HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS!

A bit of controversy over if this is actually Elvis or an impersonator singing.    Here is the definitive answer, posted on YouTube. 

 

"This was officially released on the Memphis Recording Service release Off Duty with Private Presley in 2010.  This recording was from May 1958.  On the same day, he sang Sail Along Silvery Moon/I Understand Just How I Feel, Happy, Happy Birthday Baby; Dialogue, I Can't Help It, Dialogue, Who's Sorry Now, Who's Sorry Now reprise, another five goes at Happy, Happy Birthday Baby, Dialogue, Tumblin' Tumbleweeds/Blue Moon/Don't You Know I Love You, Tomorrow Night (twice), Little Darlin' Monologue, and Just A Closer Walk With Thee.  Who's Sorry Now was done by Anita Wood with Elvis singing backup." 

ELVIS SINGING AT HIS HOME ON ROCCA PLACE LOS ANGELES : IF I LOVED YOU

ELVIS loved to sing.  This video of a private recording at Rocco place appeared on YouTube and we thought you'd enjoy the informality of the occasion.

(449) SELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP - LAKE SHRINE

ELVIS PRESLEY 2013 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

SELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP : LAKE SHRINE TEMPLE Link here!

Jesus Christ was the most important guru Elvis ever had and though Elvis became a spiritual explorer through reading when he moved back to Graceland TM from Los Angeles, my memories of Elvis reading the Bible to me just the two of us hanging out - and even at parties - and taking on his preacher aspect, will always be with me.  Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible were the basis for his life.

During his years living in Los Angeles, which were his movie making years, the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine became an important oasis of peace, a place to get away from movie and music stardom for Elvis.

(448) COMMANDO : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHNNY RAMONE (A MAJOR ELVIS PRESLEY FAN!) BOOK REVIEW and EXCERPTS!

COMMANDO : THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHNNY RAMONE
C 2012 Johnny Ramone LLC
Edited by John Cafiero with Steve Miller and Henry Rollins
Abrams is the publisher

What makes an autobiography rather than a memoir?
I think this book is more a music memoir because it focuses on the development  of The Ramones, a punk band that performed some original material and some cover tunes. As a matter of fact they covered some of the tunes that Johnny Rivers also covered, so I would've loved to ask Johnny Ramone about that!

As it goes with the Ramones, not one member was ever born with the surname Ramone and not one member was an actual brother or relative. The Ramones are therefore a construct, but when it comes to the music business there were a number of "brother" duos and groups, such as the Righteous Brothers before them who were also not really brothers.   - Christine


When I was on tour with Buddy Knox people used to ask us if we were brothers!  - Wes

CHAPTER ONE,  pages 15 and 16

"It was the nameless guy who changed the jukebox records at my parent's bar who really turned me on to rock and roll when I was seven years old. Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, and Fats Domino. He gave me the singles he was talking out as he put in the newest hits. I loved it; I had a great collection of 45's. I still love that era of music. The songs sound so clear and exciting, like Little Richard's "Keep a Knocking."

page 17

"Soon after the jukebox guy started giving me those singles, I saw Elvis Presley on the black and-white television in our Westbury living room, on The Ed Sullivan Show. The first time was September 9, 1956, in a broadcast from Hollywood, then seven weeks later from thirty miles away in New York City, at the CBS studio at Broadway and Fifty-third street. Today that's the Ed Sullivan Theater where David Letterman does his show.

I just knew I would be a big Elvis fan from that moment on. It was the wildness, and it really upset my parents, who thought he was a dope fiend. I didn't know what that was, but I figured it must be a good thing, because if it upset the grownups, it had to be good. I just followed him from them on and became a rock and roll fan forever, and by the next year I was listening to Ricky Nelson, the Everly Brothers, and it was a big Jerry Lee lewis fan. And Little Richard, I mean, he was gay and black, and that made everybody crazy."
- Johnny Ramone


In the back of the book Johnny Ramone lists Elvis Presley as his favorite singer, followed by Bing Crosby, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, The Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Frankie Laine, Dion, and Jim Morrison.  Johnny would have loved this blog! - Christine

ELVIS PRESLEY : GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME

  I think the song reminded Elvis of going home to Graceland TM. 

BEAR OUTDID HIMSELF WITH THIS ELVIS TRIBUTE AT HIS BLOG BEARLY RAMBLING!

We made some new friends since we started this blog, and Bear is one of them.

You have to see - and hear - his Elvis tribute! It's terrific!

He's posted videos of the following Elvis Presley songs: A MESS OF BLUES, I WILL BE HOME AGAIN, MAKE ME KNOW IT, THRILL OF YOUR LOVE. Songs we haven't heard in a while but love.

Thanks for sharing this with us all Bear!

ELVIS CELL PHONE SCREENSAVER : FOR ALL YOU ELVIS FANS

"ELVIS" SCREEN SAVER FOR YOUR CELL PHONE. Sent to us from a fan from a free image site on the Internet! A fun way to celebrate the birthday of a wonderful person and great talent, and someone who helped change popular music forever! ELVIS PRESLEY!

ELVIS PRESLEY on ELVIS PRESLEY

"The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image."

HUEY LEWIS on ELVIS PRESLEY

"A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better." Huey Lewis

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN on ELVIS PRESLEY

"There have been a lot of tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one King." - Bruce Springsteen

ELVIS PRESLEY BIRTHDAY

A little bit of WES BRYAN- MY LIFE IN MUSIC blog history
Here's what we posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS PRESLEY

As millions of fans know, today is the birthday of the great Elvis Presley. And when I say he was great, I don't just mean that he was a great entertainer. I mean that Elvis was a great human being. So much has been said and written about Elvis, who was a friend of mine from when I met him in 1957 while on my first tour for United Artists, and performing live on the Wink Martindale show in Memphis, Tennessee.

I'll never forget the one time years into our friendship when I was feeling stalled out in my career, and this is what Elvis said to me: "You're successful as a human being and that's all that counts in my book."

"We love you, Elvis!

Wes

ELVIS PRESLEY on ELVIS PRESLEY

"My voice is God's will, not mine!"