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CNN LARRY KING LIVE Interview With Lisa Marie Presley

Aired April 29, 2005 - 21:00 ET

CNN LARRY KING LIVE Remembering Elvis Presley

Aired January 14, 2005 - 21:00 ET  

E-News 2004  

June 07, 2004 (updated: June 16) (updated: June 19)

Special '68/Aloha : Multi-Media Gallery

Global Release Schedulefor '68 and Aloha DVD Sets

"That's All Right" Officially Gold SUN 209 (05/07/1954)

EPE's press release Overview of the Elvis 50th Anniversary Year

BMG/EPE's latest press release about the '68 and Aloha DVD sets • about Elvis CDs   

------------------------------------------------------------- EPE Special '68/Aloha site 6/7-19/2004 

May 12, 2004

'68 and Aloha Deluxe Edition DVD Details Announced!

------------------------------------------------- EPE 5/12/2004

April 26, 2004

"50 Years Of Rock'n'roll" website • SUN 209 (05/07/1954)

January  2004

        
        Polish magazine "Claudia" + Elvis CD

        Jailhouse Rock : The Musical article (BBC/UK) article (Capital Gold)  

E-News 2003 January February March April May June/July August-part 1 August-part 2          

November 2003

      ELVIS: 30 #1 HITS - Special Edition 2CD

October 2003

         ELVIS: 2ND TO NONE - Promo CD BMG Poland

September 17, 2003 

Elvis Does It Again! RUBBERNECKIN' Remix Debuts at #1 on U.S. Singles Sales Chart  
   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPE 9/17/2003

Following is a press release from BMG/RCA:

BMG/RCA RECORDS’ REMIX OF ELVIS PRESLEY’S RUBBERNECKIN’ DEBUTS AT #1 IN THE U.S.

Remixed by Renowned Hitmaker Paul Oakenfold, Single Will be Featured on ELVIS 2ND TO NONE Available on October 7

NEW YORK (September 17, 2003) Following the successful path of last year’s smash No. 1 hit, the JXL remix of Elvis Presley’s A Little Less Conversation, BMG/RCA’s remix of Presley’s Rubberneckin’ has reached the top of the charts as the #1 Soundscan sales single just one week after its September 9 release. This historic accomplishment comes 26 years after the death of the King of Rock ‘n' Roll. The single, remixed by acclaimed DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold, sold nearly double the number two record. The remix will appear on ELVIS 2ND TO NONE, scheduled for release on October 7. This newest compilation will also include the recently discovered and previously unreleased I’m A Roustabout plus five additional Presley #1 singles, fan favorites and career milestones.

“It is no surprise that this new remix of Rubberneckin’ is achieving the same success of last year’s hit A Little Less Conversation and we are thrilled by it,” said Joe DiMuro, Executive Vice President, BMG Strategic Marketing Group. “It is an exciting way to kick off BMG’s 2003 Elvis campaign and is the ideal precursor to the launch of ELVIS 2ND TO NONE.”

Paul Oakenfold is often referred to as the world’s premier DJ and is one of the most respected remixers in the business, having worked with U2, the Rolling Stones, Snoop Dogg, Smashing Pumpkins and Bjork, among others. His musical tastes span a wide range of genres, including soul, jazz and disco. Oakenfold was one of the founders of the acid house scene that swept England in the late '80s and was a leading proponent of hip-hop. 

In addition to the Rubberneckin’ single, BMG/RCA has released an accompanying music video -- currently on-air -- to kick off the newest Elvis campaign, culminating in the October 7 release of ELVIS 2ND TO NONE. This newest compilation will be distinctly different, presenting a broader range of Presley’s talents and incorporating multiple musical genres including R & B, rock ‘n' roll, pop, country, dance and rockabilly. 

