1954
Having dropped his cowboy image about a year and a half earlier, and renaming The Saddlemen to Bill Haley and His Comets, their rendition of “Shake, Rattle and Roll” peaks at #7 during its US chart run of 27 weeks. Producer Milt Gabler would later say that he “cleaned up” the lyrics from Joe Turner’s original 1954 version in order to insure radio air-play.
1955
Billboard introduces The Top 100 format, which will combine record sales with radio and jukebox play to arrive at the standings. The Four Aces “Love Is A Many Splendored Thing” has the distinction of being the first number one record using the new calculation method. The most played R&B single is Johnny Ace’s “Pledging My Love”, the most promising artist is Chuck Berry, the favorite R&B artist is Fats Domino and Elvis Presley is voted the most promising Country And Western artist.
Elvis flew back home to Memphis after the DJ Convention in Nashville.
1956
At Capitol Studios in New York City, seven months before his death from cancer, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra recorded “So Rare.” Dorsey lived long enough to see the record peak at #2 for four weeks on the Billboard Top 100 before it was certified Gold.
Elvis enjoys a Vegas vacation.
1957
Dance Teacher magazine denounces England’s Princess Margaret for endorsing Rock ‘n’ Roll, and in doing so, hastening the demise of Ballroom dancing. The article went on to say that “Rock ‘n’ Roll should be discouraged.”
Elvis performed at the Schofield Barracks, HI Conroy Bowl, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This was Elvis last performance before he entered the army. The show was not only for service personnel and their families.
https://scottymoore.net/conroybowl.html
THAR HE GOES-Elvis really walloped the Post Bowl audience recently with his “unique” song styling. The loose jointed idol gave his all as he rendered his top tunes to squeals from the many teenage girls present. Some 10,000 civilians, military personnel and dependents attended his performance. US Army © Photo by 125th Signal Battalion, courtesy FECC/claud
1960
Wild in the Country Production
1961
Kid Galahad Production
1962
It Happened at the World’s Fair Production
1963
Few acts have had to do this but it worked for the Beatles. The group dressed up as policemen after a show in Birmingham, England to escape a crowd of fans.
, 1964
24-year-old Tom Jones records “It’s Not Unusual” for Britain’s Decca Records. The song, originally offered to, but turned down by Sandie Shaw, will become Jones’ breakthrough hit, reaching #1 in the UK and #10 in the US.
Roustabout opens nationally and hits number eight at the box office. The soundtrack goes to number one on the Billboard pop album chart as it represents some of the “best” Elvis movie music in a while.
Tickle Me in Production
1965
The final recording session for The Beatles Rubber Soul album took place, at Abbey Road, London. They needed three new songs to finish the album so an old song ‘Wait’ was pulled off the shelf and the group recorded two new songs from start to finish. Paul’s ‘You Won’t See Me’ and John’s ‘Girl’, the basic tracks for both songs being completed in two takes. Rubber Soul was completed, and finished copies of the album were in the shops by December 3 in the UK and December 6 in the US.
1966
Easy Come, Easy Go Production Complete. Wallis Power Tripping by not releasing Elvis until Nov 22
1967
Stay Away Joe. Production
1968
The Trouble with Girls Production
1969
Elvis Presley released the single “Don’t Cry Daddy.” The song reached #6 in the U.S. and #8 in the U.K.
1970
Elvis That’s the Way it Is It released in accompaniment the theatrical release of the documentary film of the same name (although it is not generally considered a soundtrack album), and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200 and at number eight on the country chart.It was certified Gold on June 28, 1973.
Original Elvis Release 1970 to the Deluxe CD release to the the Complete recordings
Elvis That’s the Way It Is album has been repacked in several deluxe and special editions by BMG and Sony. With 2 discs, 3 disc and a multi cd/dvd box set.
meanwhile: Elvis Presley Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... ov-11.html
CONCERT DATE: November 11, 1970, Portland, OR.
Old Elvis Come Through To Delight Of Devotees
by John Wenderborn
The Oregonian
November 12, 1970
Any questions aimed at establishing the existence of one Elvis Presley, a former musician-entertainer, will have to be relayed to the young man in white who ruled the stage at Memorial Coliseum Wednesday night and performed a rather poor imitation of the man some claim is an art form all by himself.
