Give us this day, December 9, our daily Elvis

Tupelo, Mississippi

1935-1948

1935-1940

306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.

, 1938

Vernon in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)

,1939

1940-41
Reese Street, where the Presleys stayed with Vester and Clettes Presley and their daughter Patsy,

1942
Kelly Street, a rented, small apartment.

1943

1944

August 8, 1945 to July 18, 1946
Berry Street -“Doll” Smith lived here with the Presleys and then Minnie Mae Presley moved in.

1946
Commerce Street, a rental

510 1/2 Maple Street, South Tupelo -the Presleys lived with Glady’s cousin Frank Richards and his wife, Leona.

1947

Mulbery Alley

Memphis, Tennessee

1948-1953

Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949

572 Poplar Avenue

Sept 2o 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)

January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street

September 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954

Elvis worked at Precision Tool company, operating a drill press for $1.55 a hour.

2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955

The Sun Records Rockabilly Era

December 9, 1954

The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer

December 09, 1955

Elvis performed twice today.

First at the Swifton, AR High School Gymnasium, Arkansas along with with Johnny Cash

In a White Jacket, shirt and pants with black shoes, Elvis sang “Rock Around The Clock- segued medley with -Good Rocking Tonight”, “Only You” and “Heartbreak Hotel”

DJ and Elvis at Swifton High School Gymnasium – Dec. 9, 1955
Photo © Mary Lou Campbell courtesy “Elvis – The Sun Years” by Bill E. Burk


Elvis at Swifton High School Gymnasium – Dec. 9, 1955 Photo © Mary Lou Campbell courtesy “Elvis – The Sun Years” by Bill E. Burk

Elvis Presley : Swifton, AR : December 9, 1955 – Elvis Presley Music

Later at the Swifton, AR Bob King’s Night Club B&I Club, Elvis sang Heartbreak Hotel and declared: “It’s gonna be my first hit”.

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The Presleys 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.

Engagement – Tour Ref: 1955

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December 9 1955

High School Auditorium

Swifton AR

Afternoon

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December 9 1955

B & I Club

Swifton AR

December 9, 1956

Audobon Drive May 11 1956 to March 1957.

December 9, 1957

The Military Service Disruption

December 9, 1958

Military Service in Germany

October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany

December 9, 1959

Military Service in Germany

Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany

The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment

December 9, 1960

Wild in the Country Nov 6, 1960 – January 1961; released: June 15, 1961

December 9, 1961

The Tokens‘ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” tops the Cashbox Magazine Best Sellers Chart for the first of a four week run.

Kid Galahad Production

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December 09, 1962

The Four Seasons sing their current US number one hit, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Elvis played touch football with his friends.

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December 9, 1963

The first Supremes album, “Meet The Supremes”, is released by Motown Records. The LP contained their first US Top 40 hit, “When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes”.

December 9, 1964

December 9, 1965

December 9, 1966

December 9, 1967

The Doors appeared at the New Haven Arena, New Haven, Connecticut. Before the show a policeman found singer Jim Morrison making out with an 18 year-old girl in a backstage shower and after an argument the policeman sprays mace in Morrison’s face. Once on stage Morrison tells the story of the backstage episode and starts taunting the police who drag him off the stage and arrest him. The crowd riots leaving the venue in disarray and many are arrested. Later over 100 protestors gathered at the police station in demonstration and more arrests were made.

Elvis signs autographs for fans with Joe Esposito and Gee Gee Gambill in the car.

1968

The Supremes’ and the Temptations’ “TCB (Takin’ Care of Business”) special aired on NBC-TV.

The Trouble With Girls

December 9, 1969

The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade

December 9, 1970

Colonel Parker wrote to Elvis about not being able to reach him on the telephone.

Colonel Parker completed an agreement with RCA to extend his annual $100,000 consultant’s fee through 1975.

December 9, 1971

Richie Havens received a role in the orchestral stage version of “Tommy.”

December 9, 1972

“Tommy” was performed at London’s Rainbow Theatre. The recording of the event was released the next year.

