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Something Within by The Jordanaires: 1951
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:59
- Updated: 15 Aug 2013
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Freddie Starr Ft The Jordanaires - Dont
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
[Video] Freddie Starr Ft The Jordanaires - Dont [Elvis Presley] (Wiggy St Helens UK 2010)
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[Video] Freddie Starr Ft The Jordanaires - Dont [Elvis Presley] (Wiggy St Helens UK 2010)
- published: 09 May 2010
- views: 168268
- author: WiggyVideos11
Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires- Peace In The Valley (Stereo)
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 12 Aug 2013
While I am aware that there is already a number of uploads on You Tube of Peace In The Valley but this upload is a first time Binaural-Stereo (i.e. Elvis voc...
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While I am aware that there is already a number of uploads on You Tube of Peace In The Valley but this upload is a first time Binaural-Stereo (i.e. Elvis voc...
- published: 24 Nov 2011
- views: 4711
- author: tenniscollector
GORDON STOKER (Elvis/Jordanaires) FINAL PUBLIC PERFORMANCE w/CODY SLAUGHTER, 2012
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- Duration: 1:51
- Updated: 03 Aug 2013
Gordon Stoker, founding member of Elvis Presley's vocal back up group, The Jordanaires passed away in Brentwood, TN on March 27, 2013. HIs final appearance w...
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Gordon Stoker, founding member of Elvis Presley's vocal back up group, The Jordanaires passed away in Brentwood, TN on March 27, 2013. HIs final appearance w...
- published: 28 Mar 2013
- views: 2310
- author: CBSEye
The Jordanaires: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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- Duration: 3:20
- Updated: 29 Jul 2013
The Jordanaires: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
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Rick Nelson & The Jordanaires Lonesome Town 1985 Live
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- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
Rick performs Lonesome Town on "The Mowtown Reveue" hosted by Smokey Robinson August 30th, 1985.
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Rick performs Lonesome Town on "The Mowtown Reveue" hosted by Smokey Robinson August 30th, 1985.
- published: 15 Aug 2012
- views: 7768
- author: jesmelric
The Jordanaires Medley
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- Duration: 5:01
- Updated: 02 Aug 2013
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Just a Little Talk With Jesus Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Jordanaires
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 20 Jun 2013
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Jordanaires - Workin' on a Building
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- Duration: 1:50
- Updated: 25 May 2013
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the Jordanaires-All Shook Up
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- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 31 Jul 2013
the Jordanaires-All Shook Up. Swedish TV 1990.
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the Jordanaires-All Shook Up. Swedish TV 1990.
- published: 22 Nov 2008
- views: 30623
- author: sverrisen
Art Greenhaw & The Jordanaires - "Crying In The Chapel"
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
In the past few years alone, Art Greenhaw of The Light Crust Doughboys and The Jordanaires have been awarded Grammys and 6 Grammy Nominations for their album...
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In the past few years alone, Art Greenhaw of The Light Crust Doughboys and The Jordanaires have been awarded Grammys and 6 Grammy Nominations for their album...
- published: 08 Feb 2008
- views: 212606
- author: Dave Brodsky
Elvis Presley and the Jordanaires - Stuck on you.
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
Number one on the Billboard : 04-25-1960.
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Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - A Little Less Conversation (1968)
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- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
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Amazing Grace The Jordanaires
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 10 Jul 2013
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Jordanaires - Let Us Break Bread Together.wmv
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- Duration: 3:00
- Updated: 11 May 2013
From 1960 - "Let Us Break Bread Together" frm the "Land of Jordan" LP.
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From 1960 - "Let Us Break Bread Together" frm the "Land of Jordan" LP.
- published: 12 Nov 2012
- views: 77
- author: GospelManWFLQ
The Jordanaires - He Lifted me
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- Duration: 1:46
- Updated: 12 Aug 2013
Grand Ole Opry Stars.
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MANSION OVER THE HILLTOP BY ELVIS PRESLEY/ JORDANAIRES
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
This is a great old Country Gospel number by the Late Elvis. Please leave me a comment if you like it and please share it with some one else. Thanks for watc...
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This is a great old Country Gospel number by the Late Elvis. Please leave me a comment if you like it and please share it with some one else. Thanks for watc...
- published: 14 Jun 2009
- views: 17494
- author: Darlene Skyles
The Jordanaires with the Clines Music Promo
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- Duration: 4:58
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
The Jordanaires promo with Keith Bilbrey doing the voice over.
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The Jordanaires promo with Keith Bilbrey doing the voice over.
- published: 12 Aug 2008
- views: 17933
- author: mando1man
THE JORDANAIRES rock my soul in the bossom of abraham & noah DECCA 1953
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- Duration: 4:58
- Updated: 17 Jun 2013
Jordaires 1. Noah 2. Rock My Soul IN the Bosom Of Abraham gospel boppers DECCA DJ 9-29188 [1954] rockabilly.
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Jordaires 1. Noah 2. Rock My Soul IN the Bosom Of Abraham gospel boppers DECCA DJ 9-29188 [1954] rockabilly.
- published: 28 May 2010
- views: 16924
- author: bebopcapitol
The Jordanaires - Dig a Little Deeper
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 17 Jul 2013
The Jordanaires - Dig a Little Deeper at the Grand Ole Opry.
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The Jordanaires - Dig a Little Deeper at the Grand Ole Opry.
- published: 28 Jul 2010
- views: 6163
- author: MisterStereo
Elvis Presley (With The Jordanaires) - Crying In The Chapel
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- Duration: 2:27
- Updated: 12 Aug 2013
You saw me crying in the chapel. The tears I shed were tears of joy I know the meaning of contentment Now I am happy with the Lord Just a plain and simple ch...
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You saw me crying in the chapel. The tears I shed were tears of joy I know the meaning of contentment Now I am happy with the Lord Just a plain and simple ch...
- published: 13 Aug 2012
- views: 650
- author: 1964chrissie
Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - Can't Help Falling In Love
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 01 Jul 2013
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Greg McDonald talks with the Jordanaires, Elvis Presley's BG Singers - Tribute to Ricky Nelson
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- Duration: 1:53
- Updated: 18 Mar 2013
Greg McDonald, Ricky Nelsons Manager talks with the Jordanaires, Elvis and Ricky Nelsons back-up vocalists for a Special Tribute to Ricky Nelson TV Special.
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Greg McDonald, Ricky Nelsons Manager talks with the Jordanaires, Elvis and Ricky Nelsons back-up vocalists for a Special Tribute to Ricky Nelson TV Special.
- published: 06 Mar 2012
- views: 503
- author: compassentgroup
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Grand Ole Opry - Live - (Part 1) : Carl Smith June Carter The Jordanaires
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- Duration: 9:51
- Updated: 11 Aug 2013
Grand Ole Opry.
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Michael King & The Jordanaires 'Live' In Las Vegas
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- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 06 Feb 2013
Michael King (UK) performing Elvis' gospel classic 'Stand By Me' live in Las Vegas with The Jordanaires.
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Michael King (UK) performing Elvis' gospel classic 'Stand By Me' live in Las Vegas with The Jordanaires.
- published: 19 Apr 2008
- views: 2628
- author: cwnyah
Ken and The Jordanaires LiVe Love Me Tender
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 10 Aug 2013
RAY WALKER OF THE JORDANAIRES IS ACTUALLY SAYING THAT ELVIS HIMSELF WOULD BE PROUD OF KEN'S PERFORMANCE!
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RAY WALKER OF THE JORDANAIRES IS ACTUALLY SAYING THAT ELVIS HIMSELF WOULD BE PROUD OF KEN'S PERFORMANCE!
- published: 27 Nov 2008
- views: 553
- author: Ken Jordan
Johnny Earl & The Jordanaires - Girl of my best friend (Live - Tribute to Elvis Presley) HQ
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- Duration: 2:06
- Updated: 14 May 2013
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Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires G.I. Blues & Soldier Boy
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- Duration: 2:23
- Updated: 06 Jul 2013
Rare footage of Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires live on stage together.
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Rare footage of Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires live on stage together.
- published: 21 Jun 2009
- views: 13016
- author: nt639
Rick Nelson & the Jordanaires Mary Lou
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- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 13 May 2013
more from my old beta Hi Fi VCR Rick Nelson live in LA with the Jordanaires.
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more from my old beta Hi Fi VCR Rick Nelson live in LA with the Jordanaires.
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 140
- author: Kelvin Fleming
RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN A FOOL SUCH AS I ELVIS SOCIAL CLUB
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- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
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Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
- published: 05 Mar 2009
- views: 1214
- author: CRUMGLEN
Bassman like The Jordanaires featuring Ray Walker
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- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 11 Jul 2013
Bassman like The Jordanaires http://www.davesheriff.com - This song was written as a tribute to The Jordanaires (ex Elvis Presley) and in particular bassman ...
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Bassman like The Jordanaires http://www.davesheriff.com - This song was written as a tribute to The Jordanaires (ex Elvis Presley) and in particular bassman ...
- published: 01 Feb 2012
- views: 1309
- author: Dave Sheriff
Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires
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- Duration: 7:05
- Updated: 03 Aug 2013
Recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio B in March 2012 by Tim Jibson of UK's Adventures In Radio Ltd Live radio interview with Gordon Stoker by the UK's Magic Ne...
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Recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio B in March 2012 by Tim Jibson of UK's Adventures In Radio Ltd Live radio interview with Gordon Stoker by the UK's Magic Ne...
- published: 29 Mar 2013
- views: 334
- author: timjibson
I Was the One= Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires 1956
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- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
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Little Moses - The Jordanaires
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 12 Jul 2013
"Little Moses" by The Jordanaires
1964 Columbia Records.
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"Little Moses" by The Jordanaires
1964 Columbia Records.
No copyright is claimed in presenting this work.
The material presented here is out of print and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. No infringement is intended. Any alleged infringement is permissible under fair use principles in U.S. copyright laws.
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- published: 12 Jul 2013
- views: 21
Boots Randolph - Millie Kirkham- Bob Moore -The Jordanaires
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 14 Apr 2013
August 13, 2004 at the Cannon Center-50th Year of RNR.
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August 13, 2004 at the Cannon Center-50th Year of RNR.
- published: 26 Dec 2012
- views: 285
- author: Ana Fernandez
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 16 Aug 2010
KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES SINGING ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT.
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KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES SINGING ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT.
- published: 19 Dec 2008
- views: 656
- author: Ken Jordan
The Jordanaires - Working On A Building
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- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 20 Mar 2013
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I GOTTA KNOW RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN Elvis Social Club
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- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 11 Jun 2011
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
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Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
- published: 16 Mar 2009
- views: 2369
- author: CRUMGLEN
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"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded in 1991 (Carl Perkins,Larry Gatlin &The; Jordanaires)
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- Duration: 114:40
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded on December 4,1991 List of songs included are "Born To Be Blue" "Give A Little Love" "Mama He's Crazy" 'Don't Be Cruel"...
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"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded on December 4,1991 List of songs included are "Born To Be Blue" "Give A Little Love" "Mama He's Crazy" 'Don't Be Cruel"...
- published: 15 Apr 2013
- views: 17140
- author: TH30UTLAWS
Full Album:Elvis The Rockin' Days
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- Duration: 24:49
- Updated: 02 Aug 2013
Elvis Presley with an album first released in 1968. Side 1: 1, Tutti Frutti, 2, King Creole, 3, Blue Suede Shoes, 4, Don't Be Cruel, 5, Hard Headed Woman, 6,...
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Elvis Presley with an album first released in 1968. Side 1: 1, Tutti Frutti, 2, King Creole, 3, Blue Suede Shoes, 4, Don't Be Cruel, 5, Hard Headed Woman, 6,...
- published: 21 Jul 2013
- views: 131
- author: vinylripper1sweden
Country Rockers
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- Duration: 48:15
- Updated: 11 Aug 2013
Feat. Billy Crash Craddock, The Bellamy Brothers, The Jordanaires, Jerry Lee Lewis and Merle Haggard. This DVD was recorded live at Church Street Statio...
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Feat. Billy Crash Craddock, The Bellamy Brothers, The Jordanaires, Jerry Lee Lewis and Merle Haggard. This DVD was recorded live at Church Street Statio...
- published: 23 Aug 2011
- views: 127621
- author: MVDmusicvideo
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville (Documentary, Part 1)
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- Duration: 40:07
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
This is part 1, part 2 and 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Ottawa rockabilly band The Kingmakers, preparing to record their third album, sought a s...
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This is part 1, part 2 and 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Ottawa rockabilly band The Kingmakers, preparing to record their third album, sought a s...
- published: 10 Feb 2011
- views: 1117
- author: tenvolt
Beer And Song Of The Day August 18, 2013
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- Duration: 25:47
- Updated: 18 Aug 2013
Today's Beer Of The Day is New Belgium Giddy Up @ 6% ABV from Fort Collins, Colorado. Today's SONGS Of The Day are When I Reach That City (lyrics) by Tennessee Ernie Ford And The Jordanaires from 1959 AND Jesus Said If You Go (lyrics) by Bishop Samuel Kelsey. Birthday shout outs go to my good friends Tom, Sheila, Tim, and Paul.Additional shout outs go to my goo dfriends Dave, Meredith, Brad, his better half Robyn, Candi, and Robyn. This one's a definite mover and I know you'll enjoy the show!
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Today's Beer Of The Day is New Belgium Giddy Up @ 6% ABV from Fort Collins, Colorado. Today's SONGS Of The Day are When I Reach That City (lyrics) by Tennessee Ernie Ford And The Jordanaires from 1959 AND Jesus Said If You Go (lyrics) by Bishop Samuel Kelsey. Birthday shout outs go to my good friends Tom, Sheila, Tim, and Paul.Additional shout outs go to my goo dfriends Dave, Meredith, Brad, his better half Robyn, Candi, and Robyn. This one's a definite mover and I know you'll enjoy the show!
- published: 18 Aug 2013
- views: 8
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville Documentary - Part 2 of 3
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- Duration: 41:50
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
This is part 2, part 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Part 1 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fV1S4mW44 Ottawa rockabilly band The Kingmakers,...
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This is part 2, part 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Part 1 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fV1S4mW44 Ottawa rockabilly band The Kingmakers,...
- published: 14 Feb 2011
- views: 689
- author: tenvolt
BOX LOVE - CD 1 COMPLETO
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- Duration: 59:15
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
Todo Direito Reservado a Som Livre Músicas 1. The greatest love of all - Whitney Houston 2. (I've had) The time of my life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 3....
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Todo Direito Reservado a Som Livre Músicas 1. The greatest love of all - Whitney Houston 2. (I've had) The time of my life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 3....
- published: 22 Feb 2013
- views: 27079
- author: yeslove24
Grand Ole Opry - Live April 28 1956
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- Duration: 59:33
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
This Grand Old Opry was hosted by Carl Smith. Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Collins Kids, The Jordanaires, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs, Minnie...
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This Grand Old Opry was hosted by Carl Smith. Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Collins Kids, The Jordanaires, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs, Minnie...
- published: 18 Apr 2012
- views: 93905
- author: DollabiIIz2
Stardust Melody // E04 // Don Gibson
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- Duration: 21:23
- Updated: 28 Aug 2013
This week showcases country legend Mr. Don Gibson.
"I Can't Stop Loving You" with The Jordanaires on Pet Milk:
http://youtu.be/BZbNgD2aKqc
"Lonesome Number One" Pet Milk Opry Show:
http://youtu.be/kw3Bz-D5U8M
"Oh Lonesome Me" with June Carter on Pet Milk:
http://youtu.be/NqjzLFetwyE
Mr. Gibson and Dottie West sing "Till I Can't Take It Anymore:"
http://youtu.be/HFh8CsUyuVg
Don Gibson hosts Country Style USA #177:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr7qkS2uJ8&feature;=share&list;=PLaZToXYxEixc-4e51EsHgS9NujDGy7c6n
Don Gibson hosts Country Style USA #188:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf900L-jUw&feature;=share&list;=PLaZToXYxEixc-4e51EsHgS9NujDGy7c6n
"Just One Time":
http://youtu.be/JxN8UQAXwqA
"A Legend in My Time":
http://youtu.be/18Fad2Ul_Do
"Sweet Dreams":
http://youtu.be/fXpaGmZSFaY
"When Your House Is Not A Home":
http://youtu.be/SQ98UzHxECs
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This week showcases country legend Mr. Don Gibson.
"I Can't Stop Loving You" with The Jordanaires on Pet Milk:
http://youtu.be/BZbNgD2aKqc
"Lonesome Number One" Pet Milk Opry Show:
http://youtu.be/kw3Bz-D5U8M
"Oh Lonesome Me" with June Carter on Pet Milk:
http://youtu.be/NqjzLFetwyE
Mr. Gibson and Dottie West sing "Till I Can't Take It Anymore:"
http://youtu.be/HFh8CsUyuVg
Don Gibson hosts Country Style USA #177:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr7qkS2uJ8&feature;=share&list;=PLaZToXYxEixc-4e51EsHgS9NujDGy7c6n
Don Gibson hosts Country Style USA #188:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf900L-jUw&feature;=share&list;=PLaZToXYxEixc-4e51EsHgS9NujDGy7c6n
"Just One Time":
http://youtu.be/JxN8UQAXwqA
"A Legend in My Time":
http://youtu.be/18Fad2Ul_Do
"Sweet Dreams":
http://youtu.be/fXpaGmZSFaY
"When Your House Is Not A Home":
http://youtu.be/SQ98UzHxECs
- published: 28 Aug 2013
- views: 19
Beer And Song Of The Day June 16, 2013
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- Duration: 37:40
- Updated: 19 Jun 2013
Happy Father's Day everyone! Today's Beer Of The Day is Sneaky Pete India Pale Ale @ 10% ABV by Laughing Dog Brewing from Ponderay, Idaho. Today's SONGS Of T...
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Happy Father's Day everyone! Today's Beer Of The Day is Sneaky Pete India Pale Ale @ 10% ABV by Laughing Dog Brewing from Ponderay, Idaho. Today's SONGS Of T...
- published: 16 Jun 2013
- views: 13
- author: Joshua Baker
Slater Brothers IN THE MIX
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 50:57
- Updated: 19 Jun 2013
Slater Brothers In the mix 2011.
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The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville Documentary - Part 3 or 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 32:00
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Over the past few years The Kingmakers have put aside every dollar made from shows and invested this back into the band. This has resulted in a couple of gre...
http://wn.com/The_Kingmakers_Last_Night_In_Nashville_Documentary_Part_3_or_3
Over the past few years The Kingmakers have put aside every dollar made from shows and invested this back into the band. This has resulted in a couple of gre...
- published: 02 Mar 2011
- views: 117
- author: tenvolt
Stare Przeboje lat 60-70-80-90
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 59:33
- Updated: 01 Aug 2013
scorpions-always somewhere Wild World the beatles-help! travolta amp newton the jordanaires - don"t be cruel the goombay dance band-sun of jamaica the crests...
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scorpions-always somewhere Wild World the beatles-help! travolta amp newton the jordanaires - don"t be cruel the goombay dance band-sun of jamaica the crests...
- published: 29 Mar 2013
- views: 315
- author: Krzysztof Łanucha
Elvis Presley documentry, Gordon Stoker interviewed by Sonny Starr
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 35:35
- Updated: 31 Jul 2013
Famed Jordanaires lead tenor Gordon Stoker talks about his many years with Elvis on STARR TALK with Sonny Starr. The video is loaded with great music and won...
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Famed Jordanaires lead tenor Gordon Stoker talks about his many years with Elvis on STARR TALK with Sonny Starr. The video is loaded with great music and won...
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 3731
- author: Sonny Starr
Dj jim blues presents " hot jive baby ! "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:50
- Updated: 02 Jul 2013
jiver with the jordanaires,mike pedicin,teddy rich,the flairs,the flamingos, lucky millinder.
http://wn.com/Dj_jim_blues_presents_hot_jive_baby_!_
jiver with the jordanaires,mike pedicin,teddy rich,the flairs,the flamingos, lucky millinder.
- published: 11 Jan 2013
- views: 241
- author: jim blues
A Tribute For My Grandma
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 25:18
- Updated: 02 Jun 2013
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. I do not own the songs I used for this video. These are personal photos I used of myself and my family. The songs I used ...
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NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. I do not own the songs I used for this video. These are personal photos I used of myself and my family. The songs I used ...
- published: 16 Apr 2012
- views: 176
- author: yellca
GTA:SA MP-Co-op with Муррр_Муррр
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:16
- Updated: 08 Jul 2013
Моя первая игра в SA MP,да и первый совместный Let's Play с Муррр_Муррр. Let's Play немного отредактирован,что бы было смешней.
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Моя первая игра в SA MP,да и первый совместный Let's Play с Муррр_Муррр. Let's Play немного отредактирован,что бы было смешней.
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- views: 91
- author: MaxiM PleshivtceV
Pokemon emerald nuzlocke part 22 viva las killing the joke.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 24:10
- Updated: 12 Jan 2012
We begin our pokemon emerald nuzlocke run rules are as follows; First pokemon encountered in an area is the only pokemon that can be captured from an area, only one pokemon per area, fainting=death, nicknames must be used, no restrictions on number of items or pokeballs carried also no restrictions on poke-centres.
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We begin our pokemon emerald nuzlocke run rules are as follows; First pokemon encountered in an area is the only pokemon that can be captured from an area, only one pokemon per area, fainting=death, nicknames must be used, no restrictions on number of items or pokeballs carried also no restrictions on poke-centres.
- published: 12 Jan 2012
- views: 15
Ronnie McDowell - On Stage at the Swap Shop 1991
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:05
- Updated: 03 Aug 2013
Ronald Dean "Ronnie" McDowell (born March 25, 1950) is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1977 with the song "The King Is Gone", a tribut...
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Ronald Dean "Ronnie" McDowell (born March 25, 1950) is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1977 with the song "The King Is Gone", a tribut...
- published: 16 Jun 2013
- views: 570
- author: MissLongPlaylist
Deadpool Xbox 360 Walkthrough Gameplay Let's Play (Part 12) Free the spirits for Death (Censored)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:28
- Updated: 08 Jul 2013
After rescuing Rogue for Blockbuster, we are presented with yet another side mission - Free the spirits for Death. Between all the battles and challenges, this again takes almost an hour.
http://wn.com/Deadpool_Xbox_360_Walkthrough_Gameplay_Let's_Play_Part_12_Free_the_spirits_for_Death_Censored
After rescuing Rogue for Blockbuster, we are presented with yet another side mission - Free the spirits for Death. Between all the battles and challenges, this again takes almost an hour.
