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unusual facts about Elvis' 40 Greatest


Elvis' 40 Greatest

It was released in 1974 and was the UK's biggest-selling album over the Christmas period of that year, but along with all albums on K-tel, Ronco and Arcade, it was ineligible for the UK Albums Chart until 1975 because it was felt that heavy TV advertising and low pricing distorted the charts.


17059 Elvis

17059 Elvis is a minor planet that was discovered by John Broughton on April 15, 1999.

A Big Hunk o' Love

It was the first session that did not include guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, who had both worked with Elvis since his first recordings for Sam Phillips at the Memphis Recording Service, which later became known as Sun Studios.

Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley

Empire recorded vs. Elvis in 1998 after returning home to Berlin from a tour of the United States with his band Atari Teenage Riot.

Almost in Love

The song "Stay Away, Joe" (the theme from Elvis's 1967 film of the same title) was included in error (it was already released earlier in 1970 on the compilation Let's Be Friends); when RCA reissued Almost in Love in 1973, it replaced it with a different song, "Stay Away", from the same film.

Tracks include 1968's "A Little Less Conversation" (a re-recording of this song by Elvis for his 1968 TV Special would later be remixed by Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL and become a hit in 2002) and "Rubberneckin", a 1969 single from the film Change of Habit recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis during the 1969 recording sessions that had produced From Elvis in Memphis and Elvis Back in Memphis.

Baby Let's Play House

Presley's version differs greatly from the original: Elvis started the song with the chorus, where Gunter began with the first verse, and he replaced Gunter's line "You may get religion" with the words "You may have a Pink Cadillac", referring to his custom-painted 1955 Cadillac auto that had been serving as the band's transportation at the time.

Backwoods Bunny

A misunderstanding makes Elvis shoot his father repeatedly, the continuity made by Bugs, dressed for golf, singing the Art Mooney tune "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover".

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.

C.D. Atlético Balboa

After becoming champions of the Segunda Division in 1998, Atlético Balboa ascended to the Primera Division where in their first season they finished runner-up thanks to the coaching effort of José Mario Martínez and Oscar Emigdio Benítez and great players such as Franklin Vinosis Webster and Elvis Perreira.

Chameleone

East African media have reported several brawls between Chameleone and rival musicians such as Bobi Wine, Bebe Cool, his brother Weasel and Vampino Elvis.

Danilo Turcios

Danilo Elvis Turcios Funez (born on 8 May 1978 in Sonaguera, Honduras) is a Honduran football midfielder who currently plays for UPNFM in the Honduran second division.

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.

Dr. Laurence Erhardt

During this season, and season 1, J. Elvis Weinstein held a dual role as both Dr. Erhardt and the voice of Tom Servo, and he also provided the voice of Gypsy during the KTMA years (replaced in season one by Jim Mallon).

Duke Mitchell

Mitchell also provided the Elvis-like "singing voice" of Fred Flintstone in several episodes of the popular cartoon TV series, The Flintstones.

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.

Elvis and Slick Monty

In 2007, Elvis and Slick Monty won a Lone Star Emmy award for "Outstanding Student Production (Non-News)".

Elvis: What Happened

Elvis: What Happened? (ISBN 978-0345274335) is a 1977 book written by Steve Dunleavy about singer Elvis Presley, based on the personal accounts of Presley's ex-bodyguards Red and Sonny West, and Dave Hebler.

Elvis' Christmas Album

The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, insert booklet.

Elvis' Christmas Album is the fourth studio album by Elvis Presley on RCA Victor Records, LOC 1035, a deluxe limited edition, released in October 1957, and recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood.

All the album's songs are also included in the 1992 RCA boxed set The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters.

Final Descent

"Trouble" is a cover of an Elvis Presley song recorded for the film King Creole.

Haim Watzman

His translations include Tom Segev’s The Seventh Million, Elvis in Jerusalem, and One Palestine Complete, as well as David Grossman’s The Yellow Wind, Sleeping on a Wire, and Death as a Way of Life.

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".

