Give us this day, December 16, our daily Elvis
1770
Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven was born.
1893
Anton Dvorak attended the first performance and the official world premiere of his “New World Symphony” at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1907
Eugene Farrar became the first singer to broadcast on radio when he sang “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Culture Club would take a different song with the same title to number one in 1982.
Tupelo, Mississippi
1935-1948
1935-1940
306 Old Satillo Road, Elvis’ birthplace, is now 306 Elvis Presley Drive.
, 1938
Vernon Presley in prison ( May 25 1938 to February 6 1939)
,1939
1940
Bob Crosby and his Bobcats backed up Bing as “San Antonio Rose” was recorded for Decca Records.
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
The Presley family moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, May 15 to June 20, Returning to Tupelo.
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
1948
1010 North Green Street, in the Shakerag section of Tupelo.
memphis after sept 48
Memphis, Tennessee
1948-1953 – Humes High School
Sept. 12, 1948-Sept. 20, 1949
572 Poplar Avenue
Sept 20 1949 to January 7, 1950
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
January 7, 1950 to April 1953
398 Cypress Street (rented from January 7 to April 1953
572 Poplar Avenue
185 Winchester Street, a two- bedroom apartment (number 328)
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
The Sun Records Rockabilly Era
December 16, 1954
2414 Lamar Avenue, rented end of 1954 to mid-1955
The RCA Victor Atomic Powered Singer
December 16, 1955
The Presleys 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
The Jones Boys opened for Elvis and The Blue Moon Boys at Sweetwater, TX Municipal Auditorium
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The Presleys lived at 1414 Getwell Street rented from mid-1955 to May, 11 1956.
December 16, 1956
The Presleys lived at Audobon Drive May 11 1956 to March 1957.
For the fourth week, Sam Cooke sat atop the R&B chart with “You Send Me”.
Elvis bought the Santa sleigh and 8 reindeer for $300 from Bain Sign Company in Memphis. They are still displayed on the Graceland lawn every year.
The Presleys lived at Graceland
An unidentified woman approached Elvis Presley at Goodfellows headquarters with a request: ‘Elvis, please autograph my arm!’ Elvis was at the headquarters to present the Press-Scimitar Goodfellows with 100 brand new $10 bills. Elvis let it be known that the Goodfellows had played Santa Claus for him seven years earlier. ‘Our family had it pretty rough that year,’ he recalled. ‘The Goodfellows made my Christmas for me’
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The Memphis Draft Board announced that Elvis Presley would be receiving his draft notice soon.
The Military Service Disruption
December 16, 1958
Military Service in Germany
October 1958 to February 2, 1959: Hotel Grunwald in Bad Nauheim, Germany
December 16, 1959
Mark Dinning released the single “Teen Angel”.
Military Service in Germany
Feb 3 – March 1960: Goethestr.14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany
The Hollywood Decade/The Elvis Establishment
December 16, 1960
Wild in the Country
December 16, 1961
Elvis Presley’s soundtrack to “Blue Hawaii” reached #1 on the album charts. It remained at #1 for 20 weeks.
In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on December 21, 1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27, 1992 and 3x Platinum on July 30, 2002 by the Recording Industry Association of America. On the US Top Pop Albums chart Blue Hawaii is second only to the soundtrack of West Side Story as the most successful album of the 1960s.
Kid Galahad
December 16, 1962
December 16, 1963
December 16, 1964
December 16, 1965
Released as a double A side The Beatles ‘Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out’, became their ninth UK No.1 and their third Christmas chart topper in a row. The single was a US No.1 in January 1966.
The Beatles appeared in the tribute The Music of Lennon-McCartney on BBC-TV, along with Peter & Gordon, Lulu, Billy J. Kramer, Cilla Black, Marianne Faithfull, Esther Phillips and Peter Sellers.
December 16, 1966
The first Jimi Hendrix Experience single ‘Hey Joe’, was released in the UK on Polydor records, the track had been rejected by the Decca label. It went on to be a No.6 hit in the UK, but failed to chart in America. Chas Chandler, who was now managing Hendrix had seen Folk singer Tim Rose perform the song at the Cafe Wha? in New York City.
The Rolling Stones announced that Marianne Faithfull was the first signing to their ‘Mother Earth’ label.