Helen Reddy became Australia’s first female artist to have a number one record on the US chart when “I Am Woman” reached the top of the Billboard hit parade. Surprisingly, the song didn’t chart at all in the UK. Reddy would achieve two more US number one singles over the next couple of years with, “Delta Dawn” and “Angie Baby”.

The Moody Blues hit number one on the US album charts for the first time with “Seventh Sojourn”. It will be their last album of new material for more than five years as the group’s members split to record and to tour as solo artists.

Elton John‘s “Crocodile Rock” is released. It would become his fourth US Top Ten hit and first number one single, rising to the top spot on February 3rd, 1973. The Recording Industry Association of America would award Elton and lyricist Bernie Taupin a Platinum disc for their effort in September 1995.

Three Dog Night‘s “Pieces of April” enters the Billboard chart. The Dave Loggins written ballad will reach the US Top Twenty.

Neil Diamond released the live double album Hot August Night, from a concert on August 24, 1972, which was one of ten sold out concerts that Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The album peaked at No.5 on the US chart and spent 29 weeks at No.1 on the Australian chart.

December 9, 1973

December 9, 1974

George Harrison released his first album on his Dark Horse label, entitled “Dark Horse.”

December 9, 1975

Hilton Hotel Elvis Show

Date:	09 Dec 1975
Time:	Midnight
Venue:	Las Vegas, NV. Hilton Hotel
Tickets:	1,600
Costume:	Unknown
Track list:	Also Sprach Zarathustra See See Rider I Got A Woman/Amen Love Me Fairytale And I Love You So Tryin’ To Get To You All Shook Up Teddy Bear/Don’t Be Cruel Love Me Tender Polk Salad Annie [band introductions] Just Pretend How Great Thou Art Burning Love Softly, As I Leave You America The Beautiful It’s Now Or Never One Night Mystery Train/Tiger Man Can’t Help Falling In Love
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Engagement – Tour Ref: Las Vegas Season 14 – Las Vegas December 2nd – December 15th 1975

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December 9 1975

Hilton Hotel

Las Vegas NV

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December 9, 1976

Midnight show at the Hotel Hilton.

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Date:	08 Dec 1976
Time:	9pm
Venue:	Las Vegas, NV. Hilton Hotel
Tickets:	1,600
Costume:	Inca Gold Leaf suit
Track list:	Also Sprach Zarathustra See See Rider I Got A Woman/Amen Love Me Fairytale You Gave Me A Mountain Jailhouse Rock It’s Now Or Never My Way Blue Christmas That’s All Right Are You Lonesome Tonight? Softly, As I Leave You Hound Dog Help Me America The Beautiful [band introductions] Early Morning Rain What’d I Say Love Letters School Days Hurt Hawaiian Wedding Song Can’t Help Falling In Love
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gement – Tour Ref: Las Vegas Season 15 – Las Vegas December 2nd – December 12th 1976

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December 9 1976

Hilton Hotel

Las Vegas NV

Midnight (12.00am)

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The Wake and Aftermath

1978

John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd release their version of Sam And Dave‘s “Soul Man” under the name The Blues Brothers. Belushi and Ackroyd would reach #14 in the US, while the original had topped out at #2.

Gino Vannelli enjoys his highest charting Billboard single when “I Just Wanna Stop” peaks at #4. It would top the charts in his native Canada and be nominated for a Grammy Award next Spring.

1980

The day after John Lennon was murdered, Yoko Ono issued a statement to the press that read: “There is no funeral for John. John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him. Love, Yoko and Sean.”

She also pleaded with chanting and singing mourners outside The Dakota to re-convene in Central Park the following Sunday for ten minutes of silent prayer.

1981

Sonny Til, the lead singer of the ’50s Doo Wop group, The Orioles, died of a heart attack at the age of 56. The group topped the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 with their million selling version of “Crying In The Chapel”.

1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism

1984

The Jacksons played their last show together in Los Angeles, CA.

Michael Jackson announces that at the end of the current Jackson‘s tour, he will launch a solo career and no longer perform with his brothers.

1988

According to a poll released in the US, the music of Neil Diamond was favored as the best background music during sex. Beethoven was the second choice and Luther Vandross was voted third.

