WES BRYAN - TEEN DELIGHT

HELLO TO MACAU, CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY...

HONG KONG, and SAUDI ARABIA!

T-U- V LINKS UPDATED AND GENE VINCENT!

R LINKS UPDATED and MARTY ROBBINS

OK - so we pick a video, and then it gets taken down over at YouTube... So we're replacing the one we posted a month ago with this one!

HELLO TO SPAIN, PORTUGAL, ALGERIA

Malta and United Arab Emirates!

NASCAR TEAM OWNER DALE EARNHARDT JR. UNVEILS ELVIS CAR! STUTZ BEARCAT III

YAHOO AUTOS - ELVIS PRESLEY'S LAST RIDE  full article link  DALE EARNHARDT JUNIOR UNVEILS  by Justin Hyde at Yahoo Autos.

So of course it was Elvis Presley's favorite — and today, the Stutz which Elvis drove hours before his death was given a reintroduction at the hands of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Unveiled at the Charlotte Motor Speedway by Earnhardt, NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick and Ray Evernham — all in Elvis shades — the black 1973 Stutz Bearcat III was Elvis' third Stutz; he had bought a white copy and the second prototype the company built by hand. In that era, the Stutz could sell for the equivalent of more than $100,000 and the company often billed itself as selling the world's most expensive car. Finished in red leather, the car was essentially Presley's daily driver at the time of his death in August 1977.

P LINKS UPDATED AND P.J. PROBY (HE'S 75 and STILL TOURING!)

New Link for drummer EARL PALMER - ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME... DITTO LES PAUL ... lots of updates in the blog for CARL PERKINS...

To Celebrate!  PJ PROBY

PJ PROBY 2014 TOUR DATES

OK ON THIS VIDEO, I, Christine, could not resist posting the video below because I've been reading some newish rock and roll books including one on Jimmy Page, who is one of my favorites guitarist, and well, here is PJ with Jimmy Page, who I've learned first made it onto British TV at 15 and was a session guitarist before Led Zeppelin...

O LINKS UPDATED and ROY ORBISON from BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT

Roy Orbison - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and New Official Site - updated along with early post about Roy in our Archive.



FROM A FULL LENGTH ALBUM/ VIDEO called BLACK AND WHITE NIGHT which is featuring as background artists JAMES BURTON, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Tom Waits, kd lang, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and Jennifer Warnes. (Recorded September 30, 1987).

POT O SHAMROCKS TO YA!

GIOTTODI BONDONE Quote on Friendship

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."  - Giottodi Bondone

J-K-L LINKS UPDATED and BRENDA LEE

The Little Richard and Darlene Love ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Inductee links have been updated!

To Celebrate!  BRENDA LEE!



USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON BRENDA, Little Richard, or Darlene Love!

G- H- I LINKS CHECKED AND UPDATED and ERSEL HICKEY

In G- H-I we found that the  HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME LINK NEEDED AN UPDATE...  and we added THE GLARK GABLE FOUNDATION site!  GRAMMY ORG also needed an update...

TO CELEBRATE : ERSEL HICKEY!



USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, Clark Cable, Grammy, or Ersel Hickey!

D-E-F LINKS CHECKED and TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD

Just completed checking all our side bar links under the D - E - F group and they are all working fine!

REVISITED! 

Bobby Denton in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame...

Jackie DeShannon in the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame...
      

And to celebrate : TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD!


USE THE SEARCH FEATURE EMBEDDED IN THE SIDEBAR TO BRING UP OUR POSTS ON Bobby Denton, Jackie De Shannon, or TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD!

JOE VALINO - DECLARATION OF LOVE

WES BRYAN and JOE VALINO were the first two artists signed to UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS.

DION AND THE BELLMONTS : I WONDER WHY

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO OLD FRIENDS AND NEW! A COUPLE MESSAGES TO FANS and COMMENTERS!

 

WE GOT A FEW COMMENTS THAT WE THOUGHT WE'D RESPOND TO HERE!

 

To Celine who wrote to us about maybe getting married at the Elvis Chapel in Vegas...  We've never been there but it seems to us that you could have a lot of fun creating your own

 ELVIS PRESLEY THEMED WEDDING!  We wish you the best!

 

To Denice who wrote to us about also trying to locate my old friend DON DARCEL,

we'll get in touch if and when we find Don...  He is missed as well as missing in action!

and thanks for letting us know that Wes Bryan was "Big in Fort Lee."

 

To Bonnie; You and Charlie are well remembered as fun making friends

at Elvis' house parties in Los Angeles, California!

 

To Arne, our champion Wes Bryan - YouTube video poster from Sweden. 

 We haven't forgotten about you!

Half the United States may as well be Sweden this winter!

 

THE MONOTONES - BOOK OF LOVE

DOWN TIME OR TAKE YOU ALONG IN OUR TECH PROCESS? ENJOY OUR OLDER POSTS AND LINKS IN THE MEAN TIME?

Christine here.  As some of you who also read my blog CHRISTINE TRZYNA- WRITERLY LIFE know, I've removed my personal blog from the Internet, don't know for how long, but at least until I've got the stuff you don't see fixed. 

WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC  blog also needs work on its innards. 

So we planned down time for this blog too... But well, my personal blog and this blog are of a different nature.  My personal blog is more like a literary diary.  This one has value as a memoir and music history publication and we receive thousands of hits every month on older posts because it's still useful and interesting "as is,"  so I'm going to try to attend to technology issues, etc, and take you along in the process...  

(I know this can be deadly BORING for the reader... what a decision!)  

We feel responsible for keeping links and videos as fresh as possible and since we've been blogging since 2007 a lot of things have changed.  Many out of our control, some frustrating, all which need attention ; We used to post a technology update PAGE and one day it just went POOF!

Just the other day I checked on all the links in our extensive list on the side bar under A-B-C and found four that need replacement along with corresponding posts which takes an hour or two - so you have some idea of what's ahead.  We take pride in knowing that anyone interested in our subject can link to other writers, other sites.

Please be patient!

There will be musical intermissions!

THANKS FOR READING WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC!

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED - RITCHIE VALENS - and LINK TO RITCHIE VALENS OFFICIAL

FROM OUR ARCHIVES OCTOBER 6, 2007  THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED!

RITCHIE VALENS died in that plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.

Alan Freed, a pioneer in Rock and Roll, who held big stage shows in New York City where many of my peers performed, got ahold of Richie Valens and asked him to appear. Ritchie was just a kid with a chaperone, but we all wanted to meet him and considered him part of our Rock and Roll family. I was there when Ritchie performed in New York, and he was a total pro at 17. Everyone wanted to meet him. We didn't care that he was Mexican-American, not at all. Among us he was one of the firsts who came out of California - Los Angeles - The San Fernando Valley - a place that would become more important to many of us as the years went on! We might have been more curious about him on that basis! We were a lot of Southern boys there in the Big Apple!

Ritchie had the hit "Donna,"a soft ballad, in 1958, and there's been a movie made about his life, "La Bamba."

NEW LINK RITCHIE VALENS OFFICIAL


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NEW VIDEO!