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Okay Sam 😂😂😂!!
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astralbondpro · 1 year
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Xtro (1982) // Dir. Harry Bromley Davenport
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presleypictures · 1 year
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Elvis (and Sam) enjoying cake at Sam Phillips' house, April 9, 1957.
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hooked-on-elvis · 2 months
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"HARBOR LIGHTS": The first song ever taped by Elvis Presley (officially)
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PICTURES: [1-2] Elvis Presley, December 27, 1954. Photo by Lou Lowery.
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Elvis had paid for two private sessions at the Sun Studio, when he would cut two acetates with the songs "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartache Begins" — the actual date is not certain but it happened sometime in 1953 — and again Presley would go back to Sun Studio on January 4, 1954, to record "I’ll Never Stand In Your Way" and "It Wouldn’t Be The Same Without You," all ballads.
"In fact, he sang very little but ballads, and to the untrained ear, we now know, he sounded like plenty of other local C&W singers. To Marion [Keisker], though, there was something there — a stronger yearning? A deeper passion? A greater determination? Whatever it was, she wanted to keep an eye on it; after the kid had made his acetate she made herself a note: “Good ballad singer. Hold." — Ernst Jorgensen on "Elvis Presley: A Life In Music"
A while after the private recordings, on June 26, 1954, Elvis was officially invited to a recording session at Sun Studio. A phone call was made by Marion Keisker (Sun Studio's secretary), and soon after that Elvis walked back in the studio and he started the official recordings singing in the same familiar way, not venturing in something out of extraordinary. Nothing came out that was really interesting to tape, but still certain there might be something good ahead, a while after that Elvis came back to Sun Studio once more and that's when the ballad called "Harbor Lights" was covered by him.
The song was originally recorded by Roy Fox & his Orchestra with vocal by Barry Gray, in London, on January 29, 1937. You can listen to the original record of the tune below.
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Elvis recorded "Harbor Lights" on July 5, 1954, during his first commercial recording session.
According to Ernst Jorgensen, it may have been the first song Elvis recorded. The first song put on tape. The order for the official recordings during that session at Sun Studio would have been, "Harbor Lights" and "I Love You Because", nothing that really caused a big impression on Sam Phillips, but then during a pause from the recordings, Elvis, Scotty Moore and Bill Black were just joking around, having fun playing Arthur's Cudrup tune their own way, without even realizing they were doing something that finally got Sam Phillips really excited about. That's when "That's All Right" came to be and then, during the same session, there was "Blue Moon of Kentucky", both songs, as soon as released, instant hits by this new Memphis guy with a funny/weird/unique name.
Opposite to the hits "That's All Right", "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and even the ballad "I Love You Because", Sam Phillips considered the recording of "Harbor Lights" unworthy of release, according to Jorgensen once more, because "they couldn’t get the Hawaiian-inspired pop song right" (Look at Hawaii being there for Elvis since the very beginning of his career... in a certain way. Interesting). In 1976, tho, RCA released the master of "Harbor Lights" on the LP "Elvis – A Legendary Performer, Volume 2", for the first time.
I don't know about you but this is surely one of my all-time-favorites Elvis song. ♥ Thank God it came to the light of day.
MASTER (TAKE 3):
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Music by Hugh Williams (the pseudonym of Austrian composer Will Grosz) and lyrics by Northern Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. Elvis recorded the songs during studio sessions for Sun Records between July 5–6, 1954, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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SOME OTHER TAKES:
TAKES 1-2 and 3/MASTER
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TAKE 4:
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TAKES 5-8:
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LPS/CDS WHERE THE TUNE CAN BE FOUND:
Elvis - A Legendary Performer, Vol. 2 (1976); Greatest Moments in Music (1979); The King of Rock’n’Roll – The Complete 50’s Masters (1992); A Golden Celebration (1998); Sunrise (1999); Today Tomorrow and Forever (2002); Elvis at Sun (2004); A Boy From Tupelo (2012) - FTD; For LP Fans Only (2018) - FTD.
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PICTURE: Elvis and The Blue Moon Boys (Bill Black and Scotty Moore), in 1954.
Sources: "Elvis Presley: A Life In Music" by Ernst Jorgensen and Peter Guralnick; Wikipedia; www.elvis100percent.com.
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presleybutlervsp · 4 months
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December 4, 1956
Elvis, with Vegas Showgirl Marilyn Evans, showed up at Sun Records where Carl Perkins and his band with Jerry Lee Lewis hired for the session was recording. Elvis’ drop by turned the session into The Legendary Jam Session. Sam Phillips called the press, leveraged the unexpected visit for publicity and called Johnny Cash, newly signed to the label for the photographs.
The Perkins session that became known as The Million Dollar Quartet was recorded by Phillips. knowing it could never be released – already sold to RCA Presley was a national and breaking international star – while Perkins and Cash were on his label.