1989

Billy Joel started a two week run at #1 on the Billboard Pop chart with “We Didn’t Start The Fire”. The song, in which Joel sings about headlining events that have occurred during his lifetime, was a #7 hit in the UK.

1989

1992

Saying that he had “seen it all and done it all”, bassist Bill Wyman quits The Rolling Stones after over 30 years with the group.

George Harrison is the recipient of the first Century Award, presented by Tom Petty at the third Billboard Music Awards in Universal City, California.

1993

The musical revival of “My Fair Lady” opened.

1995

Even though they had disbanded 25 years earlier, The Beatles had the number one album in the US when “Anthology” hit the top for the first of three weeks. It would go on to sell over 4 million copies and included rare Beatles recordings in the form of demos, alternate takes, live versions and previously unreleased material.

The song “Free as a Bird” debuted on a six-hour ABC documentary on the Beatles‘. It was their first new song in 25 years.

The surviving members of The Grateful Dead officially disband the group following Jerry Garcia’s death in August.

Michael Jackson scored his 6th solo UK No.1 single when ‘Earth Song’ started a 6-week run at the top of the charts. It gave Jackson the UK Christmas No.1 of 1995 and his best-selling UK single ever. The song kept the first single released by The Beatles in 25 years, ‘Free as a Bird’, off the No.1 position.

2002

Pat Boone made an unlikely return to Billboard’s Hot 100 after a 40 year absence. His new song, “Under God”, was written in response to a lawsuit filed in San Francisco by an agnostic who claimed his daughter’s constitutional rights were violated by having to say the words “under God” when her school recites the Pledge of Allegiance. The record briefly rose to number 25, ahead of songs by the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Jay-Z. Boone’s last Top 40 hit was “Speedy Gonzalez”, which made it to number 6 in 1962.

Paul McCartney sparked another Beatles feud with the release of his live album, “Back in the US”. Against the wishes of John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, the nineteen Beatles songs included on the two-disc set are credited to “Paul McCartney and John Lennon” rather than the traditional “Lennon / McCartney”.

Britney Spears filed for a restraining order against a 41-year-old Japanese man that she claimed had been stalking her since September.

2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley

2003

Ozzy Osbourne was admitted to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire after being injured in a quad bike accident at his UK home. The 55 year-old singer broke his collarbone, eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck. News of Osbourne’s accident reached the House of Commons, where the government sent a goodwill message.

2005

A man charged with stealing more than $300,000 worth of Elvis Presley’s jewelry from the Elvis-A-Rama museum appeared in a Las Vegas court. 30 year old Eliab Aguilar was arrested on November 3rd after police said he approached a retired Elvis impersonator and offered to sell him several items including Presley’s 1953 class ring from Humes High School worth $32,000, a 41 carat ruby and diamond ring worth $77,000 and a gold-plated Smith & Wesson .38 special.

Mike Botts, drummer for the Soft Rock band Bread, passed away in Burbank, California, one day after his 61st birthday, having suffered from colon cancer.

2006

Fred Marsden, the drummer for the Merseybeat band Gerry And The Pacemakers, died of cancer at the age of 66. After disbanding in 1967, Gerry Marsden reformed The Pacemakers in 1973 but without Fred, who had given up the music business to be a telephone operator and later established The Pacemaker Driving School.

2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough

2015

Madonna gave an impromptu performance next to a memorial for the Paris terror attacks victims following her concert in the French capital. She told those assembled, “I came here when I was 20 and it was here, in Paris, that I decided to make music. Thank you Paris for planting that seed in my heart!”

Forbes magazine announced its annual list of the top earning musicians, with The Eagles coming in at 5th earning $73.5 million, Fleetwood Mac was 9th with $59.5 million and The Rolling Stones ranked 11th with $57.5 million. Elton John also had a good year, raking in $53.5 million, as did Paul McCartney, who earned $51.5 million.

2016

With total sales of 106,000, The Rolling Stones topped the UK chart with their latest album, “Blue & Lonesome”. It was the band’s first original studio album to reach number one in the last 22 years.

Kate Moss stars in an Elvis video from his world hit Symphony Album “The Wonder of You”