- published: 08 Jul 2013
- views: 28
Blackpool (BBC) episode 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:35
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
enjoy!
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The Jordanaires/Interview about the years with Elvis Presley/1990 Denmark.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 30 May 2011
Tv-show in Denmark featuring Charlie McCoy and The United. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Tijmen Zinkhaan, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, Sj...
http://wn.com/The_Jordanaires_Interview_about_the_years_with_Elvis_Presley_1990_Denmark
Tv-show in Denmark featuring Charlie McCoy and The United. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Tijmen Zinkhaan, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, Sj...
- published: 14 Jun 2009
- views: 3324
- author: DrumMusicConsult
interview RAY WALKER
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:58
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
Sue Moreno interview Ray Walker from the Jordanaires.
http://wn.com/interview_RAY_WALKER
Sue Moreno interview Ray Walker from the Jordanaires.
- published: 22 Dec 2008
- views: 3610
- author: Hankabillyculttv
Ricky Nelson -Interviews of his friends
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:31
- Updated: 09 Aug 2013
Interviews of his friends and Ricky. Also Fats Domino , John fogerty ,The Jordanaires, Roy orbison, Carl parkins, kris kristofferson ,Jerry Lee Lewis , Randy...
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Interviews of his friends and Ricky. Also Fats Domino , John fogerty ,The Jordanaires, Roy orbison, Carl parkins, kris kristofferson ,Jerry Lee Lewis , Randy...
- published: 04 Oct 2009
- views: 26824
- author: marieren
All shook up/Hans Molenaar on drums w/The Jordanaires & The United/1989.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 24 Jan 2010
Performing Elvis Presley's All shook up. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Jan Hartman, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, Sjoerd Plak en Hans Mole...
http://wn.com/All_shook_up_Hans_Molenaar_on_drums_w_The_Jordanaires_The_United_1989
Performing Elvis Presley's All shook up. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Jan Hartman, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, Sjoerd Plak en Hans Mole...
- published: 14 Jun 2009
- views: 94
- author: DrumMusicConsult
Cant help falling in love/Hans Molenaar on drums w/The Jordanaires & The United/1989
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:33
- Updated: 27 Oct 2011
Performing Elvis Presley's Can't help falling in love with you. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Jan Hartman, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, S...
http://wn.com/Cant_help_falling_in_love_Hans_Molenaar_on_drums_w_The_Jordanaires_The_United_1989
Performing Elvis Presley's Can't help falling in love with you. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Jan Hartman, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, S...
- published: 14 Jun 2009
- views: 566
- author: DrumMusicConsult
Jack Pearson Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:03
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
Jack Pearson is a Nashville guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, session-musician Jack has worked either live or in the studio with a diverse group of ar...
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Jack Pearson is a Nashville guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, session-musician Jack has worked either live or in the studio with a diverse group of ar...
- published: 17 Aug 2011
- views: 4607
- author: mando1man
Jody Miller Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:44
- Updated: 06 Jul 2013
http://wn.com/Jody_Miller_Interview
Skate and Destroy - Johnny Rad & The Jordanaires
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 05 Aug 2013
The famous "Skate and Destroy" song segment from Powell/Peralta's Movie "Bones Brigade 2/Future Primitive" Performed by Johnny Rad and The Jordanaires. The J...
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The famous "Skate and Destroy" song segment from Powell/Peralta's Movie "Bones Brigade 2/Future Primitive" Performed by Johnny Rad and The Jordanaires. The J...
- published: 30 May 2009
- views: 27248
- author: alldaysuckertube
Johnny Rad Interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:00
- Updated: 28 Jun 2013
Interview with Johnny Rad from the Powell Peralta Videos. Includes: Future Primitive, The Search For Animal Chin, The Bones Brigade, and much more.
http://wn.com/Johnny_Rad_Interview
Interview with Johnny Rad from the Powell Peralta Videos. Includes: Future Primitive, The Search For Animal Chin, The Bones Brigade, and much more.
- published: 02 Mar 2012
- views: 1019
- author: captainandcasey
SANTA`S PARTY -- JOHNNY EARLE & THE JORDANAIRES
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 21 Jun 2013
http://wn.com/SANTA`S_PARTY_-_JOHNNY_EARLE_THE_JORDANAIRES
LITTLE SISTER RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires , JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN Elvis Social Club
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:18
- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
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Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
- published: 16 Mar 2009
- views: 560
- author: CRUMGLEN
Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 11 Jul 2013
Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love" from the "Stepping Out" CD. Johnny re-released limited copies of his "Stepping Out" cd in 2010. Don't be misled ...
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Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love" from the "Stepping Out" CD. Johnny re-released limited copies of his "Stepping Out" cd in 2010. Don't be misled ...
- published: 21 Apr 2011
- views: 3413
- author: yesterdaytoday56
Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires A Little Less Conversation 1968)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
Love this song, but do not think Elvis liked to have this to play in Movies.
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Love this song, but do not think Elvis liked to have this to play in Movies.
- published: 13 May 2013
- views: 59
- author: Maria H
SOLDIER BOY -- JOHNNY EARLE & THE JORDANAIRES
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 23 Jul 2013
http://wn.com/SOLDIER_BOY_-_JOHNNY_EARLE_THE_JORDANAIRES
Can't Help Falling in Love- The Jordanaires
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 10 Jun 2013
From the Ronnie McDowell Show Franklin, NC Aug 7 2010.
http://wn.com/Can't_Help_Falling_in_Love_The_Jordanaires
From the Ronnie McDowell Show Franklin, NC Aug 7 2010.
- published: 09 Aug 2010
- views: 2610
- author: mysteeb
Des O'Connor Interview & Exclusive 40 Minute Life Story 1/2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 16:02
- Updated: 27 May 2013
Enjoy a rare and exclusive interview recorded at Des' home celebrating his remarkable life and career. Part 1 of 2. Hear this interview in full @ www.celebri...
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Enjoy a rare and exclusive interview recorded at Des' home celebrating his remarkable life and career. Part 1 of 2. Hear this interview in full @ www.celebri...
- published: 17 Feb 2013
- views: 68
- author: Alex Belfield
9:51
Grand Ole Opry - Live - (Part 1) : Carl Smith June Carter The Jordanaires
Grand Ole Opry....
published: 19 Oct 2009
author: MisterStereo
Grand Ole Opry - Live - (Part 1) : Carl Smith June Carter The Jordanaires
Grand Ole Opry.
- published: 19 Oct 2009
- views: 56675
- author: MisterStereo
2:22
Michael King & The Jordanaires 'Live' In Las Vegas
Michael King (UK) performing Elvis' gospel classic 'Stand By Me' live in Las Vegas with Th...
published: 19 Apr 2008
author: cwnyah
Michael King & The Jordanaires 'Live' In Las Vegas
Michael King (UK) performing Elvis' gospel classic 'Stand By Me' live in Las Vegas with The Jordanaires.
- published: 19 Apr 2008
- views: 2628
- author: cwnyah
1:28
Ken and The Jordanaires LiVe Love Me Tender
RAY WALKER OF THE JORDANAIRES IS ACTUALLY SAYING THAT ELVIS HIMSELF WOULD BE PROUD OF KEN'...
published: 27 Nov 2008
author: Ken Jordan
Ken and The Jordanaires LiVe Love Me Tender
RAY WALKER OF THE JORDANAIRES IS ACTUALLY SAYING THAT ELVIS HIMSELF WOULD BE PROUD OF KEN'S PERFORMANCE!
- published: 27 Nov 2008
- views: 553
- author: Ken Jordan
2:06
Johnny Earl & The Jordanaires - Girl of my best friend (Live - Tribute to Elvis Presley) HQ
...
published: 21 Apr 2013
author: TimelessTVchannel
Johnny Earl & The Jordanaires - Girl of my best friend (Live - Tribute to Elvis Presley) HQ
- published: 21 Apr 2013
- views: 165
- author: TimelessTVchannel
2:23
Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires G.I. Blues & Soldier Boy
Rare footage of Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires live on stage together....
published: 21 Jun 2009
author: nt639
Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires G.I. Blues & Soldier Boy
Rare footage of Johnny Earle & The Jordanaires live on stage together.
- published: 21 Jun 2009
- views: 13016
- author: nt639
2:14
Rick Nelson & the Jordanaires Mary Lou
more from my old beta Hi Fi VCR Rick Nelson live in LA with the Jordanaires....
published: 21 Aug 2012
author: Kelvin Fleming
Rick Nelson & the Jordanaires Mary Lou
more from my old beta Hi Fi VCR Rick Nelson live in LA with the Jordanaires.
- published: 21 Aug 2012
- views: 140
- author: Kelvin Fleming
4:57
RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN A FOOL SUCH AS I ELVIS SOCIAL CLUB
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the...
published: 05 Mar 2009
author: CRUMGLEN
RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN A FOOL SUCH AS I ELVIS SOCIAL CLUB
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
- published: 05 Mar 2009
- views: 1214
- author: CRUMGLEN
3:44
Bassman like The Jordanaires featuring Ray Walker
Bassman like The Jordanaires http://www.davesheriff.com - This song was written as a tribu...
published: 01 Feb 2012
author: Dave Sheriff
Bassman like The Jordanaires featuring Ray Walker
Bassman like The Jordanaires http://www.davesheriff.com - This song was written as a tribute to The Jordanaires (ex Elvis Presley) and in particular bassman ...
- published: 01 Feb 2012
- views: 1309
- author: Dave Sheriff
7:05
Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires
Recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio B in March 2012 by Tim Jibson of UK's Adventures In Rad...
published: 29 Mar 2013
author: timjibson
Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires
Recorded at Nashville's RCA Studio B in March 2012 by Tim Jibson of UK's Adventures In Radio Ltd Live radio interview with Gordon Stoker by the UK's Magic Ne...
- published: 29 Mar 2013
- views: 334
- author: timjibson
2:34
I Was the One= Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires 1956
...
published: 17 Oct 2011
author: doowopAmnon
I Was the One= Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires 1956
- published: 17 Oct 2011
- views: 8684
- author: doowopAmnon
2:54
Little Moses - The Jordanaires
"Little Moses" by The Jordanaires
1964 Columbia Records.
No copyright is claimed in pres...
published: 12 Jul 2013
Little Moses - The Jordanaires
"Little Moses" by The Jordanaires
1964 Columbia Records.
No copyright is claimed in presenting this work.
The material presented here is out of print and is for entertainment and educational purposes only. No infringement is intended. Any alleged infringement is permissible under fair use principles in U.S. copyright laws.
If you believe material has been used in an unauthorized manner, please contact the poster.
- published: 12 Jul 2013
- views: 21
2:30
Boots Randolph - Millie Kirkham- Bob Moore -The Jordanaires
August 13, 2004 at the Cannon Center-50th Year of RNR....
published: 26 Dec 2012
author: Ana Fernandez
Boots Randolph - Millie Kirkham- Bob Moore -The Jordanaires
August 13, 2004 at the Cannon Center-50th Year of RNR.
- published: 26 Dec 2012
- views: 285
- author: Ana Fernandez
2:39
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES
KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES SINGING ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT....
published: 19 Dec 2008
author: Ken Jordan
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES
KEN JORDAN AND THE JORDANAIRES SINGING ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT.
- published: 19 Dec 2008
- views: 656
- author: Ken Jordan
Youtube results:
2:04
I GOTTA KNOW RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN Elvis Social Club
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the...
published: 16 Mar 2009
author: CRUMGLEN
I GOTTA KNOW RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN Elvis Social Club
Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and John in a completely unrehearsed live performance at the Elvis Social Club, Dublin with Mystery Train. John was taken by su...
- published: 16 Mar 2009
- views: 2369
- author: CRUMGLEN
114:40
"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded in 1991 (Carl Perkins,Larry Gatlin &The; Jordanaires)
"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded on December 4,1991 List of songs included are "Born ...
published: 15 Apr 2013
author: TH30UTLAWS
"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded in 1991 (Carl Perkins,Larry Gatlin &The; Jordanaires)
"The Judds Farewell Concert" Recorded on December 4,1991 List of songs included are "Born To Be Blue" "Give A Little Love" "Mama He's Crazy" 'Don't Be Cruel"...
- published: 15 Apr 2013
- views: 17140
- author: TH30UTLAWS
24:49
Full Album:Elvis The Rockin' Days
Elvis Presley with an album first released in 1968. Side 1: 1, Tutti Frutti, 2, King Creol...
published: 21 Jul 2013
author: vinylripper1sweden
Full Album:Elvis The Rockin' Days
Elvis Presley with an album first released in 1968. Side 1: 1, Tutti Frutti, 2, King Creole, 3, Blue Suede Shoes, 4, Don't Be Cruel, 5, Hard Headed Woman, 6,...
- published: 21 Jul 2013
- views: 131
- author: vinylripper1sweden
48:15
Country Rockers
Feat. Billy Crash Craddock, The Bellamy Brothers, The Jordanaires, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mer...
published: 23 Aug 2011
author: MVDmusicvideo
Country Rockers
Feat. Billy Crash Craddock, The Bellamy Brothers, The Jordanaires, Jerry Lee Lewis and Merle Haggard. This DVD was recorded live at Church Street Statio...
- published: 23 Aug 2011
- views: 127621
- author: MVDmusicvideo
40:07
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville (Documentary, Part 1)
This is part 1, part 2 and 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Ottawa rockabilly ban...
published: 10 Feb 2011
author: tenvolt
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville (Documentary, Part 1)
This is part 1, part 2 and 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Ottawa rockabilly band The Kingmakers, preparing to record their third album, sought a s...
- published: 10 Feb 2011
- views: 1117
- author: tenvolt
25:47
Beer And Song Of The Day August 18, 2013
Today's Beer Of The Day is New Belgium Giddy Up @ 6% ABV from Fort Collins, Colorado. Toda...
published: 18 Aug 2013
Beer And Song Of The Day August 18, 2013
Today's Beer Of The Day is New Belgium Giddy Up @ 6% ABV from Fort Collins, Colorado. Today's SONGS Of The Day are When I Reach That City (lyrics) by Tennessee Ernie Ford And The Jordanaires from 1959 AND Jesus Said If You Go (lyrics) by Bishop Samuel Kelsey. Birthday shout outs go to my good friends Tom, Sheila, Tim, and Paul.Additional shout outs go to my goo dfriends Dave, Meredith, Brad, his better half Robyn, Candi, and Robyn. This one's a definite mover and I know you'll enjoy the show!
- published: 18 Aug 2013
- views: 8
41:50
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville Documentary - Part 2 of 3
This is part 2, part 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Part 1 is at http://www.you...
published: 14 Feb 2011
author: tenvolt
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville Documentary - Part 2 of 3
This is part 2, part 3 coming soon. This is only a rough edit. Part 1 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fV1S4mW44 Ottawa rockabilly band The Kingmakers,...
- published: 14 Feb 2011
- views: 689
- author: tenvolt
59:15
BOX LOVE - CD 1 COMPLETO
Todo Direito Reservado a Som Livre Músicas 1. The greatest love of all - Whitney Houston 2...
published: 22 Feb 2013
author: yeslove24
BOX LOVE - CD 1 COMPLETO
Todo Direito Reservado a Som Livre Músicas 1. The greatest love of all - Whitney Houston 2. (I've had) The time of my life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 3....
- published: 22 Feb 2013
- views: 27079
- author: yeslove24
59:33
Grand Ole Opry - Live April 28 1956
This Grand Old Opry was hosted by Carl Smith. Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Co...
published: 18 Apr 2012
author: DollabiIIz2
Grand Ole Opry - Live April 28 1956
This Grand Old Opry was hosted by Carl Smith. Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Collins Kids, The Jordanaires, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs, Minnie...
- published: 18 Apr 2012
- views: 93905
- author: DollabiIIz2
21:23
Stardust Melody // E04 // Don Gibson
This week showcases country legend Mr. Don Gibson.
"I Can't Stop Loving You" with The Jor...
published: 28 Aug 2013
Stardust Melody // E04 // Don Gibson
This week showcases country legend Mr. Don Gibson.
"I Can't Stop Loving You" with The Jordanaires on Pet Milk:
http://youtu.be/BZbNgD2aKqc
"Lonesome Number One" Pet Milk Opry Show:
http://youtu.be/kw3Bz-D5U8M
"Oh Lonesome Me" with June Carter on Pet Milk:
http://youtu.be/NqjzLFetwyE
Mr. Gibson and Dottie West sing "Till I Can't Take It Anymore:"
http://youtu.be/HFh8CsUyuVg
Don Gibson hosts Country Style USA #177:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr7qkS2uJ8&feature;=share&list;=PLaZToXYxEixc-4e51EsHgS9NujDGy7c6n
Don Gibson hosts Country Style USA #188:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf900L-jUw&feature;=share&list;=PLaZToXYxEixc-4e51EsHgS9NujDGy7c6n
"Just One Time":
http://youtu.be/JxN8UQAXwqA
"A Legend in My Time":
http://youtu.be/18Fad2Ul_Do
"Sweet Dreams":
http://youtu.be/fXpaGmZSFaY
"When Your House Is Not A Home":
http://youtu.be/SQ98UzHxECs
- published: 28 Aug 2013
- views: 19
37:40
Beer And Song Of The Day June 16, 2013
Happy Father's Day everyone! Today's Beer Of The Day is Sneaky Pete India Pale Ale @ 10% A...
published: 16 Jun 2013
author: Joshua Baker
Beer And Song Of The Day June 16, 2013
Happy Father's Day everyone! Today's Beer Of The Day is Sneaky Pete India Pale Ale @ 10% ABV by Laughing Dog Brewing from Ponderay, Idaho. Today's SONGS Of T...
- published: 16 Jun 2013
- views: 13
- author: Joshua Baker
50:57
Slater Brothers IN THE MIX
Slater Brothers In the mix 2011....
published: 24 Jun 2011
author: slaterbreaker
Slater Brothers IN THE MIX
Slater Brothers In the mix 2011.
- published: 24 Jun 2011
- views: 73
- author: slaterbreaker
32:00
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville Documentary - Part 3 or 3
Over the past few years The Kingmakers have put aside every dollar made from shows and inv...
published: 02 Mar 2011
author: tenvolt
The Kingmakers - Last Night In Nashville Documentary - Part 3 or 3
Over the past few years The Kingmakers have put aside every dollar made from shows and invested this back into the band. This has resulted in a couple of gre...
- published: 02 Mar 2011
- views: 117
- author: tenvolt
59:33
Stare Przeboje lat 60-70-80-90
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Stare Przeboje lat 60-70-80-90
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Elvis Presley documentry, Gordon Stoker interviewed by Sonny Starr
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Elvis Presley documentry, Gordon Stoker interviewed by Sonny Starr
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Dj jim blues presents " hot jive baby ! "
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Dj jim blues presents " hot jive baby ! "
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Mary Ruth Piner
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Mary Ruth Piner
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A Tribute For My Grandma
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A Tribute For My Grandma
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The Jordanaires/Interview about the years with Elvis Presley/1990 Denmark.
Tv-show in Denmark featuring Charlie McCoy and The United. The United are: Charlie McCoy, ...
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The Jordanaires/Interview about the years with Elvis Presley/1990 Denmark.
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interview RAY WALKER
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interview RAY WALKER
Sue Moreno interview Ray Walker from the Jordanaires.
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Ricky Nelson -Interviews of his friends
Interviews of his friends and Ricky. Also Fats Domino , John fogerty ,The Jordanaires, Roy...
published: 04 Oct 2009
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Ricky Nelson -Interviews of his friends
Interviews of his friends and Ricky. Also Fats Domino , John fogerty ,The Jordanaires, Roy orbison, Carl parkins, kris kristofferson ,Jerry Lee Lewis , Randy...
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All shook up/Hans Molenaar on drums w/The Jordanaires & The United/1989.
Performing Elvis Presley's All shook up. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Jan ...
published: 14 Jun 2009
author: DrumMusicConsult
All shook up/Hans Molenaar on drums w/The Jordanaires & The United/1989.
Performing Elvis Presley's All shook up. The United are: Charlie McCoy, Andre Sommer, Jan Hartman, Downs Thompson, Jean Yves Lozach, Sjoerd Plak en Hans Mole...
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Cant help falling in love/Hans Molenaar on drums w/The Jordanaires & The United/1989
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published: 14 Jun 2009
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Cant help falling in love/Hans Molenaar on drums w/The Jordanaires & The United/1989
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Jack Pearson Interview
Jack Pearson is a Nashville guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, session-musician Jack...
published: 17 Aug 2011
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Jack Pearson Interview
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- published: 17 Aug 2011
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Jody Miller Interview
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published: 27 Jun 2013
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Jody Miller Interview
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Skate and Destroy - Johnny Rad & The Jordanaires
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Skate and Destroy - Johnny Rad & The Jordanaires
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Johnny Rad Interview
Interview with Johnny Rad from the Powell Peralta Videos. Includes: Future Primitive, The ...
published: 02 Mar 2012
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Johnny Rad Interview
Interview with Johnny Rad from the Powell Peralta Videos. Includes: Future Primitive, The Search For Animal Chin, The Bones Brigade, and much more.
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SANTA`S PARTY -- JOHNNY EARLE & THE JORDANAIRES
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SANTA`S PARTY -- JOHNNY EARLE & THE JORDANAIRES
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LITTLE SISTER RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires , JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN Elvis Social Club
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published: 16 Mar 2009
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LITTLE SISTER RAY WALKER of the Jordanaires , JOHN CASSIDY & MYSTERY TRAIN Elvis Social Club
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Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love"
Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love" from the "Stepping Out" CD. Johnny re-release...
published: 21 Apr 2011
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Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love"
Johnny Harra & The Jordanaires "Sea Of Love" from the "Stepping Out" CD. Johnny re-released limited copies of his "Stepping Out" cd in 2010. Don't be misled ...
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Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires A Little Less Conversation 1968)
Love this song, but do not think Elvis liked to have this to play in Movies....
published: 13 May 2013
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Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires A Little Less Conversation 1968)
Love this song, but do not think Elvis liked to have this to play in Movies.
