"Just Pretend (Elvis Presley song) ""Just Pretend"" is a 1970 song by Elvis Presley. It was composed by Guy Fletcher in partnership with his writing partner Doug Flett. Elvis Presley recorded it on June 6, 1970 as part of his July 4–8 studio sessions for RCA at RCA's Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. The song was first released on Presley's album ""That's the Way It Is"" that appeared on November 11, 1970. Robert Matthew-Walker in his 1995 book ""Heartbreak Hotel: The Life and Music of Elvis Presley"" calls the song ""massive, slow and uninspired"": In 2016 the song appeared on"
"recordings have. During the special, Presley performs a selection of his hits, along with songs not normally associated with him. Although it was a regular part of his repertoire for years, Presley requires a lyric sheet when he performs Paul Anka's ""My Way"" (noted for its opening lyric, ""And now the end is near/And so I face the final curtain""). He also loses his train of thought during ""Are You Lonesome Tonight?"", although Darrin Memmer's book ""Elvis Presley – The 1977 CBS Television Special,"" published in 2001 by Morris Publishing, makes a strong case that Elvis regularly played around with"
"on a discarded note written by Elvis Presley in 1976 during his final stay at the Las Vegas Hilton. Years after Presley's death, Newton bought Presley's note in June 1991 at a Sotheby's auction for $13,200. Newton wrote ""The Letter"" after receiving requests to provide copies of Presley's note to his fans. In the lyrics for ""The Letter"", Newton sings about Elvis's loneliness and includes a word for word reading of Elvis's note that he bought at Sotheby's. Cash Box said Newton transformed ""The Letter"" from a fan favorite to a religious awakening. On July 11, 1992, ""The Letter"" peaked"
"part to the opening of a new entertainment complex, Elvis Presley's Memphis, and hotel, The Guest House at Graceland. In 2018, President Donald Trump awarded Presley the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. For much of his adult life, Presley, with his rise from poverty to riches and massive fame, had seemed to epitomize the American Dream. In his final years and even more so after his death, and the revelations about its circumstances, he became a symbol of excess and gluttony. Increasing attention, for instance, was paid to his appetite for the rich, heavy Southern cooking of his upbringing, foods"
"Williams and Elvis Presley led to him writing ""Lonely Street"", a concept album based on the lives of his two musical heroes. The album, which was released in 2000 on Kennedy’s Lonely Street Discs label, features bass guitar playing by Herbie Flowers, who is noted for playing the famous bass line on Lou Reed’s hit song Walk on the Wild Side. It received generally positive reviews. Kennedy's ballad ""Moonlight Kiss"" from the album was later used in the soundtrack for hit Hollywood movie Serendipity (starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale). Following the release of Lonely Street, Kennedy spent several years"
"""Moody Blue,"" on June 26. This is the last known footage of Elvis ever filmed, and he can be seen wearing his favorite DEA jacket. During the special, Presley performs a number of songs spanning his career. During one song, ""Are You Lonesome Tonight?,"" just before Elvis goes into the recitation part of the song, the music is faded down and a devoted female fan is shown talking about her determination to see Elvis live in concert, then it switches back to Elvis after the recitation was finished. This may have been done so that viewers would not have to"
"the counterculture through his influence on The Beatles. This prompts Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a ""Federal Agent at Large"" for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. No such position actually exists, but Nixon, wanting desperately to win over the youth of America, which he views as hating him, decides to meet with Elvis in an attempt to improve his image with the ""kids"". On December 19, 1970, Presley was confronted by his wife, Priscilla, and his father, Vernon, over his spending habits. Angered by their confrontation, Presley left Graceland and made"
"level, Downtown, is a hub of business activity as well as the site of a large mental institution and university. The second area, the Residential District, contains the city's prison, a trailer park with an Elvis Presley-themed bar dubbed ""Disgracelands"", a reference to Presley's mansion Graceland, a shopping mall, and a giant hydroelectric power plant. The third and final area is the Industrial District; it holds a large seaport, a meat packing plant, a Nuclear Power Plant and a Krishna temple. There are a total of seven fictional criminal gangs, some named after real life gangs or groups, in the"