Elvis, a man of 34 now, showed an occasional flash of the old genius that made him the great white father of the rock 'n' roll (a title that should be contested by Chuck Berry, the great black father of same) but most of his concert was nothing more that a put-on or rip-off, to be a little more contemporary.
Elvis worked hard, there's no doubt about that. Unfortunately, the work he did could have been done by any clown in P.T. Barnum's entourage and the $10 price tag of the tickets proved the value of another of Barnum's wise ad-ages, you know, the one about lollipops and timepieces.
To be sure, Mr. Presley can still do those leg splits and can still crouch in his tight show-suit. He can even sing and well - when he wants to. A hymn, "How Great Thou Art" was done nicely and he actually sang most of the slower tepoed pieces all the way through with some semblance of feeling for the music.
Elvis Works Hard
And when he broke into those Elvis anthems, such as "Blue Suede Shoes," "Hound Dog," the old fire caught on for an instant and the screaming girls got their licks in - even if many of those screaminers were now mothers and matrons. Except Elvis never did finish one of the type of song many of those in the audience came to hear, raucous, blues with the driving beat and flashing electric guitar giving Presley the solid background he once thrived on.
Every tune was a lush production that sounded like the previous one. Elvis started out - laughing and being a general fool while splashing musicians and audience with Gatorade - every song. On the second chorus the Sweet Temptations (four girls) and Imperials (four boys) elevated the decibels and on the third chorus the young lady charged with singing four octaves above high C joined in for an ear-shattering conclusion. All this while an otherwise fine stage band crescendoed out of sight.
Even though each tune received this treatment, the natural beauty of Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" was there and "Suspicious Mind" received a creditable treatment.
Presley, of course, is a legend in his own time, to quote somebody's line about some hero of the Wild West, but he's trying to rewrite it; he did Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" and it was the best tune of the night. It was done in the old Presley style. It was fast and incorporated the fabulous backup quintet before falling back on the regimental band and choir and the sound system.
Elvis gained respect a decade ago because he worked hard, both on his vocals and his guitar. He gave up the guitar early and relied on a horde of musicians to get his sound across.
In 1970 Elvis Presley still works up a sweat onstage but many of his movements are unnecessary, he directs the band with arm jerks, he runs around the stage like a long haired Pagliacci eager to keep the stage crew happy but yearning to get back to the introverted security that hasn't been shattered by the outside word in years.
The first half of the show included the gospelish Imperials who gave away to the Sweet Temptations, backed up by a four-piece rock group that got the girls into a nicely-done groove on "Freedom". The bass man in the group was excellent and although the girls sounded most like the Supremes of old they were well-disciplined and talented.
Some 12,000 Elvis fans came to see the master; it's doubtful many went away disappointed though. Even a tarnished legend can be brightened up in time.
1971
Elvis performed at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon.
November 11, 1971 (8:30 pm). Cincinnati, OH. Elvis Really Tears ‘Em Up
By Jim Knippenberg, The Cincinnati Enquirer, November 12, 1971
CONCERT DATE: November 11, 1971 (8:30 pm). Cincinnati, OH.
Elvis Really Tears 'Em Up
By Jim Knippenberg
The Cincinnati Enquirer
November 12, 1971
It was rip 'em up, tear em up, give em hell Elvis night at Cincinnati Gardens Thursday as well over 13,000 jammed the hall to be floored by King Elvis.
And floor them he did. It took no more than a casual stroll onto the stage to the strains of "Space Odyssey" and Elvis had them wailing, shrieking, sobbing and squealing his name. There were more hysterical women than in a B-grade prison movie. The men weren't doing too badly, either.
The full house - amazingly well-behaved aside from the awesome traffic jam - saw Elvis open his show after 50 minutes of warm-ups.
FIRST there were the Sweet Inspirations, three black girls with a lot of energy and the ability to whip up the audience - as if it needed whipping up.
Then it was a comedian who got in lots of barbs about human inconsistencies.
And then it was just like the old days. Elvis appeared and hysteria erupted. From the moment he entered the hall to the moment he left, the air was supercharged - with enough flashbulbs exploding to give the effect of a dozen strobes.
