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40 unusual facts about Elvis Presley


1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak

Notably, one of the survivors was the one-year-old Elvis Presley.

1996 Wimbledon Championships

The performance ran for twenty minutes and consisted of Richard's classic hits such as Living Doll and Congratulations, as well as the Elvis Presley hit "All Shook Up".

A Big Hunk o' Love

Other titles written by the duo include "It's Now or Never" and "Good Luck Charm"; both of which - like "A Big Hunk o' Love" - were originally recorded by American rock and roll icon Elvis Presley.

Adam Rita

Rita grew up on Kaua'i, Hawai'i and as a young boy, he was a member of a canoe club and appeared paddling a canoe in the wedding scene of the Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii.

Albert Raisner

He was the host of the hit show Age Tendre et Tetes de Bois, which aired from 1961 to 1967 and featured world-renowned artists including The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes and French singers Johnny Hallyday and Claude Francois.

Best of the Worst

Best of the Worst, hosted by Greg Kinnear, was a lighthearted celebration of the worst elements of life — the worst movies, the worst places to get married, the worst museums, the worst airline food, and the worst Elvis impersonators being only a few of the "worst" examples.

Bitsy Mott

He later became personal security manager to Elvis Presley during 19 years (1955–1973), spending about 11 months of each year on the road with Presley and his manager Colonel Parker, who also was brother in law of Mott.

Cooking with Elvis

The comedy centers on Dad (Joe Caffrey), a famous impersonator of rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley, who was paralyzed in a car crash and is now forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair.

Danuta Mizgalska

She also sings a number of the international hits : Ze wspomnien zostal ledwie slad (The memories have been scarcely traced) - (Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison); Swiat bez milosci (World Without Love) - Italian hit Alice); Kolysz moje sny (Sway my dreams) - (Love me tender - Elvis Presley).

David Zenoff

On May 1, 1967 Judge Zenoff presided over the wedding of Elvis and Priscilla Presley.

Dick Rivers

He is known for being an admirer of Elvis Presley, who highly influenced both his singing and looks.

Don't Forbid Me

The song was recorded by The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley a.o.) on December 4, 1956 and recorded as an instrumental version done by Bert Kaempfert.

Elvis Comrie

Born in England to Jamaican parents, Comrie was named after Elvis Presley.

Ernesto De Pascale

In 1997 he won an award for developing the new Italian Blues scene and another one by the official Elvis Presley fan Club for the best radio show dedicated to Presley.

Homo heidelbergensis

A complete pelvis (pelvis 1), nicknamed Elvis, in remembrance of Elvis Presley.

I.O.B. Spezialauftrag

Also Elvis Presley hadn't made and feature films for a long time and subsequently German spectators were certainly less impressed by the fact that Claus Wilcke had dubbed him.

Ira Jones

Ira Jones (July 10, 1923 – July 11, 2004) was an author, best known as the first sergeant in charge of Elvis Presley for a portion of the time Elvis served in the army.

KWKH

In the mid-1950s, KWKH was one of the first radio stations to feature the music of Elvis Presley on its long-running Louisiana Hayride program at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium.

Lego Chess

The Player is taught by "The Chess King", a Lego King Minifig that talks like Elvis who supposedly commands the white army, and slightly modernizes the explanations of the pieces.

Leigh Blond

At the age of five, during visiting his aunts, he was introduced to the music of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.

Liliane Montevecchi

In the mid-1950s, she was signed to a contract by MGM, which cast her in secondary roles in such films as The Glass Slipper and Daddy Long Legs, in both of which she was overshadowed by leading lady Leslie Caron, the Jerry Lewis vehicle The Sad Sack, and King Creole with Elvis Presley.

Maple Leaf Village

It boasted a multi-screen movie theatre, numerous attractions (through the years: That's Incredible! museum and the Elvis Presley Museum were here), countless souvenir and apparel stores, Lillie Langtry's tavern and club and, in later years, the first locale for the Canadian comedy cabaret, Yuk-Yuk's.

Matt Hancock

When the serial's scriptwriters noticed that there was a physical resemblance between Hunt and a young Elvis Presley, they decided to give his character a storyline in which he became an Elvis impersonator.

Olavi Alakulppi

While Alakulppi served as a company commander in West Germany in the 1950s, his personal chauffeur was Elvis Presley who was carrying out his military service.

Paxon School for Advanced Studies

Former teacher Mae Boren Axton was instrumental in launching Elvis Presley's singing career by interviewing him on the radio in Jacksonville on July 28, 1955.

Peter Borsari

Spanning Presley to Nixon, he actively photographed people, places and events from 1965 to 1995.

Pioneer, Go Home!

In 1962, the book was adapted into a movie starring Elvis Presley.

Porthcawl

The Elvis Festival runs every September, attracts Elvis tribute artists and devotees from across the world, and is the biggest gathering of Elvis fans in Europe.

