in Crystal Clear 180g Vinyl with white splatter & Glitter titled 'From Elvis At Christmas' on October 18th, 2024. For the first time ever, Elvis' Christmas Album is remastered and mixed into true living stereo. With this release, a new standard is set, to probably the best ever sound separation achievement in history, that has ever been done, delivering fascinating results.
Interview with Red West
Red West was born Robert Gene West in Memphis, Tennessee in 1936, the son of Lois and Newton Thomas West. He was a high school friend of Elvis Presley. An excellent athlete and former U.S. Marine, West played football for his high school and junior college teams and was a boxer in the Golden Gloves championships. It's said, as legend has it, that you rescued Elvis from being beaten up at Humes High when a group of boys wanted to cut his hair. What's the real story, and was that what happened? Red West: That is the real story.
Elvis 'Sun 210' Good Rockin' Tonight 78 RPM 10" Liquid Vinyl
Following the historic first 'liquid' filled single release of Sun 209 That's All Right/Blue Moon of Kentucky comes another very special and totally unique limited-edition release, Elvis 'Sun 210' Good Rockin' Tonight/I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine 78 RPM 10" Liquid Vinyl playing at 78rpm and is restricted to 125 copies worldwide.
Interview with Anita Mann
Anita Mann (born 1946 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy-award winning choreographer, as well as a dancer and actress. Mann has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as one of America's top five contemporary choreographers. She is also the recipient of five Emmy Awards and accolades from every corner of the industry. Mann began her career as one of the David Winters' dancers on TV shows such as Shindig!, The T.A.M.I. Show and Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose, a Grace Kelly documentary special. I think being a real person, I kind of go back to being out of place, out of step sometimes with the time. Like, being something so unique at a time in life. Makes you stand out more. Although probably he would stand out at any time.
Freddy Bienstock | Music Publishing and Elvis Presley
Although Freddy Bienstock is not a household name, he is famous to many as the music publisher and plugger for Elvis Presley. But still, even to Elvis fans, he is something of a mystery figure. We know about James Burton, Scotty Moore, Red West and Colonel Parker, but who can tell you much about Freddy Bienstock? And yet look in the index of any Elvis Presley biography and you will find references to him. He runs through Peter Guralnick's definitive biographies, and, quite clearly, he is an essential component in the Elvis story.
Released | Elvis: Las Vegas - Closing Night 1973 STEREO CD and Vinyl from MRS
'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) has released the CD Deluxe 'Las Vegas – Closing Night 1973' along with the 2LP - 180-gram vinyl version available in either clear or black vinyl. This CD set contains the highlights of Elvis' final two shows performed on the closing night of his Las Vegas engagement in early September 1973. For the first time ever, the material from these shows is presented in stereo. The accompanying booklet - which includes rare photographs and memorabilia dating from this engagement and features liner notes which set the scene for this, his ninth season, in Las Vegas. Special thanks to those people are also credited.
Interview with Sheila Ryan
Interview with Sheila Ryan who was was Elvis' girlfriend after Linda Thompson. Sheila was the Oct.'73 Playboy cover girl and married James Caan in '76 (divorced in '77). Elvis had qualities that no other human being has, had, will have. Some of them are so hard to describe because the charisma, the qualities that he had were almost not of this world, you know. They were, a lot of times, angelic. He knew things before I knew things. He knew things that I was feeling before I was feeling them.
Elvis: 'California Holiday' Aka 'Spinout' 2-LP Vinyl Record Limited Edition from FTD
FTD Vinyl is pleased to announce the release of Elvis' 1966 soundtrack 'California Holiday' Aka 'Spinout' as a 2-LP Vinyl record Limited Edition. In October 1966, an MGM UK representative announced that California Holiday would have its world premiere in London, and that the original US title, Spinout, was changed because it was felt that would have more appeal to British and overseas audiences. Spinout was only used in the US and Canada. This unique FTD limited edition is based on the original UK release and features the red dot RCA Victor label. The double album includes the original soundtrack masters, studio outtakes and bonus tracks.
Elvis: The Last Tours Vol: 1 | 4 CD Set from FTD
As part of its ongoing live on tour series, Follow That Dream (FTD) is pleased to announce the release of 'Elvis: The Last Tours Vol: 1'. Released as a 4-CD 5" digipak, this set features great shows from 1977 – West Palm Beach (Feb 13), St. Petersburg (Feb 14), Montgomery (Feb 16), Columbia (Feb 18), Johnson City (Feb 19) and Charlotte (Feb 20/21).
James Burton Looks Back on Elvis Presley's Vegas Years
Elvis Presley's longtime guitarist looks back on his career rebirth in 1969. 'I hadn't actually met Elvis before I went to work with him', says the legendary guitarist James Burton, who'd already worked with a veritable who's who of rock stars when he picked up the phone one night in 1969 and found himself speaking to the King himself, Elvis Presley. 'I'd played the Louisiana Hayride around the time he came through when he was just starting out, but I didn't actually meet Elvis until 1969. He called me on the phone at my home in L.A., and I talked to him for two or three hours on the phone. He asked me if I'd be interested in going to Vegas and putting a band together for him. So I did'.
