miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2011

OCTOBER 30, ON THIS DAY IN ELVIS HISTORY




October 30, 1954
Elvis, Scotty and Bill played The Eagle's Nest in Memphis,a nightclub over the changing room at the Clearpool complex..
October 30, 1955
Elvis returned to his new home at 1414 Getwell because he had to go to the Sun Studio the coming week for the last time. They had to record the B-side for "Trying To Get To You". After several attempts at "When It Rains It Really Pours" they broke up; probably because Elvis' contract was about to be sold.
October 30, 1956
Elvis and his friends returned to Memphis by train after staying in New York City.
October 30, 1960
After Elvis traveled to Nashville by bus, he joined all the regular Nashville musicians and backup singers. They worked with intense concentration and Elvis completed not only his album His Hand In Mine, but his single, "Surrender". Elvis was not satisfied with "Crying In The Chapel" however, so this song was not released for another 5 years.
"It's Now Or Never"/"A Mess of Blues" goes in at No. 1 on the English charts, and stays there for eight weeks.
October 30, 1969
Elvis flew to Las Vegas. He was spotted, with a woman on each arm, by gossip columnist Rona Barrett at the blackjack tables . Rona wrote in her column: "Everybody is commenting on how good Elvis Presley looks these days while he's having fun at The International". Elvis' response was: "That's what a bad marriage does for you."
October 30, 1976
This was the second night the musicians were together in the Jungle Room for an RCA recording session. They recorded a couple of instrumental tracks while waiting for Elvis to appear.Finally Elvis did, but only for a short time while there was a delivery of a shipment of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Elvis insisted on taking them for trial runs up and down the driveway and to Linda's home over on Old Hickory Rd. nearby.After that, Elvis appeared again in the Jungle Room, but now he had a Thompson submachine gun with him to play with.
Finally, it was almost morning, he apologized to the group admitting he was not in the mood to record anything, so the rest of the session was canceled. Elvis arranged a ride home all the musicians, and even went so far as to give J.D. Sumner his white limousine to ride back to Nashville in style.

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