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SOLDIER BOY -- JOHNNY EARLE & THE JORDANAIRES
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SOLDIER BOY -- JOHNNY EARLE & THE JORDANAIRES
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Des O'Connor Interview & Exclusive 40 Minute Life Story 1/2
Enjoy a rare and exclusive interview recorded at Des' home celebrating his remarkable life...
published: 17 Feb 2013
author: Alex Belfield
Des O'Connor Interview & Exclusive 40 Minute Life Story 1/2
Enjoy a rare and exclusive interview recorded at Des' home celebrating his remarkable life and career. Part 1 of 2. Hear this interview in full @ www.celebri...
- published: 17 Feb 2013
- views: 68
- author: Alex Belfield
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25 Sep 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling ... President Barack Obama. Unlike the U.S., not only has Iran consistently offered direct talks and provided numerous opportunities for diplomacy over its nuclear enrichment program, but on numerous occasions it has reiterated a more ethical and sane nuclear doctrine. During a NBC News interview, President Rouhani again declared ... has failed to learn beginning with its revised MAD Doctrines....(size: 6.2Kb)
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- As Kenyan commandos fought pitched battles against the remaining few gunmen inside Nairobi's burned and blood-splattered shopping mall, questions began arising about what blowback the sensational siege would have upon a turbulent region ... "It's a huge security breach ... "But small arms are available, and if people who are determined to die storm a shopping mall, there's not much that security agencies can do." ... Ken Menkhaus disagreed ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
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25 Sep 2013
Kenya has begun three days of national mourning following the end of the four-day siege by Islamist militants on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre. In a televised address, President Uhuru Kenyatta said six members of the security forces were among 67 people who had died. Declaring the siege over, he said five militants had been killed and 11 other suspects arrested ... Continue reading the main story “Start Quote ... He added ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)
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24 Sep 2013
. Reuters. September 24, 2013 - 05.17. By Duncan Miriri and James Macharia. NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya said its security forces had taken control of the Nairobi shopping mall where Islamist fighters killed at least 62 people, and that police were doing a final sweep of shops early Tuesday after the last of the hostages had been rescued ... A lone military chopper circled above ... Kenyan officials say there were 10 to 15 attackers ... U.S ... RSS ... ....(size: 19.7Kb)
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23 Sep 2013
A powerful typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds that blew cars off the road has caused more deaths, bringing the toll in Asia to at least 33. Typhoon Usagi, which was the season's strongest storm at its peak, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and shut down shipping and train lines before weakening to a tropical depression over the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Monday ... Most Read. Latest Comments ... new ... new ... ....(size: 6.0Kb)
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Columbia Records To Release Sending You A Little Christmas, A New Collection Of Holiday Music From The Legendary Johnny Mathis
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Johnny's Latest Seasonal Collection Premieres Newly Recorded Duets with Susan Boyle, Jim Brickman, Natalie Cole, Gloria Estefan, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Billy Joel and The Jordanaires ... Christmas"), Billy Joel ("The Christmas Song"), and The Jordanaires ("Home For The Holidays") ... 8. Home for the Holidays (featuring The Jordanaires)....(size: 4.4Kb)
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24 Sep 2013
There’s nothing wrong with a little $illy fun every once in a while, which is what having nicknames instead of surnames on the backs of Miami Heat jerseys would amount to. It’s about product promotion. It’s about selling merchandise ... And there’s this ... And how great would it have been for Michael Jordan to have been “Air” during the Chicago Bulls’ dynasty with every one of his teammates identified as a “Jordanaire” ensemble member?....(size: 3.9Kb)
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20 Sep 2013
Chiswick Club Society, Chiswick - London Fri 20th September 2013. The world famous International Tribute great, Richard Atkins as 'The King' Elvis. Date. Friday 20th September 2013. Venue. Chiswick Club Society » ... He has also had the honour of singing with Elvis’s backing group The Jordanaires at one of the major Elvis conventions in America, and regularly performs in America and Europe....(size: 1.9Kb)
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September 19, 2013 -- Updated 0221 GMT (1021 HKT). Ken Norton lands a left to the face of Muhammad Ali during their heavyweight bout in San Diego, California, on March 31, 1973. Ali lost on a split decision ... But Ali got his revenge six months later, winning their rematch in another split decision ... He was 80 ... said ... Gordon Stoker, left, who as part of the vocal group the Jordanaires sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley, died March 27 at 88 ... ....(size: 38.3Kb)
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September 18, 2013 -- Updated 2059 GMT (0459 HKT). British rocker Jackie Lomax enjoyed a 50-year career playing with many of music's biggest stars, notably the Beatles ... "It was always about the music," a statement on his website announcing his death Sunday "after a short illness" in Merseyside, England, said ... Gordon Stoker, left, who as part of the vocal group the Jordanaires sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley, died March 27 at 88 ... 1 ... ....(size: 35.6Kb)
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Steve Smith: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to reunite; Vince Gill confronts Westboro Church protesters
LA Daily News13 Sep 2013
“Still Within the Sound of My Voice” from Jimmy Webb with his pals Brian Wilson, Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, Amy Grant, America, Kris Kristofferson, Marc Cohn, Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban, The Jordanaires and David Crosby and Graham Nash; the 20-track, 2-CD, “Privateering,” from former Dire Straits leader Mark ......(size: 20.2Kb)
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September 13, 2013 -- Updated 0256 GMT (1056 HKT). Ray Dolby's love of music and the arts inspired his work, said his son Tom. Dolby died aged 80 on September 12, 2013 ... Dolby was 80 ... "Today we lost a friend, mentor and true visionary," said Kevin Yeaman, the company's president and CEO ... He was 80 years old ... King ... Gordon Stoker, left, who as part of the vocal group the Jordanaires sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley, died March 27 at 88 ... 1 ... ....(size: 35.8Kb)
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>The Most Authentic Elvis Impersonator, Chris MacDonald, Returns to The Hanover Theatre this Fall in ...
Seattle Post10 Sep 2013
Chris MacDonald is back by popular demand with his dynamic multimedia performance on Friday, October 18 at The Hanover Theatre in Worcester ... Worcester, MA (PRWEB) September 10, 2013 ... He has also performed in concert with Elvis Presley’s original back up group The Jordanaires and D.J. Fontana ... MacDonald’s newest original country CD entitled "No Misconception" contains harmony vocals provided by the legendary Jordanaires....(size: 4.1Kb)
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Houston Chronicle10 Sep 2013
Chris MacDonald is back by popular demand with his dynamic multimedia performance on Friday, October 18 at The Hanover Theatre in Worcester ... Worcester, MA (PRWEB) September 10, 2013 ... He has also performed in concert with Elvis Presley’s original back up group The Jordanaires and D.J. Fontana ... MacDonald’s newest original country CD entitled "No Misconception" contains harmony vocals provided by the legendary Jordanaires....(size: 4.1Kb)
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10 Sep 2013
LeadPhotoID -->. 0. Oklahoma City Concerts & Shows on wimgo. Elk City native Jimmy Webb releases today his latest album “Still Within the Sound of My Voice,” featuring appearances from 14 guest artists, including Lyle Lovett, Carly Simon, Keith Urban, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Joe Crocker, Marc Cohn, America, Kris Kristofferson, Amy Grant, Brian Wilson and Art Garfunkel ... 12-13 at Oklahoma City’s Blue Door ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... The Jordanaires. 4 ... 5 ... ....(size: 6.4Kb)
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09 Sep 2013
“Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth,” Elvis Presley once said. His voice was a gift from God. He believed in the Bible and loved singing gospel music, especially the traditional southern hymns. “I believe in the Bible,” Elvis said. “I believe that all good things come from God ... From 1956 to 1970, the legendary gospel group, The Jordanaires performed alongside Elvis ... The Jordanaires were among Elvis' favorites ... 12) ... 11) ... ....(size: 3.5Kb)
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Jimmy Webb, "Still Within the Sound of My Voice" (E1) ... Webb has a songwriter's voice, which isn't a criticism ... Also, "Elvis And Me" features one of the last recorded appearances by vocal group the Jordanaires, following the death of leader Gordon Stoker in March ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
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Jimmy Webb, "Still Within the Sound of My Voice" (E1) ... Webb has a songwriter's voice, which isn't a criticism ... Also, "Elvis And Me" features one of the last recorded appearances by vocal group the Jordanaires, following the death of leader Gordon Stoker in March ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
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| The Jordanaires | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Springfield, Missouri, United States |
| Genres | Gospel, Country, Rock and Roll, Folk |
| Years active | 1948 (1948)–present |
| Associated acts | Foggy River Boys, Elvis Presley, Eddy Arnold, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Cash, Charley Pride, Patsy Cline, The Imperials, Suzi Quatro |
| Website | www.jordanaires.net |
| Members | |
| Gordon Stoker Ray Walker Curtis Young Louis Nunley |
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| Past members | |
| Bill Matthews Bob Hubbard Warren (Monty) Matthews Culley Holt Hoyt Hawkins Neal Matthews, Jr. Don Bruce Hugh Jarrett Duane West |
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The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are best known for providing vocal background for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972. The group has also worked in the recording studio, on stage, and on television with many other Country and Rock and Roll artists.
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Group history[link]
Early years[link]
The history of The Jordanaires can be traced back to the early 1940s, and the original Foggy River Boys, which were made up of the Matthews brothers—Bill (b. LaFollette, Tenn., 1923), Monty (b. Pulaski, Ky., 1927), Jack, and Matt (all ordained ministers). In 1948, Matt and Jack left to become full-time preachers and were replaced by Bob Hubbard (b. Chaffee, Mo., 1928), also a minister, and bass singer Culley Holt (b. McAlester, Okla., 1925), and pianist Bob Money. After three years Money was replaced as pianist by Gordon Stoker. At that time, they formed the new group as the Melodizing Matthews, in Springfield, Missouri, but soon changed the name to The Jordanaires, after Jordan Creek in Missouri—not after the Jordan River, as many have thought.
This starting lineup lasted until 1949; at that time, Bob Hubbard was drafted and was replaced by Hoyt Hawkins. Later that year, Monty and Bill Matthews left. Hawkins switched to baritone, and new lead Neal Matthews was recruited. Don Bruce came in as a new first tenor; however, he was drafted the next year. The group narrowed to a quartet, with Stoker taking over as first tenor. They recorded for Capitol Records in the early 1950s, and began providing vocal accompaniment behind solo singers in Nashville, Tennessee.
The lineup changed again in 1954, with Cully Holt leaving and new bass Hugh Jarrett (later a disc jockey) coming in.
The Jordanaires became well known in the southern gospel realm, and what made them stand out from other quartets of that time was how they would bring spirituals (such as "Dry Bones") to a predominantly white audience. While continuing to turn out gospel albums of their own, the group become better known for the signature background harmonies they have provided on dozens of secular records.[1]
Jarrett remained until 1958; at that time, he was replaced by Ray Walker.
With Elvis Presley[link]
One Sunday afternoon in 1955, the Jordanaires played a show in Memphis with Eddy Arnold to publicize their new syndicated TV series, Eddy Arnold Time (for the program the group used the name Gordonaires). They sang "Peace In The Valley", and when the show was over, a young man, quiet and courteous, with plenty of combed-back hair, came backstage to meet them. He was Elvis Presley, a practically unheard of singer just getting his start in the area. There were a few polite exchanges, then Presley said, "If I ever get a recording contract with a major company, I want you guys to back me up."[2] He was on Sun Records at that time.
On January 10, 1956, Presley recorded his first session for RCA with guitarist Scotty Moore, bassist Bill Black and drummer D. J. Fontana. That day, "I Got A Woman", "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Money Honey" were recorded. True to his word, Presley asked his new label RCA Victor if The Jordanaires could appear on the recordings. The next day Gordon Stoker was called by Chet Atkins to do a session with a new kid, named Elvis. RCA had also just signed The Speer Family. Chet asked Stoker to sing with Ben and Brock Speer so he could use them. On that day, "I'm Counting On You" and "I Was The One" made history by being the first recording session that Presley did with vocal background. By April 1956, "Heartbreak Hotel" was No. 1.
After having done several more recording sessions in New York with Scotty, Bill, and D. J., Presley flew to Nashville on April 14, 1956, to record "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You". Stoker was called again, to sing a vocal trio with Ben and Brock. After the session, Presley took Stoker aside and told him (not knowing, at the time, why all the Jordanaires were not there) that he had wanted the Jordanaires. This time, Stoker saw to it—and Presley used the Jordanaires on nearly every one of his recording sessions for the next 14 years. At a time when no backing musicians, producers, or engineers received a name recognition on any records[dubious – discuss], Presley insisted[citation needed] that he have "with the Jordanaires" on the label of his records. The reflected glory was enough to earn the Jordanaires "Group of the Year" awards well into the late 1960s. The quartet also appeared in some of Presley's movies, and on many of his television appearances.
As Elvis was about to start performing at the Hilton in Las Vegas, the Colonel's office called for them to work with Elvis in the shows. They had 35 recording sessions already booked for the dates he needed, so, they could not go. They got in touch with The Imperials, who had done the ‘’How Great Thou Art’’ Elvis album with them, and they took their place.
After Elvis[link]
The lineup consisting of Gordon Stoker, first tenor and manager, Neal Matthews, second tenor and lead, Hoyt Hawkins, baritone, and Ray Walker, bass, would be the group's most stable lineup, lasting throughout the 1960s and ‘70s.
The group changed again in 1982, when Hoyt Hawkins died. His replacement was Duane West, formerly of Sonny James' backup group, the Southern Gentlemen. The lineup remained constant for another two decades, with West leaving due to illness in 1999 (he died in 2002). His replacement was Louis Nunley, formerly of the Anita Kerr Singers.
Neal Matthews died the next year. He was replaced by new lead Curtis Young.
Hugh Jarrett died at 78 on May 31, 2008, from injuries sustained in an auto accident in March.
Members[link]
- First tenor
- Bill Matthews (1948-51)
- Gordon Stoker (alternated as 2nd Tenor) (1951-present)
- Don Bruce (1952-53)
- Second tenor
- Bob Hubbard (1948-52)
- Neal Matthews (1953-2000)
- Curtis Young (2000-present)
- Baritone
- Monty Matthews (1948-52)
- Hoyt Hawkins (1952-82)
- Duane West (1982-99)
- Louis Nunley (1999-present)
- Bass
- Culley Holt (1948-54)
- Hugh Jarrett (1954-58)
- Ray Walker (1958-present)
- Pianist
- Bob Money (1948-49; 1952)
- Gordon Stoker (1949-51)
Musical influence[link]
The Jordanaires have also recorded with Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Horton, Ferlin Husky, Tammy Wynette, Kenny Rogers, Sawyer Brown, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Dolly Parton, Red Foley, Jim Reeves, Willie Nelson and George Jones, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Connie Francis, Johnny Hallyday and Julie Andrews.
The group toured extensively around the world and recorded a number of music albums on their own. They continue to record: "On The Jericho Road", A Friend We Have in Jesus and others. In 1999, a call to Jordanaires' first tenor Gordon Stoker by lifelong Jordanaires' musical disciple and Grammy Award-winning artist-producer Art Greenhaw resulted in a run of six Grammy-nominated albums in six different years and a Grammy Award. Gospel music pioneer James Blackwood was also responsible for the initial Jordanaires' collaboration on the indie label Greenhaw Records. The years between 1999 and 2006 saw The Jordanaires and Greenhaw artistically joined and Grammy-nominated with Blackwood, The Light Crust Doughboys, Ann-Margret, Engelbert Humperdinck, the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, Larry Ford, Nokie Edwards (of The Ventures) and Larry "T-Byrd" Gordon. In addition, The Jordanaires-Greenhaw Records teaming also received a Dove Award nomination for Best Country Album of the Year for God is Love: The Gospel Sessions with Ann-Margret.
Guest appearances[link]
The Jordanaires performed with many modern recording artists as well as recent sessions with country music legends.
- Harmonies on Ringo Starr's second solo album, Beaucoups of Blues
- Vocal support for Ricky Nelson on "Poor Little Fool", "Lonesome Town", "It's Late" and other hit recordings
- Several tracks on Johnny Cash's 1959 album The Fabulous Johnny Cash, the 1978 album I Would Like to See You Again and others
- On the second album by The Grascals on the song "Did You Forget God Today?"
- In 1973 backing harmony for Bobby Bare's hit single, "Ride Me Down Easy"
- In 1981 backing rockabilly singer Gene Summers on several tracks for the LP "Gene Summers In Nashville"
- Sang with The Tractors (of Steve Ripley)
- In 1996 vocals on the Ween album 12 Golden Country Greats.
- In 1997 sang "Who'll Be The One If Not Me" for the off-Broadway musical Violet.
- In 1999 began their collaborative work with Art Greenhaw which resulted in a Grammy Award win for the album We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music (2003) and 6 Grammy Award Nominations for best album of the year in a gospel category for other album titles including The Great Gospel Hit Parade (2001), God Is Love (2002), Always Hear The Harmony (2004), 20th Century Gospel (2005) and Southern Meets Soul (2006). The Grammy Award-Winning and Grammy Award-Nominated albums were all released on Greenhaw Records.[3]
- In 2007 recorded "Save Your Dreams" by Americana artist Shark (Wild Colonials)
- In 2006 and 2007 featured on Park Lane Drive Records' Friends of Henry Golis Wish You A Merry Christmas with The Jordanaires, and Henry Golis Presents Good Music With Friends featuring The Jordanaires
- In 2007 appeared with the Christian pop band C.B.O.P. on the songs "Between You & Me" and "Live Like A King" on the album A Road Less Traveled
- In 2009 featured on the Today, Tomorrow & Forever EP by Pete Molinari
- In 2010 on Canadian rockabilly band The Kingmakers' third album Last Night In Nashville on two songs, "Annabelle" and "Well Well Michelle"
- In 2011, on Kristin Chenoweth's fourth album "Some Lessons Learned", as the background vocalists for "What Would Dolly Do (WWDD)".
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ "Jordanaires Biography". http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/jordanaires/bio.jhtml. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
- ^ Graham, Charlotte "The Jordanaires" (February 22, 2003), The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS), "Religion," p. 1E
- ^ official records, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, 2000-2006
External links[link]
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| Freddie Starr | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Frederick Leslie Fowell |
| Born | (1943-01-09) 9 January 1943 (age 69) Huyton, Liverpool, England |
| Medium | Stand up, Television |
| Nationality | British |
| Years active | 1958–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, Musical comedy, Physical comedy, Insult comedy |
| Spouse | Donna Starr (m. 1998) «start: (1998)»"Marriage: Donna Starr to Freddie Starr" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Freddie_Starr) |
| Website | freddiestarr.com |
Freddie Starr (born Frederick Leslie Fowell on 9 January 1943)[citation needed] is an English comedian who became famous in the early 1970s. He is also an impressionist and singer, with a chart album After the Laughter and UK Top 10 single, "It's You", in March 1974 to his credit.[1]
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Early career[link]
Under his real name, he appeared as a teenager in the film Violent Playground in 1958. In the early 1960s, Starr was the lead singer of the Merseybeat pop group The Midnighters. The group was promoted by the manager of the Beatles, Brian Epstein, and was recorded on the Decca label by Joe Meek, the record producer of the single "Telstar". During this period Starr performed in nightclubs in Hamburg and was an acquaintance of the Beatles.
Still relatively unknown to television audiences, Starr was "discovered" through the talent show, Opportunity Knocks where he appeared as part of comedy/beat act Freddie Starr and The Delmonts.[2] He appeared on the 1970 Royal Variety Performance. From 1972, he was one of the main performers in the television series Who Do You Do,[3] and also a regular in Joker's Wild. He went on to star in his own series.
"Freddie Starr ate my hamster"[link]
Freddie Starr was the subject of one of the most famous British tabloid newspaper headlines. On 13 March 1986 The Sun carried as its main headline: FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER. According to the text of the story, Starr had been staying at the home of Vince McCaffrey and his 23-year-old girlfriend Lea La Salle in Birchwood, Cheshire when the incident took place. Starr was claimed to have returned home from a performance at a Manchester nightclub in the early hours of the morning and demanded that Lea La Salle make him a sandwich. When she refused, he went into the kitchen and put her pet hamster Supersonic between two slices of bread and proceeded to eat it.
Freddie Starr gives his side of the story in his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped. He says that the only time that he ever stayed at Vince McCaffrey's house was in 1979 and that the incident was a complete fabrication. Starr writes in the book: "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal". The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford. When asked in a television interview with Esther Rantzen some years later whether Starr really had eaten a hamster, his reply was "Of course not". Clifford was unapologetic, insisting that the story had given a huge boost to Starr's career. In May 2006 the BBC nominated "FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER" as one of the top British newspaper headlines of all time.[4] Starr's frustration at being linked perpetually to the hamster story was expressed in a newspaper interview:
| “ | I'm fed up of people shouting out 'Did you eat that hamster, Freddie?' Now I say, give me £1 and I'll tell you. Then if they give me £1, I say 'No' and walk away. | ” |
Starr says that the story came about after he made an offhand joke about eating a hamster in a sandwich.[5]
Later career[link]
In 1994 Freddie Starr was again the subject of tabloid newspaper attention in Britain. Thousands of pounds worth of jewellery went missing from Starr's home where a man named Robin Coxhead worked as a gardener and Coxhead was suspected of stealing it. When questioned by the police, Coxhead claimed to have given oral sex to Starr over a period of five years, and that the jewellery had been given to him as a reward. The case went to court and Coxhead was discredited when he was unable to state whether Starr's penis was circumcised or not. Coxhead was found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in prison in 1995.[6]
Starr is a keen supporter of Everton and at the height of his television celebrity he appeared on ITVs coverage of the build up to the 1984 F A cup final, in which Everton defeated Elton John's Watford 2-0, when he appeared on the lawn outside the hotel where the Everton team were staying on the morning of the game and gave an impromptu comedy performance to the players who watched from the windows of their rooms.
Apart from the occasional guest appearance, Starr has not been seen regularly on British television since the late 1990s. ITV's The Freddie Starr Show, broadcast between 1996 and 1998, was his last major work for the medium.[7] His appearances on LWT's An Audience with Freddie Starr in 1996 and Another Audience with Freddie Starr in 1997 were critically acclaimed, although Starr admits in his autobiography that his television appearances often failed to capture the chaotic atmosphere of his live performances.
