a blog about elvis presley's music and records
IN THE GHETTO includes articles that don’t fit under the other, more specific category titles. This includes aspects of Presley’s personal life, and criticisms of other writers and critics for their promulgating non-facts, myths, and lies about Elvis.
A regular target is Wikipedia, where writers who know little about the history of rock & roll write articles which are approved by editors who apparently know less.
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THE ROUND PLACE IN THE MIDDLE is a website that I stumbled over sometime last year. There John Ross writes about rock & roll and Elvis and books and movies and even about critics with their arses up their heads. I was impressed with writing, insights, arguments. So I sent him a message and that was more or less it. [Read more] “It hurts me to be a kissin’ cousin”
ELVIS CUT-OUT ALBUMS began appearing in the mid-1970s. The dawning of the age of Elvis cut-outs opened with a handful of titles from a few years earlier that had been deleted due to diminishing sales. This article is an overview of the cut-out bins of the ’70s and the Elvis albums that found their way to them. [Read more] “the dawning of the age of cut-out albums”
BUYERS AND SELLERS of anything considered collectable often fail to achieve their goals of financial success because they do not understand a few basic concepts concerning the nature of any collectable. Because this a record collectors website, I will refer to records in this essay, but you can substitute almost any other collectable and the comments remain virtually unchanged about what makes something collectable. [Read more] “what makes something collectable?”
THE ANDY WARHOL 1963 painting of Elvis sold for more than $82,000,000, astounding the art world by fetching millions more than its estimate. The sale escaped the attention of most people outside of that art world. Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale of November 12, 2014, provided a record-shattering night in the sale of several works of the second half of the 20th century. [Read more] “warhol elvis worth eighty million?”
SOMEWHERE IN THE PAST, someone gave me the nickname of the “Price Guide Guru,” because my first books for O’Sullivan Woodside were the most accurate price guides the record collecting field had seen. I have long forgotten who assigned it to me, but I have used it on and off ever since, both in pieces that I contributed to Goldmine magazine and in the commentary sections of my books. [Read more] “return of the rockahula baby”