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Friday, June 24, 2022

From Nothingville to Memphis

 


With DJ Robin Braid

01 Trouble-Guitar Man
02 Stop, Look And Listen
03 The Love Machine (Alternate Take 11)
04 There Ain't Nothing Like A Song [with Nancy Sinatra]
05 House Of Sand
06 Hard Luck
07 Big Boss Man
08 Clean Up Your Own Backyard (Undubbed Version)
09 Rubberneckin'
10 All I Needed Was The Rain
11 Edge Of Reality
12 City By Night
13 Stranger In My Own Hometown (Undubbed Master)
14 Baby, What You Want Me To Do (First 'Stand Up' Show)
15 Run On
16 So High
17 Road Medley (Full Length Version)
18 Charro!
19 Gospel Medley [with Darlene Love] (Full Length Version)
20 I'm Movin' On
21 You'll Think Of Me
22 Memories (Stereo Mix)
23 Long Black Limousine 
24 If I Can Dream (TV Version)
25 When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold (Second 'Sit Down' Show)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Don't Knock Elvis (MP3)



Felton Jarvis - Don't Knock Elvis

In celebration of what would've been Elvis Presley's 77th birthday, here's an odd artifact from a very early stage in the career of songwriter and producer Felton Jarvis (1934 - 1981).

Jarvis was Elvis Presley's producer between the years 1966 and 1977, when Presley died. While still struggling to make a name for himself, he recorded this Elvis Presley tribute 45, which was released on the tiny VIVA label in August, 1959. While in the Marines in 1955, Jarvis experienced a life-changing event when was lucky enough to catch a live Elvis Presley show in Norfolk, Virginia.

Upon getting out of the Marines, he returned to Atlanta and went to work as a sheet music printer at Bill Lowery's National Recording Company (NRC). At the time, the label was over-flowing with talented performers who, in less than a decade, would be national stars: Jerry Reed, Mac Davis, Joe South, Ray Stevens and Freddy Weller. Jarvis moved into songwriting and producing, making a name for himself in 1961 by producing Every Beat Of My Heart, the first R&B #1 hit (of eleven, in all) for a local band called the Pips, soon to be renamed Gladys Knight & The Pips. From NRC, Jarvis went to work for the ABC label, where he produced "Sheila" a huge national hit for Tommy Roe, another graduate of Lowery's NRC concern. After a few years at ABC, he moved over to RCA where he and Presley established a solid working relationship that worked out pretty well for both of them.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Eddie on Elvis



Noted author and possibly the world's most perfectly developed man (now that Charles Atlas is gone) Eddie Deezen tells you about some of Mr. Presley's animal pals, right here.

BONUS! Here's more from Eddie, writing about Snap, Crackle, and Pop.

Mr.Deezen

Monday, October 18, 2010

Elvis & A Little Mid-Century Mania



Over at beltstl.com (Built Environment in Layman's Terms, St. Louis), Toby Weiss has put together a humdinger of a blog post that looks back at Elvis Presley movies and their eye-popping embrace of mid-century modernism at its finest. The screen captures are truly sensational.

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