In 1994 he was the owner of Miinnehoma, the winning horse in the 1994 Grand National race.[8][9] Starr was not present on the day due to television commitments elsewhere, but gave an unusual post race interview live on television to presenter Des Lynam via a mobile phone, with the television viewers only able to hear Lynam's responses to what Starr was saying.
In 1999, he presented the game show Beat the Crusher. In 2004 he appeared on television as one of the celebrities in the second series of the ITV1 reality show, Celebrity Fit Club, where he was made team captain, but was demoted three weeks later for not taking the role seriously.
Starr gave an interview to the Herald Express, the local newspaper for Torbay in Devon which was published on 20 July 2007. In it he says that his father was violent and broke both his legs, a claim which does not appear in his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped. He says that he was taken away from home for two years at the age of six after his father beat him up. In Unwrapped, Starr gives speech problems as the reason why he spent two years away from home as a child.[10]
In January 2008, Starr and his wife Donna took part in Celebrity Wife Swap, exchanging with Samantha Fox and her partner Myra.[11]
In March 2009, Starr appeared in Living with the Dead, a reality television show about people being haunted by ghosts. Freddie claimed his 1930s house was being haunted by an evil entity which he called George. During the show it appeared that he was possessed by this entity. It is later revealed that the entity's name is Roger. During the episode, Freddie says that since he was a boy he was always spiritual and firmly believed in ghosts.[12]
Starr was due to tour in 2010, but the tour was cancelled when he suffered a major heart attack in April 2010, resulting in quadruple heart bypass surgery.[13][14] The tour dates were rescheduled for 2011 after he recovered.[15]
Starr participated in the 2011 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, but withdrew due to health reasons.[16]
In December 2011, Freddie Starr became the official patron of Kidz Foundation Children's Charity, a charity that provides grants to families with long term sick or disabled children.[17]
Stand-up videos[link]
| Title | Released | Notes |
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| Live | 1993 | Live at Middlesex's Beck Theatre |
| Live And Dangerous...And Very, Very Rude! | 14 November 1994 | Live at Blackpool's Opera House |
| Live And Devilish | 6 November 1995 | Live at Blackpool's Pleasure Beach Arena |
| The Legend Is Back | 10 November 1997 | Live at Oxford's New Theatre |
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Retrochart for Mid March 1974
- ^ Unwrapped, Chapter 8.
- ^ IMDb entry
- ^ BBC news video about the hamster headline
- ^ "Starr back in Bay". Herald Express. 20 July 2007. http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134844&command=displayContent&sourceNode=134828&contentPK=17881200&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
- ^ Unwrapped, Chapter 13
- ^ BBC - Comedy - Shows A-Z Index
- ^ "Celebrities enjoy winning ways". BBC News. 2002-03-28. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/grand_national_2002/1796115.stm. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ List of Grand National winners from official Aintree website
- ^ "Freddie Starr reveals misery of childhood". Herald Express 20 July 2007. http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134844&command=displayContent&sourceNode=134828&contentPK=17883024&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
- ^ "Comic Freddie Starr gets lesbian ex-glamour model Sam Fox in C4's Wife Swap". Daily Mail (London). 15 January 2008. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=508287&in_page_id=1773.
- ^ Video: Living With The Dead
- ^ Heart surgery for Merseyside comedian Freddie Starr Liverpool Echo, 21 April 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ Freddie Starr mourned by I'm a Celeb fans as he leaves the jungle for good Metro 16 November 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ Freddiestarr.com Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ Freddie Starr leaves I'm a Celebrity show after illness BBC News 16 November 2011.
- ^ Freddie Starr, Our Patron
Further reading[link]
- Unwrapped - My Autobiography by Freddie Starr with Alan Wightman ISBN 1-85227-961-3
External links[link]
- Official website
- Unofficial Website (backed by Freddie's Management)
- Freddie Starr discography at Discogs
- Freddie Starr at the Internet Movie Database
- Patron of Kidz Foundation Children's Charity
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| Place of birth | Huyton, Liverpool, England |
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| Birth name | Elvis Aaron Presley |
| Born | (1935-01-08)January 8, 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | August 16, 1977(1977-08-16) (aged 42) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock and roll, pop, rockabilly, country, blues, gospel, R&B |
| Occupations | Musician, actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1953–77 |
| Labels | Sun, RCA Victor |
| Associated acts | The Blue Moon Boys, The Jordanaires, The Imperials |
| Website | elvis.com |
Elvis Aaron Presleya (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He staged few concerts however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, after seven years away from the stage, he returned to live performance in a celebrated comeback television special that led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of profitable tours. In 1973 Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii, seen by approximately 1.5 billion viewers. Prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at the age of 42.
Presley is regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. He had a versatile voice and unusually wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music.[1][2][3][4] Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
Life and career[link]
Early years (1935–53)[link]
Childhood in Tupelo[link]
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to 18-year-old Vernon Elvis and 22-year-old Gladys Love Presley.[5] In the two-room shotgun house built by his father in readiness for the birth, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered 35 minutes before him, stillborn. As an only child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an unusually tight bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God church where he found his initial musical inspiration.[6]
Presley's ancestry was primarily a Western European mix: On his mother's side, he was Scots-Irish, with some French Norman; one of Gladys's great-great-grandmothers was Cherokee.[7]b His father's forebears were of Scottish[8] or German[9] origin. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family. Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evidencing little ambition.[10][11] The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of altering a check written by the landowner. He was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives.[12]
In September 1941, Presley entered first grade at East Tupelo Consolidated, where his instructors regarded him as "average".[13] He was encouraged to enter a singing contest after impressing his schoolteacher with a rendition of Red Foley's country song "Old Shep" during morning prayers. The contest, held at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show on October 3, 1945, saw his first public performance: dressed as a cowboy, the ten-year-old Presley stood on a chair to reach the microphone and sang "Old Shep". He recalled placing fifth.[14] A few months later, Presley received his first guitar for his birthday; he had hoped for something else—by different accounts, either a bicycle or a rifle.[15][16] Over the following year, he received basic guitar lessons from two of his uncles and the new pastor at the family's church. Presley recalled, "I took the guitar, and I watched people, and I learned to play a little bit. But I would never sing in public. I was very shy about it."[17]
Entering a new school, Milam, for sixth grade in September 1946, Presley was regarded as a loner. The following year, he began bringing his guitar in on a daily basis. He played and sang during lunchtime, and was often teased as a "trashy" kid who played hillbilly music. The family was by then living in a largely African American neighborhood.[18] A devotee of Mississippi Slim's show on the Tupelo radio station WELO, Presley was described as "crazy about music" by Slim's younger brother, a classmate of Presley's, who often took him in to the station. Slim supplemented Presley's guitar tuition by demonstrating chord techniques.[19] When his protégé was 12 years old, Slim scheduled him for two on-air performances. Presley was overcome by stage fright the first time, but succeeded in performing the following week.[20]
Teenage life in Memphis[link]
In November 1948, the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. After residing for nearly a year in rooming houses, they were granted a two-bedroom apartment in the public housing complex known as the Courts.[21] Enrolled at Humes High School, Presley received only a C in music in eighth grade. When his music teacher told him he had no aptitude for singing, he brought in his guitar the next day and sang a recent hit, "Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off Me", in an effort to prove otherwise. A classmate later recalled that the teacher "agreed that Elvis was right when he said that she didn't appreciate his kind of singing."[22] He was generally too shy to perform openly, and was occasionally bullied by classmates who viewed him as a "mama's boy".[23] In 1950, he began practicing guitar regularly under the tutelage of Jesse Lee Denson, a neighbor two-and-a-half years his senior. They and three other boys—including two future rockabilly pioneers, brothers Dorsey and Johnny Burnette—formed a loose musical collective that played frequently around the Courts.[24] That September, he began ushering at Loew's State Theater.[25] Other jobs followed during his school years: Precision Tool, Loew's again, and MARL Metal Products.[26]
During his junior year, Presley began to stand out more among his classmates, largely because of his appearance: he grew out his sideburns and styled his hair with rose oil and Vaseline. On his own time, he would head down to Beale Street, the heart of Memphis's thriving blues scene, and gaze longingly at the wild, flashy clothes in the windows of Lansky Brothers. By his senior year, he was wearing them.[27] Overcoming his reticence about performing outside the Courts, he competed in Humes's Annual "Minstrel" show in April 1953. Singing and playing guitar, he opened with "Till I Waltz Again with You", a recent hit for Teresa Brewer. Presley recalled that the performance did much for his reputation: "I wasn't popular in school ... I failed music—only thing I ever failed. And then they entered me in this talent show ... when I came onstage I heard people kind of rumbling and whispering and so forth, 'cause nobody knew I even sang. It was amazing how popular I became after that."[28]
Presley, who never received formal music training or learned to read music, studied and played by ear. He frequented record stores with jukeboxes and listening booths. He knew all of Hank Snow's songs[29] and he loved records by other country singers such as Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Ted Daffan, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Davis, and Bob Wills.[30] The Southern Gospel singer Jake Hess, one of his favorite performers, was a significant influence on his ballad-singing style.[31][32] He was a regular audience member at the monthly All-Night Singings downtown, where many of the white gospel groups that performed reflected the influence of African American spiritual music.[33] He adored the music of black gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.[30] Like some of his peers, he may have attended blues venues—of necessity, in the segregated South, only on nights designated for exclusively white audiences.[34] He certainly listened to the regional radio stations that played "race records": spirituals, blues, and the modern, backbeat-heavy sound of rhythm and blues.[35] Many of his future recordings were inspired by local African American musicians such as Arthur Crudup and Rufus Thomas.[36][37] B.B. King recalled that he knew Presley before he was popular when they both used to frequent Beale Street.[38] By the time he graduated high school in June 1953, Presley had already singled out music as his future.[39][40]
First recordings (1953–55)[link]
Sam Phillips and Sun Records[link]
See also: Elvis Presley's Sun recordings
In August 1953, Presley walked into the offices of Sun Records. He aimed to pay for a few minutes of studio time to record a two-sided acetate disc: "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". He would later claim he intended the record as a gift for his mother, or was merely interested in what he "sounded like", though there was a much cheaper, amateur record-making service at a nearby general store. Biographer Peter Guralnick argues that he chose Sun in the hope of being discovered. Asked by receptionist Marion Keisker what kind of singer he was, Presley responded, "I sing all kinds." When she pressed him on whom he sounded like, he repeatedly answered, "I don't sound like nobody." After he recorded, Sun boss Sam Phillips asked Keisker to note down the young man's name, which she did along with her own commentary: "Good ballad singer. Hold."[41] Presley cut a second acetate in January 1954—"I'll Never Stand In Your Way" and "It Wouldn't Be the Same Without You"—but again nothing came of it.[42]
Not long after, he failed an audition for a local vocal quartet, the Songfellows. He explained to his father, "They told me I couldn't sing."[43] Songfellow Jim Hamill later claimed that he was turned down because he did not demonstrate an ear for harmony at the time.[44] In April, Presley began working for the Crown Electric company as a truck driver.[45] His friend Ronnie Smith, after playing a few local gigs with him, suggested he contact Eddie Bond, leader of Smith's professional band, which had an opening for a vocalist. Bond rejected him after a tryout, advising Presley to stick to truck driving "because you're never going to make it as a singer."[46]
Phillips, meanwhile, was always on the lookout for someone who could bring the sound of the black musicians on whom Sun focused to a broader audience. As Keisker reported, "Over and over I remember Sam saying, 'If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.'"[47] In June, he acquired a demo recording of a ballad, "Without You", that he thought might suit the teenaged singer. Presley came by the studio, but was unable to do it justice. Despite this, Phillips asked Presley to sing as many numbers as he knew. He was sufficiently affected by what he heard to invite two local musicians, guitarist Winfield "Scotty" Moore and upright bass player Bill Black, to work something up with Presley for a recording session.[48]
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The session, held the evening of July 5, proved entirely unfruitful until late in the night. As they were about to give up and go home, Presley took his guitar and launched into a 1946 blues number, Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right". Moore recalled, "All of a sudden, Elvis just started singing this song, jumping around and acting the fool, and then Bill picked up his bass, and he started acting the fool, too, and I started playing with them. Sam, I think, had the door to the control booth open ... he stuck his head out and said, 'What are you doing?' And we said, 'We don't know.' 'Well, back up,' he said, 'try to find a place to start, and do it again.'" Phillips quickly began taping; this was the sound he had been looking for.[50] Three days later, popular Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips played "That's All Right" on his Red, Hot, and Blue show.[51] Listeners began phoning in, eager to find out who the singer was. The interest was such that Phillips played the record repeatedly during the last two hours of his show. Interviewing Presley on-air, Phillips asked him what high school he attended in order to clarify his color for the many callers who had assumed he was black.[52] During the next few days the trio recorded a bluegrass number, Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky", again in a distinctive style and employing a jury-rigged echo effect that Sam Phillips dubbed "slapback". A single was pressed with "That's All Right" on the A side and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" on the reverse.[53]
Early live performances and signing to RCA[link]
The trio played publicly for the first time on July 17 at the Bon Air club—Presley still sporting his child-size guitar.[54] At the end of the month, they appeared at the Overton Park Shell, with Slim Whitman headlining. A combination of his strong response to rhythm and nervousness at playing before a large crowd led Presley to shake his legs as he performed: his wide-cut pants emphasized his movements, causing young women in the audience to start screaming.[55] Moore recalled, "During the instrumental parts he would back off from the mike and be playing and shaking, and the crowd would just go wild".[56] Black, a natural showman, whooped and rode his bass, hitting double licks that Presley would later remember as "really a wild sound, like a jungle drum or something".[56] Soon after, Moore and Black quit their old band to play with Presley regularly, and DJ and promoter Bob Neal became the trio's manager. From August through October, they played frequently at the Eagle's Nest club and returned to Sun Studio for more recording sessions,[57] and Presley quickly grew more confident on stage. According to Moore, "His movement was a natural thing, but he was also very conscious of what got a reaction. He'd do something one time and then he would expand on it real quick."[58] Presley made what would be his only appearance on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on October 2; after a polite audience response, Opry manager Jim Denny told Phillips that his singer was "not bad" but did not suit the program.[59] Two weeks later, Presley was booked on Louisiana Hayride, the Opry's chief, and more adventurous, rival. The Shreveport-based show was broadcast to 198 radio stations in 28 states. Presley had another attack of nerves during the first set, which drew a muted reaction. A more composed and energetic second set inspired an enthusiastic response.[60] House drummer D.J. Fontana brought a new element, complementing Presley's movements with accented beats that he had mastered playing in strip clubs.[61] Soon after the show, the Hayride engaged Presley for a year's worth of Saturday-night appearances. Trading in his old guitar for $8 (and seeing it promptly dispatched to the garbage), he purchased a Martin instrument for $175, and his trio began playing in new locales including Houston, Texas, and Texarkana, Arkansas.[62]
By early 1955, Presley's regular Hayride appearances, constant touring, and well-received record releases had made him a substantial regional star, from Tennessee to West Texas. In January, Neal signed a formal management contract with Presley and brought the singer to the attention of Colonel Tom Parker, whom he considered the best promoter in the music business. Parker—Dutch-born, though he claimed to be from West Virginia—had acquired an honorary colonel's commission from country singer turned Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis. Having successfully managed top country star Eddy Arnold, he was now working with the new number one country singer, Hank Snow. Parker booked Presley on Snow's February tour.[63][64] When the tour reached Odessa, Texas, a 19-year-old Roy Orbison saw Presley for the first time: "His energy was incredible, his instinct was just amazing. ... I just didn't know what to make of it. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it."[29] Presley made his television debut on March 3 on the KSLA-TV broadcast of Louisiana Hayride. Soon after, he failed an audition for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on the CBS television network. By August, Sun had released ten sides credited to "Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill"; on the latest recordings, the trio were joined by a drummer. Some of the songs, like "That's All Right", were in what one Memphis journalist described as the "R&B idiom of negro field jazz"; others, like "Blue Moon of Kentucky", were "more in the country field", "but there was a curious blending of the two different musics in both".[65] This blend of styles made it difficult for Presley's music to find radio airplay. According to Neal, many country music disc jockeys would not play it because he sounded too much like a black artist and none of the rhythm and blues stations would touch him because "he sounded too much like a hillbilly."[66] The blend came to be known as rockabilly. At the time, Presley was variously billed as "The King of Western Bop", "The Hillbilly Cat", and "The Memphis Flash".[67]
Presley renewed Neal's management contract in August 1955, simultaneously appointing Parker as his special adviser.[68] The group maintained an extensive touring schedule throughout the second half of the year.[69] Neal recalled, "It was almost frightening, the reaction that came to Elvis from the teenaged boys. So many of them, through some sort of jealousy, would practically hate him. There were occasions in some towns in Texas when we'd have to be sure to have a police guard because somebody'd always try to take a crack at him. They'd get a gang and try to waylay him or something."[70] The trio became a quartet when Hayride drummer Fontana joined as a full member. In mid-October, they played a few shows in support of Bill Haley, whose "Rock Around the Clock" had been a number one hit the previous year. Haley observed that Presley had a natural feel for rhythm, and advised him to sing fewer ballads.[71]
At the Country Disc Jockey Convention in early November, Presley was voted the year's most promising male artist.[72] Several record companies had by now shown interest in signing him. After three major labels made offers of up to $25,000, Parker and Phillips struck a deal with RCA Victor on November 21 to acquire Presley's Sun contract for an unprecedented $40,000.[73]c Presley, at 20, was still a minor, so his father signed the contract.[74] Parker arranged with the owners of Hill and Range Publishing, Jean and Julian Aberbach, to create two entities, Elvis Presley Music and Gladys Music, to handle all of the new material recorded by Presley. Songwriters were obliged to forego one third of their customary royalties in exchange for having him perform their compositions.[75]d By December, RCA had begun to heavily promote its new singer, and before month's end had reissued many of his Sun recordings.[76]
Commercial breakout and controversy (1956–58)[link]
First national TV appearances and debut album[link]
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The "iconic cover" of Presley's 1956 debut album[77] featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida[78]
On January 10, 1956, Presley made his first recordings for RCA in Nashville.[79] Extending the singer's by now customary backup of Moore, Black, and Fontana, RCA enlisted pianist Floyd Cramer, guitarist Chet Atkins, and three background singers, including Gordon Stoker of the popular Jordanaires quartet, to fill out the sound.[80] The session produced the moody, unusual "Heartbreak Hotel", released as a single on January 27.[79] Parker finally brought Presley to national television, booking him on CBS's Stage Show for six appearances over two months. The program, produced in New York, was hosted on alternate weeks by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. After his first appearance, on January 28, Presley stayed in town to record at RCA's New York studio. The sessions yielded eight songs, including a cover of Carl Perkins' rockabilly anthem "Blue Suede Shoes". In February, Presley's "I Forgot to Remember to Forget", a Sun recording initially released the previous August, reached the top of the Billboard country chart.[81] Neal's contract was terminated and, on March 2, Parker became Presley's manager.[82]
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RCA Victor released Presley's self-titled debut album on March 23. Joined by five previously unreleased Sun recordings, its seven recently recorded tracks were of a broad variety. There were two country songs and a bouncy pop tune. The others would centrally define the evolving sound of rock and roll: "Blue Suede Shoes"—"an improvement over Perkins' in almost every way", according to critic Robert Hilburn—and three R&B numbers that had been part of Presley's stage repertoire for some time, covers of Little Richard, Ray Charles, and The Drifters. As described by Hilburn, these "were the most revealing of all. Unlike many white artists ... who watered down the gritty edges of the original R&B versions of songs in the '50s, Presley reshaped them. He not only injected the tunes with his own vocal character but also made guitar, not piano, the lead instrument in all three cases."[83] It became the first rock and roll album to top the Billboard chart, a position it held for 10 weeks.[79] While Presley was not an innovative instrumentalist like Moore or contemporary African American rockers Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, cultural historian Gilbert B. Rodman argues that the album's cover image, "of Elvis having the time of his life on stage with a guitar in his hands played a crucial role in positioning the guitar...as the instrument that best captured the style and spirit of this new music."[84]
[edit] Milton Berle Show and "Hound Dog"
Presley made the first of two appearances on NBC's Milton Berle Show on April 3. His performance, on the deck of the USS Hancock in San Diego, prompted cheers and screams from an audience of sailors and their dates.[85] A few days later, a flight taking Presley and his band to Nashville for a recording session left all three badly shaken when an engine died and the plane almost went down over Arkansas.[86] Twelve weeks after its original release, "Heartbreak Hotel" became Presley's first number one pop hit. In late April, Presley began a two-week residency at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The shows were poorly received by the conservative, middle-aged hotel guests—"like a jug of corn liquor at a champagne party", wrote a critic for Newsweek.[87] Amid his Vegas tenure, Presley, who had serious acting ambitions, signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures.[88] He began a tour of the Midwest in mid-May, taking in 15 cities in as many days.[89] He had attended several shows by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys in Vegas, and was struck by their cover of "Hound Dog", a hit in 1953 for blues singer Big Mama Thornton by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It became the new closing number of his act.[90] After a show in La Crosse, Wisconsin, an urgent message on the letterhead of the local Catholic diocese's newspaper was sent to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. It warned that "Presley is a definite danger to the security of the United States. ... [His] actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth. ... After the show, more than 1,000 teenagers tried to gang into Presley's room at the auditorium. ... Indications of the harm Presley did just in La Crosse were the two high school girls ... whose abdomen and thigh had Presley's autograph."[91]
The second Milton Berle Show appearance came on June 5 at NBC's Hollywood studio, amid another hectic tour. Berle persuaded the singer to leave his guitar backstage, advising, "Let 'em see you, son."[92] During the performance, Presley abruptly halted an uptempo rendition of "Hound Dog" with a wave of his arm and launched into a slow, grinding version accentuated with energetic, exaggerated body movements.[92] Presley's gyrations created a storm of controversy.[93] Television critics were outraged: Jack Gould of The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. ... His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. ... His one specialty is an accented movement of the body ... primarily identified with the repertoire of the blond bombshells of the burlesque runway."[94] Ben Gross of the New York Daily News opined that popular music "has reached its lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. ... Elvis, who rotates his pelvis ... gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos".[95] Ed Sullivan, whose own variety show was the nation's most popular, declared him "unfit for family viewing".[96] To Presley's displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as "Elvis the Pelvis", which he called "one of the most childish expressions I ever heard, comin' from an adult."[97]
[edit] Steve Allen Show and first Sullivan appearance
The Berle shows drew such high ratings that Presley was booked for a July 1 appearance on NBC's Steve Allen Show in New York. Allen, no fan of rock and roll, introduced a "new Elvis" in a white bow tie and black tails. Presley sang "Hound Dog" for less than a minute to a basset hound wearing a top hat and bow tie. As described by television historian Jake Austen, "Allen thought Presley was talentless and absurd... [he] set things up so that Presley would show his contrition".[98] Allen, for his part, later wrote that he found Presley's "strange, gangly, country-boy charisma, his hard-to-define cuteness, and his charming eccentricity intriguing" and simply worked the singer into the customary "comedy fabric" of his program.[99] Presley would refer back to the Allen show as the most ridiculous performance of his career.[100] Later that night, he appeared on Hy Gardner Calling, a popular local TV show. Pressed on whether he had learned anything from the criticism to which he was being subjected, Presley responded, "No, I haven't, I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong. ... I don't see how any type of music would have any bad influence on people when it's only music. ... I mean, how would rock 'n' roll music make anyone rebel against their parents?"[95]
The next day, Presley recorded "Hound Dog", along with "Any Way You Want Me" and "Don't Be Cruel". The Jordanaires sang harmony, as they had on The Steve Allen Show; they would work with Presley through the 1960s. A few days later, the singer made an outdoor concert appearance in Memphis at which he announced, "You know, those people in New York are not gonna change me none. I'm gonna show you what the real Elvis is like tonight."[101] In August, a judge in Jacksonville, Florida, ordered Presley to tame his act. Throughout the following performance, he largely kept still, except for wiggling his little finger suggestively in mockery of the order.[102] The single pairing "Don't Be Cruel" with "Hound Dog" ruled the top of the charts for 11 weeks—a mark that would not be surpassed for 36 years.[103] Recording sessions for Presley's second album took place in Hollywood during the first week of September. Leiber and Stoller, the writers of "Hound Dog", contributed "Love Me".[104]
Allen's show with Presley had, for the first time, beaten CBS's Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings. Sullivan, despite his June pronouncement, booked the singer for three appearances for an unprecedented $50,000.[105] The first, on September 9, 1956, was seen by approximately 60 million viewers—a record 82.6 percent of the television audience.[106] Actor Charles Laughton hosted the show, filling in while Sullivan recuperated from a car accident.[96] Presley appeared in two segments that night from CBS Television City in Los Angeles. According to Elvis legend, Presley was shot only from the waist up. Watching clips of the Allen and Berle shows with his producer, Sullivan had opined that Presley "got some kind of device hanging down below the crotch of his pants–so when he moves his legs back and forth you can see the outline of his cock. ... I think it's a Coke bottle. ... We just can't have this on a Sunday night. This is a family show!"[107] Sullivan publicly told TV Guide, "As for his gyrations, the whole thing can be controlled with camera shots."[105] In fact, Presley was shown head-to-toe in the first and second shows. Though the camerawork was relatively discreet during his debut, with leg-concealing closeups when he danced, the studio audience reacted in customary style: screaming.[108][109] Presley's performance of his forthcoming single, the ballad "Love Me Tender", prompted a record-shattering million advance orders.[110] More than any other single event, it was this first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that made Presley a national celebrity of barely precedented proportions.[96]
Accompanying Presley's rise to fame, a cultural shift was taking place that he both helped inspire and came to symbolize. Igniting the "biggest pop craze since Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra ... Presley brought rock'n'roll into the mainstream of popular culture", writes historian Marty Jezer. "As Presley set the artistic pace, other artists followed. ... Presley, more than anyone else, gave the young a belief in themselves as a distinct and somehow unified generation—the first in America ever to feel the power of an integrated youth culture."[111]
Crazed crowds and movie debut[link]
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Presley's definition of rock and roll included a sense of humor—here, during his second Sullivan appearance, he introduces one of his signature numbers.