All 30 tracks on ELVIS 2ND TO NONE have been mixed and mastered from the original master tapes for optimum sound quality. This year’s album will include such classics as That’s All Right,, Viva Las Vegas, Blue Suede Shoes, I Want You, I Need You I Love You, Always on My Mind and Don’t Cry Daddy. Plus the recently announced, previously unreleased I’m A Roustabout. Oakenfold’s remix of Rubberneckin’ is sure to be well received among today’s generation of music fans and further demonstrates the legacy of Presley’s music.

BMG is the global music division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's leading media companies. BMG owns more than 200 record labels in 41 countries including Ariola, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records, BMG Heritage, RCA Records and RCA Label Group - Nashville. BMG Strategic Marketing Group is a new fully integrated organization for the U.S. that brings together BMG Heritage, BMG Special Products, Strategic Marketing and Direct Response TV as well as key support services including Business Affairs, Finance and Music Licensing. This combined structure of the BMG Strategic Marketing Group offers tremendous benefit to BMG and its businesses by increasing coordination amongst various teams and business units responsible for all levels of exploitation, across product lines and across labels.

September 16, 2003 

Family, friends honor music's 'Man in Black'
   Indianapolis Star - September 16, 2003

Family, friends and musicians gathered at Johnny Cash's Tennessee funeral Monday to pay tribute to a giant in American music.

"He represented the best of America; we're not going to see his like again," said singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who wrote Cash's 1970 hit "Sunday Morning Coming Down."

More than 1,000 people attended the private 21/2-hour service at First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, about 15 miles north of Nashville -- the same church where Cash mourned the death of his wife, June Carter Cash, in May.

Cash, 71, died Friday of respiratory failure caused by complications from diabetes. He had been in declining health for years.

"I can almost live in a world without Johnny Cash because he will always be with us," said Cash's daughter, singer Rosanne Cash. "I cannot begin to imagine a world without Daddy."

Among the celebrities attending were country singers Vince Gill, Hank Williams Jr., Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Ricky Skaggs, Ronnie Dunn, the Statler Brothers and the Oak Ridge Boys. Former Vice President Al Gore, a native of Tennessee, also attended.

Kristofferson called Cash "Abraham Lincoln with a wild side" -- a man always willing to champion the voiceless and downtrodden, "whose work in life has been an inspiration and salvation to so many people around the world."

Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow sang the gospel hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" and Bob Dylan's "Every Grain of Sand."

For more than four decades, beginning in the 1950s as a peer of Elvis Presley, Cash specialized in earthy songs about hard times and brooding love songs. His hits ranged from the rockabilly anthem "Get Rhythm," to the comical "A Boy Named Sue," to the recent "Hurt," about the ravages of drug abuse.

Cash, known as "The Man in Black" for his preferred attire, was buried in a black coffin with silver handles.

... more info.

September 15, 2003 

Ricky Nelson to be Inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame During Live Performance by Sons, Gunnar
   and Matthew, At Overton Park Shell, Memphis, Sat., Oct. 11 Benefit Show

MEMPHIS, TN - One of the top pioneers in rock 'n' roll music will be officially inducted into the world-wide Rockabilly Hall of Fame®. Ricky Nelson is a true legend who has influenced almost every rock performer and musician that followed him. Historians rate Ricky right behind Elvis when they discuss the roots of rock. 

The induction ceremony will take place when Ricky's sons, Gunnar and Matthew appear live on stage October 11, 2003 in Memphis, TN at the world famous Overton Park Shell outdoor theater. The Nelsons will be performing a tribute set to their father by singing Ricky's greatest hits. 

The event is Rockabilly Hall of Fame's® first in a series of benefit shows. The "Shell" is located at 1928 Poplar Ave. in Memphis, TN in Overton Park. Its stage has great historic significance to rockabilly music and early rock 'n' roll fans. It was there that Elvis Presley first performed in Memphis and taught the world how to rock in 1954. 

Several of the top legendary and the current generation rockabilly artists will donate their time to help both the Rockabilly Hall of Fame® and The Shell continue to preserve America's music history. 