"around the perimeter. Connected to the Dining Room is the Kitchen that was not open to the public until 1995, as Elvis' aunt Delta used it until her death in 1993. The original one-story wing on the north end of the residence includes a mechanical room, bedroom, and bath. In the mid-1960s, Presley enlarged the house to create a den known as Jungle Room which features an indoor waterfall of cut field stone on the north wall. In 1976, the Jungle Room was converted into a recording studio, where Presley recorded the bulk of his final two albums, ""From Elvis"
"Way Down in the Jungle Room Way Down in the Jungle Room is a compilation album by American singer Elvis Presley. It was released on August 5, 2016 by RCA Records and Legacy Recordings. The album features master recordings and outtakes from two recording sessions on February 2–8, 1976 and October 28–30, 1976 in the Jungle Room, a recording studio set up by Elvis in the den of Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. The first disc subtitled ""The Masters"" features material from these sessions that were later released on ""From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee"" (1976), and the subsequent final studio"
"Cole's ""Mona Lisa"" was marked as unknown, with the notation that the two recordings had been discovered at Graceland, Presley's mansion. Later, it was learned that the two recordings were among a number that Presley made informally in April 1959 while he was stationed in Germany. This collection is rounded off by a quartet of live performances: a previously unissued performance of ""That's All Right"" from the 1968 NBC Comeback Special, a 1969 Las Vegas outtake performance of ""Are You Lonesome Tonight"" in which Elvis begins laughing during the song (this is the album's sole previously released track, having appeared"
"and roll icon Elvis Presley. It ends in 1970, and does not depict the last few years of Presley's career leading to his death in 1977. However, there is an example of incontinuity seeing as the last song Presley performs at his 1970 concert is ""An American Trilogy,"" a song Presley himself did not release, or include in any concerts, until 1972. There is more than one version of this film: a version that starts with Presley's hair being cut when he was called up by the US army, and then death of his mother, with no scenes of his"
"up with the 1974 audio. The show always ends with Elvis' traditional show closer ""Can't Help Falling in Love"", and the traditional announcement of ""Elvis has Left the Building."" At the 1997 and 2002 concerts Elvis' former announcer Al Dvorin closed the show by saying ""Elvis has left for Graceland"". After a domestic tour (which ended with a show at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, IN, the site of Elvis' final live concert on June 26, 1977), the show went to Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2002, a special 25th anniversary show commemorating the 25th anniversary of Presley's death"
"album. Three of the bonus tracks are from soundtrack recordings, ""Big Boss Man"" and ""Guitar Man"" were originally released as bonus songs from the ""Clambake"" album (as well as two late 1960s hit singles) and ""Edge of Reality"" is from ""Live a Little, Love a Little"" (it was also the B-side to ""If I Can Dream""). The remaining track, ""U.S. Male"" was a 1968 single. ""Chart positions taken from the Billboard singles chart Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5 Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5 is the final album in the RCA ""Golden/Gold Records"" series by American singer and musician Elvis Presley"
"watching his property on a closed-circuit television."" According to the singer's cousin, Billy Smith, Presley spent the night at Graceland with Smith and his wife Jo many times: ""we were all three there talking for hours about everything in the world! Sometimes he would have a bad dream and come looking for me to talk to, and he would actually fall asleep in our bed with us."" Priscilla Beaulieu also lived at Graceland for five years before she and Elvis wed in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 1, 1967. Their daughter Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968,"
"Moody Blue Moody Blue is the twenty-fourth and final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in July 1977, less than a month before his death. The album was a mixture of live and studio work, and included the four tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in October 1976 and two tracks left over from the previous Graceland session in February 1976. ""Moody Blue"" was a previously published hit song recorded at the earlier Graceland session and held over for this album. Also recorded at the February session was ""She Thinks I Still"