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The audience response at Presley's live shows became increasingly fevered. Moore recalled, "He'd start out, 'You ain't nothin' but a Hound Dog,' and they'd just go to pieces. They'd always react the same way. There'd be a riot every time."[112] At the two concerts he performed in September at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, 50 National Guardsmen were added to the police security to prevent crowd trouble.[113] Elvis, Presley's second album, was released in October and quickly rose to number one. Assessing the musical and cultural impact of Presley's recordings from "That's All Right" through Elvis, rock critic Dave Marsh wrote that "these records, more than any others, contain the seeds of what rock & roll was, has been and most likely what it may foreseeably become."[114]
Presley returned to the Sullivan show at its main studio in New York, hosted this time by its namesake, on October 28. After the performance, crowds in Nashville and St. Louis burned him in effigy.[96] His first motion picture, Love Me Tender, was released on November 21. Though he was not top billed, the film's original title—The Reno Brothers—was changed to capitalize on his latest number one record: "Love Me Tender" had hit the top of the charts earlier that month. To further take advantage of Presley's popularity, four musical numbers were added to what was originally a straight acting role. The movie was panned by the critics but did very well at the box office.[88] Presley would receive top billing on every subsequent film he made.
On December 4, Presley dropped into Sun Records where Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis were recording and jammed with them. Though Phillips no longer had the right to release any Presley material, he made sure the session was captured on tape. The results became legendary as the "Million Dollar Quartet" recordings—Johnny Cash was long thought to have played as well, but he was present only briefly at Phillips' instigation for a photo opportunity.[115] The year ended with a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal reporting that Presley merchandise had brought in $22 million on top of his record sales,[116] and Billboard's declaration that he had placed more songs in the top 100 than any other artist since records were first charted.[117] In his first full year on RCA, one of the music industry's largest companies, Presley had accounted for over 50 percent of the label's singles sales.[110]
Leiber and Stoller collaboration and draft notice[link]
Presley made his third and final Ed Sullivan Show appearance on January 6, 1957—on this occasion indeed shot only down to the waist. Some commentators have claimed that Parker orchestrated an appearance of censorship to generate publicity.[109][118] In any event, as critic Greil Marcus describes, Presley "did not tie himself down. Leaving behind the bland clothes he had worn on the first two shows, he stepped out in the outlandish costume of a pasha, if not a harem girl. From the make-up over his eyes, the hair falling in his face, the overwhelmingly sexual cast of his mouth, he was playing Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, with all stops out."[96] To close, displaying his range and defying Sullivan's wishes, Presley sang a gentle black spiritual, "Peace in the Valley". At the end of the show, Sullivan declared Presley "a real decent, fine boy".[119] Two days later, the Memphis draft board announced that Presley would be classified 1A and would probably be drafted sometime that year.[120]
Each of the three Presley singles released in the first half of 1957 went to number one: "Too Much", "All Shook Up", and "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear". Already an international star, he was attracting fans even where his music was not officially released. Under the headline "Presley Records a Craze in Soviet", The New York Times reported that pressings of his music on discarded X-ray plates were commanding high prices in Leningrad.[121] Between film shoots and recording sessions, the singer also found time to purchase an 18-room mansion eight miles (13 km) south of downtown Memphis for himself and his parents: Graceland.[122] Loving You—the soundtrack to his second film, released in July—was Presley's third straight number one album. The title track was written by Leiber and Stoller, who were then retained to write four of the six songs recorded at the sessions for Jailhouse Rock, Presley's next movie. The songwriting team effectively produced the Jailhouse sessions and developed a close working relationship with Presley, who came to regard them as his "good-luck charm".[123] The title track was yet another number one hit, as was the Jailhouse Rock EP.
Presley undertook three brief tours during the year, continuing to generate a crazed audience response.[124] A Detroit newspaper suggested that "the trouble with going to see Elvis Presley is that you're liable to get killed."[125] Villanova students pelted him with eggs in Philadelphia,[125] and in Vancouver, the crowd rioted after the end of the show, destroying the stage.[126] Frank Sinatra, who had famously inspired the swooning of teenaged girls in the 1940s, condemned the new musical phenomenon. In a magazine article, he decried rock and roll as "brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious. ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phoney and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. ... This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore."[127] Asked for a response, Presley said, "I admire the man. He has a right to say what he wants to say. He is a great success and a fine actor, but I think he shouldn't have said it. ... This is a trend, just the same as he faced when he started years ago."[128]
Leiber and Stoller were again in the studio for the recording of Elvis' Christmas Album. Toward the end of the session, they wrote a song on the spot at Presley's request: "Santa Claus Is Back In Town", an innuendo-laden blues.[129] The holiday release stretched Presley's string of number one albums to four and would eventually become the best selling Christmas album of all time.[130][131] After the session, Moore and Black—drawing only modest weekly salaries, sharing in none of Presley's massive financial success—resigned. Though they were brought back on a per diem basis a few weeks later, it was clear that they had not been part of Presley's inner circle for some time.[132] On December 20, Presley received his draft notice. He was granted a deferment to finish the forthcoming King Creole, in which $350,000 had already been invested by Paramount and producer Hal Wallis. A couple of weeks into the new year, "Don't", another Leiber and Stoller tune, became Presley's tenth number one seller. It had been only 21 months since "Heartbreak Hotel" had brought him to the top for the first time. Recording sessions for the King Creole soundtrack were held in Hollywood mid-January. Leiber and Stoller provided three songs and were again on hand, but it would be the last time they worked closely with Presley.[133] A studio session on February 1 marked another ending: it was the final occasion on which Black was to perform with Presley. He died in 1965.
Military service and mother's death (1958–60)[link]
On March 24, Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army as a private at Fort Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas. His arrival was a major media event. Hundreds of people descended on Presley as he stepped from the bus; photographers then accompanied him into the base.[134] Presley announced that he was looking forward to his military stint, saying he did not want to be treated any differently from anyone else: "The Army can do anything it wants with me."[135]
Soon after Presley commenced basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, he received a visit from Eddie Fadal, a businessman he had met on tour. According to Fadal, Presley had become convinced his career was finished—"He firmly believed that."[136] During a two-week leave in early June, Presley cut five sides in Nashville. In early August, his mother was diagnosed with hepatitis and her condition swiftly worsened. Presley, granted emergency leave to visit her, arrived in Memphis on August 12. Two days later, she died of heart failure, aged 46. Presley was devastated;[137] their relationship had remained extremely close—even into his adulthood, they would use baby talk with each other and Presley would address her with pet names.[138]
After training, Presley joined the 3rd Armored Division in Friedberg, Germany, on October 1.[139] Introduced to amphetamines by a sergeant while on maneuvers, he became "practically evangelical about their benefits"—not only for energy, but for "strength" and weight loss, as well—and many of his friends in the outfit joined him in indulging.[140] The Army also introduced Presley to karate, which he studied seriously, later including it in his live performances.[141] Fellow soldiers have attested to Presley's wish to be seen as an able, ordinary soldier, despite his fame, and to his generosity. He donated his Army pay to charity, purchased TV sets for the base, and bought an extra set of fatigues for everyone in his outfit.[142]
While in Friedberg, Presley met 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu. They would eventually marry after a seven-and-a-half-year courtship.[143] In her autobiography, Priscilla says that despite his worries that it would ruin his career, Parker convinced Presley that to gain popular respect, he should serve his country as a regular soldier rather than in Special Services, where he would have been able to give some musical performances and remain in touch with the public.[144] Media reports echoed Presley's concerns about his career, but RCA producer Steve Sholes and Freddy Bienstock of Hill and Range had carefully prepared for his two-year hiatus. Armed with a substantial amount of unreleased material, they kept up a regular stream of successful releases.[145] Between his induction and discharge, Presley had ten top 40 hits, including "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck", the best-selling "Hard Headed Woman", and "One Night" in 1958, and "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" and the number one "A Big Hunk o' Love" in 1959.[146] RCA also generated four albums compiling old material during this period, most successfully Elvis' Golden Records (1958), which hit number three on the LP chart.[147]
Focus on movies (1960–67)[link]
[edit] Elvis Is Back
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Presley broke new stylistic ground and displayed his vocal range with this number one hit. The quasi-operatic ballad ends with Presley "soaring up to an incredible top G sharp."[148]
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Presley returned to the United States on March 2, 1960, and was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant on March 5.[149] The train that carried him from New Jersey to Tennessee was mobbed all the way, and Presley was called upon to appear at scheduled stops to please his fans.[150] On the night of March 20, he entered RCA's Nashville studio to cut tracks for a new album along with a single—"Stuck on You" was rushed into release and swiftly became a number one hit.[151] Another Nashville session two weeks later yielded a pair of his best-selling singles, the ballads "It's Now or Never" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", along with the rest of Elvis Is Back! The album features several songs described by Greil Marcus as full of Chicago blues "menace, driven by Presley's own super-miked acoustic guitar, brilliant playing by Scotty Moore, and demonic sax work from Boots Randolph. Elvis's singing wasn't sexy, it was pornographic."[152] As a whole, the record "conjured up the vision of a performer who could be all things", in the words of music historian John Robertson: "a flirtatious teenage idol with a heart of gold; a tempestuous, dangerous lover; a gutbucket blues singer; a sophisticated nightclub entertainer; [a] raucous rocker".[153] Released only days after recording was complete, it reached number two on the album chart.
Presley returned to television on May 12 as a guest on The Frank Sinatra Timex Special—ironic for both stars, given Sinatra's not-so-distant excoriation of rock and roll. Also known as Welcome Home Elvis, the show had been taped in late March, the only time all year Presley performed in front of an audience. Parker secured an unheard-of $125,000 fee for eight minutes of singing. The broadcast drew an enormous viewership.[154]
G.I. Blues, the soundtrack to Presley's first film since his return, was a number one album in October. His first LP of sacred material, His Hand in Mine, followed two months later. It reached number 13 on the U.S. pop chart and number 3 in Great Britain, remarkable figures for a gospel album. In February 1961, Presley performed two shows for a benefit event in Memphis, on behalf of 24 local charities. During a luncheon preceding the event, RCA presented him with a plaque certifying worldwide sales of over 75 million records.[155] A 12-hour Nashville session in mid-March yielded nearly all of Presley's next studio album, Something for Everybody.[156] As described by John Robertson, it exemplifies the Nashville sound, the restrained, cosmopolitan style that would define country music in the 1960s. Presaging much of what was to come from Presley himself over the next half-decade, the album is largely "a pleasant, unthreatening pastiche of the music that had once been Elvis's birthright."[157] It would be his sixth number one LP. Another benefit concert, raising money for a Pearl Harbor memorial, was staged on March 25, in Hawaii. It was to be Presley's last public performance for seven years.[158]
Lost in Hollywood[link]
See also: Elvis Presley filmography
Parker had by now pushed Presley into a heavy moviemaking schedule, focused on formulaic, modestly budgeted musical comedies. Presley at first insisted on pursuing more serious roles, but when two films in a more dramatic vein—Flaming Star (1960) and Wild in the Country (1961)—were less commercially successful, he reverted to the formula. Among the 27 movies he made during the 1960s, there were few further exceptions.[159] His films were almost universally panned; one critic dismissed them as a "pantheon of bad taste".[160] Nonetheless, they were virtually all profitable. Hal Wallis, who produced nine of them, declared, "A Presley picture is the only sure thing in Hollywood."[161]
Of Presley's films in the 1960s, 15 were accompanied by soundtrack albums and another 5 by soundtrack EPs. The movies' rapid production and release schedules—he frequently starred in three a year—affected his music. According to Jerry Leiber, the soundtrack formula was already evident before Presley left for the Army: "three ballads, one medium-tempo [number], one up-tempo, and one break blues boogie".[162] As the decade wore on, the quality of the soundtrack songs grew "progressively worse".[163] Julie Parrish, who appeared in Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966), says that he hated many of the songs chosen for his films.[164] The Jordanaires' Gordon Stoker describes how Presley would retreat from the studio microphone: "The material was so bad that he felt like he couldn't sing it."[165] Most of the movie albums featured a song or two from respected writers such as the team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. But by and large, according to biographer Jerry Hopkins, the numbers seemed to be "written on order by men who never really understood Elvis or rock and roll."[166] Regardless of the songs' quality, it has been argued that Presley generally sang them well, with commitment.[167] Critic Dave Marsh heard the opposite: "Presley isn't trying, probably the wisest course in the face of material like 'No Room to Rumba in a Sports Car' and 'Rock-a-Hula Baby.'"[114]
In the first half of the decade, three of Presley's soundtrack albums hit number one on the pop charts, and a few of his most popular songs came from his films, such as "Can't Help Falling in Love" (1961) and "Return to Sender" (1962). ("Viva Las Vegas", the title track to the 1964 film, was a minor hit as a B-side, and became truly popular only later.) But, as with artistic merit, the commercial returns steadily diminished. During a five-year span—1964 through 1968—Presley had only one top ten hit: "Crying in the Chapel" (1965), a gospel number recorded back in 1960. As for non-movie albums, between the June 1962 release of Pot Luck and the November 1968 release of the soundtrack to the television special that signaled his comeback, only one LP of new material by Presley was issued: the gospel album How Great Thou Art (1967). It won him his first Grammy Award, for Best Sacred Performance. As Marsh described, Presley was "arguably the greatest white gospel singer of his time [and] really the last rock & roll artist to make gospel as vital a component of his musical personality as his secular songs."[168]
Shortly before Christmas 1966, more than seven years since they first met, Presley proposed to Priscilla Beaulieu. They were married on May 1, 1967, in a brief ceremony in their suite at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.[169] The flow of formulaic movies and assembly-line soundtracks rolled on. It was not until October 1967, when the Clambake soundtrack LP registered record low sales for a new Presley album, that RCA executives recognized a problem. "By then, of course, the damage had been done", as historians Connie Kirchberg and Marc Hendrickx put it. "Elvis was viewed as a joke by serious music lovers and a has-been to all but his most loyal fans."[170]
Comeback (1968–73)[link]
[edit] Elvis: the '68 Comeback Special
Main article: Elvis (1968 TV program)
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The '68 Comeback Special produced "one of the most famous images" of Presley.[171] Taken on June 29, 1968, it was adapted for the cover of Rolling Stone in July 1969.[171][172]
Presley's only child, Lisa Marie, was born on February 1, 1968, during a period when he had grown deeply unhappy with his career.[173] Of the eight Presley singles released between January 1967 and May 1968, only two charted in the top 40, and none higher than number 28.[174] His forthcoming soundtrack album, Speedway, would die at number 82 on the Billboard chart. Parker had already shifted his plans to television, where Presley had not appeared since the Sinatra Timex show in 1960. He maneuvered a deal with NBC that committed the network to both finance a theatrical feature and broadcast a Christmas special.[175]
Recorded in late June in Burbank, California, the special, called simply Elvis, aired on December 3, 1968. Later known as the '68 Comeback Special, the show featured lavishly staged studio productions as well as songs performed with a band in front of a small audience—Presley's first live performances since 1961. The live segments saw Presley clad in tight black leather, singing and playing guitar in an uninhibited style reminiscent of his early rock and roll days. Director and coproducer Steve Binder had worked hard to reassure the nervous singer and to produce a show that was far from the hour of Christmas songs Parker had originally planned.[176] The show, NBC's highest rated that season, captured 42 percent of the total viewing audience.[177] Jon Landau of Eye magazine remarked, "There is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back home. He sang with the kind of power people no longer expect of rock 'n' roll singers. He moved his body with a lack of pretension and effort that must have made Jim Morrison green with envy."[178] Dave Marsh calls the performance one of "emotional grandeur and historical resonance."[179]
By January 1969, the single "If I Can Dream", written for the special, reached number 12. The soundtrack album broke into the top ten. According to friend Jerry Schilling, the special reminded Presley of what "he had not been able to do for years, being able to choose the people; being able to choose what songs and not being told what had to be on the soundtrack. ... He was out of prison, man."[177] Binder said of Presley's reaction, "I played Elvis the 60-minute show, and he told me in the screening room, 'Steve, it's the greatest thing I've ever done in my life. I give you my word I will never sing a song I don't believe in.'"[177]
[edit] From Elvis In Memphis and the International
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Beginning with his American Sound recordings, soul music became a central element in Presley's fusion of styles. Here, he revels in lyrics full of sexual innuendo.[180]
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Buoyed by the experience of the Comeback Special, Presley engaged in a prolific series of recording sessions at American Sound Studio, which led to the acclaimed From Elvis in Memphis. Released in June 1969, it was his first secular, non-soundtrack album from a dedicated period in the studio in eight years. As described by Dave Marsh, it is "a masterpiece in which Presley immediately catches up with pop music trends that had seemed to pass him by during the movie years. He sings country songs, soul songs and rockers with real conviction, a stunning achievement."[181] The album featured the hit single "In the Ghetto", issued in April, which reached number three on the pop chart—Presley's first non-gospel top ten hit since "Bossa Nova Baby" in 1963. Further hit singles were culled from the American Sound sessions: "Suspicious Minds", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Kentucky Rain".
Presley was keen to resume regular live performing. Following the success of the Comeback Special, offers came in from around the world. The London Palladium offered Parker $28,000 for a one-week engagement. He responded, "That's fine for me, now how much can you get for Elvis?"[182] In May, the brand new International Hotel in Las Vegas, boasting the largest showroom in the city, announced that it had booked Presley. He was scheduled to perform 57 shows over four weeks beginning July 31. Moore, Fontana, and the Jordanaires declined to participate, afraid of losing the lucrative session work they had in Nashville. Presley assembled new, top-notch accompaniment, led by guitarist James Burton and including two gospel groups, The Imperials and Sweet Inspirations.[183] Nonetheless, he was nervous: his only previous Las Vegas engagement, in 1956, had been dismal. Parker, who intended to make Presley's return the show business event of the year, oversaw a major promotional push. For his part, hotel owner Kirk Kerkorian arranged to send his own plane to New York to fly in rock journalists for the debut performance.[184]
Presley took to the stage without introduction. The audience of 2,200, including many celebrities, gave him a standing ovation before he sang a note and another after his performance. A third followed his encore, "Can't Help Falling in Love" (a song that would be his closing number for much of the 1970s).[185] At a press conference after the show, when a journalist referred to him as "The King", Presley gestured toward Fats Domino, who was taking in the scene. "No," Presley said, "that's the real king of rock and roll."[186] The next day, Parker's negotiations with the hotel resulted in a five-year contract for Presley to play each February and August, at an annual salary of $1 million.[187] Newsweek commented, "There are several unbelievable things about Elvis, but the most incredible is his staying power in a world where meteoric careers fade like shooting stars."[188] Rolling Stone called Presley "supernatural, his own resurrection."[189] In November, Presley's final non-concert movie, Change of Habit, opened. The double album From Memphis To Vegas/From Vegas To Memphis came out the same month; the first LP consisted of live performances from the International, the second of more cuts from the American Sound sessions. "Suspicious Minds" reached the top of the charts—Presley's first U.S. pop number one in over seven years, and his last.