The October 11th artist line up is set. Along with Gunnar and Matthew, the performers are: the first lady of Sun Records, Barbara Pittman; Glen Glenn, making his first ever Memphis appearance, and Gene Summers, a great showman from Texas. Also on the the bill are: Bubba Feathers, doing a tribute to his father Charlie; Roman Self with a tribute to his father Ronnie; veteran rocker Andy Anderson; Roy Orbison's lead guitarist Bucky Barrett; W.S. Holland, original drummer for both Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash ... and several other legendary vocalists and musicians - all who helped create America's own "rockabilly" and "rock 'n' roll" music. 

Source: Rockabilly Hall of Fame

September 12, 2003 

Singer Johnny Cash Dies at 71   

The Associated Press - September 12, 2003, 7:47 AM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Johnny Cash, a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk and known worldwide as "The Man in Black," died Friday, his manager said. He was 71.

"Johnny died due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure," said Cash's manager, Lou Robin, in a press release issued by Baptist Hospital in Nashville.

The release said Cash died at the hospital at 1 a.m. EDT.

"I hope that friends and fans of Johnny will pray for the Cash family to find comfort during this very difficult time," Robin said in the release.

Cash had been released Wednesday after a two-week stay at Baptist, where he was admitted last month for an unspecified stomach ailment.

Cash had battled a disease of the nervous system, autonomic neuropathy, and pneumonia in recent years and was once diagnosed with a disease called Shy-Drager's syndrome, a diagnosis that was later deemed to be erroneous.

Dozens of hit records like "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line," and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" defined Cash's persona: a haunted, dignified, resilient spokesman for the working man and downtrodden.

Cash's deeply lined face fit well with his unsteady voice, which was limited in range but used to great effect to sing about prisoners, heartaches, and tales of everyday life. He wrote much of his own material, and was among the first to record the songs of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson.

"One Piece at a Time" was about an assembly line worker who built a car out of parts stolen from his factory. "A Boy Named Sue" was a comical story of a father who gives his son a girl's name to make him tough. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" told of the drunken death of an American Indian soldier who helped raised the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, but returned to harsh racism in America.

Cash said in his 1997 autobiography "Cash" that he tried to speak for "voices that were ignored or even suppressed in the entertainment media, not to mention the political and educational establishments."

Cash's career spanned generations, with each finding something of value in his simple records, many of which used his trademark "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm.

Cash was a peer of Elvis Presley when rock 'n' roll was born in Memphis in the 1950s, and he scored hits like "Cry! Cry! Cry!" during that era. He had a longtime friendship and recorded with Dylan, who has cited Cash as a major influence.

He won 11 Grammys -- most recently in 2003, when "Give My Love To Rose" earned him honors as best male country vocal performance -- and numerous Country Music Association awards. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

His second wife, June Carter Cash, and daughter Roseanne Cash also were successful singers. June Carter Cash, who co-wrote Cash's hit "Ring of Fire" and partnered with her husband in hits such as "Jackson," died in May.

The late 1960s and '70s were Cash's peak commercial years, and he was host of his own ABC variety show from 1969-71. In later years, he was part of the Highwayman supergroup with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kristofferson.

In the 1990s, he found a new artistic life recording with rap and hard rock producer Rick Rubin on the label American Recordings. And he was back on the charts in with the 2002 album "American IV: the Man Comes Around."

Most recently, Cash was recognized for his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" with seven nominations at last month's MTV Video Music Awards. He had hoped to attend the event but couldn't because of his hospital stay. The video won for best cinematography.

He also wrote books including two autobiographies, and acted in films and television shows.

In his 1971 hit "Man in Black," Cash said his black clothing symbolized the downtrodden people in the world. Cash had been "The Man in Black" since he joined the Grand Ole Opry at age 25.

"Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkle clothes and cowboy boots," he said in 1986. "I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since."

John R. Cash was born Feb. 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Ark., one of seven children. When he was 12, his 14-year-old brother and hero, Jack, died after an accident while sawing oak trees into fence posts. The tragedy had a lasting impact on Cash, and he later pointed to it as a possible reason his music was frequently melancholy.

He worked as a custodian and enlisted in the Air Force, learning guitar while stationed in Germany, before launching his music career after his 1954 discharge.

"All through the Air Force, I was so lonely for those three years," Cash told The Associated Press during a 1996 interview. "If I couldn't have sung all those old country songs, I don't think I could have made it."

Cash launched his career in Memphis, performing on radio station KWEM. He auditioned with Sun Records, ultimately recording the single "Hey Porter," which became a hit.

Sun Records also launched the careers of Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.

"Folsom Prison Blues," went to No. 4 on the country charts in 1956, and featured Cash's most famous couplet: "I shot a man in Reno/ just to watch him die."

Cash recorded theme albums celebrating the railroads and the Old West, and decrying the mistreatment of American Indians. Two of his most popular albums were recorded live at prisons. Along the way he notched 14 No. 1 country music hits.

Because of Cash's frequent performances in prisons and his rowdy lifestyle early in his career, many people wrongly thought he had served prison time. He never did, though he battled addictions to pills on and off throughout his life.

He blamed fame for his vulnerability to drug addiction.

"When I was a kid, I always knew I'd sing on the radio someday. I never thought about fame until it started happening to me," he said in 1988. "Then it was hard to handle. That's why I turned to pills."

He credited June Carter Cash, whom he married in 1968, with helping him stay off drugs, though he had several relapses over the years and was treated at the Betty Ford Center in California in 1984.

June Carter Cash was the daughter of country music great Mother Maybelle Carter, and the mother of singer Carlene Carter, whose father was country singer Carl Smith. Together, June Carter and Cash had one child, John Carter Cash. He is a musician and producer.

Singer Rosanne Cash is Johnny Cash's daughter from his first marriage, to Vivian Liberto. Their other three children were Kathleen, Cindy and Tara. They divorced in 1966.

In March 1998, Cash made headlines when his California-based record company, American Recordings, took out an advertisement in the music trade magazine Billboard. The full-page ad celebrated Cash's 1998 Grammy award for best country album for "Unchained." The ad showed an enraged-looking Cash in his younger years making an obscene gesture to sarcastically illustrate his thanks to country radio stations and "the country music establishment in Nashville," which he felt had unfairly cast him aside.

Jennings, a close friend, once said of Cash: "He's been like a brother to me. He's one of the greatest people in the world."

Cash once credited his mother, Carrie Rivers Cash, with encouraging him to pursue a singing career.

"My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday."

Cash lived in Hendersonville, Tenn., just outside of Nashville. He also had a home in Jamaica. 

IN MEMORY OF JOHNNY CASH

 ... Johnny Cash: A Final Interview / and articles 

September 11, 2003

The Elvis Presley Story Starring Ronnie McDowell 
    
(BRANSON, MO) - A limited engagement of The Elvis Presley Story starring Ronnie McDowell at The Will Rogers Theater in Branson is set for Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November 1, 2003 at 8 p.m.. The show is a celebration of Elvis’ life and music featuring his former backup singers and band members The Jordanaires, guitarist Scotty Moore, drummer D.J. Fontana and soprano Millie Kirkham. 

The Elvis Presley Story starring Ronnie McDowell is a revival of Elvis’ great music, not a note-for-note re-creation of it. There are no Elvis impersonations here…no sideburns, no shades and no jumpsuits. McDowell and company present Elvis’ songs in chronological order, tracing the King’s music as it took him from Memphis to Nashville and then on to New York, Hollywood and Las Vegas. The show includes many of Elvis’ hit songs, including That’s All Right Mama, Blue Moon Of Kentucky, Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel, How Great Thou Art and more. 