"and built by Abe Sauer, that was shaped like a book of sheet music, with green colored musical notes and a silhouette of Elvis. Presley also installed a kidney shaped swimming pool and a racquetball court. The racquetball court is reminiscent of an old country club, furnished in dark leather and a functional bar. There is a sunken sitting area with the ever-present stereo system found throughout Graceland, as well as the dark brown upright piano upon which Elvis played for what were to be his last songs, Willie Nelson's ""Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"" and The Righteous Brothers'"
"asks Carty for one more away day, before leaving. At the final away day, Carty is stood on the station platform waiting for Elvis to meet him yet there is no sign of him. He catches the train just in time and as the train pulls away, Elvis is visible sat on top of a bridge overlooking the track, as the train crosses underneath it, the bridge is covered in smoke and once it clears, Elvis has gone, hinting at suicide. Carty is out of place in The Pack without Elvis and after a final meet with a local firm"
"pursuit. Eventually, the two friends find themselves trapped in the middle of a countryside road by police units on one side and gangsters on the other, pointing their guns at each other. The stand-off finally erupts into a big shoot-out while the two make a desperate escape through the corn field. After that, Martin buys a pink Cadillac of the same model as the one which Elvis Presley presented to his mother. His wish is to give the same present to his own mother. As he fulfills the wish, they get ambushed by police near Martin's mother's house. Martin pretends"
"ambulance is stolen by Cybil and Jesse. It's then revealed that Michael, once again, wore a bulletproof vest, and is only slightly injured. At the end, Michael, Cybil and Jesse are in Michael's boat, Graceland, which is implied to have been left to him by Elvis. The film's title is a reference to Elvis Presley's residence, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee. While attempting to capture Thomas J. Murphy, the U.S. Marshals (correctly) believe he is attempting to cross the border into Canada somewhere through Washington/Idaho/Montana, a distance which (as stated by U.S. Marshal Quigley) is ""3000 miles to Graceland."" Michael also"
"Blue"" was reissued on the Follow That Dream label in a special edition that contained the original album tracks along with a selection of alternate takes. Moody Blue Moody Blue is the twenty-fourth and final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records in July 1977, less than a month before his death. The album was a mixture of live and studio work, and included the four tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in October 1976 and two tracks left over from the previous Graceland session in February 1976. ""Moody Blue"" was a previously"
"a life of obscurity in a East Texas trailer park, where he becomes the best Elvis impersonator ever. Then his health begins to fail, and he falls from a stage and breaks his hip. His trailer burns down and with it all evidence that proves he was the real Elvis Presley. He ends up in a shabby retirement home, which is where the story starts. Late at night, Elvis hears scuttling noises and other creepy sounds in the otherwise quiet Mud Creek Shady Grove Convalescence Home. He befriends a black man, who's convinced he's John F. Kennedy, and the two"
"version of ""Hound Dog"" and was shown in full the entire song. For the third and final appearance on January 6, 1957, Presley performed a medley of ""Hound Dog"", ""Love Me Tender"", and ""Heartbreak Hotel"", followed by a full version of ""Don't Be Cruel"". For a second set later in the show he did ""Too Much"" and ""When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again"". For his last set he sang ""Peace in the Valley"". According to Sullivan's co-producer Marlo Lewis, the rumor had it that ""Elvis has been hanging a small soft-drink bottle from his groin underneath his pants,"
"such as Elvis Presley recordings. Although he battles with alcoholism, he tries his best to give Lewellen a stable home. He even tries to provide a motherly figure in Lewellen's life by dating a mysterious girlfriend, Ellen, who promised one night to rescue Lewellen from life in the rural South should the relationship falter. We later learn that Ellen is in fact Lewellen's aunt, her mother's sister. Lewellen is able to maintain her innocence by finding consolation in playing with her best friend Buddy, idling away her last pre-teen summer with typical outdoor rural pastimes such as swimming in the"
"of fabric purported to come from one of Presley's outfits. The Other Sides – Elvis Worldwide Gold Award Hits Vol. 2 The Other Sides – Elvis Worldwide Gold Award Hits Vol. 2 is a compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released on August 1, 1971. It was certified Gold on July 15, 1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Only three tracks had never been officially released in LP format prior to this release: ""Tell Me Why"", the single version of ""Patch it Up"" and the theme song to ""Wild in the Country"". As a promotion,"