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. by the Monkees topped the Album chart for the third straight week. It was the group’s fourth consecutive #1 album to begin their career.
The Monkees topped the singles chart for a third week with “Daydream Believer”.
Fan photos of Elvis with Joe Esposito – Elvis and Priscilla returned to Memphis.
Bob Seger released his first career single “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man”.
The Trouble With Girls
December 16, 1969
The Vegas Artist in Residence and Tour Decade
Elvis rented the projection room at MGM to screen That’s The Way It Is.
December 16, 1971
Frank Zappa’s ‘200 Motels’ film opened at London’s Piccadilly Classic Cinema in the UK. The film which also featured Ringo Star, covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town Centerville.
Don McLean’s eight-minute-plus version of “American Pie” was released.
December 16, 1972
Billy Paul started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Me and Mrs Jones’, a No.12 hit in the UK. The song which describes an extramarital affair between a man and his lover, was later recorded by Michael Buble.
December 16, 1973
Stax Studio: Elvis completed the masters for three songs:
December 16, 1974
John Lennon released the single “#9 Dream”.
Mott the Hoople broke up.
December 16, 1975
The Bay City Rollers earn a Gold record for their first US single, “Saturday Night”. They will go on to have five more Billboard Top 40 hits.
December 16, 1976
The Wake and Aftermath
1977
The Bee Gees are awarded a Gold record for “How Deep is Your Love”, the fourth of their nine Billboard number one singles. The song would become the subject of a copyright infringement suit five years later when an amateur songwriter named Ronald Selle claimed the brothers Gibb lifted the melody from a composition he’d written called “Let It End”. The case was decided in Selle’s favor, but the verdict was overturned a few months later.
Saturday Night Fever premiered in New York City.
1978
Originally a member of the Soul Satisfiers (1971), Gloria Gaynor attacked the singles survey with “I Will Survive,” a #1 anthem for women and the sixth of her seven hits between 1974 and 1979.
Bob Dylan played the final show of his Street Legal world tour at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Chic and “Le Freak” commanded attention at the top of the R&B chart for the third straight week.
One of the hottest songs moved up the chart from 78 to 45–“Please Come Home For Christmas” by the Eagles.
Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond moved to #1 with “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. Chic relinquished with “Le Freak” while the Bee Gees had their fourth Top 10 song in a row, as “Too Much Heaven” rose from 12 to 3.
1979: The original members of KISS performed for the final time at the Toledo Sports Arena in Toledo, Ohio before their 1996 reunion.
Billy Joel led the way on the Album chart for a fifth week with 52nd Street. Steve Martin continued to sit at #2 with A Wild and Crazy Guy, Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 was a big-seller and Donna Summer remained fourth with Live and More. The rest of the Top 10: Foreigner’s Double Vision, the Soundtrack from “Grease”, Comes a Time from Neil Young, C’est Chic by Chic entered the Top 10, Queen moved from 30 to 9 with Jazz and Al Stewart crawled into the Top 10 with Time Passages.
The reissue of “Elvis’ 40 Greatest Hits” hit #40 in the U.K.
1982 Elvis Presley Enterprises/Graceland Tourism
1983
The Who officially called it quits.
1984 Actor ExWife: Priscilla Presley
19986
Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram released the single “Somewhere Out There”.
1988
American soul and disco singer Sylvester James died of complications from AIDS in San Francisco aged 41. Scored the 1978 US No.36 & UK No.8 single ‘You Make Me Feel, Mighty Real’. He sang back-up vocals for Aretha Franklin on her 1985 Who’s Zoomin’ Who’ Album.
1989
Billy Joelwent to No.1 on the US album chart with his 11th studio release ‘Storm Front’. The album featured one of Joel’s three No.1 hits, ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’, a fast-paced song, mentioning some of the major historical events that took place in his time, and ‘Leningrad’, Joel’s take on the end of the Cold War.
Phil Collins had a hot new release, …But Seriously, that rose from 16-6 in just its third week.
The top Adult Contemporary song was “Another Day In Paradise” by Phil Collins for the third week in a row.