A key aspect of the show is audience participation with the performers who knew him best and loved him most taking questions from the audience about Elvis. McDowell also offers selected fans the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of coming on stage and singing an Elvis song with The Jordanaires backing them.

McDowell’s voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Presley’s and producers of movies have turned to McDowell time and again for his remarkable voice. His ability to sound exactly like the King has been showcased on the soundtracks of the highly rated 1979 Kurt Russell film Elvis, 1981’s TV movie Elvis and the Beauty Queen, the 1988 ABC-TV mini series Elvis and Me, the 1989-90 TV series Elvis Aaron Presley and 1997’s Showtime cable movie Elvis Meets Nixon. Drawing on this rich background, McDowell performs Elvis’ songs with incomparable understanding and authority.

Ronnie McDowell never met Elvis, but he so loved his music that when Elvis died in 1977, McDowell wrote and recorded The King Is Gone. The song sold more than 3 million copies and reached #13 on both the Country and Pop music charts. McDowell went on to a distinguished career in country music, releasing 30 albums and 20 singles. He has more than a dozen Top10, Top 5 and Number 1 hits including Older Women, You’re Going To Ruin My Bad Reputation, Wandering Eyes, Watchin’ Girls Go By and I Love You, I Love You, I Love You.

The Jordanaires met Elvis in Memphis in 1954, just before he left Sun Records to go with RCA. He admired their gospel sound and asked if they would record with him when he moved to a major label. They agreed and continued to record and tour with Elvis from his signing with RCA until 1970. They also worked with him in the movies Loving You, Jailhouse Rock, King Creole and G.I. Blues.

Guitarist Scotty Moore and drummer D.J. Fontana were with Elvis from the start. Moore was Elvis’ first manager, well before Col. Tom Parker came along. The inventive guitar licks heard on Elvis’ career-making singles came from Moore’s bottomless imagination. In recognition of his musical skills and imagination, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted Moore in its first class of “sidemen” members. Fontana joined Moore and other members of Elvis’ band in 1954 and stayed on until 1968. He played on more than 460 of the King’s RCA recordings.

Millie Kirkham, whose high soprano pipes can be heard on such classics as Blue Christmas and My Wish Came True was one of Elvis’ favorite vocalists. She began singing on recording sessions with the Jordanaires even before they teamed up with Elvis.

September 11, 2003

Looking Ahead - Regular FTD Releases and Next Round of Movie Soundtracks
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPE 9/10/2003 


The next three deluxe film CD's will be released at the end of November (no final date yet). The titles are Viva Las VegasHarum Scarum, and Frankie & Johnny.

The January 1, 2004 regular FTD release will be called So High and feature outtakes from Elvis’s Nashville sessions during the 1966 –1968 period – thereby finishing the FTD Nashville trilogy that also includes Fame and Fortune and Studio B. 

September 09, 2003

“TAKIN’ TAHOE TONIGHT” - New FTD CD
     Release: October 1st, 2003
    (A soundboard recording of the May 13, 1973, 3 A.M. show)
    Cat. Number: 8287653367-2 

