The 3rd book in Erik Lorentzen's The Elvis Files series is volume 4 and handles 1965-1968. Is it as attractive as the first two parts that were issued?
Design
The massive book count 569 pages, including some page-sized ads. Just like the previous volume it handles the movies in depth. This information is decorated with tons of pictures. Thumbing through the book is a delight by itself.
Content
The book starts with some publicity shots and a part adapted from Fortas book From Memphis To Hollywood before its time to go on with the immortal Harum Scarum. Of course many pictures of the set, the movie and some publicity shots. There are some candids included from the time the movie was made. Talking about candids this book contains many of them. Those impromptu moments always have something special.
Frankie and Johnny and Paradise, Hawaiian Style are next. The header by Piers Beagly The Beatles were recording Rubber Soul, Bob Dylan was writing Like a Rolling Stone, and Elvis was singing Queenie Wahines Papaya says it all! The articles from the magazines at the time werent too positive either, why didnt he get awake earlier? Its the death of Bill Black is the main referrer to better times
1966 starts with some candids in the snow at Graceland before continuing the movie-years with Spinout. Double Trouble and Easy Come, Easy Go (contender for the title worst Elvis movie) follow. Clambake is the first 1967 movie, with quite some wardrobe shots making it more or less funny. Then its time for the wedding and honeymoon, with tons of more or less known pictures. Speedway has a bit extra because of Nancy Sinatras presence. Stay Away, Joe closes 1967.
Before going on with the movies, a baby was born in 1968 and of course the book covers the birth of Lisa-Marie thoroughly. Live a Little, Love a Little precedes the famous visit to Tom Jones in April and the Hawaii holiday in May. Then it is time for the comeback publicity shots, pics from the recording sessions, press conference, rehearsals and of course the special itself theyre all there! Next to the great pictures (unfortunately they differ in quality) it is fun to read the positive press about it!
Then its time for a quite different Elvis the bearded one! Charro gets quite some coverage and there are even nude pics included! Maffia Elvis closes the movies with The Trouble With Girls, before the book finally finishes with another pile of candid moments.
Conclusion
This volume carries quite some candid pictures, which I happen to like, but because of the nature the quality is not as good as movie stills or publicity shots. To some that may be a minor, but to me those shots make Elvis more human and less God-like. Its amazing how much time that man took for his fans!
Here is the long-awaited tracklisting for the new FTD double-vinyl album of 'Elvis Sings Guitar Man'. As always this will be Re-mastered from original tapes, Vinyl cutting by Abbey Road Studios, 180 Grams heavyweight vinyl and Strictly limited pressing.
Side One: Guitar Man (takes 11, 12) / Big Boss Man (takes 7,9) / Love Letters (take 8) / Just Call Me Lonesome (takes 5,6) / Come What May (take 6) / Mine (original master) / Fools Fall In Love (original master)
Side Two: I'll Remember You (vocal overdub, unedited master) / High Heel Sneakers (take 7, unedited master) / Down In The Alley (take 6) / Indescribably Blue (vocal overdub, take 1) / Tomorrow Is A Long Time (takes 1,2)
Side Three: Big Boss Man (take 2) / Just Call Me Lonesome (takes 3,4) / Down In The Alley (takes 2,3,4) / Come What May (takes 3,4) / We Call On Him (take 8) / Singing Tree (remake, takes 1,2,3) / Guitar Man (take 10)
Side Four: Love Letters (take 2) / Fools Fall In Love (takes 1,4) / Singing Tree (takes 10,13) / You Don't Know Me (take 2) / Come What May (take 7) / High Heel Sneakers (take 5)
Here are the details on the 2-CD Classic Album version containing both Masters and Outtakes from these May 1971 sessions. The 2xCD set packaged in deluxe, fold-out format sleeve (7" EP size) with booklet featuring photos and memorabilia. This will be an interesting FTD for the many previously unreleased outtakes.
