Memorabilia

 

MEMORABILIA col­lects ar­ti­cles ad­dressing the stag­gering array of prod­ucts that have been man­u­fac­tured to pro­mote or ex­ploit Pres­ley’s fame during his life. I tend to focus on the ads and items that RCA Victor made to pro­mote or ex­ploit Elvis’ records, and the stu­dios made to pro­mote his movies.

Of course, the most col­lected mem­o­ra­bilia are the toys, trin­kets, photos, dolls, and bub­blegum cards man­u­fac­tured in the 1950s and au­tho­rized by Elvis Presley En­ter­prise.

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elvis as don juan, cad, and womanizer (but not a hound dog)

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DonJuanDeMarco Depp sword down 1500 crop

THE PRIVATE LIVES of other human be­ings rarely in­terest me. This in­cludes the people I deal with every day along with the people I enjoy as artists, ath­letes, en­ter­tainers, and even politi­cians. Con­se­quently, I don’t read many bi­ogra­phies and rarely write about peo­ple’s lifestyles. 1

When I write bi­o­graph­i­cally about a mu­si­cian on my Rather Rare Records blog, their sex lives or the drugs they used only in­terest me to the de­gree that it af­fected their music and cre­ativity. READ MORE

fake elvis autographs on records and memorabilia

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Elvis signature 1957 1500 crop

COUNTERFEITING ELVIS ITEMS has been going on since at least the early ’60s when the FBI be­lieves that mob-related or­ga­ni­za­tions printed mil­lions of copies of sev­eral best-selling al­bums from the 1950s and early ’60s. Other records in­clude fine re­pro­duc­tions of the Sun 45s and 78s, var­ious pieces of mem­o­ra­bilia, and fake sets of the 1956 Topps bubble gum cards. READ MORE