Homo heidelbergensis

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

I've Lost You

The song is a rather poignant descriptor of Elvis' marriage with his wife, Priscilla.

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.

Judy Spreckels

In 1956, during Elvis' first engagement in Las Vegas, visitors to the shows included Judy Spreckels, Hal Wallis (who had just signed Elvis to his first movie deal) and entertainers Ray Bolger, Phil Silvers and Liberace.

June Juanico

Adams would talk often about Natalie Wood to Elvis, constantly discussing her figure and her beauty, something else that caused Juanico to feel that she would soon lose Elvis to the glitz of Hollywood.

Killer Tattoo

Elvis really believes he is Elvis Presley (and not an Elvis impersonator), and because the real Elvis didn't speak Thai, Elvis M-16 is incapable of understanding the language and can only respond to English commands.

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.

Nick Brennan

He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper From The Dandy, revived from The Magic Comic, but looking nothing like Watkins' creation, instead sporting an elvis-like hairdo and purple Jumper.

Oi Polloi

In 2013, they collaborated with CLÀR, the Scottish Gaelic publisher, to launch Mill a h-Uile Rud singer Tim Armstrong's Gaelic science fiction novel Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach at events at Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk and on The Cruz Boat at the Shore in Leith.

Out of Our Idiot

The album was credited to "Various Artists" rather than to Costello because the tracks were recorded and credited under a variety of names, including The Costello Show, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Elvis Costello and the Confederates, the Coward Brothers, Napoleon Dynamite, The Emotional Toothpaste and The MacManus Gang, and with a variety of collaborators, including Jimmy Cliff, Nick Lowe and T-Bone Burnett.

Paffendorf

Ramon Zenker was involved in a number of dance music projects in the late 80's, including Interactive ("Who Is Elvis").

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.

Pocketful of Rainbows

In the film version Juliet Prowse (who lip-synched to Loulie Jean Norman's voice) can be seen singing along with Elvis in a cable car in the small German tourist-town Rüdesheim am Rhein

Red West

He received help from Elvis Presley in writing two songs in the early 1960s, which were collaborations: "You'll Be Gone" and "That's Someone You Never Forget." "You'll Be Gone" was also co-written with Charlie Hodge, and appeared on the Girl Happy soundtrack album and as a 45 single in 1965.

Scott Moore

Scotty Moore (born 1931), guitarist best known for his work with Elvis Presley's early career

Simon Bowman

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

Stewart Krentzman

They purchased a 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood, which they had restored to become the “Twin Sister” to the single most famous car in the world, Elvis' Pink Cadillac.

Swiss Museum of Transport

The Pallet, nicknamed Elvis, was used during the 8-day STS-46 mission, 31 July - 8 August 1992, when ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier was on board Shuttle Atlantis to deploy ESA's European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) scientific mission and the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1).

Tell Me What You See

Nevertheless, the line "trying to get to you" (the title of an early Elvis Presley song recorded for Sun Records which served as inspiration for McCartney & Harrison's first composition, "In Spite of All the Danger") is a clear reminder of both songwriters' love for early rock and roll.

Terry Mike Jeffrey

He was musical director and had a starring role in Elvis - An American Musical, a New York-produced multi-media show organized by the producers of Grease and Beatlemania.

That's All Right

Elvis Presley's version was recorded in July 1954, and released with "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as the B-side.

The Dixie Fryer

The cartoon is also the second to feature the buzzards (who are referred to as Chicken Hawks in this short), "Pappy" and "Elvis," the first being the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Backwoods Bunny," released a year earlier.

Transvision Vamp

Wendy James launched her solo career in 1993 with the Elvis Costello-written album Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears.

Van Partible

Partible picked voice actor Jeff Bennett to play Johnny Bravo solely based on his young, hyped Elvis impression.

Who Am I?

"Who Am I", song written by Leonard Bernstein, recorded by Nina Simone, Elvis Presley and others

You'll Be Gone

The song was recorded in 1962 and is significant because it was co-written by Elvis Presley, with his bodyguard Red West and Charlie Hodge.


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