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the alternative “love letters from elvis” album

WITH THE RE­LEASE of If I Can Dream in Oc­tober 1968, Elvis began a string of su­perb sin­gles and al­bums that lifted him from the dol­drums of the life­less Hol­ly­wood movies that had de­fined his ca­reer for years. These new records lifted him back to the top­per­most of the pop­per­most across the planet. [Read more] “the alternative “love letters from elvis” album”

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what were the best elvis albums of the ’70s?

WHAT WERE ELVIS’ BEST AL­BUMS OF THE ’70s? That’s such an easy ques­tion to an­swer: those recorded in 1970. There is no ques­tioning that the quality of Pres­ley’s record­ings di­min­ished after 1970 due to his de­te­ri­o­rating health along with an artistic turn to­ward melo­drama and bom­bast. [Read more] “what were the best elvis albums of the ’70s?”

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the real answer to “what was elvis presley’s first album?”

TO­DAY’S QUORA QUES­TION is “What was Elvis Pres­ley’s first album?” Everyone who knows much of any­thing about Elvis thinks they know the an­swer: LPM-1254 with Red Robert­son’s iconic pho­to­graph of Elvis in 1955. But that’s not the ac­tual an­swer, as anyone who knows more than much-of-anything-about-Elvis re­al­izes. [Read more] “the real answer to “what was elvis presley’s first album?””

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on the edge of reality with the pseudo-psychedelic elvis

IF I CAN DREAM, I’ll have this ar­ticle fin­ished be­fore I find my­self sit­ting on the edge of re­ality. You know—where life’s dream lies dis­il­lu­sioned and dark shadows follow me. (But that’s an­other story for an­other time.) Each year on this day I try to write some­thing about my ex­pe­ri­ence of being an Elvis fan since I was in grade school way, way back in the ’50s. [Read more] “on the edge of reality with the pseudo-psychedelic elvis”

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so just what was elvis’ biggest hit of all time?

WHAT WAS ELVIS PRES­LEY’S BIGGEST HIT? The term “hit” al­most al­ways refers to one side of a single, whether it is an an­ti­quated 45 rpm single (1949-1989) or a pre­his­toric 78 rpm single (1898-1958). The term is rel­a­tive: A record that made it to #88 and stayed on the na­tional Top 100 for three weeks in 1966 would be a big hit for a rock & roll band on a local record com­pany that only re­ceived air­play and dis­tri­b­u­tion in north­eastern Penn­syl­vania. [Read more] “so just what was elvis’ biggest hit of all time?”