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Dale Earnhardt--Elvis Presley Race Car

 

Dale Earnhardt--Elvis Presley Race Car

My friend, Barbara Sloan and I drove up to Mooresville, N.C., home of Dale Earnhardt, Inc. to see the Dale Earnhardt-Elvis Presley Race Car. Saturday was the last day to see the car before it is shipped to Graceland to be placed in the Car Museum. The car is absolutely beautiful and so is the building that housed the car.     I am including our picture in front of the car because this particular picture shows the large pictures of Dale Earnhardt. Everything in this building is either glass or mirrors . It is a gorgeous huge building. The car is in the Foyer__behind Dale's pictures is a very large room with all of the race cars that belonged to Dale. Front hood of the car Side view Other side of the race car (it was hard to get back far enough on this side of the car)           This is the guitar that has been put up for auction to benefit  charities of Earnhardt & Presley Companies. The auction is on ebay and it started at $ 6.000.00. It is housed in a large glass case. There are a quite a few Elvis items in the case as well. Black leather jacket Elvis wore in one of the race car movies Orange jumpsuit Elvis wore in another race car movie There were many of the clothes that Elvis wore during the filming and free time he had while making the race car movies. These are housed in a large 4 sided glass case.

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Ace Cannon

ACE CANNON

One of Nashville's premier session men from the late '50s through the early '70s, alto saxophonist Ace Cannon began playing at the age of ten and signed with Sun Records during the early days of rock & roll.

Jimmy Clanton

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jimmy Clanton formed his first band, the Dixie Cats, in 1956 while he was attending Baton Rouge High School. While still in high school, he joined forces with rival band leader and pianist Dick Holler to form The Rockets. The band regularly performed at local clubs and on "Teen Town Rally," a local radio show. The group received a recording contract with Ace Records in 1957. In the summer of 1958, Clanton wrote the song "Just A Dream" which the band recorded. It became a big hit, reaching the number four spot on The Billboard Charts. That same year, Clanton performed on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, and by Christmas, "Just A Dream" had sold over a million copies.

Riding the wave of popular teen music in the 1950s and 60s, Clanton toured with performers like Fats Domino, The Platters, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Between 1958 and 1962, he had several national hits such as "Go Jimmy Go," "Another Sleepless Night," written by Neil Sedaka and "Venus in Blue Jeans." Clanton even continued to release hits after he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served for two years. Clanton also starred in the rock n roll movie, "Go Johnny Go," produced by Allan Freed, the noted rock n roll disk jockey. He later starred in another rock n roll movie called "Teenage Millionaire."
Shortly after Clanton's release from the military, the British Invasion of American music took place. With the popularity of such bands as The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, artists such as Clanton began to leave the music business. In 1970 Clanton became a disc jockey and performed in an "oldies" revue of his own. In the 1990's Clanton was still performing in popular oldies shows which hearkened audiences back to a simpler time in America. Other noted performances have included the 1995 Jazz Fest in New Orleans where Clanton performed with such greats as Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, and Frankie "Sea Cruise" Ford and a P.O.W. - M.I.A. benefit concert hosted by fellow teen idol Fabian.