Cassandra Peterson, later television's Elvira, met Presley during this period in Las Vegas, where she was working as showgirl. She recalls of their encounter, "He was so anti-drug when I met him. I mentioned to him that I smoked marijuana, and he was just appalled. He said, 'Don't ever do that again.'"[190] Presley was not only deeply opposed to recreational drugs, he also rarely drank. Several of his family members had been alcoholics, a fate he intended to avoid.[191]
Back on tour and meeting Nixon[link]
Presley returned to the International early in 1970 for the first of the year's two month-long engagements, performing two shows a night. Recordings from these shows were issued on the album On Stage.[192] In late February, Presley performed six attendance-record–breaking shows at the Houston Astrodome.[193] In April, the single "The Wonder of You" was issued—a number one hit in Great Britain, it topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart, as well. MGM filmed rehearsal and concert footage at the International during August for the documentary Elvis: That's the Way It Is. Presley was by now performing in a jumpsuit, which would become a trademark of his live act. During this engagement, he was threatened with murder unless $50,000 was paid. Presley had been the target of many threats since the 1950s, often without his knowledge.[194] The FBI took the threat seriously and security was stepped up for the next two shows. Presley went onstage with a Derringer in his right boot and a .45 pistol in his waistband, but the concerts went off without incident.[195][196]
The album That's the Way It Is, produced to accompany the documentary and featuring both studio and live recordings, marked a stylistic shift. As music historian John Robertson notes, "The authority of Presley's singing helped disguise the fact that the album stepped decisively away from the American-roots inspiration of the Memphis sessions towards a more middle-of-the-road sound. With country put on the back burner, and soul and R&B left in Memphis, what was left was very classy, very clean white pop—perfect for the Las Vegas crowd, but a definite retrograde step for Elvis."[197] After the end of his International engagement on September 7, Presley embarked on a week-long concert tour, largely of the South, his first since 1958. Another week-long tour, of the West Coast, followed in November.[198]
On December 21, 1970, Presley engineered a meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House, where he expressed his patriotism and his contempt for the hippie drug culture. He asked Nixon for a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge, to add to similar items he had begun collecting and to signify official sanction of his patriotic efforts. Nixon, who apparently found the encounter awkward, expressed a belief that Presley could send a positive message to young people and that it was therefore important he "retain his credibility". Presley told Nixon that The Beatles, whose songs he regularly performed in concert during the era,[199] exemplified what he saw as a trend of anti-Americanism and drug abuse in popular culture.[200] (Presley and his friends had had a four-hour get-together with The Beatles five years earlier.) On hearing reports of the meeting, Paul McCartney later said that he "felt a bit betrayed. ... The great joke was that we were taking [illegal] drugs, and look what happened to him", a reference to Presley's death, hastened by prescription drug abuse.[201]
The U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce named Presley one of its annual Ten Most Outstanding Young Men of the Nation on January 16, 1971.[202] Not long after, the City of Memphis named the stretch of Highway 51 South on which Graceland is located "Elvis Presley Boulevard". The same year, Presley became the first rock and roll singer to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (then known as the Bing Crosby Award) by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Grammy Award organization.[203] Three new, non-movie Presley studio albums were released in 1971, as many as had come out over the previous eight years. Best received by critics was Elvis Country, a concept record that focused on genre standards.[204] The biggest seller was Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas, "the truest statement of all", according to Greil Marcus. "In the midst of ten painfully genteel Christmas songs, every one sung with appalling sincerity and humility, one could find Elvis tom-catting his way through six blazing minutes of 'Merry Christmas, Baby,' a raunchy old Charles Brown blues. ... If [Presley's] sin was his lifelessness, it was his sinfulness that brought him to life".[205]
[edit] Marriage breakdown and Aloha from Hawaii
See also: Aloha from Hawaii
MGM again filmed Presley in April 1972, this time for Elvis on Tour, which went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film that year. His gospel album He Touched Me, released that month, would earn him his second Grammy Award, for Best Inspirational Performance. A 14-date tour commenced with an unprecedented four consecutive sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden.[206] The evening concert on July 10 was recorded and issued in LP form a week later. Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden became one of Presley's biggest-selling albums. After the tour, the single "Burning Love" was released—Presley's last top ten hit on the U.S. pop chart. "The most exciting single Elvis has made since 'All Shook Up'", wrote rock critic Robert Christgau. "Who else could make 'It's coming closer, the flames are now licking my body' sound like an assignation with James Brown's backup band?"[207]
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Presley in Aloha From Hawaii, broadcast live via satellite on January 14, 1973. The singer himself came up with his famous outfit's eagle motif, as "something that would say 'America' to the world."[208]
Presley and his wife, meanwhile, had become increasingly distant, barely cohabiting. In 1971, an affair he had with Joyce Bova resulted—unbeknownst to him—in her pregnancy and an abortion. He often raised the possibility of her moving in to Graceland, saying that he was likely to leave Priscilla.[209] The Presleys separated on February 23, 1972, after Priscilla disclosed her relationship with Mike Stone, a karate instructor Presley had recommended to her. Priscilla relates that when she told him, Presley "grabbed ... and forcefully made love to" her, declaring, "This is how a real man makes love to his woman."[210] Five months later, Presley's new girlfriend, Linda Thompson, a songwriter and one-time Memphis beauty queen, moved in with him.[211] Presley and his wife filed for divorce on August 18.[212] According to Joe Moscheo of the Imperials, the failure of Presley's marriage "was a blow from which he never recovered."[213]
In January 1973, Presley performed two benefit concerts for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in connection with a groundbreaking TV special, Aloha from Hawaii. The first show served as a practice run and backup should technical problems affect the live broadcast two days later. Aired as scheduled on January 14, Aloha from Hawaii was the first global concert satellite broadcast, reaching approximately 1.5 billion viewers live and on tape delay.[214][215][216] Presley's costume became the most recognized example of the elaborate concert garb with which his latter-day persona became closely associated. As described by Bobbie Ann Mason, "At the end of the show, when he spreads out his American Eagle cape, with the full stretched wings of the eagle studded on the back, he becomes a god figure."[217] The accompanying double album, released in February, went to number one and eventually sold over 5 million copies in the United States.[218] It proved to be Presley's last U.S. number one pop album during his lifetime.
At a midnight show the same month, four men rushed onto the stage in an apparent attack. Security men leapt to Presley's defense, and the singer's karate instinct took over as he ejected one invader from the stage himself. Following the show, he became obsessed with the idea that the men had been sent by Mike Stone to kill him. Though they were shown to have been only overexuberant fans, he raged, "There's too much pain in me ... Stone [must] die." His outbursts continued with such intensity that a physician was unable to calm him, despite administering large doses of medication. After another two full days of raging, Red West, his friend and bodyguard, felt compelled to get a price for a contract killing and was relieved when Presley decided, "Aw hell, let's just leave it for now. Maybe it's a bit heavy."[219]
Health deterioration and death (1973–77)[link]
Medical crises and last studio sessions[link]
Presley's divorce took effect on October 9, 1973.[220] He was now becoming increasingly unwell. Twice during the year he overdosed on barbiturates, spending three days in a coma in his hotel suite after the first incident. Toward the end of 1973, he was hospitalized, semicomatose from the effects of Demerol addiction. According to his main physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, Presley "felt that by getting [drugs] from a doctor, he wasn't the common everyday junkie getting something off the street."[221] Since his comeback, he had staged more live shows with each passing year, and 1973 saw 168 concerts, his busiest schedule ever.[222] Despite his failing health, in 1974 he undertook another intensive touring schedule.[223]
Presley's condition declined precipitously in September. Keyboardist Tony Brown remembers the singer's arrival at a University of Maryland concert: "He fell out of the limousine, to his knees. People jumped to help, and he pushed them away like, 'Don't help me.' He walked on stage and held onto the mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Everybody's looking at each other like, Is the tour gonna happen?"[224] Guitarist John Wilkinson recalled, "He was all gut. He was slurring. He was so fucked up. ... It was obvious he was drugged. It was obvious there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad the words to the songs were barely intelligible. ... I remember crying. He could barely get through the introductions".[225] Wilkinson recounted that a few nights later in Detroit, "I watched him in his dressing room, just draped over a chair, unable to move. So often I thought, 'Boss, why don't you just cancel this tour and take a year off...?' I mentioned something once in a guarded moment. He patted me on the back and said, 'It'll be all right. Don't you worry about it.'"[225] Presley continued to play to sellout crowds. As cultural critic Marjorie Garber describes, he was now widely seen as a garish pop crooner: "in effect he had become Liberace. Even his fans were now middle-aged matrons and blue-haired grandmothers."[226]
On July 13, 1976, Vernon Presley—who had become deeply involved in his son's financial affairs—fired "Memphis Mafia" bodyguards Red West (Presley's friend since the 1950s), Sonny West, and David Hebler, citing the need to "cut back on expenses".[227][228][229] Presley was in Palm Springs at the time, and some suggest the singer was too cowardly to face the three himself. Another associate of Presley's, John O'Grady, argued that the bodyguards were dropped because their rough treatment of fans had prompted too many lawsuits.[230] However, Presley's stepbrother David Stanley has claimed that the bodyguards were fired because they were becoming more outspoken about Presley's drug dependency.[231] Presley and Linda Thompson split in November, and he took up with a new girlfriend, Ginger Alden.[232] He proposed to Alden and gave her an engagement ring two months later, though several of his friends later claimed that he had no serious intention of marrying again.[233]
RCA, which had enjoyed a steady stream of product from Presley for over a decade, grew anxious as his interest in spending time in the studio waned. After a December 1973 session that produced 18 songs, enough for almost two albums, he did not enter the studio in 1974.[234] Parker sold RCA on another concert record, Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis.[235] Recorded on March 20, it included a version of "How Great Thou Art" that would win Presley his third and final competitive Grammy Award.[236] (All three of his competitive Grammy wins—out of 14 total nominations—were for gospel recordings.) Presley returned to the studio in Hollywood in March 1975, but Parker's attempts to arrange another session toward the end of the year were unsuccessful.[237] In 1976, RCA sent a mobile studio to Graceland that made possible two full-scale recording sessions at Presley's home.[238] Even in that comfortable context, the recording process was now a struggle for him.[239]
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For all the concerns of his label and manager, in studio sessions between July 1973 and October 1976, Presley recorded virtually the entire contents of six albums. Though he was no longer a major presence on the pop charts, five of those albums entered the top five of the country chart, and three went to number one: Promised Land (1975), From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee (1976), and Moody Blue (1977).[241] The story was similar with his singles—there were no major pop hits, but Presley was a significant force in not just the country market, but on adult contemporary radio as well. Eight studio singles from this period released during his lifetime were top ten hits on one or both charts, four in 1974 alone. "My Boy" was a number one AC hit in 1975, and "Moody Blue" topped the country chart and reached the second spot on the AC in 1976.[242] Perhaps his most critically acclaimed recording of the era came that year, with what Greil Marcus described as his "apocalyptic attack" on the soul classic "Hurt".[243] "If he felt the way he sounded", Dave Marsh wrote of Presley's performance, "the wonder isn't that he had only a year left to live but that he managed to survive that long."[244]
Final year and death[link]
Journalist Tony Scherman writes that by early 1977, "Elvis Presley had become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self. Hugely overweight, his mind dulled by the pharmacopoeia he daily ingested, he was barely able to pull himself through his abbreviated concerts."[245] In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer was on stage for less than an hour and "was impossible to understand".[246] Presley failed to appear in Baton Rouge; he was unable to get out of his hotel bed, and the rest of the tour was cancelled.[246] Despite the accelerating deterioration of his health, he stuck to most touring commitments. In Rapid City, South Dakota, "he was so nervous on stage that he could hardly talk", according to Presley historian Samuel Roy, and unable to "perform any significant movement."[247] Guralnick relates that fans "were becoming increasingly voluble about their disappointment, but it all seemed to go right past Elvis, whose world was now confined almost entirely to his room and his spiritualism books."[248] A cousin, Billy Smith, recalled how Presley would sit in his room and chat for hours, sometimes recounting favorite Monty Python sketches and his own past escapades, but more often gripped by paranoid obsessions that reminded Smith of Howard Hughes.[249] "Way Down", Presley's last single issued during his lifetime, came out on June 6. His final concert was held in Indianapolis at the Market Square Arena, on June 26.
The book Elvis: What Happened?, cowritten by the three bodyguards fired the previous year, was published on August 1.[250] It was the first exposé to detail Presley's years of drug misuse. He was devastated by the book and tried unsuccessfully to halt its release by offering money to the publishers.[251] By this point, he suffered from multiple ailments: glaucoma, high blood pressure, liver damage, and an enlarged colon, each aggravated—and possibly caused—by drug abuse.[221]
Presley was scheduled to fly out of Memphis on the evening of August 16, 1977, to begin another tour. That afternoon, Alden discovered him unresponsive on his bathroom floor. Attempts to revive him failed, and death was officially pronounced at 3:30 pm at Baptist Memorial Hospital.[252]
President Jimmy Carter issued a statement that credited Presley with having "permanently changed the face of American popular culture".[253] Thousands of people gathered outside Graceland to view the open casket. One of Presley's cousins, Billy Mann, accepted $18,000 to secretly photograph the corpse; the picture appeared on the cover of the National Enquirer's biggest-selling issue ever.[254] Alden struck a $105,000 deal with the Enquirer for her story, but settled for less when she broke her exclusivity agreement.[255] Presley left her nothing in his will.[256]
Presley's funeral was held at Graceland, on Thursday, August 18. Outside the gates, a car plowed into a group of fans, killing two women and critically injuring a third.[257] Approximately 80,000 people lined the processional route to Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley was buried next to his mother.[258] Within a few days, "Way Down" topped the country and UK pop charts.[242][259] Following an attempt to steal the singer's body in late August, the remains of both Elvis Presley and his mother were reburied in Graceland's Meditation Garden on October 2.[255]
Since 1977[link]
Between 1977 and 1981, six posthumously released singles by Presley were top ten country hits.[242] Graceland was opened to the public in 1982. Attracting over half a million visitors annually, it is the second most-visited home in the United States, after the White House.[260] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006.[261]
Presley has been inducted into four music halls of fame: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986), the Country Music Hall of Fame (1998), the Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2001), and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame (2007). In 1984, he received the W. C. Handy Award from the Blues Foundation and the Academy of Country Music's first Golden Hat Award. In 1987, he received the American Music Awards' Award of Merit.[262]
A Junkie XL remix of Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" (credited as "Elvis Vs JXL") was used in a Nike advertising campaign during the 2002 FIFA World Cup. It topped the charts in over 20 countries, and was included in a compilation of Presley's number one hits, ELV1S, that was also an international success. In 2003, a remix of "Rubberneckin'", a 1969 recording of Presley's, topped the U.S. sales chart, as did a 50th-anniversary re-release of "That's All Right" the following year.[263] The latter was an outright hit in Great Britain, reaching number three on the pop chart.
In 2005, another three reissued singles, "Jailhouse Rock", "One Night"/"I Got Stung", and "It's Now or Never", went to number one in Great Britain. A total of 17 Presley singles were reissued during the year; all made the British top five. For the fifth straight year, Forbes named Presley the top-earning deceased celebrity, with a gross income of $45 million.[264] He placed second in 2006,[265] returned to the top spot the next two years,[266][267] and ranked fourth in 2009.[268] The following year, he was ranked second, with his highest annual income ever—$60 million—spurred by the celebration of his 75th birthday and the launch of Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis show in Las Vegas.[269] In November 2010, Viva Elvis: The Album was released, setting his voice to newly recorded instrumental tracks.[270][271] As of mid-2011, there were an estimated 15,000 licensed Presley products.[272] He was again the second-highest-earning deceased celebrity.[273]
Presley holds the records for most songs charting in Billboard's top 40 and top 100: chart statistician Joel Whitburn calculates the respective totals as 104 and 151;[274] Presley historian Adam Victor gives 114 and 138.[275] Presley's rankings for top ten and number one hits vary depending on how the double-sided "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" and "Don't/I Beg of You" singles, which precede the inception of Billboard's unified Hot 100 chart, are analyzed.e According to Whitburn's analysis, Presley and Madonna share the record for most top ten hits with 38;[276] per Billboard's current assessment, he ranks second with 36.[277] Whitburn and Billboard concur that The Beatles hold the record for most number one hits with 20 and that Mariah Carey is second with 18. Whitburn has Presley also with 18 and thus tied for second;[276] Billboard has him third with 17.[278] Presley retains the record for cumulative weeks at number one: alone at 80, according to Whitburn and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame;[279][280] tied with Carey at 79, according to Billboard.[281][282] He holds the records for most British number one hits, with 21, and top ten hits, with 76.[283][284]
Musical style[link]
Influences[link]
Presley's earliest musical influence came from gospel. His mother recalled that from the age of two, at the Assembly of God church in Tupelo attended by the family, "he would slide down off my lap, run into the aisle and scramble up to the platform. There he would stand looking at the choir and trying to sing with them."[285] In Memphis, Presley frequently attended all-night gospel singings at the Ellis Auditorium, where groups such as the Statesmen Quartet led the music in a style that, Guralnick suggests, sowed the seeds of Presley's future stage act:
The Statesmen were an electric combination ... featuring some of the most thrillingly emotive singing and daringly unconventional showmanship in the entertainment world ... dressed in suits that might have come out of the window of Lansky's. ... Bass singer Jim Wetherington, known universally as the Big Chief, maintained a steady bottom, ceaselessly jiggling first his left leg, then his right, with the material of the pants leg ballooning out and shimmering. "He went about as far as you could go in gospel music," said Jake Hess. "The women would jump up, just like they do for the pop shows." Preachers frequently objected to the lewd movements ... but audiences reacted with screams and swoons.[286]
As a teenager, Presley's musical interests were wide-ranging, and he was deeply informed about African American musical idioms as well as white ones (see "Teenage life in Memphis"). Though he never had any formal training, he was blessed with a remarkable memory, and his musical knowledge was already considerable by the time he made his first professional recordings in 1954 at the age of 19. When Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met him two years later, they were astonished at his encyclopedic understanding of the blues.[287] At a press conference the following year, he proudly declared, "I know practically every religious song that's ever been written."[126]
Genres[link]
Presley was a central figure in the development of rockabilly, according to music historians. "Rockabilly crystallized into a recognizable style in 1954 with Elvis Presley's first release, on the Sun label", writes Craig Morrison.[288] Paul Friedlander describes the defining elements of rockabilly, which he similarly characterizes as "essentially ... an Elvis Presley construction": "the raw, emotive, and slurred vocal style and emphasis on rhythmic feeling [of] the blues with the string band and strummed rhythm guitar [of] country".[289] In "That's All Right", the Presley trio's first record, Scotty Moore's guitar solo, "a combination of Merle Travis–style country finger-picking, double-stop slides from acoustic boogie, and blues-based bent-note, single-string work, is a microcosm of this fusion."[289]
At RCA, Presley's rock and roll sound grew distinct from rockabilly with group chorus vocals, more heavily amplified electric guitars[290] and a tougher, more intense manner.[291] While he was known for taking songs from various sources and giving them a rockabilly/rock and roll treatment, he also recorded songs in other genres from early in his career, from the pop standard "Blue Moon" at Sun to the country ballad "How's the World Treating You?" on his second LP to the blues of "Santa Claus Is Back In Town". In 1957, his first gospel record was released, the four-song EP Peace in the Valley. Certified as a million seller, it became the top-selling gospel EP in recording history.[292] Presley would record gospel periodically for the rest of his life.