He was backed by an orchestra of about 20 and a chorus of equal size. But then most people didn't notice, all they saw was Elvis and his guitar.
Resplendent in black bells and a cape with gold sequins everywhere, Elvis put on a show that was a curious mixture of then and now.
He looks very "today" - a sort of like an eccentric hippy - singing both current hits and those wonderful numbers from bygone years. He definitely has something for everyone.
"I Got A Woman," "Proud Mary," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," "Jailhouse Rock'" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Blue Suede Shoes" were the highlights of the show.
Even the Gardens' notorious sound system could do no damage. Though it did him no favors, he looked and sounded wonderful, like Regency rake.
AS WAS the case back when Elvis started doing his thing, the swiveling pelvis was an important item - as wild and uncontrolled as ever. To protect the wild pelvis, there was a phalanx of policemen in front of stage.
Undeniably Elvis' crowd was a much of a show as he was. Such a glorious frenzy we have never seen the likes before.
No complaints about the production and management of the show either. It was punctual, well-handed and a flaming success.
1972
For the week of October 21, 1972, “Burning Love” rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, being kept from #1 by Chuck Berry‘s novelty song “My Ding-a-Ling.”[2] However, it reached #1 on Cashbox’s Top 40 Charts for the week of November 11, which gave him 20 US #1 hits.
Elvis performed at the Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The kissing and the sharing of scarves was of course a part of Elvis’ show. He ordered 115 scarves in different colors from Mr. Guy in Las Vegas.
CONCERT DATE: November 11, 1972 (8:30 pm) Oakland, CA. Oakland Coliseum.
Elvis Presley: The Way It Is
by John L. Wasserman
San Francisco Chronicle
November 13, 1972
ELVIS PRESLEY, probably the world's greatest musical superstar, played his concert of the 70's here on Saturday night at The Oakland Coliseum Arena.
The show opened with some bad comedy - the better to wet your appetite, my dear - followed by a couple of numbers by the Sweet Inspirations. Then the Dramatic Overture (the theme from "2001" or equivalent) and There He Was!!!
Presley swept on stage, abandoned his guitar after a few perfunctory swipes, adjusted his sequine, practiced a few karate punches and, blinded by a thousand Kodak instamatics, roared through such as "Polk Salad Annie," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Love Me Tender," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Blue Suede Shoes" and other rock and roll favorites and suffused the long since sold out hall with the special and irresistible charisma that is, among singers, his alone.
The audience, ranging from the new "Burning Love" coverts to us oder folks who remember the '50s, screamed howled, cried and clapped as vigorously that a post-concert palm-reader would have been unable to pinpoint a life-line, much less an abnormal desire for cranberries.
UNFORTUNATELY, I was unable to attend, nor I spoken with anyone who did. Nevertheless, the above is al true. After seeing Elvis four time in Las Vegas, once in Oakland and twice in concert-tour films in the last 24 months; after seeing basically the same show - with a few changes in repertoire - every single last time ... well, as the title of the first film predicted, that's the way it is.
Elvis is, to put it simply, a bore to write about after the first half-dozen excursions into his costumes, his money, his retinue, his vocal limitations and his hair-sprayed and hysterical followers. He is a man of astonishing appeal, historical impact and limited ability. That's the way it is.
1974
Elvis left Las Vegas in a leased plane from the Jet Fleet Corporation to return to Memphis.
1995
The Elvis Presley single “The Twelfth Of Never” hit #21 in the U.K.
2002
British Phonographic industry data showed that sales of singles were at their lowest level in 25 years, making up less than 10% of all music sold.
2003
The Elvis Presley two-CD compilation “Louisiana Hayride/Interviews With Elvis” was released.
The DVD “Elvis – The Man the Music the Legend” was released.
2010
Viva Elvis is the soundtrack remix album of the Cirque du Soleil show Viva Elvis, which focuses on the life and music of American singer and musician Elvis Presley. The album, though initially produced as a soundtrack to the show, does not include all of the songs featured in the show. The CD tracks are rearranged and extended versions of songs heard in the show, and in fact the album includes two instrumental versions of the songs “Memories” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone“, neither of which is in the Cirque du Soleil show.