  1) Also Sprach Zarathustra 1:19 (P.D. Richard Strauss)
  2) See See Rider 2:45 (Trad. Arr. E. Presley)
  3) I Got A Woman/Amen 3:48 (Ray Charles)(J. Hairston)
  4) Help Me Make It Through The Night 2:26 (Kris Kristofferson)
  5) Steamroller Blues 2:54 (James Taylor)
  6) You Gave Me A Mountain 3:09 (Marty Robbins)
  7) Love Me 1:44 (Leiber/Stoller)
  8) Blue Suede Shoes 1:00 (Carl Perkins)
  9) Long Tall Sally /Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On /Your Mama Don’t Dance/Shake, Rattle And Roll 2:36
      (Johnson/Penniman/Blackwell)(Williams/David)(Loggins/Messina)(Calhoun)
10) My Way 3:41 (Anka/Reveaux/Francois)
11) Hound Dog 1:18 (Leiber/Stoller)
12) What Now My Love 3:01 (Sigman/Becaud)
13) Suspicious Minds 3:41 (Mark James)
14) Introductions 1.18
15) I’ll Remember You 2:45 (K. Lee)
16) I Can’t Stop Loving You 2:20 (Don Gibson)
17) Bridge Over Troubled Water 5:34 (Paul Simon)
18) Funny How Time Slips Away 3:04 (Willie Nelson)
19) It’s Over 2.12 (Jimmie Rodgers)
20) Release Me 0:33 (Miller/Yount/Williams)
21) Faded Love 2:25 (B.Wills/J.Wills)
22) Can’t Help Falling In Love 2:05 (Peretti/Creatore/Weiss)

Bonus Songs

23) I’m Leavin’ 3:10 (Michael Jarrett/Sonny Charles)
24) A Big Hunk O’ Love 2:03 (Aaron Schroeder/Sid Wyche)

This is a soundboard recording recorded in the “High Sierra Theatre” at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel, Nevada at 3AM on May 13, 1973. The bonus songs are from the midnight show the same night. Mono.

Thanks to Jan van Mourik "It's Elvis Time"

September 08, 2003

Final Track List Announced for ELVIS 2ND TO NONE
   ------------------------------------------------- EPE 9/8/2003

RCA/BMG has now announced the finalized track listing for ELVIS 2ND TO NONE, the new compilation disc set for release on October 7, 2003. The list is printed below. Also, we invite you to visit RCA/BMG's official ELVIS 2ND TO NONE site.

TRACK LIST:

In parentheses are notes about US and UK positions on the pop charts or other criteria for a song’s inclusion in this collection.

  1. That’s All Right (First record)
  2. I Forgot To Remember To Forget (First National #1 US Country)
  3. Blue Suede Shoes (US-24 & UK-9) 
  4. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (US-1 & UK-14)
  5. Love Me (US-6) 
  6. Mean Woman Blues (US-4)
  7. Loving You (US 28 & UK 24/US. No. 1 album) 
  8. Treat Me Nice (US 27)
  9. Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (US-3 & UK-3)
10. King Creole (UK-2)
11. Trouble (Classic)
12. I Got Stung (US-8 & UK-1)
13. I Need Your Love Tonight (US-4 & UK-1)
14. A Mess Of Blues (US-32 & UK-3)
15. I Feel So Bad (US-5 & UK-4)
16. Little Sister (US-5 & UK-1)
17. Rock-A-Hula Baby (US-23 & UK-1) 
18. Bossa Nova Baby (US-8 & UK-13)
19. Viva Las Vegas (US 29 & UK 17)
20. If I Can Dream (US-11 & UK 11)
21. Memories (US 35)
22. Don’t Cry Daddy (US-6 & UK-8)
23. Kentucky Rain (US-16 & UK 21) 
24. You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me (US-11 & UK-9)
25. An American Trilogy (US-66 & UK-8)
26. Always On My Mind (UK-9)
27. Promised Land (US-14 & UK-9)
28. Moody Blue (US-31 & UK-6)
29. Bonus: I’m A Roustabout (Previously Unreleased)
30. Bonus: Rubberneckin’ (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold)

September 08, 2003

They wrote the hits of early rock 'n' roll
   By Fred Crafts, The Register-Guard - September 07, 2003


The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller may not have won as much critical acclaim as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, but they may have had an impact on more people.

OPENING THIS WEEK

For those who have been asleep for the past four decades, Leiber and Stoller are responsible for hit songs written for Elvis Presley, the Coasters, the Drifters and others.

Among those songs are "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care,'' "On Broadway,'' "I'm a Hog for you, Baby'' and "Treat Me Nice.''