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After his return from military service in 1960, Presley continued to perform rock and roll, but the characteristic style was substantially toned down. His first post-Army single, the number one hit "Stuck on You", is typical of this shift. RCA publicity materials referred to its "mild rock beat"; discographer Ernst Jorgensen calls it "upbeat pop".[295] The modern blues/R&B sound captured so successfully on Elvis Is Back! was essentially abandoned for six years until such 1966–67 recordings as "Down in the Alley" and "Hi-Heel Sneakers".[296] The singer's output during most of the 1960s emphasized pop music, often in the form of ballads such as "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", a number one in 1960. While that was a dramatic number, most of what Presley recorded for his movie soundtracks was in a much lighter vein.[297]
While Presley performed several of his classic ballads for the '68 Comeback Special, the sound of the show was dominated by aggressive rock and roll. He would record few new straight-ahead rock and roll songs thereafter; as he explained, they were "hard to find".[298] A significant exception was "Burning Love", his last major hit on the pop charts. Like his work of the 1950s, Presley's subsequent recordings reworked pop and country songs, but in markedly different permutations. His stylistic range now began to embrace a more contemporary rock sound as well as soul and funk. Much of Elvis In Memphis, as well as "Suspicious Minds", cut at the same sessions, reflected his new rock and soul fusion. In the mid-1970s, many of his singles found a home on country radio, the field where he first became a star.[299]
Vocal style and range[link]
Music critic Henry Pleasants observes that "Elvis Presley has been described variously as a baritone and a tenor. An extraordinary compass ... and a very wide range of vocal color have something to do with this divergence of opinion."[300] He identifies Presley as a high baritone, calculating his range as two octaves and a third, "from the baritone low G to the tenor high B, with an upward extension in falsetto to at least a D-flat. Presley's best octave is in the middle, D-flat to D-flat, granting an extra full step up or down."[300] In Pleasants' view, his voice was "variable and unpredictable" at the bottom, "often brilliant" at the top, with the capacity for "full-voiced high Gs and As that an opera baritone might envy."[300] Scholar Lindsay Waters, who figures Presley's range as two and a quarter octaves, emphasizes that "his voice had an emotional range from tender whispers to sighs down to shouts, grunts, grumbles and sheer gruffness that could move the listener from calmness and surrender, to fear. His voice can not be measured in octaves, but in decibels; even that misses the problem of how to measure delicate whispers that are hardly audible at all."[301] Presley was always "able to duplicate the open, hoarse, ecstatic, screaming, shouting, wailing, reckless sound of the black rhythm-and-blues and gospel singers," writes Pleasants, and also demonstrated a remarkable ability to assimilate many other vocal styles.[300]
Questions over cause of death[link]
"Drug use was heavily implicated" in Presley's death, writes Guralnick. "No one ruled out the possibility of anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills ... to which he was known to have had a mild allergy." A pair of lab reports filed two months later each strongly suggested that polypharmacy was the primary cause of death; one reported "fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity."[302] Forensic historian and pathologist Michael Baden views the situation as complicated: "Elvis had had an enlarged heart for a long time. That, together with his drug habit, caused his death. But he was difficult to diagnose; it was a judgment call."[303]
The competence and ethics of two of the centrally involved medical professionals were seriously questioned. Before the autopsy was complete and toxicology results known, medical examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco declared the cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia, a condition that can be determined only in someone who is still alive.[304] Allegations of a cover-up were widespread.[303] While Presley's main physician, Dr. Nichopoulos, was exonerated of criminal liability for the singer's death, the facts were startling: "In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had [prescribed] more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics: all in Elvis's name." His license was suspended for three months. It was permanently revoked in the 1990s after the Tennessee Medical Board brought new charges of over-prescription.[221]
In 1994, the Presley autopsy was reopened. Coroner Dr. Joseph Davis declared, "There is nothing in any of the data that supports a death from drugs. In fact, everything points to a sudden, violent heart attack."[221] Whether or not combined drug intoxication was in fact the cause, there is little doubt that polypharmacy contributed significantly to Presley's premature death.[304]
Racial issues[link]
When Dewey Phillips first aired "That's All Right" on Memphis radio, many listeners who contacted the station by phone and telegram to ask for it again assumed that its singer was black.[52] From the beginning of his national fame, Presley expressed respect for African American performers and their music, and disregard for the norms of segregation and racial prejudice then prevalent in the South. Interviewed in 1956, he recalled how in his childhood he would listen to blues musician Arthur Crudup—the originator of "That's All Right"—"bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw."[36] The Memphis World, an African American newspaper, reported that Presley, "the rock 'n' roll phenomenon", "cracked Memphis's segregation laws" by attending the local amusement park on what was designated as its "colored night".[36] Such statements and actions led Presley to be generally hailed in the black community during the early days of his stardom.[36] By contrast, many white adults, according to Billboard's Arnold Shaw, "did not like him, and condemned him as depraved. Anti-negro prejudice doubtless figured in adult antagonism. Regardless of whether parents were aware of the Negro sexual origins of the phrase 'rock 'n' roll', Presley impressed them as the visual and aural embodiment of sex."[305]
Despite the largely positive view of Presley held by African Americans, a rumor spread in mid-1957 that he had at some point announced, "The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes." A journalist with the national African American weekly Jet, Louie Robinson, pursued the story. On the set of Jailhouse Rock, Presley granted him an interview, though he was no longer dealing with the mainstream press. He denied making such a statement or holding in any way to its racist view. Robinson found no evidence that the remark had ever been made, and on the contrary elicited testimony from many individuals indicating that Presley was anything but racist.[36][306] Blues singer Ivory Joe Hunter, who had heard the rumor before he visited Graceland one evening, reported of Presley, "He showed me every courtesy, and I think he's one of the greatest."[307] Though the rumored remark was wholly discredited at the time, it was still being used against Presley decades later.[308] The identification of Presley with racism—either personally or symbolically—was expressed most famously in the lyrics of the 1989 rap hit "Fight the Power", by Public Enemy: "Elvis was a hero to most / But he never meant shit to me / Straight-up racist that sucker was / Simple and plain".[309]
The persistence of such attitudes was fueled by resentment over the fact that Presley, whose musical and visual performance idiom owed much to African American sources, achieved the cultural acknowledgment and commercial success largely denied his black peers.[306] Into the 21st century, the notion that Presley had "stolen" black music still found adherents.[308][309] Notable among African American entertainers expressly rejecting this view was Jackie Wilson, who argued, "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis."[310] And throughout his career, Presley plainly acknowledged his debt. Addressing his '68 Comeback Special audience, he said, "Rock 'n' roll music is basically gospel or rhythm and blues, or it sprang from that. People have been adding to it, adding instruments to it, experimenting with it, but it all boils down to [that]." Nine years earlier, he had said, "Rock 'n' roll has been around for many years. It used to be called rhythm and blues."[311]
Influence of Colonel Parker and others[link]
Parker and the Aberbachs[link]
Further information: Colonel Tom Parker
Once he became Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker insisted on exceptionally tight control over his client's career. Early on, he and his Hill and Range allies, the brothers Jean and Julian Aberbach, perceived the close relationship that developed between Presley and songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as a serious threat to that control.[312] Parker effectively ended the relationship, deliberately or not, with the new contract he sent Leiber in early 1958. Leiber thought there was a mistake—the sheet of paper was blank except for Parker's signature and a line on which to enter his. "There's no mistake, boy, just sign it and return it", Parker directed. "Don't worry, we'll fill it in later." Leiber declined, and Presley's fruitful collaboration with the writing team was over.[313] Other respected songwriters lost interest in or simply avoided writing for Presley because of the requirement that they surrender a third of their usual royalties.[314]
By 1967, Parker's contracts with Presley gave him 50 percent of most of the singer's earnings from recordings, films, and merchandise.[315] Beginning in February 1972, he took a third of the profit from live appearances;[316] a January 1976 agreement entitled him to half of that as well.[317] Priscilla Presley noted that "Elvis detested the business side of his career. He would sign a contract without even reading it."[318] Presley's friend Marty Lacker regarded Parker as a "hustler and a con artist. He was only interested in 'now money'—get the buck and get gone."[319]
Lacker was instrumental in convincing Presley to record with Memphis producer Chips Moman and his handpicked musicians at American Sound Studio in early 1969. The American Sound sessions represented a significant departure from the control customarily exerted by Hill and Range. Moman still had to deal with the publisher's staff on site, whose song suggestions he regarded as unacceptable. He was on the verge of quitting, until Presley ordered the Hill and Range personnel out of the studio.[320] Although RCA executive Joan Deary was later full of praise for the producer's song choices and the quality of the recordings,[321] Moman, to his fury, received neither credit on the records nor royalties for his work.[322]
Throughout his entire career, Presley performed in only three venues outside the United States—all of them in Canada, during brief tours there in 1957. Rumors that he would play overseas for the first time were fueled in 1974 by a million-dollar bid for an Australian tour. Parker was uncharacteristically reluctant, prompting those close to Presley to speculate about the manager's past and the reasons for his apparent unwillingness to apply for a passport. Parker ultimately squelched any notions Presley had of working abroad, claiming that foreign security was poor and the venues unsuitable for a star of his magnitude.[323]
Parker arguably exercised tightest control over Presley's movie career. In 1957, Robert Mitchum asked Presley to costar with him in Thunder Road, on which Mitchum was writer and producer.[324] According to George Klein, one of his oldest friends, Presley was offered starring roles in West Side Story and Midnight Cowboy.[325] In 1974, Barbra Streisand approached Presley to star with her in the remake of A Star is Born.[326] In each case, any ambitions the singer may have had to play such parts were thwarted by his manager's negotiating demands or flat refusals. In Lacker's description, "The only thing that kept Elvis going after the early years was a new challenge. But Parker kept running everything into the ground."[319] The operative attitude may have been summed up best by the response Leiber and Stoller received when they brought a serious film project for Presley to Parker and the Hill and Range owners for their consideration. In Leiber's telling, Jean Aberbach warned them to never again "try to interfere with the business or artistic workings of the process known as Elvis Presley".[162]
Memphis Mafia[link]
Main article: Memphis Mafia
In the early 1960s, the circle of friends with whom Presley constantly surrounded himself until his death came to be known as the "Memphis Mafia".[327] "Surrounded by the[ir] parasitic presence", as journalist John Harris puts it, "it was no wonder that as he slid into addiction and torpor, no-one raised the alarm: to them, Elvis was the bank, and it had to remain open."[328] Tony Brown, who played piano for Presley regularly in the last two years of the singer's life, observed his rapidly declining health and the urgent need to address it: "But we all knew it was hopeless because Elvis was surrounded by that little circle of people ... all those so-called friends".[329] In the Memphis Mafia's defense, Marty Lacker has said, "[Presley] was his own man. ... If we hadn't been around, he would have been dead a lot earlier."[330]
Larry Geller became Presley's hairdresser in 1964. Unlike others in the Memphis Mafia, he was interested in spiritual questions and recalls how, from their first conversation, Presley revealed his secret thoughts and anxieties: "I mean there has to be a purpose...there's got to be a reason...why I was chosen to be Elvis Presley. ... I swear to God, no one knows how lonely I get. And how empty I really feel."[331] Thereafter, Geller supplied him with books on religion and mysticism, which the singer read voraciously.[332] Presley would be preoccupied by such matters for much of his life, taking trunkloads of books with him on tour.[221]
Sex symbol[link]
Presley's physical attractiveness and sexual appeal were widely acknowledged. "He was once beautiful, astonishingly beautiful", in the words of critic Mark Feeney.[333] Television director Steve Binder, no fan of Presley's music before he oversaw the '68 Comeback Special, reported, "I'm straight as an arrow and I got to tell you, you stop, whether you're male or female, to look at him. He was that good looking. And if you never knew he was a superstar, it wouldn't make any difference; if he'd walked in the room, you'd know somebody special was in your presence."[334] His performance style, as much as his physical beauty, was responsible for Presley's eroticized image. Writing in 1970, critic George Melly described him as "the master of the sexual simile, treating his guitar as both phallus and girl."[335] In his Presley obituary, Lester Bangs credited him as "the man who brought overt blatant vulgar sexual frenzy to the popular arts in America."[336] Ed Sullivan's declaration that he perceived a soda bottle in Presley's trousers was echoed by rumors involving a similarly positioned toilet roll tube or lead bar.[337]
While Presley was marketed as an icon of heterosexuality, some cultural critics have argued that his image was ambiguous. In 1959, Sight and Sound's Peter John Dyer described his onscreen persona as "aggressively bisexual in appeal".[338] Brett Farmer places the "orgasmic gyrations" of the title dance sequence in Jailhouse Rock within a lineage of cinematic musical numbers that offer a "spectacular eroticization, if not homoeroticization, of the male image".[339] In the analysis of Yvonne Tasker, "Elvis was an ambivalent figure who articulated a peculiar feminised, objectifying version of white working-class masculinity as aggressive sexual display."[340]
Reinforcing Presley's image as a sex symbol were the reports of his dalliances with various Hollywood stars and starlets, from Natalie Wood in the 1950s to Connie Stevens and Ann-Margret in the 1960s to Candice Bergen and Cybill Shepherd in the 1970s. June Juanico of Memphis, one of Presley's early girlfriends, later blamed Parker for encouraging him to choose his dating partners with publicity in mind.[190] Presley, however, never grew comfortable with the Hollywood scene, and most of these relationships were insubstantial.[341]
Legacy[link]
Further information: Cultural impact of Elvis Presley; Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley
His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense, and he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor of his country.
Presley's rise to national attention in 1956 transformed the field of popular music and had a huge effect on the broader scope of popular culture.[4] As the catalyst for the cultural revolution that was rock and roll, he was central not only to defining it as a musical genre but in making it a touchstone of youth culture and rebellious attitude.[342] With its racially mixed origins—repeatedly affirmed by Presley—rock and roll's occupation of a central position in mainstream American culture facilitated a new acceptance and appreciation of black culture.[343] In this regard, Little Richard said of Presley, "He was an integrator. Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let black music through. He opened the door for black music."[344] Al Green agreed: "He broke the ice for all of us."[345] Presley also heralded the vastly expanded reach of celebrity in the era of mass communication: at the age of 21, within a year of his first appearance on American network television, he was one of the most famous people in the world.[346]
Presley's name, image, and voice are instantly recognizable around the globe.[347] He has inspired a legion of impersonators.[348] In polls and surveys, he is recognized as one of the most important popular music artists and influential Americans.f "Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century", said composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. "He introduced the beat to everything and he changed everything—music, language, clothes. It's a whole new social revolution—the sixties came from it."[349] Bob Dylan described the sensation of first hearing Presley as "like busting out of jail".[345]
A New York Times editorial on the 25th anniversary of Presley's death observed, "All the talentless impersonators and appalling black velvet paintings on display can make him seem little more than a perverse and distant memory. But before Elvis was camp, he was its opposite: a genuine cultural force. ... Elvis's breakthroughs are underappreciated because in this rock-and-roll age, his hard-rocking music and sultry style have triumphed so completely."[350] Not only Presley's achievements, but his failings as well, are seen by some cultural observers as adding to the power of his legacy, as in this description by Greil Marcus:
Elvis Presley is a supreme figure in American life, one whose presence, no matter how banal or predictable, brooks no real comparisons. ... The cultural range of his music has expanded to the point where it includes not only the hits of the day, but also patriotic recitals, pure country gospel, and really dirty blues. ... Elvis has emerged as a great artist, a great rocker, a great purveyor of schlock, a great heart throb, a great bore, a great symbol of potency, a great ham, a great nice person, and, yes, a great American.[351]
Discography[link]
Main articles: Elvis Presley albums discography and Elvis Presley singles discography
A vast number of recordings have been issued under Presley's name. The total number of his original master recordings has been variously calculated as 665[275] and 711.[333] His career began and he was most successful during an era when singles were the primary commercial medium for pop music. In the case of his albums, the distinction between "official" studio records and other forms is often blurred. For most of the 1960s, his recording career focused on soundtrack albums. In the 1970s, his most heavily promoted and best-selling LP releases tended to be concert albums. This summary discography lists only the albums and singles that reached the top of one or more of the following charts: the main U.S. Billboard pop chart; the Billboard country chart, the genre chart with which he was most identified (there was no country album chart before 1964); and the official British pop chart.g In the United States, Presley also had five or six number one R&B singles and seven number one adult contemporary singles;h in 1964, his "Blue Christmas" topped the Christmas singles chart during a period when Billboard did not rank holiday singles in its primary pop chart.[241][352] He also had number one hits in many countries beside the United States and United Kingdom.
Number one albums[link]
| Year | Album | Type | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US[353] | US Country[354] | UK[259][355] | |||
| 1956 | Elvis Presley | studio/comp. | 1 | n.a. | 1 |
| Elvis | studio | 1 | n.a. | 3 | |
| 1957 | Loving You | sound./studio | 1 | n.a. | 1 |
| Elvis' Christmas Album | studio | 1 | n.a. | 2 | |
| 1960 | Elvis Is Back! | studio | 2 | n.a. | 1 |
| G.I. Blues | soundtrack | 1 | n.a. | 1 | |
| 1961 | Something for Everybody | studio | 1 | n.a. | 2 |
| Blue Hawaii | soundtrack | 1 | n.a. | 1 | |
| 1962 | Pot Luck | studio | 4 | n.a. | 1 |
| 1964 | Roustabout | soundtrack | 1 | — | 12 |
| 1969 | From Elvis in Memphis | studio | 13 | 2 | 1 |
| 1973 | Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite | live | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 1974 | Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 | compilation | 43 | 1 | 20 |
| 1975 | Promised Land | studio | 47 | 1 | 21 |
| 1976 | From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee | studio | 41 | 1 | 29 |
| 1977 | Elvis' 40 Greatest | compilation | — | — | 1 |
| Moody Blue | studio/live | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| Elvis in Concert | live | 5 | 1 | 13 | |
| 2002 | ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits | compilation | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | Elvis the King | compilation | — | — | 1 |
Number one singles[link]
Filmography[link]
Main article: Elvis Presley filmography
See also[link]
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Book: Elvis Presley |
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- Elvis Presley Enterprises
- Honorific nicknames in popular music
- List of artists by total number of UK number one singles
- List of best-selling music artists
- Personal relationships of Elvis Presley
Notes[link]
- ^ Note a: Although some pronounce his surname "PREZ-lee", Presley himself used the pronunciation of the American South, "PRESS-lee", as did his family and those who worked with him.[357] The correct spelling of his middle name has long been a matter of debate. The physician who delivered him wrote "Elvis Aaron Presley" in his ledger.[358] The state-issued birth certificate reads "Elvis Aron Presley". The name was chosen after the Presleys' friend and fellow congregation member Aaron Kennedy, though a single-A spelling was probably intended by Presley's parents in order to parallel the middle name of Presley's stillborn brother, Jesse Garon.[138] It reads Aron on most official documents produced during his lifetime, including his high school diploma, RCA record contract, and marriage license, and this was generally taken to be the proper spelling.[359] In 1966, Presley expressed the desire to his father that the more traditional biblical rendering, Aaron, be used henceforth, "especially on legal documents."[358] Five years later, the Jaycees citation honoring him as one of the country's Outstanding Young Men used Aaron. Late in his life, he sought to officially change the spelling to Aaron and discovered that state records already listed it that way. Knowing his wishes for his middle name, Aaron is the spelling his father chose for Presley's tombstone, and it is the spelling his estate has designated as official.[359]
- ^ Note b: According to a third cousin of Presley's, one of Gladys's great-grandmothers was Jewish.[360] There is no evidence that Presley or his mother shared this belief in a Jewish heritage. Syndicated columnist Nate Bloom has challenged the cousin's account, which he calls a "tall tale".[361]
- ^ Note c: Of the $40,000, $5,000 covered back royalties owed by Sun.[73]
- ^ Note d: In 1956–57, Presley was also credited as a cowriter on several songs where he had no hand in the writing process: "Heartbreak Hotel"; "Don't Be Cruel"; all four songs from his first film, including the title track, "Love Me Tender"; "Paralyzed"; and "All Shook Up".[362] He received credit on two other songs to which he did contribute: he provided the title for "That's Someone You Never Forget" (1961), written by his friend Red West; Presley and West collaborated with another friend, guitarist Charlie Hodge, on "You'll Be Gone" (1962).[363]
- ^ Note e: Whitburn follows actual Billboard history in considering the four songs on the "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" and "Don't/I Beg of You" singles as distinct. He tallies each side of the former single as a number one (Billboard's sales chart had "Don't Be Cruel" at number one for five weeks, then "Hound Dog" for six) and reckons "I Beg of You" as a top ten, as it reached number eight on the old Top 100 chart. Billboard now considers both singles as unified items, ignoring the historical sales split of the former and its old Top 100 chart entirely. Whitburn thus analyzes the four songs as yielding three number ones and a total of four top tens. Billboard now states that they yielded just two number ones and a total of two top tens, voiding the separate chart appearances of "Hound Dog" and "I Beg of You".
- ^ Note f: VH1 ranked Presley #8 among the "100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll" in 1998.[364] The BBC ranked him as the #2 "Voice of the Century" in 2001.[365] Rolling Stone placed him #3 in its list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004.[366] CMT ranked him #15 among the "40 Greatest Men in Country Music" in 2005.[367] The Discovery Channel placed him #8 on its "Greatest American" list in 2005.[368] Variety put him in the top ten of its "100 Icons of the Century" in 2005.[369] The Atlantic Monthly ranked him #66 among the "100 Most Influential Figures in American History" in 2006.[370]
- ^ Note g: (1) The year given is the year the record first reached number one, rather than its original year of release. For instance, in 1974, Elvis' 40 Greatest, a compilation on the budget Arcade label, was the fourth highest selling album of the year in the United Kingdom; at the time, the main British chart did not rank such compilations, relegating them to a chart for midpriced and TV-advertised albums, which Elvis' 40 Greatest topped for 15 weeks.[371] The policy was altered in 1975, allowing the album to hit number one on the main chart in 1977, following Presley's death.[372] (2) Before late 1958, rather than unified pop and country singles charts, Billboard had as many as four charts for each, separately ranking records according to sales, jukebox play, jockey spins (i.e., airplay), and, in the case of pop, a general Top 100. Billboard now regards the sales charts as definitive for the period. Widely cited chart statistician Joel Whitburn accords historical releases the highest ranking they achieved among the separate charts. Presley discographer Ernst Jorgensen refers only to the Top 100 chart for pop hits. All of the 1956–58 songs listed here as number one U.S. pop hits reached the top of both the sales and, with three exceptions, the Top 100 charts: "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" (three), "Hound Dog" (two, behind its flip side, "Don't Be Cruel"), and "Hard Headed Woman" (two). (3) Several Presley singles reached number one in the United Kingdom as double A-sides; in the United States, the respective sides of those singles were ranked separately by Billboard.
- ^ Note h: Whitburn calculates a total of six number one R&B singles, including "Don't Be Cruel", released as a double A-side with "Hound Dog";[352] Billboard's Keith Caulfield excludes "Don't Be Cruel".[241]
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- Ann-Margret and Todd Gold (1994). Ann-Margret: My Story. G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-13891-9.
- Cantor, Louis (2005). Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02981-X.
- Dickerson, James L. (2001). Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley's Eccentric Manager. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 0-8154-1267-3.
- Finstad, Suzanne (1997). Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley. Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-70585-0.
- Goldman, Albert (1981). Elvis. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-023657-7.
- Goldman, Albert (1990). Elvis: The Last 24 Hours. St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-92541-7.
- Klein, George (2010). Elvis: My Best Man: Radio Days, Rock 'n' Roll Nights, and My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-307-45274-0
- Marcus, Greil (1999). Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-19422-5.
- Marcus, Greil (2000). Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternative. Picador. ISBN 0-571-20676-X.
- Nash, Alanna (2010). Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him. It Books. ISBN 0-06-169984-5.
- West, Red, Sonny West, and Dave Hebler (as told to Steve Dunleavy) (1977). Elvis: What Happened? Bantam Books. ISBN 0-345-27215-3.