“We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel was #1 again with Phil Collins in hot pursuit with “Another Day In Paradise”. Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville moved to 3 with “Don’t Know Much”, Soul II Soul were next with “Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)” and Taylor Dayne reached #1 “With Every Beat Of My Heart”. The rest of the Top 10: “Blame It On The Rain” from Milli Vanilli, Technotronic were at 7 with “Pump Up The Jam”, Janet Jackson collected another hit with “Rhythm Nation”, Bon Jovi’s “Living In Sin” was up to #9 and Cher had her 25th career solo hit with “Just Like Jesse James”.
1991
Chubby Checker filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada seeking $14 million in damages because they allegedly used an imitation of his voice. The song “The Twist” had been used in a French fry commercial.
1993
With stories beginning to surface about Michael Jackson’s alleged improprieties with young boys, St. Louis radio station KEZK becomes one of the first to announce that it will no longer play the singer’s records.
MTV aired Nirvana’s ‘Unplugged’ session for the first time. The album featured an acoustic performance taped at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18, 1993. Unlike many artists who appeared on the show,
Nirvana filmed its entire performance in a single take with the band’s fourteen-song setlist included six cover versions.
Oasis opened for the Verve at the Krazy House in Liverpool, England.
1995
The Beatles‘ “Free As A Bird” peaks at number 2 on the UK charts and number 6 in the US. Written by John Lennon and performed by him on piano as a rough demo shortly before he was murdered, the track was completed by the remaining Beatles at Paul McCartney’s home studio.
Whitney Houston had the #1 R&B song for a fourth week with “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”.
Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men had a big hit on their hands with “One Sweet Day”, #1 for the third week, and they weren’t close to done.
1997
Oasis played the first of three nights at Wembley Arena in London.
Pop singer Nicolette Larson, best known for her hit version of Neil Young’s “Lotta Love” in 1978, passed away at the age of 45. She had been admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank with massive liver failure and was then transferred to UCLA Medical Center, where she died from an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain. According to close friend Astrid Young, her death “was in no small way related to her chronic use of Valium and Tylenol PM”.
1999
Celine Dion officially went over 100 million in career sales in the United States.
2000
The estranged father and former manager of LeAnn Rimes made embarrassing allegations during a legal battle involving millions of pounds. One fact told in court was that LeAnn paid her mother £6,700 every time she styled her hair before a show.
2001
Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Stuart Adamson, lead singer of Big Country was found dead in Hawaii a month after disappearing from his home in the US. His body found in a closet in his room at the Best Western Plaza Hotel in Honolulu. The 43-year musician had fought a long battle against alcoholism. Adamson founded Scottish art-punk band Skids in 1977 and in the 1990s he founded alternative country rock act The Raphaels. Adamson had famously feuded with American Brian Seltzer of the Stray Cats over America’s contribution to world music, with Seltzer asking who did Adamson think invented rock music “Angus McPresley?”
Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the Frank and Nancy
Sinatra 1967 No.1 hit ‘Somethin’ Stupid’. The Christmas No.1 for this year. From William’s album Swing When You’re Winning.
2002
Liza Minnelli and her husband, David Gest, filed a $23 million dollar lawsuit against VH1, MTV Networks, Viacom and Remote Productions, Inc. for breach of contract. The lawsuit was filed because plans were dropped on a reality show that was centered on the lives of Minnelli and Gest.
2003 Recording Artist: Daughter Lisa Marie Presley
2003
Ron Wood, guitarist of the Rolling Stones, joined the Stereophonics on stage to play “Handbags And Gladrags” and the Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down” at Earls Court in London.
Michael Jackson was out on police bail of $3m after being arrested following allegations of child abuse. The 45-year-old singer strenuously denied the allegations, calling them a big lie. Following the allegations of child abuse a special information web site was set up by the District Attorney’s office because of the level of media interest in the case. Mr Jackson, who was arrested, cited and released after surrendering to police on 20th November, was due to appear in court on 9 January.
2004
Freddie Perren, Grammy Award-winning co-producer of Saturday Night Fever who wrote “I Will Survive” for Gloria Gaynor and hits for Tavares and Peaches & Herb and co-wrote and produced “ABC” and “I Want You Back” for the Jackson 5, died at age 61 in Los Angeles. He had suffered a massive stroke 11 years earlier.
It was reported that Lisa Marie Presley would keep Graceland but sell the bulk of the Elvis estate. The deal, worth approximately $100 million, included the rights to the Elvis Presley name and image. The agreement stated that Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. would sell 85 percent of its assets to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman. The new publicly traded name would be called CKX Inc.
