| 9th October 2006 07:50 AM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Elvis' "Ed Sullivan" visits head to DVD
Fri Oct 6, 2006
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Elvis Presley's three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" will be chronicled on the 3-disc DVD set "Elvis Presley: The Sullivan Shows," which will be released November 21.
All three shows will screen in their entirety, including appearances by other guests and the original commercial breaks.
Presley first guested on Sullivan's show on September 9, 1956, performing "Love Me Tender," "Don't Be Cruel" featuring the Jordanaires, "Hound Dog" and "Ready Teddy." His second, on October 28, 1956, repeated the first three songs and added Leiber & Stoller's "Love Me."
A few months later, on January 6, 1957, he was filmed only from the waist and above to obscure his dance movies, deemed at the time to be too racy for younger viewers. He again sang "Hound Dog," "Love Me Tender" and "Don't Be Cruel," plus "Too Much," "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" and "Peace in the Valley." This performance marked the last time Presley appeared on live television.
"Elvis Presley: The Sullivan Shows" (Image Entertainment) also includes a remastered 8mm home movie shot of Presley in 1955, home movies of his family and interviews with insiders like Sam Phillips, the Jordanaires' Gordon Stoker and "Sullivan" producer Marlo Lewis.
Reuters/Billboard
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Ouch! This Elvis is all broken up
October 6, 2006
BROWNING, Mont. -- There was Elvis the Pelvis. Then there was the Flying Elvis who broke his pelvis during the grand opening of Glacier Peaks Casino.
Paul Moran is a member of The Flying Elvi, a 10-member skydiving team made up of Elvis Presley impersonators hired to parachute into the parking lot at the casino's grand opening today. The Las Vegas man apparently misjudged the landing and hit the ground at 50 mph. ''I talked to his family and they said he is doing well, but he did break his pelvis,'' said Gary Green, casino manager. AP
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| 9th October 2006 08:15 AM |
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| Honky Tonk Man |
This is great news! Though I thought Elvis made one final appearance on the show after his national service in 1960? He did a duet with Frank Sinatra and but I guess it was on a different show. |
| 9th October 2006 09:26 AM |
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| Gazza |
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Honky Tonk Man wrote:
This is great news! Though I thought Elvis made one final appearance on the show after his national service in 1960? He did a duet with Frank Sinatra and but I guess it was on a different show.
No..1957 was his 3rd and last Sullivan appearance. The one with Sinatra in 1960 was a "Welcome Home Elvis" special filmed at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami which Frank hosted (Elvis did both sides of his new single and duetted with Sinatra on a medley of 'Love me tender' and 'Witchcraft').
Amazingly, Elvis only sang on TV on three more occasions in the last 17 years of his life after that, none of them 'guest' appearances but in concert specials - the NBC-TV special in 1968, "Aloha from Hawaii" in 1973 and "Elvis In Concert", which was taped 8 weeks before he died in 1977 and shown posthumously.
The Sinatra show was taped in advance, so its true that the final Sullivan show was his last "live" TV appearance - although the "Aloha from Hawaii" concert was broadcast live by satellite to several countries (mostly in Asia - it wasnt shown on US Tv until 3 months later and not shown in the UK until 1978!)
Good to see this getting released - now if only they could put all the Dorsey shows and especially his appearances on the Milton Berle Shows onto a DVD
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| 9th October 2006 09:43 AM |
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| Honky Tonk Man |
Thanks for the info Gazza. What show was it where they perform Houndog and Elvis completely improvises and the last part? I love all those early Elvis TV appearances. I have some on video, but a DVD set is really required and it is surprising that we haven’t had anything yet. |
| 9th October 2006 10:09 AM |
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| Gazza |
That would be the Milton Berle Show, where he does this slowed down bump 'n' grind ending on 'Hound Dog'. Fantastic stuff. By the time he appeared on the Sullivan show a few months later, things had got a bit tamer
List of all the TV guest appearances here :
http://www.elvis.com/elvisology/film/elvis_appearances.asp
A lot of the Milton Berle show stuff was thought to be lost for many years,but some of it turned up on the "Great Performances" special/DVD in the early 1990's. For me, thats the best of all that 1956 TV material. |
| 9th October 2006 11:30 PM |
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| Mahatma Kane Jeeves |
The great docu 'Elvis '56' has the best comp of his live perfs in that year. |
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