Jerry Lee Lewis was still trying to convince Phillips, and was there as a session musician.
Phillips recorded the mostly gospel, with Chuck Berry songs, and Elvis doing impersonations of Country Singers Bill Monroe and Hank Snow as well as impersonating Jackie Wilson who sang lead for Billy Ward and His Dominos, whom Elvis had just seen perform in Vegas.
A copy of the tape was made for Elvis and it was located in the 1980s in his Graceland bedroom closet, along with a recording of the 1956 Tupelo Homecoming show and an interview with Elvis and both of his parents.
Most of the infamous jam is gospel music, which was changed for the Broadway Play. Also, Elvis plays piano for most of the recordings and while Johnny Cash is in the photos, he’s not evident on any of the tape. Elvis’ Vegas Showgirl Date – Marilyn Evans is – she quips about “This Rover Boy Trio”
The four ended up taping some songs together, but recordings from the impromptu session would not be pressed on to discs for another 25 years when they were released as “The Million Dollar Quartet”. Elvis Presley had a copy of the session tapes which RCA used, while the Sun Studio was later sold and their original tapes were used by the new owner. Who also had Jimmy Ellis sing “Elvis on Jerry Lee Lewis recordings.
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Samantha Phillips
Born in February 1966 in Savage, Maryland, USA, Samantha started her modeling career in the mid 1980's for various mainstream fashion houses. She also appeared in various B-movie titles including Phantasm II, Love Potion and Deceit during this time. Her first nude appearance was as Pet of the Month in the June 1993 issue of Penthouse, which was photographed by Suze Randall. Afterwards she became an in demand video vixen, and appeared in music videos for artists such as Iron Maiden, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Van Halen, and Mötley Crüe. While she did get a bit part in Weekend at Bernie's II, the rest of her filmography up to the 2000's almost entirely comprises of B-movies and nude exploitation direct video films. Apart from her Penthouse pictorial, she has only done a handful of nude photo shoots, mostly in the late 1990's for adult websites. While she made appearances in two Penthouse video releases, she also appeared in two adult films in the late 1990's, but only nude. In the 2000's, she moved into a more mainstream career including hosting a national broadcast morning talk show called Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and the reality TV series Xtreme Fakeovers. In the late 2000's she hosted a relationships advice program on a popular internet radio station.
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we’ve dedicated this past week to finding all elvis-related places & things in memphis so here’s some highlights of our quest, ranging from the obvious to the crazy to the obscure. 
in order: elvis’ comics at sun records, coletta’s italian restaurant, rock n soul museum, red west and sam phillips’ graves in memorial park cemetery, elvis’ booth at the arcade restaurant, marty lacker tribute on beale street, elvis’ coat & watch at lansky’s, rca contract signing at the peabody hotel, elvis’ briefcase phone at the memphis hall of fame.
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musickickztoo · 8 months
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Sam Phillips  † July 30, 2003
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lisamarie-vee · 3 months
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drewbadger68 · 1 year
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Phantasm. 1979 ♥️
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mmmerlenoir · 5 months
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This just played on Gilmore Girls.. not the best song I've ever heard, but ugh.. soooo Blackbonnet S2 coded.. 🥺
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I AM ON THE LORELAI X LUKE DANCE WHEN THEY REALIZE THEY wUUUUV EACH OTHER
Sam Phillips Reflecting the Light is their song always
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AND THE MOONS NEVER SEEN ME BEFORE
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And the moons never seen me before *WHY DOES MAKE ME STRAIGHT UP CRY EVERY TIME I’ve WATCHED IT A THOUSAND TIMES*
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A DANCE CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING..............WHy does that sound famililar
I wanna hate you ASP but then you gave me these incredibly romantic moments...some of the best I have ever seen on TV...THE ABOVE and BELOW.....SLOW BURNS THat are unexpected but pay off
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DAMN THAT LAST GIF LENNY’S FACE...the realization of how much he cares for her in that moment...it’s so deep...the vulnerability...he realizes how much she’s choosing to be vulnerable with him there and he’s not taking that lightly...not one bit :( and the arm move is an acknowledgement of that and how much this and she means to him...and NOW I AM GOING TO CRY AGAIN
THIs WAS SUPPPOSED TO BE MARVELLING OVER LUKE AND LORELAI now I AM CRYING OVER MIDGE and LENNY
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spockvarietyhour · 6 months
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damn 1995 has my number down
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hooked-on-elvis · 24 days
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Sam Phillips clowns with Elvis in Sun Studios control room. December 4, 1956.
Source: "That's Alright, Elvis: The Untold Story of Elvis's First Guitarist and Manager, Scotty Moore" by Scotty Moore as told to James Dickerson (1997). Photo courtesy of Colin Escott.
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presleybutlervsp · 2 months
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February 3, 1955
Sun Studio – Memphis, Tennessee
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