2014
A collection of dresses and outfits worn by Madonna during her career in music and film helped a celebrity auction raise $3.2m (£2m). The highest lot was a jacket from Desperately Seeking Susan, which fetched $252,000, while a gown from her Material Girl video reached $73,125. Other lots which attracted the bidders were a pair of John Lennon’s spectacles which sold for $25,000 (£15,751) and a ring worn by Elvis Presley for $57,600 (£36,291).
2016
https://www.toledoblade.com/KirkBaird/2 ... certs.html
Toledoan once tussled with Elvis
Incident happened at Commodore Perry Hotel in downtown
History is only important if we remember it, right?
Not quite.
Nov. 22 marks the 60th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s first Toledo concerts: 2:30 and 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day at the Sports Arena.
While Elvis’ concerts are certainly the headline — particularly when he was the young rebel rock and roller — their importance is mostly as cultural milestones for Toledo, a Midwest city that more often sees the back end rather than the front end of national trends.
What’s been mostly forgotten about Elvis’ Thanksgiving concerts is the actual news from those shows, the “Presley Puncher.”
As reported by The Blade, Elvis was relaxing at the bar-lounge of the Commodore Perry Hotel in downtown — what is now the Commodore Perry Apartments — with bandmates and handlers when a 19-year-old unemployed sheet metal worker named Louis Balint confronted him.
“He supposedly was incensed over his estranged wife’s admiration of the performer,” a Blade reporter wrote. Another article said Balint mouthed off to the young Presley — “I’m going to beat the hell out of you because my wife carried your picture instead of mine in her purse” — before taking a swing.
But as the saying goes, if you’re going to come at the King, you better not miss. Balint connected — once — and then Presley took it from there. By the time police broke up the fracas, Presley was pummeling Balint.
The Toledo tough was arrested and spent time in the Workhouse, until his dad wired bail money — $35 — to cover the fine and court costs. Presley wasn’t arrested and no charges were filed.
At this point the headline is something like “Toledo Teen Tussles with Elvis,” which is more than satisfying enough. But the story gets better and stranger.
Only two days out of jail, Balint was drinking beer in a local bar and claiming to a Blade reporter that the Presley fight was fixed.
“Sure, you don’t think I’d bust in like I did in that bar and swing at Presley without knowing I was to get some dough?”he said.
Balint, a former Los Angeles drama student, offered this explanation: A “sharp character” approached him at a bar between Presley concerts and promised him $200 if he would stage a fight with the singer to generate positive publicity. Only a month before, Presley had been in a fight with a Memphis gas station owner, which drew national attention; you know what they say about there being no such thing as bad publicity.
“To show you how phony the fight was,” Balint told The Blade, “the guy who fixed it had me give the cops my age as 19. I’m 22. The guy said 19 would sit better with the young chicks.
“I still haven’t seen the jerk,” he added later in the interview. “If my old man hadn’t read about it in the Los Angeles papers and sent me the money I’d still be in the clink.”
The Associated Press picked up the story and interviewed Balint’s 20-year-old wife, Joan. She denied carrying a photo of Presley.
“I don’t like him, but then I don’t like most singers,” she said. “But I do think Liberace is pretty good.”
In the same article, the AP noted that Balint returned to Los Angeles on a bus shortly after the incident. “Mrs. Balint declined to say whether she and her husband are estranged,” the AP story noted. “She and her two children are here [Los Angeles] with relatives.”
And that’s where this story — his story — ends.
Scouring the Internet and other sources for more information about Balint — how to contact him or his relatives, and even whether he’s still alive — proved fruitless, as is verifying the veracity of his fixed-fight claim.
While an album title a few years after the incident suggested 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong, chances are Balint vehemently disagreed.
“I read where Presley takes $16,000 out of Toledo for them two shows at the arena,” he told The Blade. “Sixteen grand and he’s too cheap to pay me my lousy $200.”
also news headlines that day:
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2018
Elvis being used for publicity and being mocked… #LestWeForget
headlines:
Elvis Presley to Be Honored With Presidential Medal of …
Billboard
Elvis Presley, That Hound Dog, Is Receiving the Presidential Medal of …
Vulture
Elvis Presley Among Selections for Presidential Medal of …
Variety