1955
Elvis performed at the Keesler Air Force Base, outside Biloxi, Mississippi.
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Photo autographed by Elvis Scotty and Bill for the Zollers.
By 1954, the club was run by Master Sergeant Otto Zoller who booked all kinds of entertainment for the young airmen, everything from comedy acts and magic shows to country music, to give them variety. When Frank "Yankie" Barhanovich, a Biloxi promoter who had met Elvis at the Jesuit High School in New Orleans and had booked them in Biloxi at the Slavonian Lodge for June 26, 1955, Zoller decided to try Elvis and also booked them for the following two nights for their first appearances at the Airmen's Club.
"I told him if he would go down there, Dan Seal would play the first forty-five minutes to lighten his load," Barhanovich said. The following November, Barhanovich booked Elvis into the Biloxi Community House on the 6th and then two more nights on 7th and 8th at the Airmen's Club. According to Barhanovich, "He packed them in, though. They were climbing through the windows. Later, I tried to book him again and he (Neal) wrote me back and said he's fifteen hundred dollars a night now. I replied, ‘Let me know when he gets back to three hundred a night and I’ll take a week."2
Rusty Zoller, Sgt. Zoller's son, said, "after the 2nd time my dad said he wouldn’t book Elvis again, mainly because the local girls were climbing in the windows to see him and it was a crowd control nightmare. However, my dad made a statement we never let him live down, “…besides, he doesn’t have any talent – he’ll never make it.” Elvis would sign with RCA by the end of the month. We ribbed my dad about it all the rest of his life.
This is the venue that Elvis met June Juanico
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1956
Elvis Presley’s “Love Me” became the first million-seller to make the charts without being released as a single. It was on an EP (extended play) 45-RPM record with three other songs on it.
1957
Elvis was sailing to Hawaii
1960
Vernon and Dee Presley arrive in LA with Elvis.
Elvis arrived at Radio Recorders at 8.00 p.m. to record the soundtrack for Wild In The Country. He worked until 2.30 a.m @ Radio Recorders – Hollywood, California
Lonely Man (Record Version) L2PB 5381-13
Lonely Man (Solo) WPA5 2504-04
In My Way (Solo) L2PB 5384-08
Wild In The Country L2PB 5383-19
Forget Me Never (Solo) L2PB 5385-03
1961
Ray Charles is arrested in Indianapolis after police discover marijuana and heroin in his hotel room.
Kid Galahad
1962
It Happened at the World’s Fair
1963
The Beatles went to Ireland to make their only two appearances ever in the country playing two shows at the Adelphi Cinema, Dublin. The group hooked up with screenwriter Alun Owen, who had been appointed to write the screenplay for The Beatles’ first (as yet untitled) motion picture. Owen spent three days with The Beatles observing their hectic, lifestyle.
Kissin Cousins Post Production
1964
Tickle Me
1966
The photography of Easy Come, Easy Go was completed. Elvis had showed up late, so now Producer Hal Wallis would wait to release him from the picture.
1967
Stay Away Joe Production
1968
The Trouble with Girls Production
1969
Elvis returned to Las Vegas. He visited a doctor there and got an antibiotic treatment.
1970
MGM Records President Mike Curb announces that the company is dropping 18 acts from its roster in a move to discredit musicians who “exploit and promote hard drugs through music.” Among the acts dropped are Connie Francis, and The Cowsills, but not Eric Burdon.
1971
Elvis, in the white fireworks suit, performed at the Freedom Hall, State Fair and Expo Center, Louisville, Kentucky.
Elvis introduced his grandfather, Jessie Presley who attended the concert.
1977
The Elvis Presley song “My Way” was released posthumously.
1979
The movie The Rose held its premiere in Los Angeles – Bette Midler starred as the overindulgent rock superstar who eventually became the victim of her own success – it was a story loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin.
1986
The film “Sid And Nancy” opened nationally.
1994
Queen released the album “Made in Heaven” in the U.S. It was their first studio album since the death of Freddie Mercury. Mercury died November 24, 1991 of AIDS.
