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THE FACTS
Name: Elvis Presley
Born: January 8,
1935 Tupelo, Mississippi
Siblings: A twin brother that was stillborn
named Jesse Garon Presley
Parents: Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley
High School: Humes High School
First record for Sun Studios: "Good
Rockin' Tonight" and "I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine" on
September
25, 1954.
Elvis made his first network TV appearance: "Stage Show"
hosted by the Dorsey brothers on July 5, 1954.
Elvis, Scotty Moore and
Bill Black (the Blue Moon Boys) sang "That's all Right(mama)."
Elvis'
first commercial record release: July 19, 1954 "That's all right(Mama)"
and "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
Elvis' first Screen Test: April 1, 1956
Paramount Studios. A scene from "The Rainmaker"
His first film: "Love
me Tender" August 23, 1956
He signed the movie contract with Paramount
Pictures: April 6, 1956.
Elvis purchased Graceland: March 1957
His
first record for RCA: "I Got a Woman" on January 27, 1956. However it was
not the first to be released.
His first record to hit #1 on the
charts: "Heartbreak Hotel," which was also his first to actually be
released by RCA
Inducted into the Army: March 24, 1958
The famous
haircut: March 25, 58
Spouse: Priscilla Beaulieu whom he married at the
Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967
Children : Lisa Marie Presley
born February 1, 1968
The day he was found dead by Ginger Alden: August
16, 1977
Graceland opened to the public: June 7,
1982
THE MAYBES
The following are just a few of the most
controversial subjects and may or may not be facts.
1. The spelling of his middle name. The
birth certificate is smudged and its never been sure if it's
Aaron or Aron.
You can find added information about spelling at... Elvis.com
2. When Elvis was only 10, he entered
The Mississippi-Alabama State Fair and Dairy Show. There he
performed one
of his favorite songs, "Old Shep," a tear-jerker about a boy and his dog.
Not able to reach
the microphone, he had to stand on a chair and sing to
the audience unaccompanied. Still, he won
second place, $5.00 and was able
to ride on the rides for free.
3. For Elvis's 11th. birthday his
parents bought him his first guitar for $7.75. He had wanted a bicycle but
the
guitar was all they could afford.
THE MOVIES
During Elvis' career he made 33 movies, including
two documentaries...
nbsp; and two TV Specials in addition.
"Love Me Tender" - 1956 with Richard
Egan, Debra Paget and James Drury
"Loving You" - 1957 with Dolores
Hart, Wendell Corey and Lizabeth Scott
"Jailhouse Rock" - 1957 with
Judy Tyler and Mickey Shaugnnessy
"King Creole" - 1958 with Walter
Mathau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Dean Jones and vic Morrow
"G.I.
Blues" - 1960 with Juliet Prowse, Jeremy Slate and Robert
Ivers
"Flaming Star" - 1960 with Steve Forrest, Barbara Eden and
Dolores Del Rio
"Wild in the Country" - 1961 with Hope Lange, Tuesday
Weld, Millie Perkens and Gary Lockwood
"Blue Hawaii" - 1961 with Joan
Blackman and Angela Lansbury
"Follow than Dream" - with 1962 Arthur
O'Connell and Joanna Moore
"Kid Galahad" - 1962 with Gig Young, Lola
Albright, Joan Blackman and Charles Bronson
"Girls; Girls; Girls;" -
1962 with Stella Stevens and Jerry Slate
"It Happened at the World's
Fair" - 1963 with Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood and Yvonne Craig
"Fun in
Acapulco" - 1963 with Ursula Andress and Alejandro Rey
"Kissin Cousins" -
1964 with Arthur O'Connell, Jack Albertson, Yvonne Craig and Cynthia
Pepper
"Viva Las Vegas" - 1964 with Ann-Margret and Cesare
Danova
"Roustabout" - 1964 with Joan Freeman and Leif Erickson and
Barbara Stanwyck
"Girl Happy" - 1964 with Shelly Fabares, Gary Crosby,
Jackie Coogan and Mary Ann Mobley
"Tickle Me" - 1965 with Julie Adams,
Jack Mullaney, Jocelyn Lane and Connie Gillchrist
"Harum Scarum" - 1965
with Mary Ann Mobley and Billy Barty
"Paradise, Hawaiian Style" - 1965
with Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth,
Julie Parrish and
Jan Sheppard
"Frankie and Johnny" - 1966 with Donna Douglas, Harry
Morgan and Sue Ann Langdon
"Spinout" - 1966 with Shelly Fabares,
Deborah Walley, Will Hutchins, Warren Berlinger and Carl Betz
"Easy
Come, Easy Go" - 1967 with Dodie Marshall, Pat Harrington Jr. and Elsa
Lanchester
"Double Trouble" - 1967 with Annette Day
"Clambake" -
1967 with Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins and Bill Bixby
"Stay Away,
Joe" 1968 with Burgess Meredith and Joan Blondell
"Speedway" - 1968
with Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby and Gale Gordon
"Live a Little, Love a
Little," - 1968 with Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Vallee and Dick
Sargent
"Charro !"1969 wtih Ina Balin and Victor French
"The
Trouble with Girls" - 1969 with Marylyn Mason, Sheree North, John
Carradine, Vincent Price,
Joyce Van Patten and Dabney Coleman.
"Change
of Habit" - 1969 with Mary Tyler Moore and Edward Asner
TELEVISION SPECIALS
He was a guest on the Dorsey
Brothers "Stage Show", "Louisiana Hayride," "Ed Sullivan,"
"Steve Allen
Show," "The Milton Berle Show," "Frank Sinatra's Timex Special"
and "Wink
Martindale's Dance Party."
Then he made a few specials of his own:
"The 68 Comeback Special," also known as the
"Burbank Sessions" aired on December 3, 1968.
"Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii" was broadcast worldwide
on January 14, 1973.
Like a lot of Elvis fans January 14,
1973 was the day I bought my first VCR.
THE DOCUMENTARIES
"Elvis, That's the way it is" released
November 11, 1970
"Elvis on Tour" was released on November 1, 1972
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