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There are so very many Elvis products for purchase out there, many owned by die-hard fans. (I have a few items myself, given to me by Elvis, which I will never sell!)
Once Elvis started performing in Vegas and later at big stadium shows, he had all his costumes custom made. Off stage he wore fashionable but ordinary clothing.
People seem to think he walked around in his show clothes.
This paper doll comes from Dover - the publishing people - from a book of Vegas Star paper dolls. Dover has their own web site and you can purchase this book and so many other interesting titles, many art oriented. We get to use this image for free because ours is a noncommercial site.
POST (210) HOLLYWOOD REALLY WAS FULL OF STARS!
FROM OUR ARCHIVES dated November 11 2008
When I moved to Los Angeles - Hollywood - one of the first things that I noticed that's different today - fifty years later - is that Hollywood really was full of stars. Not only were movies being made locally but the stars took it upon themselves to dine out and shop and be seen right there along Hollywood Boulevard where the Hollywood Walk of Fame is now. The photographers prowled and it seemed everyone was dressed, made-up, ready, willing, available for a "photo op."
I had met the actress Christine White in Hollywood as a tourist, before I was discovered in Akron, Ohio in 1957, and when I moved to Los Angeles Hollywood became my scene. I went to restaurants and clubs where business and pleasure were conducted. The area around Capitol Records which had the famous circular building that looked like a stack of albums - if you stretched your imagination a bit - seemed to be the epicenter of my scene.
When Johnny Rivers, Johnny Burnette, and I would motorcycle around town, we'd park our bikes across from the Brown Derby restaurant where there was a hot dog stand we liked near the Huntington-Hartford theatre. From there we watched the girls.
FRED NEIL : What a voice! And a great person!
Freddy was six foot two, a freckled face, red hair. I met him in Saint Petersberg, Florida in December of 1957. He paled around with me and Ersel Hickey in New York and became a real good friend. He was a lot of fun - very comical - a prankster.
One time as I was walking across Broadway with some business people, I heard a loud voice, someone yelling for me with some profanity thrown in. I turned around and there he was, laughing at me. Freddy was turned loose in a big city.
Fred had a couple records on Capitol Records but his claim to fame was the song "Everybody's Talking," the movie Midnight Cowboy's theme song.
NICK VENET WAS THE PRODUCER ON THIS HIT.
Fred signed a contract with Southern Music, a division of Hill and Range, and became a big writer.
I wrote a song for Buddy Knox called "Bye Bye Helloa" and Freddy played all the instruments on the demo. It was recorded in a little studio in the Brill building. Freddy also worked in the studio with Bobby Darin.