2017
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Elvis was not the first pole dancer in history By Roger Schlueter November 7, 2017 9:36 A
Q: My wife and I are big Elvis Presley fans. If you remember the movie “Jailhouse Rock,” there is the iconic dance scene in which Elvis works and slides down the pole in the jailhouse. We’re wondering whether Elvis was the first pole dancer or was it perhaps some “lady” who originated it in some gentleman’s club? Stephen Faro, of Port St. Lucie, Fla. (formerly of Belleville) A: Movie audiences in 1957 may have been all shook up by Elvis’ hip gyrations, but if you think it was the King who debuted this exercise in sensuality, you’re poles apart from the historic evidence. Although theories abound as to its origin, they seem to agree that its roots probably date back centuries, according to the scholarly tome “Femininity, Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing” by Kerry Griffiths. One idea is that it traces its beginnings to the maypole, which some see as a phallic symbol or a pagan symbol of fertility, and its accompanying dance. Others point to the 800-year tradition of mallakhamb, an ancient Indian sport in which athletes show off their strength and endurance through their pole routines. (If you’ve never experienced it, take a gander at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICkwimL3AI.) Similarly, in the Chinese circus, performers do gymnastics on poles, even using two poles and leaping between them 20 feet in the air. In the United States, however, its beginnings seem to have far more to do with sex than sport. According to Griffiths, the best guess is that it had its beginnings around the turn of the 20th century during the so-called “Little Egypt” sideshows, which featured sensual “kouta-kouta” dancers, more popularly known as “hoochie coochie.” At a time when women were still dressing in corsets, you can imagine the stir these women caused when they were sashaying around in belly-dancing outfits, adorned in jewelry.
And to raise even more eyebrows, these dancers reportedly tried to lure men into their shows by standing outside and grinding their bodies against the tent poles to simulate sex. As their “art” became less scandalous, the dancers (along with their poles) began moving out of tents and into bars as Sally Rand and other burlesque and striptease dancers became popular. So by the time Elvis came along, the practice still may have been shocking to some, but rather old hat in general. Now it’s become so accepted that dancers — both male and female — compete for prizes in such contests as the U.S. Pole Federation Championship and the International Pole Masters Cup Championship. In fact, just last year, K.T. Coates, a well-known competitive pole dancer, and the International Pole Sport Federation, petitioned the International Olympic Committee to recognize it as a sport (see polesports.org).
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THE WONDER OF FLUE ‘Ghost of Elvis’ snapped by Dundee grandad sitting on a roof next to a chimney
Murray McHardy, 57, spotted the apparition from his bedroom window while getting ready for work
Published: 10:26, 7 Nov 2017
A GRANDFATHER says he snapped the ghost of Elvis Presley perched on the roof of a neighbour’s house.
Murray McHardy, 57, was getting ready for his shift as a taxi driver when he spotted the apparition from his bedroom.
Murray, from Dundee, Scotland, said: “I looked out the window and noticed a figure.
“I took the picture so that I could zoom in and try and figure out who it was I thought it looked like.”
Murray, who is a grandfather of six, uploaded the eerie snap to Facebook where it sparked a heated debate between those who thought the figure sat next to the chimney resembled the King of rock and roll and those who said it looked more like famed Scots poet Robert Burns.
Murray added: “I had so many comments on it with people giving me different suggestions. Some people said Elvis which I can see but, at first, I thought of Robert Burns.
“I posted the picture last Wednesday and I am still having people message me about it. Some people believe it is fake and that I have edited it.
“I haven’t, it is there and you can see it with your eyes. It’s just a bit of fun really. It’s just all about perception.
“I showed it to my wife and she could see it too. I can’t believe I have only just noticed it.
“It is just all about perception and what individuals perceive.
Elvis is still referred to as the king of rock and roll 40 years after his death in 1977 and has estimated record sales of more than 600 million worldwide.
Vanessa Mitchell had to flee the home with her baby son in 2008 and has been too scared to return after being terrorised by ghosts.
The 44-year-old bought The Cage in St Osyth, Essex, in 2004 but didn’t realise it was haunted.
Her home was formerly a medieval prison and hosted one of England’s most famous witch hunts in the 16th Century – where eight women died after being accused.
Vanessa, who also has a ten-month-old son, said: “The house is so haunted I haven’t been able to live there since 2008.”