"Life Vita Award for Comedy. It has been presented – by invitation – in Washington DC and Chicago, USA. The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie The Return of Elvis Du Pisanie is a play by South Africa's Paul Slabolepszy. It is a one-man play where the actor plays a raft of characters. Eddie grows up in Modderfontein and is an Elvis Presley fanatic. He gets married, has kids and finds a job selling underfloor heating. He jokes: ""In an age of global warming?"". He also feels depressed. The play begins with Elvis standing on a street corner (Union Crescent) in"
"character Fred Flintstone embossed upon it. Filling the label-less jar up to ""Fred's pelvis""—the middle of the jar—he drinks so much that, at 10:00pm, he begins to talk with each character (Fred and Elvis), regarding them both as his drinking buddies. The song continues by saying that the conversation eventually turns to women, with Elvis advising to, ""find 'em young"" and Fred saying, ""Ol' fashioned girls are fun."" This first phrase is an allusion to Presley's having started a relationship with his wife, Priscilla Anne Wagner, when she was 14 years old. It became a live favorite for Jones and"
"years of drug misuse. He was devastated by the book and tried unsuccessfully to halt its release by offering money to the publishers. By this point, he suffered from multiple ailments: glaucoma, high blood pressure, liver damage, and an enlarged colon, each magnified—and possibly caused—by drug abuse. On the evening of August 16, 1977, Presley was scheduled to fly out of Memphis to begin another tour. That afternoon, Ginger Alden discovered him in an unresponsive state on a bathroom floor. According to her eyewitness account, ""Elvis looked as if his entire body had completely frozen in a seated position while"
"Dick Tracey. Many years ago he carved the initials of his first love on the lamp post he is leaning on. He decides that his life is worthless and decides to commit suicide by gassing himself in his car. While he is waiting for the carbon monoxide to make him unconscious, he turns on the radio only to hear Elvis singing. This cheers him up so he decides to return to the cinema in Union Crescent where apparently Elvis was recently sighted. While standing underneath the lamp post, waiting for Elvis to arrive, he reflects on his past and some"
"San Luis Potosí, Mexico. His sister is Matea V. Garcia of Chicago; his brother now dead, Jose Isabel Vega of Los Fresnos. He and his wife, Teresa Vega, named a son, Rene Elvis Vega, after Presley. In 1978, a year after Presley's early death, Vega composed a song, ""The Ballad of Elvis Presley"". He produced 3000 copies. Little Graceland is a home converted into a shrine to the man dubbed ""The King"" of rock and roll music. The museum contains many pictures of Presley, some with Vega, which the museum owner considered among his most prized possessions. Vega, with assistance"
"was formerly named the San Diego Sports Arena. Elvis performed at the San Diego Sports Arena on three occasions. These were on November 15, 1970, April 26, 1973 and April 24, 1976. Joseph A. Tunzi supplied photographs for the 2012 film documentary about songwriter Doc Pomus, titled ""AKA Doc Pomus"". Pomus had co-written several notable songs recorded by Elvis Presley, including ""Viva Las Vegas (song)"", ""A Mess of Blues"", ""Surrender (Elvis Presley song)"", ""Little Sister (Elvis Presley song)"", and ""(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame"". Tunzi also supplied photographs of The Beatles for Chuck Gunderson's 2013 publication, ""Some Fun Tonight!"
"the words during the spoken portion of the song when performing it on stage, rather than it being a case of poor memory. Indeed, a concert recording of Presley similarly joking around during the monologue section of ""Are You Lonesome Tonight?"" dating from 1969 has been reissued by RCA several times (dubbed the ""Laughing Version"", it even made the UK charts after Presley's death), and he also poked fun at the song during his 1968 Comeback Special. Nonetheless, the documentary ""This is Elvis"" uses this performance to illustrate Presley's poor condition at the time. The soundtrack album was issued as"
"bed, ""he took his usual dose of sleeping pills, handed me mine, and then, fighting off drowsiness from the pills, pored over his metaphysical books."" Priscilla was not interested, and recalled Elvis saying ""Things will never work out between us, Cilla, because you don't show any interest in me or my philosophies."" When this phase of his life passed, she and Elvis had a bonfire and burned the stacks of magazines and books he had accumulated on the subject. They tried marijuana during this time, but did not like it as it made them ravenously hungry. Although Presley abhorred street"