Tracklist:
He Touched Me / I've Got Confidence / Amazing Grace / Seeing Is Believing / He Is My Everything / Bosom Of Abraham / An Evening Prayer / Lead Me, Guide Me / There Is No God But God / A Thing Called Love / I, John / Reach Out To Jesus plus outtakes: Amazing Grace (Takes 1, 2 & 5) / The Lord's Prayer / Lead Me, Guide Me / He Touched Me (Takes 2, 3 & 4) / Johnny B. Goode / I've Got Confidence (Takes I & 2) / An Evening Prayer (Takes 3, 5, 7, 8 & 10) / Seeing Is Believing (Takes 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 14) / A Thing Called Love (Takes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 9) / Reach Out To Jesus (Takes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 & 10) / He Is My Everything (Takes 2 & 4) / There Is No God But God (Takes 2, 3, 4 & 5) / I, John (Take 2) / Bosom Of Abraham (Takes 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7)
With only 50 copies of each color known to be in existance, these colored Moody Blue Albums rank among the most sought-after collector's records in the entire Elvis world. There are 5 albums in the complete set, each valued at 1500 $US or more and it's only seldom that they show up on eBay. However the most rare Moody Blue we've laid eyes on, is en experimental picture disc with the cover of A Legendary Performer Vol.2 in the grooves. That particular one of a kind record sold recently for 10,000 $US... This set of 2 will go for less than 2500 $US.
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Christmas with Elvis... and the Elvis Imperials: bestel tijdig
Christmas with Elvis... and the Elvis Imperials: bestel tijdig
Nog minder dan 140 tickets te gaan en dan zijn we... sold out! Kerstmis op zn mooist: dat is Christmas With Elvis and the Elvis Imperials. Op Zondag 18 december sluiten we het concertjaar af met een indrukwekkende kerstshow in CC De Schalm in Veldhoven (NL) met een live band, Kerstkoor, Bouke en de originele Elvis Imperials. Kerstmuziek zal nooit zo lekker hebben geklonken als dan, op 18 december.
De kerstshows van ElvisMatters zijn inmiddels toe aan de zesde jaargang, en na een succesvolle eerste Nederlandse stop in Tilburg vorig jaar besloten we om onze tenten dit jaar opnieuw op te slaan in Nederland. Eén telefoontje naar Joe Moscheo van The Imperials volstond om de groep te boeken. We stuurden hen de DVD-opname van vorige kerst toe, en ze zeiden meteen ja op het voorstel voor een avondvullende live show.
We hebben nog een kleine 140 tickets te koop. Wie écht geen risico wil lopen, kan nu reeds tickets bestellen via het secretariaat van ElvisMatters, of via de onlineshop.
Welcome to RLF Victor Productions Ltd., an independent film production company founded in 2008 by successful entertainment entrepreneurs Ricki Landers Friedlander and Cindy Friedlander. RLF Victor Productions develops, produces and finances a proven, profitable genre of commercial theatrical motion pictures and select television projects cultivated for their mass appeal and marketability on all levels.
RLF Victor Productions is proud to announce pre-production is in motion on the first feature film ever developed on the inside story of Elvis Presley.
Fame & Fortune
is an intimate account of the relationship of Sonny West with Elvis Presley written by Cindy Friedlander, Sonny West and Michael Schlau and based on the book Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business, written by Sonny West with Marshall Terrill.
Fame & Fortune will be directed by acclaimed writer/director John Scheinfeld who directed, wrote and produced the acclaimed documentaries Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? and The U.S. vs. John Lennon, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival.
Sonny West, an intimate member of the Kings entourage known as the Memphis Mafia was a close friend and bodyguard of Elvis for sixteen years. Fired without notice or severance pay after making repeated attempts to stem the flow of prescription drugs to Elvis, he and his cousin Red wrote the first tell all book about the truth behind the Elvis image in 1977 published two weeks prior to Elviss untimely death.
Polarized by the Elvis fan world as either the savior of Elvis who never had a chance to save the King, or the demon who drove Elvis into his final whirlwind of drug taking in his despair over knowing the tell all book would be released, Sonny's life story sizzles with the heights of drama. From living the roller coaster high life of celebrity success and excess to desperately using all measures to pull the man he loved most out of a spiral of prescription drug abuse, this story pulls out all the stops.
Elvis was a complicated star, deeply wounded by the early loss of his ultra close mother, confused by the implications of losing his twin Jesse Garon in the womb, and searching for spiritual meaning for the incredible life he had been granted. An incredible talent who suffered the embarrassment of acting in a string of banal chick flick musical movies, while the Beatles changed the face of music and aware of his laughable image, Elvis reinvented himself with the '68 Comeback Special and a new image with his never topped live shows in Las Vegas.
