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Author
Publisher
Eagle Eye Media
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This film tells the story that lies behind the making of Elvis Presley's first album for RCA Records in 1956, and his rise to superstardom. Includes performances from '55 and '56, interviews with Elvis, and home movie footage. Featured songs include Blue suede shoes, Shake rattle and roll, Tutti frutti, Money honey, Heartbreak hotel, Mystery train, Baby let's play house, That's all right.
4) Harum scarum
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A famous movie star, visiting a Middle Eastern country, becomes involved in the intrigue surrounding an attempted assassination and becomes romantically involved with a beautiful Arabian princess.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], �1957
Edition
16 x 9 widescreen format ; single sided,
Language
English
Description
Deke Rivers is a small-town boy with big-time talent. Holding down a series of menial jobs, he's going nowhere until an accidental on-stage appearance shows off a style of singing all his own.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, following the evolution of country music from its diverse and humble origins as it emerged, by the end of the 20th century, into a worldwide phenomenon. Filled with memorable musical moments, interviews with more than 80 country music artists, and evocative footage and photographs, many never seen before, this film weaves an unforgettable story that is both intimate and sweeping.
10) Fun in Acapulco
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A part-time lifeguard and night club singer romances two beautiful women.
11) Spinout
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Elvis plays a singer-race car driver who has a single-minded desire to remain single. Pursuing him is a trio of lovelies with an itch to get hitched, but they have a lot more than each other as rivals. They have to compete with the sleek curves and shiny good looks of a high-powered Cobra 427.
12) Viva Las Vegas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Language
English
Description
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a fellow racer and womaniser, gets in the way.
13) Girl happy
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago mobster, Big Frank, hires rock-and-roll singer Rusty Wells and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Songs include "Do the clam," "Good news," "Puppet on a string," "Startin' tonight" and "Girl happy."
14) This is Elvis
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1983, 1981
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the life of rock and roll's "King" from his earliest days through his army career and marriage to his era in movies and Las Vegas shows. Draws on rare documentary footage and interviews with many of the people who knew him best, including Presley's family members, his friends and employees, and his mentor and manager Colonel Tom Parker.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended gospel and rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which blew the doors off a staid and repressed 1950s America. In Being Elvis,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn't Tom Parker – indeed, he wasn't an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn't a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed,...
19) In odd we trust
Author
Series
Odd Thomas prequels volume 1
Publisher
Del Ray/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Ona lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year old Elvis Presley, the local teenage whose first record, "That's All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his "Memphis Mafia," and Jerry...
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