In a way, Leiber and Stoller invented rock 'n' roll. So many of their songs turned up on the hit parades that they once were quoted as saying, "We don't write songs, we write records."

Forty-one Leiber and Stoller classics are jammed into "Smokey Joe's Cafe," a Broadway musical that opened in 1995 and ran for 2,036 performances, becoming Broadway's longest-running musical revue.

The show makes its Eugene debut Friday at the Actors Cabaret of Eugene.

With that many songs to get through, director Joe Zingo says to not expect a plot.

"It's a musical revue, loosely strung together by relationships, "Zingo explains."The Broadway version was really loosely done. On Broadway, they basically had the music play itself. We're doing a lot more in developing the personal relationships between singing the songs."

The songs include such hits as "Hound Dog,'' "Love Potion #9,'' "Poison Ivy,'' "Yakety Yak'' and many, many more.

"It's going to bring us back to an era when most of us didn't have an awful lot of things to worry about," Zingo says with a laugh. "It's one of the most fun musicals that we've done."

Belting out the hits will be Amanda Fackrell, Tyler Holden, Don Kelley, Erica Jean Pierson, Michelle Sellars, Susan Sessa, Gaylord Walker, Gerald Walters and Eric Wilson. The musical director is Vicki Brabham. 

Leiber and Stoller had their first hit (Jimmy Witherspoon's "Real Ugly Woman'') as teen-agers in Los Angeles. Three years later, their "Hound Dog" (Big Mama Thornton) hit the charts. Three years after that, Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog," and it went to No. 1.

After that came such hits as "Smokey Joe's Cafe" (the Robins) and "Black Denim Trousers" (the Cheers). The Robins split up, and the faction that stayed with Leiber and Stoller became the Coasters, with such hits as "Along Came Jones," "Framed," "Searchin'," "Yakety Yak," "Charlie Brown," "Riot in Cell Block #9'' and "Young Blood," among others.

In 1957, Leiber and Stoller began working with the Drifters ("Save the Last Dance for Me,'' "There Goes My Baby'').

Meanwhile, Presley had the team write songs for his films "Love Me Tender," "Loving You," "King Creole" and "Jailhouse Rock."

In the '60s, they wrote for girl groups such as the Shangri-Las ("Leader of the Pack'') and the Dixie Cups ("Chapel of Love''). Later they penned "Is That All There Is?'' for Peggy Lee. Leiber and Stoller were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

September 04, 2003

DUKE BARDWELL Message About His Upcoming Apparances In Belgium And Holland 
   On October 18th And  19th


Hello. My name is Duke Bardwell and I was the bass player in the TCB Band from January, 1974 until April of 1975, performing almost 200 shows with Elvis. This is my first time ever to come to Europe and my wife and I are really looking forward to it. 

I want to thank the fan clubs for making this possible and for putting together such a fun show. I can't wait to ROCK with Terry Mike Jeffrey, to see my old friend Charlie Hodge again and to celebrate Elvis and his music. 
Until then God bless you all.

Duke Bardwell 

Photos: Elvis with Duke Bardwell 

Source: Duke Bardwell/Arjan Deelen

September 01, 2003

Charles Bronson dead at 81 






(CNN) -- Actor Charles Bronson, perhaps best known for his "Death Wish" films, has died in Los Angeles, California, following a four-week bout with pneumonia, his publicist said. He also had a part in the 1962 movie "Kid Galahad" starring Elvis Presley.

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                       2005 Remembering Elvis Presley - Marty Lacker; Lamar Fike; Jerry Shilling; David Stanley; 
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                                      Lisa Marie Presley |

memories   2002 Jack Soden | Gordon Stoker | Celeste Yarnall about the film Live A Little, Love A Little |
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CD Review   2002 "Today, Tomorrow & Forever" Box Set |

In Memory    2003 Bob Ivers | Peter Tewksbury | Henry Garson | Sam Phillips |