2005
The surviving
Beatles and relatives of the band’s late members began legal action against EMI to get royalties allegedly worth £30m.
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and relations of
George Harrison and
John Lennon claimed EMI owed record royalties to their company Apple Corps.
2006
Sir Paul McCartney said he left EMI, his record label of 45 years, as it had become “boring” and he had “dreaded going to see” its executives. McCartney told The Times that the company’s handling of his music had become “symbolic of the treadmill”. The ex-Beatle went on to sign a deal with Starbucks’ label, Hear Music.
2007
56 year old singer / songwriter Dan Fogelberg died after a three year battle with prostate cancer. His hits “Longer” (#2), “Same Old Lang Syne” (#9), “Hard To Say” (#7) and “Leader of the Band” (#9) helped define the Soft Rock era of the ’70s and ’80s,
2010 Actor: Granddaughter Riley Keough
2010
Paul McCartney paid tribute to his Beatles band mate John Lennon during an appearance on Saturday Night Live where he performed “A Day in the Life” and then thrilled viewers with a cover version of his late friend’s anti-war anthem “Give Peace a Chance”.
A spokesman for the British Recorded Music Industry said that over 7.7 million people illegally downloaded 1.2 billion tracks this year. Calling for swift action to be taken, he went on to say “It is a parasite that threatens to deprive a generation of talented young people of their chance to make a career in music, and is holding back investment in the burgeoning digital entertainment sector.”
2011
An ultra-rare ‘Beatles VI’ in-store promotional poster sold at an eBay auction for $6,300. Seventeen bids were placed before the 20 – 28 inch rarity sold. Beatles VI Is Here! was printed in block letters across the top of the black-and-white photo of the Fab Four, with album art of the first five records printed along the bottom edge.
Going, Going, GoneThe Beach Boys announced plans to reunite (with Brian Wilson included) for a 50th Anniversary Tour.
2013
It was reported that Miley Cyrus had insured her infamous tongue for $1 million. A source told Heat magazine: “Miley’s totally aware of how her tongue is getting more headlines than she is, and getting it insured is just part of her trademarked image. It’s not the first time she’s done something like this – when she first cut her hair short, she tried to get her new crop patented. She wanted it to become known as The Miley”.
Ray Price (“For The Good Times”) died in Mount Pleasant, Texas at the age of 86 from pancreatic cancer.
2014
Legendary American radio host Casey Kasem was laid to rest at Norway’s Vestre Gravlund Cemetery. After Kasem died June 15 at the age of 82, his wife Jean Kasem and daughter Kerri Kasem waged a public battle over the burial site. Jean wanted Kasem interred in Norway because of her own Norwegian heritage and because her plans to relocate there would allow her to visit him.
2015
The Recording Industry Association of America announced that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” had sold 30 million copies in the United States, making Jackson the first artist to attain 30-time multi-Platinum status. so much for the industry and public and awareness. eh. Billie Jean was never his lover.
2016
2017
Lisa Marie Presley’s estranged husband Michael Lockwood is All Shook Up over financial documents which he claims could unlock how much she rakes in from a trust paid by the estate of Elvis Presley.
2018
Live for Live Music–22 hours ago
Artists of all genres are about to be received at Graceland. The former home of Elvis Presley, which is now a famous tourist attraction in …
2019
Happy Mag–10 hours ago
As Cash told it, he and Perkins were performing at a show in Amory, Mississippi alongside Elvis Presley. When Presley took to the stage, Cash …
Express.co.uk–7 hours ago
Elvis Presley welcomed daughter Lisa Marie Presley with Priscilla Presley back in 1968. Naturally, being raised by the King, Lisa Marie grew …
Showbiz Cheat Sheet–15 hours ago
Although Lisa Marie isn’t her mom’s only child, she is the sole heir to music legend Elvis Presley. When he died in 1977, he left an inheritance …
Michael Jackson ‘cradled baby dolls and bawled his eyes out because ex wife Lisa Marie Presley refused to have kids’ – The Sun
MICHAEL Jackson once revealed he used to hold baby dolls and cry after Lisa Marie Presley said didn’t want kids with him. The revelation has come from recordings between Jacko and pal, Rabbi …
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