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Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/1 Elvis Presley is the self-titled debut album by Elvis Presley on RCA Records. Released in March 1956, The album was recorded during one session at Sun Studio in Memphis, two mid-January sessions at RCA Studios in Nashville, and two in late January at RCA Studios in New York. It spent ten weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart that year. The "Elvis Presley" title and photo were also used on RCA-issued Extended Play and 2x Extended Play records released at the same time.
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/2 The Memphis Mafia was the nickname for a group of friends, associates, employees and "yes-men" whose main function was to be around Elvis Presley from 1956 until he died. Several filled practical roles in the singer's life. For instance, they were employed to work for him as bodyguards or on tour logistics and scheduling. In these cases Elvis paid salaries, but most lived off fringe benefits such as gifts, cars, houses and bonuses. Over the years, the number of members grew and changed, but for the most part there was a core group who spent a lot of time with the singer.
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/3 "Colonel" Tom Parker (born Andreas Cornelis (Dries) van Kuijk on June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997), was a Dutch entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley. For many years Parker claimed to have been U.S. born, but it eventually emerged that he was born in Breda, Netherlands to Dutch parents. His management of Elvis Presley re-wrote the role of the manager and was seen as central to the astonishing success of Presley's career. He displayed a ruthless devotion to his client's interests, took 50% of his earnings, and piloted Elvis to global superstardom. Presley said of Parker: "I don't think I would have been very big with another man. Because he's a very smart man."
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/4 "Heartbreak Hotel" is a rock and roll song performed by Elvis Presley, with Bill Black (bass), Scotty Moore (guitar), D.J. Fontana (drums), Floyd Cramer (piano) and Elvis on rhythm guitar as the main supporting musicians. Recorded in January 1956 in Nashville, the song introduced Presley to the American national music consciousness. It was released as a single with the b-side song "I Was The One" on January 27, 1956. "Heartbreak Hotel" became the first No.1 pop record by Elvis and was the best selling single of 1956.
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/5 "Don't Be Cruel" is a song by Otis Blackwell that was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1956. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was listed number 197 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"Don't Be Cruel" was originally the A-side of RCA single 47-6604, with "Hound Dog" on the B-side, although both sides became chart-toppers, RCA reissuing the single in later decades as double A-sided. The single was the first to top all three extant Billboard charts: pop, rhythm & blues, and country & western.
The single was recorded for RCA Victor by Elvis' regular band of Scotty Moore on lead guitar (with Elvis usually providing rhythm guitar), Bill Black on bass, D.J. Fontana on drums and backing vocals from the Jordanaires. Presley recorded this song on July 2, 1956 at RCA's New York City studio. The producing credit was given to RCA's Steve Sholes, however the studio recordings reveal that Elvis produced the songs in this session (as well as many others) himself, which is verified by band members. Presley selected the song and reworked the arrangement himself on piano.
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/6 Jailhouse Rock is an American motion picture directed by Richard Thorpe, released by MGM on November 8, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley (his third ever film role), Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy. Sadly, co-star Tyler was killed in an automobile accident a few weeks after the film was completed, and like Loving You before it, Presley was so upset that he refused to ever watch the completed film. The film also includes Bill Hickman who, in 1955, was with James Dean at the time of his death as the result of an automobile accident and, in 1968, helped choreograph and drive the black Dodge Charger in the famous car chase scene in Bullitt. In 2004, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/7 From Elvis in Memphis is the nineteenth album, not counting the 1960s film soundtracks and budget compilations, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 4155, in June of 1969. Recorded at American Sound Studios in Memphis, it peaked at #13 on the Billboard 200, and is considered by many critics to be his best album.
The reissue of May 16, 2000, includes six tracks released as either A- or B-sides recorded at the same sessions for the album. "Don't Cry Daddy," by Mac Davis, and "Kentucky Rain" were both sizable hits in 1970, but "Suspicious Minds" became one of Presley's signature tunes, and gave him the final chart-topper of his career as the decade came to a close.
Portal:Elvis Presley/Selected article/8 Moody Blue Is the title of Elvis Presley's last album to be released in his lifetime. The album was a mixture of live and studio work, and included tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in 1976, including "Moody Blue", a previously released hit, and "Way Down," which would become a hit after Presley's death less than a month after the album's release. As described in Elvis: The Illustrated Record, RCA was not able to obtain sufficient new studio material for a complete album (most of Presley's 1976 studio output having already been used in the previous album, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee) and chose to augment the remaining available works with three live tracks recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 24, 1977, including a version of "Unchained Melody" which would be the album's third single, released posthumously.
The track "Moody Blue" was released as a single in early 1977 and reached #1 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart (partly thanks to the country B-side "She Thinks I Still Care"). "Way Down" was released as the second single in the early summer of 1977. Although it did not initially rise on the charts, it soared to #18 after Elvis Presley's death in August (#1 in the United Kingdom). The album reached #3 on the Billboard album charts after his death, although it had already cracked the top 40 before he died. The last Elvis album to crack the top 40 had been a live album in 1974.
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