Singer & Musician Nick Bruno Shares Stories From His Years Working With Elvis
Nick Bruno is a multi-talented singer, musician, and record producer who has worked with many different artists throughout his impressive and lengthy career. In the early 70s, he joined J.D. Sumner & The Stamps which, at the time, was singing backup for Elvis Presley.
The Death Of Elvis Presley | August 16, 1977
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. He was to fly to Portland, Maine that night and do a show there on the 17th, then continue the scheduled tour. Elvis retired to his master suite at Graceland around 7:00 AM to rest for his evening flight. By late morning, Elvis Presley had died of heart failure. In a matter of hours the shock registered around the world.
Elvis Presley And The Events Of 1977
Elvis Presley & the event of 1977. A detailed look at the years events.
The Story Behind the MEMPHIS Box Set
During Elvis Week Ernst Jorgensen, Robert Gordon and Matt Ross-Spang did a listening session, hosted by Tom Brown, giving background on the newly mixed tracks and discussing the story behind the new 'MEMPHIS' 5 CD box set.
Chet Atkins talks about Elvis Presley
Could Elvis actually play guitar? He played pretty good, yeah. And he played piano and drums. The first sessions he'd come in and work. After that, when he got more confident, he'd come in and play drums a while, then guitar, then piano. Then he'd practice his karate and then send out for 85 White Cottage burgers and then he'd go to work around 11 o'clock at night. But he loved gospel music. Jake Hess had influenced him and Bill Monroe and Big Boy Crudup. The first time I ever heard him I thought, 'What in the hell is this?' I couldn't tell if he was black or bluegrass or gospel or what. Of course that was what made him what he was. He was so damn versatile he could sing anything.
Released | MEMPHIS 5 CD Box Set & 2 LP Vinyl Set
RCA Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, has released 'MEMPHIS', the definitive and first fully comprehensive collection of Elvis Presley's hometown recordings. Over 111 tracks, 'MEMPHIS' captures Presley from his earliest sessions at Sun Studio - which occurred 70 years ago this Summer - to his final recordings in Graceland's Jungle Room. Along the way, the Bluff City serves as both home and muse to Presley, playing a pivotal role in the dramatic arc of his artistry as he finds creative rebirth at American Sound in 1969, overcomes personal struggles at Stax in 1973, and brings his most extravagant and spellbinding live show to the Mid-South Coliseum in 1974. Produced by noted Elvis authority Ernst Jørgensen, with rare archival material and new liner notes by GRAMMY-winning music historian Robert Gordon, 'MEMPHIS' is released in 5CD, 2LP configurations, giving fresh insight into the bond between Elvis and his eternal home.
Elvis: Las Vegas - Closing Night 1973 STEREO CD and Vinyl from MRS
'Memphis Recording Service' (MRS) will release in September a CD Deluxe 'Las Vegas – Closing Night 1973' along with a 2LP - 180-gram vinyl version available in either clear or black vinyl. This CD set contains the highlights of Elvis' final two shows performed on the closing night of his Las Vegas engagement in early September 1973. For the first time ever, the material from these shows is presented in stereo. The accompanying booklet - which includes rare photographs and memorabilia dating from this engagement and features liner notes which set the scene for this, his ninth season, in Las Vegas. Special thanks to those people are also credited.
Released | Elvis Presley - Guitar Man - The 67/68 Sessions 5 CD Set (FTD)
Released | As part of its ongoing 'Sessions' series, FTD is pleased to announce the release of Elvis Presley - Guitar Man - The 67/68 Sessions. Released as a 5-CD SET, It features the RCA label sessions at RCA Studio B in Nashville. September 1967 highlights include the title track along with 'Hi Heel Sneakers', 'Big Boss Man' and 'You Don't Know Me'. January 1968 spawned 'Too Much Monkey Business' and 'U.S. Male'. The 24-page booklet features rare photos, session data, memorabilia and global chart and release information.
Interview with Elvis Presley: October 28, 1957, Los Angeles
Interview with Elvis Presley just after the general press conference, but prior to his debut at the Pan-Pacific in Los Angeles. How do you write music if you don't read it? It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, maybe. When? I went to bed one night, had quite a dream, and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it. By morning, he had a new song, 'All Shook Up'.
Fans share their memories from the day Elvis played Tacoma in 1957
Fans remember the historic day of Sept. 1, 1957, when Elvis Presley played Tacoma. Some 6,000 people caught the King at the Lincoln Bowl, prior to an evening engagement at the old Sicks Stadium in Seattle. Here's some of what they remember:
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Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD
Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio.
This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11.000 people. Highly recommended.
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound.