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| Name | Presley, Elvis Aaron |
| Alternative names | Presley, Elvis Aaron |
| Short description | American singer, song producer and actor; "The King of Rock'n'Roll" |
| Date of birth | (1935-01-08)January 8, 1935 |
| Place of birth | Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Date of death | August 16, 1977(1977-08-16) |
| Place of death | Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
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| Birth name | Ernest Jennings Ford |
| Born | (1919-02-13)February 13, 1919 Bristol, Tennessee, United States |
| Died | October 17, 1991(1991-10-17) (aged 72) Reston, Virginia, United States |
| Genres | Country & Western, Pop, Gospel |
| Occupations | Singer, actor |
| Instruments | Vocals, Guitar, violin |
Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres. Today, he is best remembered for his hit recording of "Sixteen Tons".
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Early years[link]
Born in Bristol, Tennessee, to Clarence Thomas Ford and Maud Long, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at WOPI-AM in Bristol, Tennessee. In 1939, the young bass-baritone left the station to study classical singing at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Ohio. First Lieutenant Ford served in World War II as the bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress flying missions over Japan. After the war, Ford worked at radio stations in San Bernardino and Pasadena, California. In San Bernardino, Ford was hired as a radio announcer. He was assigned to host an early morning country music disc jockey program titled Bar Nothin' Ranch Time. To differentiate himself, he created the personality of "Tennessee Ernie," a wild, madcap exaggerated hillbilly. He became popular in the area and was soon hired away by Pasadena's KXLA radio.
Ford also did musical tours. The Mayfield Brothers of West Texas, including Smokey Mayfield, Thomas Edd Mayfield, and Herbert Mayfield, were among Ford's warmup bands, having played for him in concerts in Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, during the late 1940s. At KXLA, Ford continued doing the same show and also joined the cast of Cliffie Stone's popular live KXLA country show Dinner Bell Roundup as a vocalist while still doing the early morning broadcast. Cliffie Stone, a part-time talent scout for Capitol Records, brought him to the attention of the label. In 1949, while still doing his morning show, he signed a contract with Capitol. He also became a local TV star as the star of Stone's popular Southern California Hometown Jamboree show. RadiOzark produced 260 15-minute episodes of The Tennessee Ernie Show on transcription disks for national radio syndication.
He released almost 50 country singles through the early 1950s, several of which made the charts. Many of his early records, including "The Shotgun Boogie", "Blackberry Boogie," and so on were exciting, driving boogie-woogie records featuring accompaniment by the Hometown Jamboree band which included Jimmy Bryant on lead guitar and pioneer pedal steel guitarist Speedy West. "I'll Never Be Free," a duet pairing Ford with Capitol Records pop singer Kay Starr, became a huge country and pop crossover hit in 1950. A duet with Ella Mae Morse, False Hearted Girl was a top seller for the Capitol Country and Hillbilly division,[1] and has been evaluated as an early tune.[2]
Ford eventually ended his KXLA morning show and in the early 1950s, moved on from Hometown Jamboree. He took over from band-leader Kay Kyser as host of the TV version of NBC quiz show Kollege of Musical Knowledge when it returned briefly in 1954 after a four-year hiatus. He became a household name in the U.S. largely as a result of his hilarious portrayal of the 'country bumpkin,' "Cousin Ernie" on three episodes of I Love Lucy.
In 1955, Ford recorded "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" (which reached number 4 on the country chart) with "Farewell to the Mountains" on side B.
"Sixteen Tons"[link]
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Sixteen Tons album cover
Ford scored an unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons", a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament that Travis wrote in 1946, based on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Its fatalistic tone contrasted vividly with the sugary pop ballads and rock & roll just starting to dominate the charts at the time:
- You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
- Another day older and deeper in debt.
- Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
- I owe my soul to the company store...
With a unique clarinet-driven pop arrangement by Ford's musical director, Jack Fascinato, "Sixteen Tons" spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star. It became Ford's 'signature song.'
Later years[link]
Ford subsequently helmed his own prime-time variety program, The Ford Show, which ran on NBC television from October 4, 1956, to June 29, 1961. In an ironic play of words, the show was named not after Ernie, but rather, the sponsor—Ford automobiles. Ford Theatre, an anthology series, had run in the same time slot on NBC in the preceding 1955–1956 season. Ford's program was notable for the inclusion of a religious song at the end of every show; Ford insisted on this despite objections from network officials who feared it might provoke controversy. This became the most popular segment of his show. He earned the nickname "The Ol' Pea-Picker" due to his catch-phrase, "Bless your pea-pickin' heart!" He began using the term during his disc jockey days on KXLA.
In 1956 he released Hymns, his first gospel music album, which remained on Billboard's Top Album charts for 277 consecutive weeks; his album "Great Gospel Songs" won a Grammy Award in 1964. After the NBC show ended, Ford moved his family to Portola Valley in Northern California. He also owned a cabin near Grandjean, Idaho on the upper South Fork of the Payette River where he would regularly retreat.
A photo of Ford with country singer Hank Thompson and Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby appeared in the 1988 book, The Ruby-Oswald Affair, by Alan Adelson.
From 1962-65, Ford hosted a daytime talk/variety show, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (later known as Hello, Peapickers) from KGO-TV in San Francisco, broadcast over the ABC television network.
Ford was the spokesman for the Pontiac Furniture Company in Pontiac, Illinois in the 1970s.
Ford's experiences as a navigator and bombardier in World War II led to his involvement with the Confederate Air Force (now the Commemorative Air Force), a war plane preservation group in Texas. He was a featured announcer and celebrity guest at the annual CAF Airshow in Harlingen, Texas, from 1976 to 1988. He donated a once-top-secret Norden Bombsight to the CAF's B-29 bomber restoration project. In the late 1970s, as a CAF colonel, Ford recorded the organization's theme song "Ballad of the Ghost Squadron."
Over the years, Ford was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for radio, records, and television. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990.
Offstage, both Ford and wife Betty contended with serious alcohol problems; Betty had the problem since the 1950s. Though his drinking worsened in the 60s, he worked continuously, seemingly unaffected by his heavy intake of whisky. By the 1970s, however, it had begun to take an increasing toll on his health and ability to sing. After Betty's substance abuse-related death in 1989, Ernie's liver problems, diagnosed years earlier, became more apparent, but he refused to reduce his drinking despite repeated doctors' warnings. In 1990, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. His last interview was taped in September 1991 by his old friend Dinah Shore for her TV show. His physical deterioration by then was quite obvious.
Ford received posthumous recognition for his gospel music contributions by adding him to the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1994.
Personal life[link]
Ford was married to Betty Heminger from September 18, 1942, until her death on February 26, 1989; they had two children—Jeffrey Buckner “Buck” Ford (born January 6, 1950) and Brion Leonard Ford (born September 3, 1952 in San Gabriel, California - died Friday, October 24, 2008 in White House, Tennessee, of lung cancer at age 56).
Less than four months after Betty's death, Ford, who had long suffered from severe alcoholism, married again. On September 28, 1991, he fell into severe liver failure at Dulles Airport, shortly after leaving a state dinner at the White House hosted by then President George H. W. Bush. Ford died in H. C. A. Reston Hospital Center, in Reston, Virginia, on October 17—exactly 36 years after "Sixteen Tons" was released, and one day shy of the first anniversary of his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.[3] Ford was interred at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California. His second wife, Beverly Wood Ford (1921–2001), died ten years after Ernie and her body was interred with her husband's.
Discography[link]
Albums[link]
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | RIAA | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | ||||
| 1956 | This Lusty Land | 12 | Capitol | ||
| Hymns | 2 | Platinum | |||
| 1957 | Spirituals | 5 | Gold | ||
| Ford Favorites | |||||
| Ol' Rockin' Ern | |||||
| 1958 | Nearer the Cross | 5 | Gold | ||
| Star Carol | 4 | Platinum | |||
| 1959 | Gather Round | ||||
| Friend We Have | |||||
| 1960 | Sing a Hymn with Me | 23 | |||
| Sixteen Tons | |||||
| Sing a Spiritual with Me | |||||
| Come to the Fair | |||||
| 1961 | Civil War Songs of the North | ||||
| Civil War Songs of the South | |||||
| Looks at Love | |||||
| Hymns at Home | 67 | ||||
| 1962 | Mississippi Showboat | 110 | |||
| I Love to Tell the Story | 43 | ||||
| Book of Favorite Hymns | 71 | ||||
| 1963 | Long Long Ago | ||||
| We Gather Together | |||||
| Story of Christmas | 14 | ||||
| 1964 | Great Gospel Songs | ||||
| Country Hits Feelin' Blue | |||||
| World's Best Loved Hymns | |||||
| 1965 | Let Me Walk with Thee | ||||
| Sing We Now of Christmas | 31 | ||||
| 1966 | My Favorite Things | ||||
| Wonderful Place | |||||
| God Lives | |||||
| Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart | |||||
| 1967 | Aloha | ||||
| Faith of Our Fathers | |||||
| 1968 | Our Garden of Hymns (w/ Marilyn Horne) | ||||
| World of Pop and Country Hits | |||||
| O Come All Ye Faithful | |||||
| The Best of Tennessee Ernie Ford Hymns | |||||
| 1969 | Songs I Like to Sing | ||||
| New Wave | |||||
| Holy Holy | |||||
| 1970 | America the Beautiful | 192 | |||
| Everything Is Beautiful | |||||
| 1971 | Abide with Me | ||||
| C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S | |||||
| Folk Album | |||||
| 1972 | Mr. Words and Music | ||||
| Standin' in the Need of Prayer | |||||
| 1973 | Country Morning | 46 | |||
| Sings About Jesus | |||||
| 1975 | Make a Joyful Noise | 35 | |||
| Ernie Sings & Glen Picks (w/ Glen Campbell) | |||||
| 1976 | His Great Love | ||||
| For the 83rd Time | |||||
| 1977 | He Touched Me | Word | |||
| 1978 | Swing Wide Your Golden Gate | ||||
| 1980 | Tell Me the Old Story | ||||
| 1984 | Keep Looking Back | ||||
Singles[link]
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | |||
| 1949 | "Tennessee Border" | 8 | singles only | |
| "Country Junction" | 14 | |||
| "Smokey Mountain Boogie" | 8 | |||
| "Blues Stay Away from Me" (w/ Merle Travis) | ||||
| "Mule Train" | 1 | 9 | ||
| "Anticipation Blues" | 3 | |||
| 1950 | "The Cry of the Wild Goose" | 2 | 15 | |
| "Feed'em in the Morning" | ||||
| "Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own" (w/ Kay Starr) | 5 | 22 | ||
| "I'll Never Be Free" (w/ Kay Starr) | 2 | 3 | ||
| "What This Country Needs" | ||||
| "Cincinnati Dancing Pig" (w/ The Starlighters) | ||||
| "Little Juan Pedro" | ||||
| 1951 | "The Shotgun Boogie" | 1 | 14 | |
| "Tailor Made Woman" (w/ Joe "Fingers" Carr) | 8 | |||
| "Ocean of Tears" (w/ Kay Starr) | 15 | |||
| "You're My Sugar" (w/ Kay Starr) | 22 | |||
| "Mr. and Mississippi" | 2 | 18 | ||
| "The Strange Little Girl" | 9 | |||
| "Kissin' Bug Boogie" | ||||
| "Hey Good Lookin'" (w/ Helen O'Connell) | ||||
| "Rock City Boogie" (w/ The Dinning Sisters) | ||||
| 1952 | "Hambone" | |||
| "Everybody's Got Girl But Me" | ||||
| "Snowshoe Thompson" | ||||
| "Blackberry Boogie" | 6 | |||
| "False Hearted Girl" (w/ Ella Mae Morse) | ||||
| 1953 | "I Don't Know" | |||
| "Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker" | 8 | |||
| "Don't Start Courtin' in a Hot Rod Ford" (w/ Molly Bee) | ||||
| "Kiss Me Big" | ||||
| 1954 | "Honeymoon's Over" (w/ Betty Hutton) | 16 | ||
| "River of No Return" | 9 | |||
| "Ein Zwei Drei" | ||||
| "Somebody Bigger Than You or I" | ||||
| 1955 | "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" | 4 | 5 | |
| "His Hands" | 13 | Spirituals | ||
| "Sixteen Tons" | 1 | 1 | Ford Favorites | |
| 1956 | "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" | 78 | ||
| "That's All" | 12 | 17 | ||
| "John Henry" | This Lusty Land | |||
| "Rovin' Gambler" | 60 | |||
| "Rock and Roll Boogie" | single only | |||
| "First Born" | 46 | Ford Favorites | ||
| 1957 | "Watermelon Song" | 87 | ||
| "One Suit" | 93 | |||
| "False Hearted Girl" | This Lusty Land | |||
| "In the Middle of an Island" | 23 | singles only | ||
| "Ivy League" | ||||
| 1958 | "Bless Your Pea Pickin' Heart" | singles only | ||
| "Sunday Barbeque" | 97 | |||
| "Glad Rags" | 100 | |||
| 1959 | "Black-Eyed Susie" | |||
| "Sunny Side of Heaven" | ||||
| 1960 | "O Mary Don't You Weep" | Sing a Spiritual with Me | ||
| "Little Klinker" | singles only | |||
| "Bless the Land" | ||||
| 1961 | "Dark as a Dungeon" | |||
| "Little Red Rockin' Hood" | ||||
| 1962 | "Take Your Girlie to the Movies" | Mississippi Showboat | ||
| "Rags an Old Iron" | single only | |||
| "How Great Thou Art" | I Love to Tell the Story | |||
| 1965 | "Hicktown" | 9 | single only | |
| "Now It's All Over" | Bless Your Pickin' Heart | |||
| "Sing We Now of Christmas"A | Sing We Now of Christmas | |||
| 1966 | "God Lives" | God Lives | ||
| 1967 | "Lahaina Luna" | Aloha | ||
| "Hand-Me-Down Things" | single only | |||
| 1968 | "Talk to the Animals" | World of Pop and Country Hits | ||
| 1969 | "Honey-Eyed Girl (That's You That's You)" | 54 | New Wave | |
| 1970 | "Rainy Night in Georgia" | Everything Is Beautiful | ||
| 1971 | "Happy Songs of Love" | 58 | singles only | |
| 1972 | "Pea-Pickin' Cock" | |||
| 1973 | "Printers Alley Stars" | 66 | Country Morning | |
| "Farther Down the River (Where the Fishin's Good)" | 73 | |||
| "Colorado Country Morning"B | 70 | |||
| 1974 | "Sweet Child of Sunshine" | |||
| "I've Got Confidence" | Make a Joyful Noise | |||
| 1975 | "Come On Down" | 52 | ||
| "Baby" (w/ Andra Willis) | 63 | Country Morning | ||
| "The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend" | 96 | single only | ||
| 1976 | "I Been to Georgia On a Fast Train" | 95 | For the 83rd Time | |
| "Dogs and Sheriff John" | ||||
- A"Sing We Now of Christmas" peaked at #2 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada.
- B"Colorado Country Morning" peaked at #85 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
Notes[link]
- ^ Billboard Oct 4, 1952. page 31.
- ^ Rockin Country Style @ Emory University
- ^ Glenn Collins (18 October 1991). "Tennessee Ernie Ford Dies at 72; Folksy Singer Recorded '16 Tons'". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6D6103CF93BA25753C1A967958260. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
References[link]
- Whiteside, Johnny; Kingsbury, Paul (ed.) (1998). "Tennessee Ernie Ford". The Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 176–7. ISBN 0-19-511671-2.
External links[link]
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| Name | Ford, Ernie |
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| Date of birth | February 13, 1919 |
| Place of birth | Bristol, Tennessee, United States |
| Date of death | October 17, 1991 |
| Place of death | Reston, Virginia, United States |
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Art Greenhaw is a Grammy Award-Winning recording artist, producer and mixing engineer, having won the Grammy Award in 2003 in New York City for "Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album of the Year" for the album WE CALLED HIM MR. GOSPEL MUSIC: THE JAMES BLACKWOOD TRIBUTE ALBUM. He founded the independent record label, Greenhaw Records.
Greenhaw is bassist, multi-instrumentalist and manager for The Light Crust Doughboys. He officially joined The Light Crust Doughboys as band member in 1993 under the direction of Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, one of Greenhaw's musical mentors. The symphony performances and the other enterprises of The Light Crust Doughboys in the 1990s and in the new millennium are largely the products of Art Greenhaw's imagination and promotional skill.
Like most of the other Doughboys down through the years, Greenhaw started in music at an early age. At eight, Art picked up the guitar, and by the fourth grade, he had his own band, "The Doodlebugs". Later, during the psychedelic era, came a rock band named "The Inner Soul". With The Inner Soul, Greenhaw met physician George Miller, the father of rock musician Steve Miller. The elder Miller hired Greenhaw's groups to play at various parties. Greenhaw's interest in guitar led him to country music at an early age. At the same time, Greenhaw studied classical music as a child at the SMU Piano Preparatory Department. Years later, Greenhaw received his college degree from SMU.
Starting in 1983, Greenhaw served as the musical director and band leader of a weekly country music revue, the Mesquite Opry. Art first worked with The Light Crust Doughboys when he booked them to play at the Mesquite Folk Festival in 1983, which Greenhaw had founded. Greenhaw became excited about the prospects for the venerable band, which had been working only sporadically for several years. He brought his marketing talents to bear. Walter Hailey, the Doughboys' master of ceremonies in the 1950s, was born in Mesquite and is a close friend of Art's family, so Art had been steeped in Light Crust Doughboys lore growing up.
Greenhaw has been bassist of The Light Crust Doughboys since 1993. His experience as a rock guitarist has affected his bass playing. He usually plays with a pick, a feature more common to rock bassists than to jazz, country or western swing players. Greenhaw brings great variety to the Doughboys' bass position. His approach changed the bass sound of the Doughboys' rhythm section; the bass, before always supportive, now is more melodic and noticeable, as in rock music.
When Greenhaw joined the Doughboys as bass player and co-producer in 1993, he set into motion a plan through which the Doughboys would create for themselves a new golden age. That plan has resulted in the Doughboys making frequent appearances in theaters throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
Greenhaw has also organized unusual performance and recording opportunities for the Doughboys. In 1997, Greenhaw took the lead in composing and arranging the music and recording the soundtrack for a documentary film about actor Bela Lugosi, LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD'S DRACULA. He worked on the project with then University of Oklahoma instructor Gary Rhodes. The project received a rave review in FILMFAX magazine. Also during 1997, the Doughboys participated in a cooperative recording effort entitled THE HIGH ROAD ON THE HILLTOP, this time joining up with the youthful, exuberant Southern Methodist University Mustang Band. This collaboration came through Greenhaw, who studied as a child in SMU's piano preparatory division and later earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the institution. Greenhaw's father, Frank, also earned a degree from SMU and from 1941 to 1945 was student director of the Mustang Band. The Mustang Band and The Light Crust Doughboys created a professional, and in many respects, exciting album despite their differences in age and musical style. Greenhaw wrote three of the songs recorded: "The High Road", "Texas Women" and "Hangin' 'Round Deep Ellum". THE HIGH ROAD ON THE HILLTOP is a time capsule, a piece of Texas musical history, and also a laboratory experiment in music education.
The addition of Art Greenhaw to The Light Crust Doughboys brought, at times, a new rock orientation to the Doughboys' sound and greater complexity to their arrangements. At the time of this writing, Greenhaw's fertile imagination had led him into a project to combine his and The Doughboys' brand of Texas-style music with the far Eastern sounds of Indian classical music. "We call it 'Lone Star Sitar,'" Greenhaw said. "We'll be moving in those real avant garde, world music directions".
Art Greenhaw has taken The Light Crust Doughboys into areas they never before ventured. Working with The Texas Commission on the Arts, he has produced programs and recordings with symphony orchestras and classical ballet. Under his direction, the band continued their gospel recordings, winning additional Grammy Nominations in this field. One of Greenhaw's musical influences, Tom Brumley, steel guitarist for Rick Nelson and Buck Owens, says this about Greenhaw and his record production creativity: "Art was fantastic to work with. The guy has so much imagination to put such things together. He's amazing to me."
References[link]
- www.grammy.com (Winners Listings)
- THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS ARE ON THE AIR, John Mark Dempsey, University of North Texas Press: 2002, pgs. 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 214, 219.
- WE'RE THE LIGHT CRUST DOUGHBOYS FROM BURRUS MILL, Jean A. Boyd, University of Texas Press: 2003, pgs. 108, 111, 113, 114, 115, 119, 121.
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- Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
- Away In A Manger - Jordanaires
- Are You Lonesome Tonight - Jordanaires
- Crying In The Chapel - Jordanaires
Away in a manger,
No crib for His bed,
The little Lord Jesus,
Laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the bright sky,
Looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus,
Asleep on the hay.
The cattle are lowing,
The poor Baby wakes,
But little Lord Jesus,
No crying He makes.
I love Thee, Lord Jesus,
Look down from the sky,
And stay by my side,
'Til morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Jesus,
I ask Thee to stay,
Close by me forever,
And love me I pray.
Bless all the dear children,
In Thy tender care,
And take us to heaven,
It's now or never
Come hold me tight
Kiss me my darling
Be mine tonight
Tomorrow will be too late
It's now or never
My love won't wait
When I first saw you
With your smile so tender
My heart was captured
My soul surrendered
I spent a lifetime
Waiting for the right time
Now that you're near
The time is here at last
CHORUS
Just like a willow
We would cry an ocean
If we lost true love
And sweet devotion
Your lips excite me
Let your arms invite me
For who knows when
We'll meet again this way
CHORUS
It's now or never
My love won't wait
It's now or never
My love won't wait
It's now or never
You saw me crying in the chapel.
The tears I shed were tears of joy
I know the meaning of contentment
Now I am happy with the Lord
Just a plain and simple chapel
Where humble people go to pray
I pray the Lord that I'll grow stronger
As I live from day to day
I've searched and I've searched
But I couldn't find
No way on earth
To gain peace of mind
Now I'm happy in the chapel
Where people are of one accord
We gather in the chapel
Just to sing and praise the Lord
Ev'ry sinner looks for something
That will put his heart at ease
There is only one true answer
He must get down on his knees
Meet your neighbor in the chapel
Join with him in tears of joy
You'll know the meaning of contentment
Then you'll be happy with the Lord
You'll search and you'll search
But you'll never find
No way on earth
To gain peace of mind
Take your troubles to the chapel
Get down on your knees and pray
Your burdens will be lighter