Portrait of Seymour H. Knox

Some of the major celebrity portraits of this style include those of Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Mao Zedong and Andy Warhol himself.

Shelley Niro

Her 1992 photographic series, This Land Is Mime Land and 500 Year Itch employ humorous pop culture references, such as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.

Silly Love Songs

Author Tim Riley suggests that in the song, McCartney is inviting "his audience to have a laugh on him," as Elvis Presley had sometimes done.

Simon Bowman

In 2006, he played the rock star again in This is Elvis and played a dentist in the BBC1 series Doctors.

Steven Parrino

Parrino used intentionally provocative subjects like abstract swastikas, rebel flags, and silhouettes of Russ Meyer starlets, Elvis Presley as rendered by Andy Warhol, the Hells Angels, Johnny Cash, and other works by Andy Warhol.

Teodoro Cottrau

His arrangement of Santa Lucia was published in 1850 and recorded among others by Enrico Caruso and Elvis Presley.

Till I Waltz Again with You

In April 1953, during his senior year in high school, Elvis Presley sang the song in his high school's "Annual Minstrel" show.

Tiny Lund

In 1968, Lund appeared as one of the race drivers in the racing scene of the MGM movie 'Speedway' which starred Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra.

Triangle of the Sun

This destination got its fame from the 50's and 70's also becoming a favorite of Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, among others.

Velvet painting

They often depict images of Elvis Presley (see Velvet Elvis), Dale Earnhardt, John Wayne, Jesus, Native Americans, dogs playing poker, wolves, and cowboys, and the colors are often bright and vivid to contrast the dark velvet.

Volbeat

They are inspired by classic rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, as well as modern hard rock, groove metal, alternative rock and hardcore groups.

Walk in my shoes

Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters is a box set five-disc compilation of the recorded work of Elvis Presley during the decade of the 1970s, released in 1995


Agent Z

Trevor Simpson, Ben’s dad; a practical sort; confesses to having been a bully in his school years; relieves his boredom by listening to Elvis Presley and Rock ‘n’ Roll music in a shed at the bottom of the garden, and attends Rock ‘n’ Roll nights at the local pub.

Barry Mason

His songs have been recorded by Tom Jones, P. J. Proby, David Essex, The Drifters, Rod Stewart, Petula Clark, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Fortunes, Charles Aznavour, Tony Christie, Mireille Mathieu, Barbra Streisand, and The Dave Clark Five.

Big Sounds of the Drags

Besides the front cover, a sticker pasted on early copies of the album suggested that Junkie XL's remix of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" (used in promotion of a Nike, Inc. advertisement campaign) was not created for all editions of the album.

Bill Justis

He played saxophone on the soundtrack for the 1964 Elvis Presley film, Kissin' Cousins and that same year took over as manager of the singing group, Ronny & the Daytonas.

Bop till You Drop

The album consisted almost entirely of covers of earlier R&B and rock'n'roll classics, including Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" and the 1965 Fontella Bass-Bobby McClure hit "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing", on which Cooder duetted with soul star Chaka Khan, who also performed on the only original track on the album, "Down in Hollywood".

Camlin Hotel

In the ensuing years, the Cloud Room hosted numerous famous faces, among them Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, and Elvis Costello.

Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

With the birth of record companies like Ora Nelle Records, Delmark Records and Chess Records, Maxwell Street became the epicenter for the blues and numerous Maxwell Street artists wrote songs that were later were taken by major rock & roll acts like Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, which is detailed extensively in the film.

De Tomaso Pantera

Notably, Elvis Presley once fired a gun at his Pantera after it would not start.

Denmark, Tennessee

Two mystery novels take place in part in a fictional version of Denmark: Such Vicious Minds: A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley by Daniel Klein; and Something Rotten by Alan Gratz.

DJ Sharaz

His influences are largely soul/funk but also include: Eddie Kendricks, Isaac Hayes, Candi Staton, Otis Redding, Elvis Presley, Zapp, The Stylistics, O'Jays, Bill Withers, Lyrics Born, Sparlha Swa, Slave, Midnight Star, Stevie Wonder (pre-1980), Al Green, etc.

Dorian Baxter

Dorian Baxter (born 3 April 1950 in Mombasa Island, Kenya) is an Anglican minister in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada who uses the music of Elvis Presley in his services, using the name The Reverend Elvis Priestly.

Egg sandwich

In her memoir, food writer Gael Greene writes of a brief and casual romantic encounter with Elvis Presley.

Elvis and Andy

The song is an up-tempo in which the male narrator states that, while his lover is not from the Southern United States, she "likes Elvis and Andy / So she's fine and dandy with me." Presumably this refers to Elvis Presley and Andy Griffith/Taylor.

Greg Roskowski

Listeners to Radio Ceylon enjoyed his 'wakey wakey' style and he introduced the hit songs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Bill Haley & His Comets, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley to audiences in Ceylon and beyond.

Hobart Paving

The song describes an unhappy woman, using characteristically surreal images such as "Rain falls like Elvis tears" and "Just like a harpsichordist she moves".

Jack Rhodes

Leon Payne (Rhodes' step-brother) wrote "I Love You Because", which has been covered by — among others — Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley LP, 1956), Al Martino (Billboard Hot 100 #3, 1963), Jim Reeves (UK Singles Chart #5, 1964), Johnny Cash, Matt Monro and Slim Whitman.

Jacksonville Coliseum

The Coliseum hosted hundreds of concerts and shows during its 43-year history, including Rush, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey, AC/DC, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden.

Jean-Paul-Égide Martini

Sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco, he is best known today for the vocal romance "Plaisir d'amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley pop standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based.

Kevin Fitzgerald

On summers off, he was hired by Tony Funches and Barry Fey to be a part of the (Denver based) Feyline Security Team and worked security for a wide variety of musical acts, such as Elvis Presley, The Who, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, George Clinton, and The Rolling Stones.

Marlene Kratz

Marlene was an elderly lady who owned a bric-a-brac store and was obsessed with Elvis Presley.

Pan's People

This was followed by a further routine featuring three members of Pan's People (Dee Dee, Ruth and Flick, dancing to "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, and subsequently, the entire sextet appeared in a routine set to "US Male" by Elvis Presley.

Paul Trousdale

In 1954, he purchased the Doheny Ranch from Mrs Lucy Smith Doheny Battson, wife of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. (1893–1929), son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), and developed it into Trousdale Estates, later home to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Curtis and Ray Charles.

Peter Nazareth

Nazareth attracted major media attention for teaching that university's popular course "Elvis as Anthology," which explores the deep mythological roots of Elvis Presley's roles in popular culture.

Polixeni Papapetrou

Photo series she has made include Elvis Presley fans, Marilyn Monroe impersonators, drag queens, wrestlers and bodybuilders and the recreation of photographs made by Lewis Carroll using her daughter as a model.

Pop 'til You Drop!

It was released as an American only release on June 18, 2002, in the hype of the promotion of the first single, the Elvis Presley cover "Can't Help Falling in Love", which was part of the soundtrack of Disney's movie Lilo & Stitch.

Rock 'n' Roll Kids

They remember growing up and listening to the popular music of the time (Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley) and generally being trendy.

Roger Voudouris

After the decline of his solo career Voudouris returned to writing music and lyrics for various projects including the movie The Lonely Lady starring Pia Zadora, and a documentary on the life of Elvis Presley.

Stepan Pasicznyk

His second cousin on his maternal Irish side was Eddie Rabbitt, the Nashville country music star whose song "Kentucky Rain" was a hit for Elvis Presley and whose song "Every Which Way But Loose" was the theme tune for a film starring Clint Eastwood and an orangutan.

T-R-O-U-B-L-E

Two cover songs are also included: the title track, originally a single in 1975 for Elvis Presley, and "Leave My Girl Alone", previously recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan on his 1989 album In Step, and Chicago blues guitarist Buddy Guy before that.

The Greatest Songs of the Sixties

The classics performed in this album includes Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Elvis Presley's #1 hit "Can't Help Falling in Love", Beatles' "And I Love Her" and Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" (the latter first appeared on Manilow's Sinatra-tribute album Manilow Sings Sinatra in 1998).

The Martian General's Daughter

Pan-Polarian society is based on that of Imperial Rome, including an imperial cult and a variety of polytheistic and monolatric religions that have largely replaced the major religions of our time, including the cults of "El Bis" and the goddess Marilyn.

The Million Dollar Goal

She has a great desire for Elvis Presley, and still has a Velvet Elvis (Mrs. Rosenberg calls it "khalooscious") on the wall as a good luck charm, and throws a fit when it is taken down.

Tom Jans

He is perhaps best known for his song "Lovin' Arms" (also known as "Loving Arms"), which has been performed and recorded by dozens of artists and bands, including Elvis Presley, Dobie Gray, Dixie Chicks, Natalie Cole, Kris Kristofferson, Olivia Newton-John, Petula Clark, Jon English, Rita Coolidge, Livingston Taylor, Etta James, Jody Miller and The Beautiful South.

Utica Memorial Auditorium

The Aud also has the distinction of being the location of the one of the last scheduled Elvis Presley concerts.

Way Cool Jr.

Rumours spread that it was written about Elvis Presley due to the mentioning of things like "steel guitar across his back" and "heard he came from Memphis, somewhere down south, started hangin' with the blues crowd, that's how he got that crazy sound".

WHOS

In October 1988, the station, which had been airing a Gospel music format, flipped to an all-Elvis Presley format using the advertising tagline "WHOS alive?".